WELCOME TO THE MESSIANIC REVOLUTION

In my last post I indirectly established something quite significant about the modern gentile church. Did you catch it? If not, let me just go out and say it. The gentile church has been engaged in religious syncretism for years…actually centuries now. To be even more accurate, it would be no exaggeration to assert the church […]

A shocking thing we’re gonna encounter once we get into the book of Judges are all of the mixed marriages that took place between the Israelites and the local Canaanites. In fact, in just a short period of time, this became a normal and accepted thing. However, this led to a big problem. And that […]

Let’s get our bearings of where we’re at in our preamble to the Book of Judges. FIRST, recall what the true Biblical definition of a Shofet or Judge is. Remember, it’s not some somber looking dude wearing a black robe arbitrating over a variety of civil or criminal charges in a courtroom. No, a true […]

In my last post I established that Israel operated under a Greek style of government called an AMPHICTONY.  However, it’s a mistake to call it a “government” because there was no central ruling authority. It was more like a loosely held together alliance of tribes bound together by family and religion. While other amphictonies were […]

In a nutshell, the era of the Judges was a period of big time political instability for Israel. And the reason why is simple. They possessed no central leadership like they had had under Joshua. They were supposed to look towards God as their king. And the priesthood was to be the central government serving […]