THE REAL MEANING OF LIFE

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/ruth/1.htm I’ll start on bent knee and red-faced because I’ve made a mistake. You see, Ruth’s life paralleled the life of Gideon, so if we’re studying the Bible chronologically, we should have studied Ruth in the middle of the Book of Judges. Yes, we should have. It wasn’t the Bible timeline that was wrong, it was me. So we’ll pretend that we are now studying about Ruth in between Gideon and Japhthah. The Book of… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/16.htm I saw a meme the other day with a picture of a man, portraying Samson, slaying a lion, and it read, “The strongest man in the world was defeated by lust.” It doesn’t matter how great you are, how smart, how wealthy, what your social status is, or how mentally or physically fit, one small sin can bring you down. Philistia was on the “West Bank” (sound familiar?), and one of it’s towns was… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/15.htm I’ve never done it, nor have I witnessed it first hand, but I’ve heard stories of how juveniles used to torment and abuse animals. I’ve heard stories about guys shooting roman candles at cats, or tying firecrackers to a cats tail, or a string of empty tin cans to a cats tail. The stories mostly centered around cats, however news reports indicate dogs are not immune either. In this story, Samson used foxes to… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/14.htm This chapter begins the story of Samson and his wife. Now, if you remember correctly, God instructed the children of Israel to not intermarry with any of the inhabitants of Canaan, and Samson’s parents were Godly people. Samson found a woman he wanted to marry, but she was a Phililstine woman, and his parents objected, asking him if he couldn’t find a woman from the children of Israel. But what no one knew, the… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/13.htm Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath, the Birth of Jesus, and Samson and Delilah, likely the most “turned into children’s books and movies” stories of the Bible. And the story of Samson and Delilah is usually about Samson getting his strength from his long hair, and Delilah cutting it off so he lost all of his strength. And if you remember it like I remember it, the strength was magically in his hair. But it… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/12.htm Some things you just cannot comprehend. I’m sure there is some theologian that can explain it, but then it would be the interpretation of man, which may not be correct. The Bible doesn’t say exactly why Ephraim was upset with Jephthah for not calling on them to help fight the Ammonites. But what is even more shocking, is why they would be so angry that they would fight about it. The people of Ephraim… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/11.htm What a story we have in this study of the Book of Judges. There was a Gilead named Jephthah who was the son of a harlot, and in this case, we should take the word “harlot” to be a prostitute. Remember in the story of Rahab of Jericho, sometimes a “harlot” could also mean an innkeeper, but in this case, I interpret scripture as meaning Jephthah was without mother because he was fathered with… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/10.htm Some of the stories of judges are in depth, some are very brief. And the first story in this chapter is about a judge named Tola, and is extremely brief. But stories like this are always a good example to learn more about the history that is in the Bible, world history, our history. As I’ve said before, only first names were used in those times, so the Bible indicates that this “Tola” was… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/9.htm Lying. Envy. Covetousness. Treachery. Deceit. Murder. Arson. I think we’ve covered it all in this chapter. Gideon’s sin was making the ephod that the children of Israel worshiped. But Gideon was still a man of God; when the people asked him and his sons to rule over them, Gideon told them that no one should rule except for God. Now Gideon had several wives and concubines, as was the custom in those days, so… Continue reading

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/judges/7.htm In chapter 7, we read of the battle between Israel and the Midianites, and there were thousands upon thousands of Midianite soldiers. Now God wanted to prevent the army of Israel from being prideful, so He instructed Gideon to narrow the army down to 300 men. God was with them, and knew that only 300 men would be needed to defeat the Midianites. Had the entire Israel army went to battle and won, they… Continue reading