Most pastors, preachers and teaches shun teaching the Book of Judges like the plague for a very simple reason. It’s filled with darkness, doom, disasters and failures repeated over and over and over again. And while there is a dim light of hope at the end of the tunnel, it’s a long time in coming. […]

“This is how I will test Israel, to see whether or not they will keep the way of Adonai, living according to it, as their ancestors did.” -Judges 2:22 In verse 22, God tells Israel He’s going to let the Canaanite nations stay in the land for the purpose of testing or putting His people […]

“So the anger of Adonai blazed against Israel; he said, “Because this nation violates my covenant, which I ordered their fathers to obey; and they don’t pay attention to what I say…”-Judges 2:20 I wanna show you something really interesting in verse 20 of Judges Chapter 2. This underscores just how much flavor and nuance […]

Let’s talk a little bit more about the true Biblical meaning of the word “tribulation”. In the “Old” Testament, the word for “tribulation” is LACHATS in Hebrew. And in the New Testament, the word is THLIPSIS in Greek. The proper meaning of the word is “to apply pressure”. And that pressure can be either great […]

“But then Adonai raised up judges, who rescued them from the power of those who were plundering them. Yet they did not pay attention to their judges, but made whores of themselves to other gods and worshipped them; they quickly turned away from the path on which their ancestors had walked, the way of obeying Adonai’s […]