There was no King
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God was at work
God was at work
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors,
remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
Isa 46:
Adam, Noah
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
Joseph, Moses, Joshua
Judges
Samuel - Kings
David… Jesus
The failure of men
The failure of men
Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”
judg 2:1-
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
And I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.’ But you have not obeyed my voice.”
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Ch 17 - idols and shrines set up, and a Levite is recruited to be riest
Ch 18 - The tribe of Dan steal the idols and shrine, and bribe away the priest
Ch 19 - parallel to , a Levite takes a concubine who is unfaithful to him, he wins her back, only to have things end tragically in Gibeah
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”
Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”
But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.
judg 19:24-25
Ch 20 - the tribes take vengeance and all but wipe out the tribe of Benjamin
Ch 21 - to save the tribe, they slay destroyed all the men of Jabesh-Gilead and took the 400 virgins in town to give as wives for Benjaminites, and instructed them to kidnap wives to make up the shortfall
The Book of Judges ends with God’s people completely indistinguishable from the wicked pagan cultures they were to avoid
The people’s desire for a king was precipitated on the wickedness of their priests
David sinned and brought about death in his house
Solomon built God’s house, but divided the kingdom
Hezekiah led in revival, but didn’t pass it on
Incurvatus in se
Incurvatus in se
Augustine on :
Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake."
We conclude Judges not seeing the victory,, but rather the abject failures of mankind on display
There was no King
There was no King
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”
Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ”
Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
jn 19:18-
May we see three things in the book of Judges: Our continual and absolute need of a savior in Jesus, a warning of how far God’s people can wander, and that God has always and is always with us and ready; there IS a King and His name is Jesus!