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Judges 17:6 – Judges 18:1 – Judges 19:1 – Judges 21:25 – Judges 8:22 & 33f
No! Gideon became a king and his son were kings also. But he only consented after saying God was their true king. That was the problem. They would not let God be their king.
Judges 3:8, 14 – Judges 4:2-3 – Judges 6:1 – Judges 10:8 – Judges 13:1.
No! After they moved into their promised land as led by Joshua they kept worshiping the gods of the local pagans and ended up serving them a total of 59 years.
Judges 16:31 – Judges 15:8
No! Samson judged the Israelites for 20 years. Most of that time he lived in the cleft of a rock (cave) and judged from there.
Numbers 13:16 – Joshua 1:1,2 – Zechariah 3:1-10 – Matthew 1:21
No! The aide of Moses was Hoshea, meaning one who saves; Moses changed his name to Joshua meaning Jehovah saves, then made him the leader to take his place after he died. The prophet Zechariah (around 520 BC) had a vision of a Joshua wearing the crowns of both the high priest and king – a prophecy of Jesus, the Messiah. Joshua is the Hebrew pronunciation of his name. In English it is pronounced Jesus. The angel told Joseph: “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Joshua 1
God appeared to Joshua in the form of a warrior. The warrior told him to take off his sandals because he was standing on holy ground. Joshua bowed down to him Then THREE TIMES God told Joshua:
Be STRONG
Be COURAGEOUS
Song of Solomon aka Song of Songs
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
There is a God-shaped emptiness in the hearts of all mankind.
Psalm 18:24-26 – Proverb 1:18 – Proverb1:26-32 – Proverb3:34 – Proverb 8:36 – Proverb 11:27 – Matthew 7:2
What we do to others eventually backfires onto us. It’s all through the Bible.
This chapter reminds us of how Jacob had betrayed his brother and was given the blessing of being ruler instead. This chapter recalls the story of Jacob’s descendants who became slaves in Egypt. God had freed them from their slavery but…
1 – …the former slaves kept the mentality of complaining slaves. They betrayed God and gave credit for their freedom to a golden calf. So, over 40 years of wandering in the wilderness with no country of their own, they all died. (Generation 1)
2- …the children of the former slaves betrayed God after he gave them a land to settle in; they gave credit to false gods . So the children of the slave children down to their grandchildren all died. (Generation 2-4)
3- – Therefore, God took away the throne of Jacob’s oldest son by his favorite wife – Joseph & Ephriam – and gave it to Judah, the oldest responsible son of Jacob’s hated wife – Judah. (generation 5)
When sometimes David doubted God even existed (it happens to everyone sometimes), he debated with himself. His heart comforted his soul.
And he answers his own doubts::
This is a beautiful psalm and Christians today sing the first part of it: “As a dear pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for you, O God.”
Did you recognize how Jesus repeated David from the cross? “My God, why have you forsake me?” But Jesus never asked a question he did not know the answer to. Just before he died, Jesus said “God, I’m coming home.”
