Thursday, June 12, 2008

Judges 7-11

  • God shows off his abilities (7:1-3)
  • Chooses which one to stay (v4-5)
  • The lapped ones totalling 300 stay with Gideon (v7)
  • Was God testing how much trust he had? (v10-11). God still have a choice rather telling him to just do as you are told!
  • Midian was delivered to Gideon by God. All Gideon and his team of 300 did was simply to blow horns (v18-22)

  • Gideon has won battle, has the full support from Israel for ousting God, but still remembers to humble himself and honours God, making sure Israel knows who is the true ruler. (8:22-23)
  • Israel falls immediately after the death of Gideon (v33-35)

  • So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel. (10:16)
  • Were they supposed to destroy rather than put away?

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