“But when the people of Israel cried out to Adonai, Adonai raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, from the tribe of Binyamin, a left-handed man. The people of Israel appointed him to take their tribute to ‘Eglon the king of Mo’av.  Ehud made himself a double-edged sword eighteen inches long […]

“But when the people of Israel cried out to Adonai, Adonai raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, from the tribe of Binyamin, a left-handed man. The people of Israel appointed him to take their tribute to ‘Eglon the king of Mo’av.”-Judges 3:15 So the generation that Othniel ruled ended – […]

So we’ve been introduced to the first judge of Israel: Othniel. He was from the tribe of Judah and battled against Kushan-Rish’atayim to expel him from the southern territories of Canaan. We learned that Kushan also hailed from the southern desert region of Edom and NOT Aram. Saying Kushan-Rish’atayim was from Aram is a copyist […]

“But the people of Israel again did what was evil from Adonai’s perspective, so Adonai strengthened ‘Eglon the king of Mo’av against Israel, because they had done what was evil from Adonai’s perspective.”-Judges 3:12 In verse 12, we’re introduced to the final part of the repeating cycle of a Judge. And that is after deliverance, […]

The last time we met we discussed how God’s Spirit comes upon a man versus covering a man. I even introduced 2 different Hebrew words to describe these 2 different phenomena: HAYYAH (הָיָה) and LABESH (לָבַשׁ). But what about the New Testament phenomenon of the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of a man? What I can say is this: After […]