I must issue a warning here.
Once we dive into our textual study of the Book of Judges, we’re going to be exposed to an Israel who walked away from God and fell into gross idolatry.
When we read these stories about Israel’s fall from grace, our tendency might be to take a condescending attitude and look down on what was a spiritually weak Israel.
I warn you to NOT adopt that attitude.
Because the truth is the gentile church today is on the same path of spiritual suicide as those ancient Israelites were thousands of years ago.
That’s right homies.
Humility and an openness to the lessons being presented to us here is in order.
Because the sins of the gentile church have been great and it’s high time they lay down their arrogant guns and repent (and I say this as a gentile believer myself).
They have substituted manmade philosophies and denominational doctrines for the holiness and purity of Hashem’s Torah.
Recall Yeshua’s parable of the sower when he said “Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants”.
Are we going to forsake all and take the narrow path that Yeshua spoke about or be choked by the thorns of this world and allow ourselves to fall away?
The former Principal of the Bible College of Victoria (in Melbourne, Australia) and the author of “Judges and Ruth: An Introduction and Commentary” well recognized the parallels between the gentile church era and the period of Judges.
He says…
“It may be that the modern reader of Judges will hear the warning voice of the (Holy) Spirit, ‘This is NOT the way, walk ye NOT in it’”.
Don’t get me wrong.
The works of the righteous in the gentile church over the past centuries have been awesome indeed.
The church has taken the gospel to pretty much every location on planet earth (except maybe Japan).
And it was the moral right in the United States that made a decision to stand against Adolf Hitler and his plans to exterminate every last one of God’s chosen people.
However, things have done changed.
And not in a good way.
There are many churches today who say that God’s definition of sin must be altered because it just doesn’t jive with what’s important in our modern society.
Heck I even know some churches where a so-called Christian doesn’t even have to profess Yeshua as Messiah to be considered a believer.
And in Judaism, it’s perfectly cool for a Jew to be a professing atheist because it’s Jewish blood or ethnicity that’s really the most important thing.
Folks, we’ve replaced God’s clear commands with our manmade inclinations that claim love and peace is of utmost importance and supersedes everything else.
EVEN IF it means protecting the lives and rights of the guilty (like illegal border crossing immigrants) at the expense of the innocent (native born or proper citizens).
The perverted justice being promoted these days is that it’s okay to compromise on principles as long as it achieves unity (which means we have to make room for those whom God clearly said we should NOT make room for).
In addition, religious syncretism is all the rage now.
There are now a ton of churches out there that claim the God of Israel called by any other name is still the same Lord and that’s why all religions and faiths should be considered just as valid and equal to the Judeo-Christian faith.
Are you freakin’ kidding me?!
I’m gonna make a guess here.
I betcha thousands of years from now when mankind looks back on the era of the modern Church as she exists today, the modern times of the gentiles leading up to the end days is gonna be viewed as literally a modern adaptation of the Book of Judges.
Of course, I can’t say that for sure.
But gosh darn, the way things are with the church now, I betcha that’s how this era will be viewed.
Over and out.
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