Prior to having a King, Israel went through the period of the Judges. Their experience was like a roller coaster - sometimes up and sometimes down, in many ways like our own spiritual lives today. 

<p>Prior to having a King, Israel went through the period of the Judges. Their experience was like a roller coaster - sometimes up and sometimes down, in many ways like our own spiritual lives today. </p>

Adam Ramdin

Lineage Season 3: Creation to Kings

Episode 01: Creation, Noah’s Ark and the Flood

Episode 02: Abraham: The Faithful Father

Episode 03: Lot, Sodom & Gomorrah

Episode 05: Moses- Let My People Go

Episode 06: Moses- The Passover & the Exodus

Episode 04: Joseph & Jacob: The Birth of a Nation

Episode 07: Joshua and Caleb- The 12 Spies & 40 Years in the Wilderness

Episode 08: Aaron- Mount Hor & and the Anointing of Eleazar

Episode 09: The Death of a Great Leader

Episode 10: Joshua- The Battle of Jericho

Episode 11: The Judges

Episode 12: The Cities of Refuge

Episode 13: David & Goliath

Episode 14: David and Saul- The Pursuit to Ein Gedi

Lineage Journey

After they took the city of Jericho and moved inland, there was still a lot of work to do. The land was occupied, but this was the area God had promised he would give them. He had promised that if they diligently kept his commandments and followed him, that he would clear out the land and drive out the nations from the Rivi freights to the Mediterranean, they were warned that if they didn't do this, the people would be a constant thorn in their side. Sadly, they failed to heed the advice given them and judges one verse 28 says that they failed to utterly drive them out. They chose the course of ease and they mingled and intermarried with the various heath and tribes around them. Soon heathenism and idolatry spread amongst the Israelites, and they served as captives in the land that had been promised them. The king of Mesopotamia, Lon, king of Moab, the Canaanites and the Philistines all became oppressors of Israel. On each occasion, God raised up a deliverer, Shamgar, e Hood, Deborah, and Barrack. There was a cycle. They fell into captivity and remained in captivity until they cried out to God for deliverer. Then God raised up a judge who delivered them, and they were free from captivity often as long as the judge was alive. Then when the judge died, they fell back into aposty and captivity. So often this is the case with us. We have ups and downs in our spiritual lives, sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Before crossing the river Jordan into Israel, the mid eyes had almost been wiped out, but a small number remained, and over time, they grew became powerful and oppressed Israel. For seven years, God raised up Gideon to deliver his people. Gideon was hesitant to take on the call and asked God three times to show evidence that he was with him. After whittling down his men from 32,000 to 300, he won the battle in the most extraordinary way, God was making a point. I am the one who has the power. Trust me, and not yourselves, But perhaps the most famous judge in Israel had a very mixed reign, and his name was Sampson. Born into the tribe of Dan. In the family of Manoa, he was consecrated as a nazarite at birth, no wine, no unclean foods, and his hair was not to be cut. However, living close the Philistines, he mingled with them and married one with disastrous results. Then he was a judge for 20 years. As he got older, though his old weaknesses came back and he was ultimately seduced by Delilah to give away the source of his strength as a prisoner to the Philistines. He ended up killing more Philistines at his death than during his life and his believe he is buried here at the top of this hill. Many of the judges did have disadvantages. E hood was left-handed. Gideon was outnumbered. Samson though did have physical strength, but maybe this contributed to his downfall because he trusted in his own strength rather than in the want who was the source of his strength. God was always trying to teach his people to rely on him, not to rely on their own strength, not to rely on the strength of their armies, but to rely solely on him. He who had brought them from Egypt to Canaan miraculously would deliver them if they trusted in him. God wants us to have a consistent walk with him, not one that goes up and down all the time, but for us to learn to trust implicitly in him based on how he has laid either us or others in the past. When we remember how good God has been to us, we can know and have the assurance that when we confront obstacles that seem insurmountable, such as the Midianites to Gideon, we can know that God has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

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Lineage Season 3: Creation to Kings

Episode 11: The Judges

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Episode 01: Creation, Noah’s Ark and the Flood

Episode 02: Abraham: The Faithful Father

Episode 03: Lot, Sodom & Gomorrah

Episode 05: Moses- Let My People Go

Episode 06: Moses- The Passover & the Exodus

Episode 04: Joseph & Jacob: The Birth of a Nation

Episode 07: Joshua and Caleb- The 12 Spies & 40 Years in the Wilderness

Episode 08: Aaron- Mount Hor & and the Anointing of Eleazar

Episode 09: The Death of a Great Leader

Episode 10: Joshua- The Battle of Jericho

Episode 11: The Judges

Episode 12: The Cities of Refuge

Episode 13: David & Goliath

Episode 14: David and Saul- The Pursuit to Ein Gedi

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