Reading Through the Bible with Elder Linda
In this episode from Judges Chapters 14 - 15 we continued to read about Samson, the last judge talked about in the book of Judges. In this episode Samson marries a Philistine woman. She betrays him during their wedding feast resulting in Samson killing 30 Philistines and walking away from the marriage. When he returned after he calmed down, his wife had been given to another man. Furious, Samson burned up the Philistines crops, vineyards, and olive groves. The Philistines retaliate by burning his wife and her father to death. Samson attacks them again killing many of them. After this battle, Samson hid in a cave and then allowed the Israelites to capture him and take him bound with ropes to the Philistines (Samson wanted them to take him to the Philistines so he could kill some more of them). Once in their camp, Samson breaks the ropes and kills 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey. Samson had a lot of character flaws but God was using him to confront the Philistines. It tells us this in Chapter 14:4 that God would use his marriage to the Philistine woman to initiate a confrontation. What can we learn from this? That you can’t put God in a box and that all things will work out for our good when you belong to the Lord. Even when it doesn’t look good or feel good at the moment. We also notice that we didn’t read about the Israelites asking for God’s help against the Philistines, they seem to have accepted their fate of being oppressed by the Philistines. God still sends them help because they are His chosen people. This shows us God’s patience and His long suffering with us…even when we don’t deserve it. #foryou #judges #foryourpage #samson #philistine #christian #nazirite #strength @readingthroughthebiblewith3242 [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCoJt70X_S0rORKt463YY5tw]
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