“My father fought on your behalf, risking his life, and rescued you from the power of Midyan; and now you are rebelling against my father’s household. You’ve killed his seventy sons on a single stone and made Avimelekh, the son of his slave-girl, king over the men of Sh’khem, because he’s your brother.”–Judges 9:17-18 We’re […]

From today we’re gonna be doing a deep dive into the parable Yotam shared. There’s a significant life lesson contained in his oracle that I believe goes to the very heart of why there’s so much pain and heartache in the world today. So pay close attention to what I’m about to share here. Yotam […]

“When they told this to Yotam, he went and stood on top of Mount G’rizim and shouted, “Listen to me, you leaders of Sh’khem; then God will listen to you!”-Judges 9:7 Our attention now shifts to Yotam, the last surviving son following the massacre Avimelech instigated at Ofrah. Yotam’ actions after the murder of his […]

“They also gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Ba‘al-B’rit; and he used these to pay good-for-nothing thugs to follow him.  He went back to his father’s house in ‘Ofrah and killed his brothers the sons of Yeruba‘al, all seventy of them, on a single rock, except for Yotam Yeruba‘al’s youngest son, […]

“Avimelekh the son of Yeruba‘al went to Sh’khem, to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with the whole clan of his maternal grandfather. He said, ‘Please ask all the men of Sh’khem, ‘Which is better for you — that all seventy sons of Yeruba‘al rule over you, or that one person rule over you? […]