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How the life of Samson calls Israel and you out from the world and to Jesus Christ.

Review from the first lesson

Samson according to God is a model for a faithful believer despite his sins that are highlighted towards the end of his life.

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Sampson made the Antithesis sharper between Israel and the Philistines.

c. Sampson looked different on purpose as a Nazarite

d.

Samson being born of a sterile woman.

e. Are message is delivered by the angel of the Lord - This is a pre incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ.

f.

Manoah is a bit spiritually dull we know because he did not recognize this angel of the Lord was Yahweh.

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Sampson was blessed from his birth and the spirit of the Lord dwells in him.

14 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah.

Now get her for me as my wife.” 3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?”

But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

4 His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines.

At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah.

And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.

6 Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat.

But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes.

8 After some days he returned to take her.

And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

9 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went.

And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate.

But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

10 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.

11 As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

12 And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you.

If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes, 13 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.”

And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”

14 And he said to them,

“Out of the eater came something to eat.

Out of the strong came something sweet.”

And in three days they could not solve the riddle.

15 On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire.

Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” 16 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me.

You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.”

And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard.

Then she told the riddle to her people.

18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,

“What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer,

you would not have found out my riddle.”

19 And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle.

In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.

20 And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

How the life of Samson calls Israel and you out from the world and to Jesus Christ.

Samson was a type of Christ and his life points us towards it.

- and that

if we obey the Lord Israel and we could be spiritual Samsons who are able to overcome all of their enemies if they and we are devoted to him and obedient to him.

And Samsons later part of his life is an example of what Israel was in all of her spiritual darkness and backsliding which we will look at in Chapter 16 with his sin with Delilah.

Samson begins his ministry as judge by going down into Timnah to find a philistine wife.

- this is his Holy Spirit calling.

This was not a lapse of judgment on his part but a well thought out plan to initiate war with the philistines.

This was because the philistines were oppressing the people of God as tyrants.

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14 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah.

Now get her for me as my wife.” 3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?”

But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

Don’t mistake Samson marrying this unbeliever as an excuse for you to do so.

The Bible is clear that we are not to be unequally yoked in our marriages.

Samson was marrying this women out of special direction from the Lord .

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His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines.

At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

The he here in verse 4 is referring to God it says the Lord Yaweh was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines.

Verses 5-6 The spirit of the Lord rushed upon him when he kills a lion and then later the carcass

Verses 7-8 He goes to talk to the philistine women and returns to take her and there is some bee’s that have taken up root in the carcass of the lion and honey.

Verse 9 He takes some of the honey and begins to eat it on the way and gives some of that honey to his parents when he returns but leaves out the part that it came out of the dead lion carcass.

Verse 10-11 Manoah goes down to the woman and Samson prepared a feast and thirty young men gather around him after the people saw that he prepared this feast.

Verses 12-14 Samson puts a riddle to the men there.

He says you guys you want a bet are you betting men.

And they wager .

Verses 15-18 Samson tests his wife with this riddle whether she is going to turn to Christ and the superior strength of her husband who is the anointed messenger of God.

Unfortunately she does not put her trust in the Lords

She cry's and carries on and Samson tells her that he has not even told the riddle to his father or mother.

This is the exact opposite how a wife should pester her husband about something.

But through her sin The Lord uses it to be another occasion to have Samson kill Philistines.

Samson gives in because he wanted to give in the riddle was a trap for the philistines and his wife unfortunately turned from him.

She has a treason-es heart and betrays her husband and tells the philistines the answer to the riddle.

So the Philistines answer the riddle and Sampson goes and kills 30 other philistines and takes their clothes and pays off the debt from the bet.

So did Samson sin in doing this?

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And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle.

In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.

20 And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

The Holy Spirit came upon him as he did this.

Would the Holy Spirit lead you to sin?

Would the holy spirit lead anyone to commit murder?

Did Samson murder these people?

Samson did not murder these people because to kill an enemy in a time of war is not murder its just and its right.

Remember - How the life of Samson calls Israel and you out from the world and to Jesus Christ.