This content explores the Book of Judges as a literary tapestry revealing foreshadowing "pictures" or "types" of Jesus Christ throughout the Old Testament. It argues that the cyclical failures and imperfect deliverances depicted in Judges highlight humanity's consistent need for a perfect, ultimate Savior.
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all right so here's what we gonna do
tonight we've been looking at Jesus in
the Old Testament tonight in in pursuing
that understanding where we can identify
Christ's pictures of Jesus and all that
throughout the Old Testament we're gonna
survey through the book of Judges the
whole book of Judges looking at pictures
of Christ this this is this doesn't mean
Jesus is physically showing up
necessarily it might just be an a
picture an analogy an allegory or a
template I'll explain that in a minute
how a template if something kind of fits
the Jesus template so to speak these
types they're gonna vary in strength
some are stronger some are weaker but
we're allowed to just say maybe that's a
type and leave it hanging in the air
because we're just looking to see what
God may have done with the sort of
literary tapestry of the Scriptures but
they also can vary in kind one can be
like that's a clear type this over here
is more of like a template this over
here might be even a Christ often II
these are very different kinds of things
so let's dig in about the book of Judges
if you've read the book of Judges or
even more if you've tried to teach
through the book of Judges as I have you
find it difficult it's easy in the
beginning and it's much harder as you
progress along because it's a very
particular kind of book in the Bible so
let me set the stage for us by just
reminding us what the book of Judges is
what's up with that alarm it sounds like
a building alarm to me oh well if it was
a robbery it was very short so so let's
back up and just give you like a quick
intro to the book of Judges I'm not
gonna do a survey of the book for the
sake of the book we're doing it for
Jesus in the book but get an idea of the
context of judges right so think of
Abraham in the Bible we have the calling
of Abraham that's probably around 2,000
BC that's when Abraham is called so four
thousand years ago then we have Moses
after his descendants go into Egypt and
then they come out with Moses that
happens around probably 1400 BC that's
my understanding of the timeline then we
have Joshua who leads the people of
Israel for a while he actually leads
them into the Promised Land and they go
into the Promised Land or Joshua that's
in the 1300s BC that's around
time now between Joshua and David we go
from the 1300s to about a thousand BC
well the book of Judges David's a king
of Israel the the second king of Israel
Saul was the first David was then the
next one well the book of Judges takes
the time after Joshua before David and
that's in general that's the timeline
that's where the book of Judges is and
Israel's not being led by Kings they
don't have a king and they don't have
one leader like Moses or Joshua but
rather the people are just supposed to
in their tribes handle their issues
follow what the law says and it'll be a
good society if you'll just do what God
says well that doesn't happen the people
sin and then they get in trouble and
then God brings up a judge or a
deliverer to rescue them and that's
that's what these judges are the judges
themselves are not like we think of like
judge like almost like they're coming to
like judge dredd is showing up to deal
with you that's that's not quite the
idea with the book of Judges and the
word judge could actually be translated
deliverer and that's what they largely
are they have a couple different jobs
these this group of people there's a
twelve or so of them in the book of
Judges and what they do is they they
come and they handle the hard cases of
Israel this is what Moses did Joshua
probably did it too when the elders of a
tribe or a group they couldn't deal with
an issue then they would take the issue
to Moses and he would answer that issue
he would only take the hardest cases
well the Kings do this later as well
they could appeal it's like appealing to
the Supreme Court right they go to the
judge so they would judge cases like
court cases but they would also instruct
Israel on what to do maybe bring him
maybe bring a message of God but more
often they would gather the armies of
Israel and be a military leader to
overcome and overthrow the enemies of
Israel so they had like those two sort
of jobs
ultimately to deliver Israel the book of
Judges goes through cycles it's cyclical
and it goes through these various cycles
and the cycle goes like this to
understand the book you got to get this
first the Israel does whatever they want
they don't care they don't follow God
they do whatever they want whatever
religious weird stuff they do they want
to do it they go ahead and do it then
God allows them to fall into bondage and
sends them a deliverer that's the judge
Gideon Jeff the Samson
you know II hood we read about these
guys they show up to
liver Israel from the bondage to their
enemies that resulted from their sin
then the deliverer himself will always
fall short
generally speaking the delivers are
always a disappointment in the end so
later on in their life they get the more
you like home man I like that God you
know it's like that happens a lot in the
book of Judges and I think this
demonstrates the need for Jesus this
cyclical thing demonstrates a need for
Jesus how there's sin there's bondage to
because of sin there's a deliverer that
rises up but even the deliverer is fall
short Jesus is the one who will not fall
short Jesus is the one who will
ultimately deliver these are pictures of
Jesus I think the judge is in a big
sense our pictures of Jesus so chapter
one of the book of Judges we get this
story set up like this um it talks about
how after the death of Joshua there in
the land but they are also inhabiting
the land with the enemies of Israel and
so they're like okay what do we do we
got to go up and fight against the
Canaanites or the ammonites or the
different groups of people that are
around us we've got to deal with them
how is that gonna happen so they go up
and they fight against them and God
instructs them but they fail they fail
to chase them out it happens over and
over again so chapter 1 lists like a
tribe of Israel and then it says and
they failed to drive out the Canaanites
then it lists another tribe and says and
they failed to drive out the Canaanites
and another tribe and they failed to
drive out the Canaanites so that's the
setup for the book of Judges here you
are in the Promised Land but yet it also
still is inhabited by those you were
supposed to drive out then the that
gives us the basic beginning scene for
us and we can look here in judges
chapter 2 verse 1
I'll pick up here and read it says now
the angel of the Lord went up from
Gilgal to Boheme and said I brought you
up from the land of Egypt or from Egypt
and brought you into the land that I
swore to give your father's 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've 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 as soon as the angel of the
Lord spoke these words to all the people
of Israel that people lifted up their
voices and wept and they called the name
of the place spoken and they sacrificed
their to the Lord this is interesting
this this is actually I think we have a
good case that this angel of the Lord
like I've already did a whole study on
the angel of the Lord you could look up
online just put the angel of the Lord in
the search but but this angel of the
Lord I think is a theophany
and I'll give you the reason why if he
didn't already notice it notice how he
speaks right when a prophet comes and he
speaks in the name of the Lord he says
thus says the Lord the angel of the Lord
doesn't do that the angel of Yahweh the
angel of the Lord he goes up from Gilgal
to Boheme which means he's traveling
he's physically present in some sense
and he travels from one location to
another delivering a message how would
you get a message out to a group of
people you walk around giving it over
and over again to different groups of
people so he travels from Gilgal to
Boheme and he says i in verse one I
brought you up from Egypt and brought
you into the land that I swore to your
father's to give you I said I will never
break my covenant with you now he's
quoting what God said but he's taking
credit as being the one who said it and
you shall make no covenant with the
inhabitants of this land you shall break
down their altars but you've not obeyed
my voice what is this you've done so now
I say so it's all first-person like God
speaking directly and then they
sacrifice to the Lord so I think this
angel of the Lord is a theophany
and so we could see Christ in that you
know being the the one who brings forth
the the Word of God so to speak the
message though is interesting it sets up
the book of Judges for us the message is
hey you failed
after the death of Joshua you failed you
blew it
and now failure is the theme of judges
and that's why this book's hard to teach
the further on I get in the book the
more I'm like looking for a good guy and
I can't find one have you noticed that
when you read about like the story of
this this these two tribes and they have
a big fight and then you're like but
you're all bad guys now like I don't
know who to root for and that's the idea
you don't need to root for them if they
need a root canal it's is that a thing
they hate it there's just no good
there's no good guy in this scenario and
that makes the book reveal I think the knee
knee
for Jesus ultimately so failures the
theme and it only escalates from their
judges to ten is a good like summary
statement of this it says and all that
generation also were gathered to their
fathers and there arose another
generation after them who did not know
the Lord or the work that he had done
for Israel and so this is this is that
the passing on of generations new
generations they they apostasy is they
don't hold to the faith of their fathers
they don't stick to Christ I mean this
this feels like America right now you
know how we've had these watered-down
Christianity to now just a rejection of
Christianity that seems to be where
we're moving at the moment so after
telling us that there's these
antagonistic nations in the land that
are still there it finishes the summary
in judges chapter two verses 11 through
nineteen so I'll read this this is kind
of the finishing of the summary and then
we'll get into more of the pictures
judges 2:11 and the people of Israel did
what was evil in the sight of the Lord
and served the balls and they abandoned
the Lord the God of their fathers who
had brought them out of the land of
Egypt they went after other gods from
among of the gods of the peoples who
were around them and they bowed down to
them and they provoked the Lord to anger
I mean realize how terrible this is it's
just so terrible that God calls the
people that gives him his his law but
what is it it's showing us that all
sinned and fall short of the glory of
God that's what it's revealing they
abandoned the Lord verse 13 and served
the ball's and Ashtaroth so the anger of
the Lord was kindled against Israel and
he gave them over to plunderers who
plundered them and he sold them into the
hand of their surrounding enemies so
that they could no longer withstand
their enemies whenever they marched out
the hand of the Lord was against them
for harm as the Lord had warned and as
the Lord has sworn to them and they were
in terrible distress then the Lord
raised up judges who saved them out of
the hand of those who plundered them yet
they did not listen to their judges for
they horde after other gods and bowed
down to them they soon turned aside from
the way in which their fathers had
walked who had obeyed the commandments
of the Lord and they did not do so
whenever the Lord raised up judges for
them the Lord was with the judge and he
saved them from the hand of their enemies
enemies
all the days of the judge for the Lord
was moved to pity by their groaning
because of those who afflict it and
oppressed them so as wicked as they are
God has pity upon them he brings them
judgment and that has pity upon them as
they groan under that judgment so he
brings them a deliverer what does that
sound like verse 19
but whenever the judge died they turned
back and were more corrupt than their
fathers going after other gods serving
them and bowing down to them they did
not drop any of their practices or their
stubborn ways so it's not just cyclical
it's like a downward spiral it's like if
I took a slinky and I open it up and
it's like here's Israel that as they
come around there oh the deliverer comes
but then they go down even lower then a
deliverer comes and they get Eve next
generation is even worse even worse and
you see this in judges the generations
get worse and worse and worse so they're
just they're lost there it's revealing
the sinfulness of mankind okay so that's
like the intro in fact chapter 1 verse 1
all the way through chapter 3 verse 6 is
like the intro to the book of Judges it
gives us this the scene of how this
happens then in judges 3 verse 7 we get
the first actual judge and that's a guy
named off Neill
so I'm gonna read off Neil it's just
what five verses verse 7 of chapter 3
all the way up to verse 11 so let's read
it and we're gonna get from him a
template of what the judges are like and
how this I think relates to Christ so
and the people of Israel did what was
evil in the sight of the Lord verse 7 of
chapter 3 they forgot the Lord their God
and served the balls and the Ashtaroth
therefore the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel and he sold them
into the hand of Kushan riseth i'm king
of mesopotamia and the people of israel
served Kushan Russia Thames eight years
but when the people of Israel cried out
to the Lord the Lord raised up a
deliverer for the people of Israel who
saved them off Neil the son of kin as
Caleb's younger brother the Spirit of
the Lord was upon him and he judged
Israel he went out to war and the Lord
gave him gave Kushan riseth i'm king of
mesopotamia into his hand and his hand
prevailed over cush on Risha thane so
that the land a so the land had rest for
40 years then off neil the son of king
has died not a lot of details there right
right
we're just getting like this bare-bones
overview of the story of Othniel but
it's a template and it has I think six
parts so it can be quick the six parts
of the template because I think we can
apply this to Jesus directly here's the
template first people sin to second
first - is that right people sin is the
first one that's second - they are
brought into bondage see they cry out F
the deliverer comes at for for part four
Episode six
no it's five the Holy Spirit's upon him
and then finally as long as the judges
alive they're okay so four principles
again probably distracted you from them
but people sin they're brought into
bondage then after the bondage they
finally cry out then the deliverer comes
the Holy Spirit generally is upon him
that's not in every case with the judges
sometimes the Holy Spirit's upon them
other times just not mentioned like with Samson
Samson
the Holy Spirit was upon him
specifically with off male there was in
verse ten and then six as long as the
judge is alive there okay that's really
consistent with the template why do I
say it's a template cuz it happened to
over and over again and we can use
templates to relate to Jesus because of
Acts chapter 7 well in Hebrews and John
and the rest of the Bible I mean it's
like consistently templates are being
used this sort of you know this happens
again and again and again and so we look
for a way that relates to Christ so the
template here is like this one step when
people sin well Romans 3:23 says all
have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God so sin is really serious then
part two they're brought into bondage as
it happened with Othniel so Jesus says
if you have where is it there it is okay
so Jesus says in John 8:31
if so jesus said to the Jews who had
believed him if you abide in my word you
are truly my disciples and you will know
the truth and the truth will set you free
free
implying they need to be set free and
they answer to him we're offspring of
Abraham and have never been enslaved to
anyone how is it that you say you will
become free jesus answered them truly
truly I say to you everyone who
practices sin is a slave of sin the
slave does not remain in the house
forever but the son remains forever
so if the son sets you free you will be
free indeed and so there's this sin the
bondage of sin the ultimate bondage the
bigger bondage that whoever's given you
a hard time my sin issues are way bigger
than the issues of whoever bugs me
whoever is oppressed me in my life my
own sin issues are the bigger issue in
Christ he's going to deliver us from
those things and that ultimately the sin
is the thing according to Scripture that
triggers all the bondages all the
bondage and all the hardships that we
experience in life then for the third
step they cry out and Romans 10:13 it
says for everyone who calls on the name
of the Lord will be saved
and that's the idea like the people of
Israel gather in sin yeah they're not
worth it but then they cry out to God
and God sends a deliverer so he you cry
out to Christ you can be saved the
fourth part of the template is the
deliverer comes the deliverer shows up
the problems with these delivers as
they're temporary
there in sand they're insufficient like
it has delivered Israel from the
Moabites then it really fix Israel from
the Canaanites the ammonites but didn't
really fix the problems Christ comes and
he's gonna actually fix the problems
Galatians 1 what speaking of what Jesus
delivers us from Galatians 1 verses 3
through 5 it says grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ who gave himself for our sins to
deliver us from the present evil age
according to the will of our God and
Father to whom be the glory for ever and
ever amen
so we're delivered from sin we're
delivered from the bondage that that we
have to sin we're delivered from the
consequences of our sins we're delivered
from Satan and the powers of this age as
well were delivered into the from the
kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of
light so so he's the escalation remember
that theme of escalation as we see these
Tim these pictures of Christ and then
the fifth one is the holy spirits upon
him that's happens fairly regularly in
the book of Judges the Holy Spirit is
upon these guys in some way as it was in
verse 10 of Judges 310 with auth Neill
well in Matthew 3:16 we read this and
when Jesus was baptized immediately he
went up from the water and behold the
heavens were opened to him and he saw
the Spirit of God descending like a dove
and coming to rest on him all right when
he was when he was casting out demons he
says in Matthew 12 28 he says that he
cast out demons by the
spirit of God so he was you know walking
in the spirit he was empowered by the
spirit so to speak
but what he says in John 334 is really
interesting see cuz you know often y'all
had the spirit in some sense but what
Christ had was so much more than that
in John 334 it says for he whom God has
sent utters the words of God for he
gives the spirit without measure and so
he in other words he's speaking the the
truths of God because he has an
immeasurable amount of the spirit like
Colossians says all the fullness of the
deity dwells in bodily form so much more
than whoever much anyone else has been
filled with the Spirit Christ was and
then number 6 as long as that Judge is
alive they serve God and this is kind of
a bummer with judges and you get
frustrated because you read this great
deliverance story and then the judge
dies and it's like well in a new days of
you know often eel they serve the Lord
as soon as he died they apostatized and
got even worse than the generation
before them and it happens over and over
again here's the cool thing about this
when you look at the picture and how
Christ is better Christ never dies he
died once he raised again he's alive
forevermore he never dies so where they
fall short Jesus excels he brings us to
God and eternally brings us into
relationship with God so we're forever
with him all the other types are failing
types that's consistent in the scripture
we look for where they fail we look for
where the type falls short that's why it
speaks of a need for something better
than this right the Old Testament law it
fails because I'm unable to perform it
Moses he brings them out of Egypt but he
can't bring him into the land
Joshua he brings him into the land but
he can't drive out the inhabitants and
really bring the fullness to them the
judges themselves they fail as well the
temple made a way for God to be with the
people but even with the temple and
sacrifices they're still separated from
God there's still these layers of
separation so it's insufficient it's not
enough it's not enough
Solomon fell short as the son of David
he's the son of David but then he falls
short the kingdom is have divided as a
result of his actions you know in the in
the days of his son so we get we get
this sense which they all just keep
falling short where Christ he succeeds
okay let's look at the second example
that's good you hood I won't go in
the details of the story hood though is
a very interesting story and he deals
with King Eglon and he he makes a very
interesting point with the king one day
I don't think there's any clear typology
with e hood or perhaps there's one I'll
venture to guess that there may be a
piece of typology here with a hood but
basically e hoods this the Eglon comes
in and he is oppressing the people of
Israel because their sins
again this is in judges three verses 12
through 30 and he would comes with a
with a where do they call it when you
when you give money to the king of a
foreign land it's a tribute that's the
word tribute so they come they come with
the tribute and he's gonna bring the
money so he brings the money to Ed long
after they've dropped the money off he's
leaving with his group of people who
brought all that money in whatever as
they brought and they're leaving and
then he stops and he turns back and he
goes secretly to Eglon and he tells
Eglin i have a message for you from god
and now that now it's like it's
suspicious right he left the rest of his
he doesn't want his other people to know
maybe he wants to be on my spy maybe so
Eggland's like okay I'll have a private
meeting with you well II heard the
left-hand a guy and he he straps his
sword into a unlikely position so maybe
they're not checking him maybe they
don't check in that spot you know as
they do quick checks possibly then he
goes and he's like so what is the
message from God you know and II could
give him the message he pulls a sword
out and he stabs him in his gut Eglon
sir it says he was a very fat and so
he's extremely large and he stabbed him
so far in that the sword just goes all
the way in right and then he pulls his
hand out and the guts come out that's
the description given and so then he
locks the door and he tells the servants
of Eglon that Eggland's in the bathroom
don't bother him and then he runs away
so and then he gathers the people of
Israel and they start fighting against
the king or against his people I should
say cuz the Kings already dead how could
this be if it's the template if it's the
basic template so in a sense he's a
picture of Christ because he's fitting
this template the picture that fits
Jesus but one could see a picture in the
trickery done to King Eglon because
here's the trickery right he hood feigns
submission and an apparent
he's yielding in subjection to Eglon but
secretly he using he's using that very
situation to strike the fatal blow
against the king and in a sense this is
kind of what Jesus does on the cross it
is a trick it's a trick it's not a trick
on you it's a trick on Satan oh here's
your great victory go ahead and
celebrate I mean Satan puts it into the
heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus
he wants to destroy Jesus and he gets
his greatest victory but in that is his
total defeat and so there's there's
maybe there's a picture that's there
Jesus feigned a loss to the powers of
darkness but he used that moment to
strike against them and ruin their
authority so that maybe there's
something to be said there the next
judge we get is in judges 3:31 it's a
guy named Shamgar Shamgar his buddies
just called him ShamWow he was so
impressive um we only get one verse
about Shamgar it says after him was
Shamgar the son of an ass who killed 600
of the philistines
with an ox code and he also saved Israel
so just a tiny little snippet on this
guy the only thing I can gather from
Shamgar that might relate to Christ is
that Shamgar is unconventional he's
using an ox code which is a farmer's
implement now don't get me wrong you
could kill people with it I mean you
know you can kill people lots of things
right if you ever you know watch modern
movies you can kill people with anything
and killed people would like my
fingernail probably I don't know it's
probably a movie with that in it you
pencils and pins
I remember straight pastor Kerry was our
pastor was at a airport and they were
bugging him because he had like some
nail cutters or or was like or like a
little pocket knife type thing and they
were bugging him like you can't bring
this on the plane and he goes I could
kill you with a pin and it was like
you're not making a better pastor just
submit you know anyway
he's expected to get out really soon so
so he's unconventional he's a farmer and
he's unconventional in his sense you
wouldn't look for deliverance from a guy
with an ox goad you look for oxes or
oxen from a guy with a dog's guard and
so Christ he was unconventional we get
this a lot in Scripture these
unconventional saviors right just like
David he's the king but he's a shepherd
and he's like
my Who am I you know God took me it says
in second samuel 7-8 about david and him
being unconventional it says now
therefore thus you shall say to my
servant David thus says the Lord of
hosts I took you from the pasture from
following the Sheep that you should be
Prince over my people Israel this sort
of exaltation from this humble like
nobody position to this being the
deliverer and so Christ he comes he's a
carpenter he comes in he's he's he's
nobody you know who's this guy from
Nazareth anything good ever come out of
Nazareth as they said of Jesus like what
prophet rises from Galilee that's what
they said about Christ what prophet
rises from Galilee of course two of the
prophets did come from Galilee in the
Old Testament Jonah and Hosea
interestingly enough but so Jesus was
unconventional maybe there's a
connection there then we get to Deborah
and no study on women in the Bible is
incomplete rather without looking at
Deborah Deborah is one of the judges
like she's a she's a judge like they're
taking these court cases to her and
she's giving instructions to Barak on
where this is this other this military
leader where he should take the army and
fight people
she's like the mouthpiece of the Lord at
the time she's a female she's a judge
she's also called a prophetess she's
really interesting really interesting
story Deborah so though I don't really
see special pictures in the story of
Deborah and Barak it's in chapters 4 & 5
of Judges if it's there I'm I'm cool
with it I just don't see it except for
the general template you know we sin we
get in bondage we cry out for deliver
deliver arise it's like that that
templates there I'm just looking for
other details I don't see that maybe
it's just too complicated because you
have Deborah and then you have Barack
and Hebrew and he leads not Obama this
is a different one and then he leads the
army of Israel but he's hesitant to do
so and that way that therefore the
leader of the enemy falls into the hands
of a woman named Jael and she drives a
pent tag through his head and that kind
of puts the end to that so now taking
all together we can see this is a
picture of Christ because all these
activities kind of work with Jesus the
final strike upon the enemy that kind of
thing but the bein the main theme with
Deborah as you read her song this song
she sings in judges 5 her main theme her
thinks she's really driving out that
she's really excited about and says
Barack they both sing the song they're
excited when the people willingly offer
themselves to God that's what they're so
excited about is when people willingly
serve God when leaders lead in Israel
and people willingly offer themselves
praise the Lord that's what she says and
so there's this sense in which this is
like more about people serving the Lord
people trusting in God people just going
for it and living for God in their lives
that's the excitement of Deborah and
that story then we get to Gideon in
chapters 6 through 8 we have the story
of Gideon Gideon you know we all know
Gideon because we all know the story of
the fleece and we know the story of the
300 you know who went up against the the
the hundred thirty five thousand
Midianites and so here's the story of
Gideon in short right the Midianites are
oppressing israel his real cries out and
then a prophet comes out and this time
before gideon shows up there's a prophet
and his main job is to rebuke people and
call them to come back to god well that
sounds like John the Baptist to me you
know that was his his for he was the
forerunner so this prophet goes out he
does another name he's not given a name
but he comes out and does that and then
this happens and it's a it is an angel
of the Lord passage but we're gonna
focus more on Gideon in this passage I'm
so judges 6 verse 11 it says now the
angel of the Lord came and sat under the
terebinth tree at Afra which belonged to
joash the abbe the abbe is right while
his son Gideon was beating out wheat in
the winepress to hide it from the
Midianites so the Midianites what they
would do is they would come and steal
the crops of Israel when they got ripe
so what he does is you know grapes and
we get ripe at different times so he
does he takes the wheat and he goes and
hides it in the winepress and he's in
the winepress and he's getting the chaff
off the wheat he's threshing it hiding
it for the Midianite so they won't see
him in there but that's what they had to
do because they were it was being stolen
from them their food was being stolen by
the Midianites so there he's doing that
now some people would say well he's a
coward that's why he's hiding well I
think he's just being smart I wouldn't
you would too you're not a coward when
you hide from from the Midianites in
this situation I don't think not that he
isn't fearful he's fearful in other
places but nothing's wrong with what
he's doing verse 12 and the angel of the
Lord appeared to him and said to him the
Lord is with you o mighty man of Valor
and Gideon said please my lord if the
Lord is with us why then has all this
happened to us and where are all his
wonderful deeds that our fathers
recounted to us saying did not the Lord
bring us up from Egypt but now the Lord
has forsaken us and given us into the
hand of Midian and the Lord turns to him
and said and now notice this in verse 14
it changes it is not the angel of the
Lord it's the Lord turned to him
questioned right okay wait
is it the angel of the Lord who turned
to him and it's been you know the angel
Lord simply being called Yahweh or is it
that God is in addition the angel of the
Lord God is speaking to him somehow like
God attention that comes upon him in
some sense I don't know and I don't know
how to answer the question in this
passage on that once maybe you could
figure it out for me and let me know but
verse 14 the Lord turned to him and said
go in this might of yours and save
Israel from the hand of Midian did not I
send you and he said to him please Lord
how can I save Israel behold my clan is
the weakest in Manasseh
that's his tribe and I am the least in
my father's house and again we get this
he is he's a nobody a nobody is being
raised up as a deliverer that's another
consistent thing they God doesn't isn't
looking on the proud and the high and
mighty because he wants to make pictures
of Jesus to humble and lowly 416 and the
Lord said to him but I will be with you
and you shall strike the Midianites as
one man and he said to him if I now if
now I have found favor in your eyes then
show me a sign that it is you who speak
with me please do not depart from here
until I come to you and bring out my
present and set it before you and he
said I will stay till you return so he's
looking for some confirmation he wants
to know that this is for real
so Gideon went into his house and
prepared a young goat and unleavened
cakes from an ephah flour the meat he
put in a basket in the broth he put in a
pot and he brought them to him now
there's just one him that he's brought
them to he clearly was talking to the Lord
Lord
when he said I'll bring you this
offering so there's only one person here
so maybe that implies that the angel of
the Lord is the same as the Lord here
I'm not sure possibility then in verse
20 the angel of God said to him take the
meat and the unleavened cakes and put
them on this rock and pour the broth
over them and he did so then the angel
of the Lord reached out the tip of the
staff that was in his hand and touched
the meat and the unleavened cakes and
fire sprang up from the rock and
consumed the meat and the unleavened
cakes and the angel of the Lord vanished
from his sight boom the angels vanished
he's not visible anymore then Gideon
perceived that he was the angel of the
Lord kind of an important term in the
Bible is that well it was the angel of
the Lord and Gideon said alas o Lord God
for now I have seen the angel of the
Lord face-to-face and now he thinks that
some harm will come upon him just by
seeing the angel of the Lord and it
seems biblically that he would be
worried if he was seeing God so maybe
there's a case there for this being gone
I obviously I think the angels Lord has
got from other passages I'm just trying
to isolate this one and see what we can
get from it so verse 23 but the Lord
said to him peace be to you
now so the angel of Lords vanished but
the Lord is still speaking then
interesting piece PDU do not fear you
shall not die then Gideon built an altar
there to the Lord and called it the Lord
is peace to this day it still stands at
Oprah which belongs to the obvious
rights that night the Lord said to him
take your father's Bowl and the second
Bowl of seven years old
and pull down the altar of Baal that
your father has and cut down the Asherah
that is beside it and build an altar to
the Lord your God on the top of the
stronghold here with stones laid in due
order then take the second Bowl and
offer it as a burnt offering with the
wood of the Asherah that you shall cut
down this is interesting he's like cut
down this pole this Astro pole which is
a wooden Idol and he was chopping down
and used it as firewood to make an
offering to God like I just I like that
I think that's really it's like yep that
whatever whatever you know the the
wickedness of my past sword it has now
burned up and offering to you it's been
offered to you that's that's neat you
know this is this is like someone who's
been hooked on drugs using their experience
experience
their past life and drugs to help others
with rehab you know it's like they're
taking that thing and they're destroying
let's see verse 27 so Gideon took ten
men of his servants and did as the Lord
had told him but because he was too
afraid of his family and the men of the
town to do it by day he did it by night
so he does it by night mm-hmm
and and we have this angel of the Lord
that I think didn't think of us as a
theophany I think it's so consistent in
other passages where it's clearly even
in judges later we'll get to one that I
take it as a kind of a theophany so in
judges 634 we also have another
reference to the to the Holy Spirit it
says but the Spirit of the Lord closed
Gideon and he sounded the trumpet and
the Abbey his rights were called out to
follow him so he now he's first he does
this thing destroys the idols of his
father's house then he calls the people
gathered together together for war but
it says the Spirit of the Lord came upon
him so I just want you to see the
template we see the Holy Spirit coming
upon him just like we did with Athenian
just like we were with Samson Samson who
is really terrible guy lots of ways then
we get the fleeces the fleeces I'll just
read this quickly judges 6 36 through 40
then Gideon said to God if you will save
his rule by my hand notice he's already
called the people of Israel to battle
he's getting nervous right he says if
you really save them then verse 37
behold I'm laying a fleece of wool on
the threshing floor if there is do on
the fleece alone and it is drying all
the ground then I shall know that you
will save Israel by my hand as you have
said and it was so when he arose early
the next morning and squeezed the fleece
he wrung enough dew from the fleece to
fill a bowl with water then Gideon said
to God let not your anger burn against
me let me speak to you just once more
please let me test just once more with
the fleece please let it be dry on the
fleece only and on all the ground let
there be two and God did so that night
and it was dry on the fleece only and on
all the ground there was do so first
time you know wet fleece dry ground
second time dry ground wet fleece and
the there's there's a lot of people that
will theorize as Tim how this might
picture Christ and then to dry the way
I'm not really I don't feel like really
strong about that so I'm not gonna go
there personally but I will say this if
I back out and I don't focus on the
details of the fleece I'll just say this
a miracle was there to confirm the
things that God had said so Gideon has a
few things he has a messenger from God
he has a miracle to confirm and he also
has dreams in the future there'll be a
dream that he hears so like a prophetic
dream so he has a prophetic dream
miracles and a messenger and these are
the things that Jesus appealed to as the
evidence for who he was right he had the
messenger who goes before him he had
John the Baptist he had the prophecies
that foretold about his coming and he
had the miracles that he was doing and
ultimately the resurrection itself that
miracle so I see that as perhaps being
related okay in Chapter 7 of the
Gideon's story God reduces their numbers
Gideon has a 32,000 according to text
32,000 and God's like let the people
that are scared to go home then he has
10,000 so they dropped in never
significantly but they still have 10,000
and God's like you got too many people
so he splits them into groups he goes go
ahead and get water and whenever you see
them he says the people that lap the
water that pick the water up and they
lap it with their tongue I think is that
the way it was I always forget which
group it was but basically God when is
the smaller group so it's interesting
God doesn't tell him which group to pick
he goes separate them into two groups if
they drink them if they drink water like
this put him on that side if they drink
it like that put him on that side he
puts them all on two sides almost
everyone's on one side God goes yeah use
the other side yes use the small group
so now Gideon has 300 men he has 300
guys what we get in the end is that 300
of Gideon's men will face 135,000
Midianites because not very good odds in
judges 7 - God tells us why it says the
Lord said to Gideon the people with you
are too many too many for me to give
over give the Midianites into their hand
lest israel boast over me saying my own
hand has saved me God wanted to make
sure that when God used Gideon to
deliver the people of Israel the people
of Israel knew that they didn't get credit
credit
they don't get credit for their
salvation they don't get to boast for
their salvation what does that sound
like to you
Ephesians 2 verses 8 9 it says for by
grace you've been saved through faith
and this is not your own doing it is the
gift of God not a result of works so
that no one may boast so it's the same
as with Gideon he's like I'm gonna I'm
gonna deliver you in such a way that
you'll know I get all the credit and you
get none of it well that's what Jesus
did and he gets all the credit
praise God so judges 6 16 when he first
called Gideon I want to recall to your
mind now something God said the Lord
said to him but I will be with you and
you shall strike the Midianites as one
man as one man and that's kind of what
he wanted not that Gideon would get the
credit but he wanted it to be this give
give the people of Israel the sensation
that they were being delivered by one
guy and not from themselves and that's
what you get in judges it you you know
the judge will lead a group of people to
do something but it sounds like just one
guy did all the job because it's
picturing that Jesus is the one man that
does the whole job that holds the whole
job of our salvation in Romans 5:18 and
19 or I should say 5:19 it says for as
by one man's disobedience the many were
made sinners so by one man's obedience
the many will be made righteous so we're
saved by one man now Gideon though he's
still worried he's still concerned he's
not sure if he's gonna make it
and so God sends him to spy on the
Midianites and he's got his 300 men
camped out and he sneaks into the
Midianite camp and this is what he
overhears judges seven verses thirteen
and fourteen he hears this from the
Midianites from the so called bad guys
right in the story judges seven thirteen
when Gideon came behold a man was
telling a dream to his comrade and he
said behold I dreamed a dream and behold
a cake of barley bread tumbled into the
camp of Midian and came to the tent and
struck it so that it fell and turned it
upside down so that the tent lay flat
and his comrade answered this is no
other than the sword of Gideon the son
of joash a man of Israel God has given
into his hand Midian and all the camp
interesting that the enemies knew before
begins people knew
that they were doomed you know like when
Jesus encounters the demoniac and they
asked him are you here to torment us
before the time
like they're like we know it's coming we
know we've lost or you know are you here
to do it before the time we thought I
realize it was now didn't think the time
was right but they're interesting about
this dream is they're defeated by bread
right the the picture of the Midianites
is just this big tent the picture of the
defeat of the Midianites is a loaf of
barley bread rolls down the hill hits
the tent flips it over now this is
interesting because this is what they
were stealing from the from the from the
Jewish people they were stealing bread
they're stealing their wheat well this
is what Gideon was threshing out in the
threshing floor right the wheat and he
goes yeah I just a loaf of bread is
gonna get you guys I'll beat you with a
loaf of bread jesus said I am the bread
of life and our deliverance comes from
bread from him who who we partake of who
we simply accept and partake of so the
moment of the battle comes and that's in
judges seven 15 through 22 we're gonna
read this story it's interesting how it
takes place how do 300 guys take out
this massive army judges 715
as soon as Gideon heard the telling of
the dream and its interpretation he
worshiped and he returned to the camp of
Israel and said arise for the Lord has
given the hosts of Midian into your hand
and he divided the three hundred men
into three companies a hundred each
right and put trumpets into the hands of
all of them and empty jars with torches
inside the jars now they had originally
this massive number so they probably
gather resources from that big number
for the 300 so they've got enough
trumpets for everybody and then they
take a torch in a jar and he said to
them verse 17 look at me and do likewise
when I come to the outskirts of the camp
do as I do when I blow the trumpet I and
all who are with me then blow the
trumpets also on every side of all the
camp and shout for the Lord and for
Gideon so so Gideon and the hundred men
who were with him came to the outskirts
of the camp at the beginning of the
middle Watch
so the beginning of the middle watch
when they just set watch that would be a time
time
when there's there's a camp and there's
guys on the outside of the camp and the
camp etre keeping watch well half of or
all of them rather they're going to
sleep and a whole nother crew is coming
out so to the middle of the night a
bunch of armed guards are being replaced
which means a lot of guys are walking
around outside the camp or around the
camp in the dark with swords it's so it
says and they blew the trumpets and
smashed the jars that were in their
hands so they had apparently smoldering
torches and they smashed the jars they
caught brighter flame again now you
might be like how did they do that
actually for those cultures keeping fire
smoldering is kind of what you do all
the time it's really normal to do that
you don't let your fires go out gettime
smoldering for hours there's ways to do it
it
we just don't know them because we have
bic lighters and matches and stoves they
cook you know some don't worry about
that though so verse was I on there 20
thank you then the three the three
companies blew the trumpets and broke
the jars they held in their left hand to
the torches and in their right hands the
trumpets to blow let me ask you guys
where are their weapons the torch
trumpet I hope this works so they do
this and they cry out a sword for the
Lord and for Gideon every man stood in
his place around the camp there
surrounding the enemy and all the army
ran they cried out and fled because
guess what nobody puts a torch in every
guy's hand nobody puts a trumpet at the
mouth of every one of his army if you've
got 300 trumpets blowing at 300 torches
you've got you're surrounded you're doomed
doomed
yeah we're scared so they just start
stabbing each other because it's in the
middle of the night and there's guys
walking around the campus swords and
they're scared and they see the trumpets
and they think they're under attack so
this is what they do verse 22 when they
blew the three hundred trumpets and the
Lord said every man's sword against his
comrade and against all the army and the
army fled as far as Beth Cheeta towards
Arara as far as the border of a bell
mahalo and by Tabitha so you guys we all
know where that is of course but um so
check this out there's a lot more to
this story of Gideon but but I'm sitting
the types the typological aspects right
they won by breaking a jar shining a
light and blowing a trumpet there were
no swords they had a trumpet in one hand
in a jar and the other with a torch they
simply had faith and they called on the
name of the Lord and a guy named Gideon
who is part of a template type of Christ
they just called out in faith the
Midianites defeat themselves on their
own swords Colossians 2:14 and 15 talks
about how Jesus used the the sword of
the enemy against him it says that Jesus
by canceling the record of debt that
stood against us with its legal demands
this he set aside nailing it to the
cross he disarmed the rulers and
authorities and put them to open shame
by triumphing over them in him he used
the cross to defeat the enemy he used
their own his own weapon against him his
judo is very good his kung-fu is
fantastic right whatever you use on him
use it against you they break a jar
they shine a light and they blow a
trumpet well jars represent bodies in
the Bible frequently like first Timothy
2:20 it says it talks about us being
vessels a great house has many different
kinds of vessels what kind of vessel are
you are you a vessel of clay or one for
honor for dishonor in second Corinthians
4:7 it calls our bodies earthen vessels
Adam was formed of the dust which is the
same thing you make clay jars out of
Jesus came in an earthen vessel and it
was broken to bring us salvation Jesus
is also the light of the world so we
have the broken jar we have the shining
light and then we have of course the
trumpet blowing and of course that's
associated with Christ not specifically
at his first coming really more at his
second coming and then when the trumpet
blows and Christ returns and really that
not one picture of Gideon is I think
first and second coming of Christ kind
of being pictured together which happens
a lot in Scripture after this the
picture changes there's a lot more
people engaging now it's they're not
just as one man they'd gets kind of
complicated just recording what really
happened historically with the people
and then Gideon has major issues he
builds as this this Aoife this gold and
Aoife that they end up worship
and he seriously falls short and this is
a point in judges right they fall short
Jesus does not they weren't good enough
we need someone better than Gideon we
need someone better than Moses we need
someone better than Aaron we need
someone better than these people that
have failed then we get to the next guy
and Abimelech is his name and to debate
whether he's even considered a judge or
not he's one of Gideon's offspring and
he's kind of a knucklehead
and he doesn't seem to be called by God
at all he kind of used SERPs Authority
and eventually he gets killed because of
it I don't see any picture that's there
unless it's of the Antichrist so then we
get another judge
puah and that's he's a minor judge he's
just he only gets two verses in the
beginning of chapter 10 the first two
verses there he judged Israel for 23
years not a lot of details about him Jer
another judge gets three verses judges
10 verse 3 through verse 5 just another
little thing not a lot of detail there
then they have pasta size again they
worship false gods the ammonites
oppressed them for 18 years and we get
to my favorite judge Jeff that Jeff is
my favorite probably because no one
showed me this type I just found it on
my own which is more fun you know when
you find these things on your own but in
Jeff though chapter 11 judges chapter 11
Jeff that we read about first one now
Jeff the the gileadite was a mighty
warrior but he was the son of a
prostitute Gilead was the father of
Jephthah and Gilead wife also bore him
sons and when his wife sons grew up they
drove Jeff the out and said to him you
shall and you shall not have an
inheritance in her father's house for
you or the son of another woman then
Jeff the fled from his brothers and
lived in the land of table or table
I really do I should look that up I
don't know how to pronounce that and
worthless fellows collected around
Jephthah and went out with him after a
time the ammonites made war against
israel and when the ammonites made war
against israel the elders of Gilead now
they feel like hey Jeff though we like
you now right they went to bring Jeff
though from the land of toab and they
said to Jeff tha come and be our leader
that we may fight against the ammonites
but Jeff does said to the elders of
Gilead did you not hate me and drive me
out of my father's house why have you
come to me now when you were in distress
and the elders of Gilead said to Jeff
the that is why we've turned to you now
right because we're in distress that you
may go with us and fight against the ammonites
ammonites
and be our head over all the inhabitants
of Gilead I'll just mention real quick
that the judges frequently weren't over
all of Israel there were over portions
of Israel I'll just mention that verse
nine Jephthah's said to the elders of
Gilead if you bring me home again to
fight against the ammonites and the Lord
gives them over to me I will be your
head that's important to him he goes I
will be in charge I'll be the leader and
the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah
the Lord will be witness between us if
we do not do as you say so jephthah went
with the elders of Gilead and the people
made him head and leader over them and
Jeff the spoke all his words before the
Lord at Mizpah now here's here's the
thing about Jeff this story um he was at
first he was the son of a prostitute
he's the son of a prostitute now there's
actually intimations in the New
Testament that Jesus his parentage was
questioned and it's in John 8 in
particular so I'll read a few verses to
you from John 8 that kind of imply that
they were questioning Jesus's parentage
in John 8 verses 18 and 19 he says I'm
I'm the one who bears witness about
myself and the father who sent me bears
witness about me they said to him
therefore where is your father all right
where's your father Jesus you know that
would make sense considering that Joseph
wasn't his father where's your father
jesus answered you know neither me nor
my father if you knew me you would know
my father also it's really exposing
their spiritual ignorance when they ask
that but there's more a little bit later
on in John 8 39 through 41 there's more
they answered him Abraham's our Father
jesus said to him said to them if you
were Abraham's children you would be
doing the works Abraham did but now you
seek to kill me a man who has told you
the truth that I heard from God this is
not what Abraham did you were doing the
works of your fought your father did
they said to him we were not born of
sexual immorality we have one father
even God what what why how is sexual
immorality have anything to do with this
I think they may be implying something
about Jesus then again in John 8:48 same
chapter the Jews answered him are we not
right in saying that you are a Samaritan
and have a demon
now Samaritan challenges his Jewish
lineage they're suggesting that he's not
really Jewish the Samaritans were not by
them they were not really considered
fully Jews they were considered to have
this water down half Gentile lineage and
so they seemed to be in John eight
saying something like you're the son of
a immoral woman that's what they seem to
be implying so Geoff the son of a
prostitute and then initially rejected
he was initially rejected Jephthah well
in John 1:11 we can read this that Jesus
came to his own and his own people did
not receive him Christ is not accepted
largely by the Jewish people after his
rejection before the Jewish people
accept him again Jephthah goes out to
Gentiles and is received by them but not
just by any Gentiles by worthless people
this to me is a beautiful picture verse
three right says then jephthah fled from
his brothers and lived in the land of
toab and worthless fellows collected
around Jephthah and went out with him
taub is an area outside of Israel that's
this area it's outside of Israel at this
time in Israel's history and they're
worthless fellows that word worthless it
means empty vain poor wicked or
unprincipled they're not great people
dude that's the church we're a bunch of
worthless people that have gathered
around Jesus and I think it's beautiful
first Timothy 1:15 it says this saying
is trustworthy and a serving of full
acceptance that Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners and then Paul
adds of whom I am the foremost you know
he who's been forgiven much loves much
well I love much and it's sad reasons
why it's good forgiveness worthless
people gather around him just like David
during during David's rejection of the
people rejecting David he goes out
during that time and Saul's hunting him
and first samuel 22 2 it says and
everyone who was in distress and
everyone who was in debt and everyone
who was bitter and soul gathered to him
and he became commander over them and so
we have this picture of Christ between
the 1st and 2nd coming in Jaffa Jesus
himself made a point of noticing how
this happened several times in the Old Testament
Testament
we're people who were sent to Israel
were received by non Israel right by Jew
non-jews so he mentions Elijah who took
care of the the woman who was a widow
and then how Elijah healed name in the
Syrian and both of them were Gentiles so
Jesus is trying to draw their attention
to this Jesus himself says this is a
legitimate template for for Christ's
typology so Jephthah fits that pattern
and then um the condition of him saving
them Jephthah's like fine I'll save you
but I got one condition I'll have to be
your head I've got to be in charge you
can't just take me as Savior you need me
as Lord Jephthah said to the elders of
Gilead if you bring me home again to
fight against the ammonites and the Lord
gives them over to my to me I will be
your head and they agree to do this and
this is what will happen of course there
was a great revival coming for the
Jewish people then where they're like
you know Jesus we need you we need you
you're the Messiah and we did not
receive you but we want you now you'll
be our head you'll be our Lord there's a
lot more to say about that but for the
judges 12 mentions three more briefly
and verses 8 through 15 that's absent
Ilyn and abdun by the way Jephthah then
his whole story just derails after that
but but it's not related to the to the
pictures of Christ so I'm moving off of
that then Samson comes Samson is
probably the biggest failure out of all
the judges he probably is and
consistently so it's like he didn't even
start good right his parents start good
that's about it
he's not really a type I don't except
for the general template I don't see
specific things in Samson's life like
let's see when he sleeps with Delilah
what is that picture and I'm like him
being a horrible person that's the whole
pictures you know he just is not a good guy
guy
whenever he does deliver Israel he
always does it for carnal selfish
reasons the only time he will fight the
Philistines is for his own needs and his
own reasons not for the sake of Israel
he's just he's just kind of a lousy guy
this is why I think when God predicts
stuff about Samson he says he'll begin
to deliver Israel doesn't even say he
will he just says he'll begin to it's
like he's not really even gonna get the
job done then he's the last of the
judges in the book of Judges the next
one is Samuel who's in the book
for Samuel he's the last one who leads
to the Kings but let's read what happens
at the birth of Samuel because there we
have something that's related to Jesus
Oh Samson Thank You Samson
however many times I said Samuel you
have to figure out which ones were right
and which ones were wrong okay judges 13
verse 1
Samson's parents and the people of
Israel again - what was evil in the
sight of the Lord so the Lord gave them
into the hand of the Philistines for 40
years it seems like the length of time
is pretty long - right and there was a
certain man of Zorah
of the tribe of the Danites whose name
was Manoah and his wife was barren and
had no children and the angel of the
Lord here we have the Angels allure
decamp very interesting appeared to the
woman and said to her behold you're
barren and have not borne children but
you shall conceive and bear a son
therefore be careful and drink no wine
or strong drink and eat nothing unclean
for behold you shall conceive and bear a
son no razor shall come upon his head
for the child shall be a Nazarite to God
from the womb and he shall begin to save
begin to save Israel from the hand of
the Philistines so he's not and he's not
from Nazareth he's a Nazarite which
refers to a vow where he doesn't drink
alcohol and he doesn't cut his hair and
he stays away from unclean things of
course he's going to blow it in these
areas because Samson's not gonna follow
the ways of the Lord
but in judges 13 verse 6 keep in mind as
the angel of the Lord speaking to them
Manoah the wife hears this and then the
woman came and told her husband in verse
6 a man of God came to me and his
appearance was like the appearance of
the angel of God very awesome so it
wasn't it was she's called tells him in
ma'am but it's obviously more than a man
he's visual appearance that was like
whoa something amazing here I did not
ask him where he was from and he did not
tell me his name
keep that in mind he didn't tell me his
name but he said to me behold you shall
conceive and bear a son so then drink no
wine or strong drink and eat nothing
unclean for the child shall be a
Nazarite to God from the womb to the day
of his death then manoa prayed to the
Lord and said O Lord please let the man
of God whom you sent come against us coming
coming
into us excuse me that'll be terrible uh-huh
uh-huh
come again to us and teach us what we
are to do with the child who will be
born and God listened to the voice of
Manoa and the angel of God came again to
the woman as he as she sat in the field
but no Manoa her husband was not with her
her
so what's clear so far is this is
someone who's sent by God but he's like
more than human is an angel of the Lord
but then when we get to verse 16 we have
the next stage when he actually meets
the husband and the wife it says in the
angel of the Lord said to manoa if you
detain me I will not eat of your food
but if you prepare a burnt offering then
offer to the Lord for manoa did not know
that he was the angel of the Lord and
the Noah said to the angel of the Lord
what is your name so that when your
words come true we may honor you and the
angel of the Lord said to him why do you
ask my name seeing it is wonderful
however she wanted to know his name he
wants to know his name he wants to give
honor to this angel of the Lord and the
angel of the Lord says why do you ask my
name seeing it is wonderful in other
words the one thing you know about this
Angel's name is that it's something
amazing and wonderful that word
wonderful means like beyond
comprehension it's like so amazing and
so wow that word wonderful is only used
one other time in the Bible and it's in
Psalm 139 verse 6 where the psalmist
talks about the knowledge of God and the
things God knows right he knows all
things he's omniscient and then he says
such knowledge is too wonderful for me
it is high and I cannot attain it
that's the only other use and it's
related to the knowledge of God being
too wonderful and here he goes my name
is too wonderful for you what in all
creation has a name that's wonderful
well I do think of Isaiah 9:6 his name
shall be called wonderful counsellor so
we read on verse 19 it says soma Noah
took the young goat with the grain
offering and offered it to on the rock
to the Lord to the one who works wonders
and Manoah and his wife were watching
and when the flame went up toward heaven
from the altar the angel of the Lord
went up in the flame of the altar goes up into the flame and goes up I don't
up into the flame and goes up I don't know if there's a picture there that
know if there's a picture there that Christ actually is going to be the
Christ actually is going to be the offering he goes up in the flame and
offering he goes up in the flame and maybe now Manoah and his wife were
maybe now Manoah and his wife were watching and they fell on their faces to
watching and they fell on their faces to the ground and look at how they
the ground and look at how they interpreted the angel of the Lord
interpreted the angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoa and to his
appeared no more to Manoa and to his wife than Manoa knew that he was the
wife than Manoa knew that he was the angel of the Lord just like when Gideon
angel of the Lord just like when Gideon knew oh and he gets freaked out and he
knew oh and he gets freaked out and he says manoa says to his wife we shall
says manoa says to his wife we shall surely die for we have seen the angel of
surely die for we have seen the angel of the Lord no wait that's not what he says
the Lord no wait that's not what he says he says we shall surely die for we have
he says we shall surely die for we have seen God they interpret this as seeing
seen God they interpret this as seeing God that's their conclusion I think that
God that's their conclusion I think that here there is a christophany I think
here there is a christophany I think there's the appearance of Christ
there's the appearance of Christ incarnate not incarnate but
incarnate not incarnate but pre-incarnate christ so those are just a
pre-incarnate christ so those are just a bunch of pictures Samson of course he's
bunch of pictures Samson of course he's the last judge before Samuel the story
the last judge before Samuel the story gets worse and worse and from the rest
gets worse and worse and from the rest of the book of Judges
of the book of Judges I see no pictures of Christ in fact it's
I see no pictures of Christ in fact it's like Christ lists it's like so sad and
like Christ lists it's like so sad and so messed up and it's like watching a
so messed up and it's like watching a bad soap opera and all the weird things
bad soap opera and all the weird things people are doing and the harm they do to
people are doing and the harm they do to each other it's terrible and I think
each other it's terrible and I think that's the point of judges you guys you
that's the point of judges you guys you fail you fail
fail you fail you need a real deliverance you need to
you need a real deliverance you need to deliver who can bring you out lead you
deliver who can bring you out lead you in the truth keep you close to God
in the truth keep you close to God at all times you need Jesus the picture
at all times you need Jesus the picture and judges ultimately is these Savior
and judges ultimately is these Savior characters who come who represent the
characters who come who represent the ultimate Savior but they can't do it
ultimate Savior but they can't do it good enough and they can't do it long
good enough and they can't do it long enough they can't do it fully enough
enough they can't do it fully enough right and Christ comes and he delivers
right and Christ comes and he delivers this delivers us entirely it ends and
this delivers us entirely it ends and judges 21:25 by telling you in those
judges 21:25 by telling you in those days there was no king in Israel
days there was no king in Israel everyone did what was right in his own
everyone did what was right in his own eyes which in biblical language is very
eyes which in biblical language is very bad news right a modern day language do
bad news right a modern day language do what's right in your own eyes sounds
what's right in your own eyes sounds great
great well read the book of Judges if you want
well read the book of Judges if you want to see what life is like when you do
to see what life is like when you do that so I think that's the picture and
that so I think that's the picture and judges ultimately we need we need the
judges ultimately we need we need the ultimate deliverer we need the King
ultimate deliverer we need the King Jesus let's pray father we thank you for
Jesus let's pray father we thank you for the Savior who has come we've been in
the Savior who has come we've been in bondage to our sins we cry out Jesus
bondage to our sins we cry out Jesus save us you will be our leader you will
save us you will be our leader you will be our head Christ the head of the
be our head Christ the head of the church lead us in your ways Lord just
church lead us in your ways Lord just continue to teach us to live not a
continue to teach us to live not a worldly
worldly if not an ungodly life not a life full
if not an ungodly life not a life full of compromise but a life full of just
of compromise but a life full of just christ-centered kingdom seeking and
christ-centered kingdom seeking and righteousness Lord we we love you we
righteousness Lord we we love you we want to live out the life that you
want to live out the life that you called us to live we pray you'd be
called us to live we pray you'd be glorified we thank you for Christ seen
glorified we thank you for Christ seen throughout the Scriptures and pray as we
throughout the Scriptures and pray as we continue this series of Jesus in the Old
continue this series of Jesus in the Old Testament that we would continue to just
Testament that we would continue to just have our eyes open to see see the
have our eyes open to see see the Scriptures through the lens of Jesus
Scriptures through the lens of Jesus Christ in Jesus name
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