The Cycle of Spiritual and Moral Decline

Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report Daily

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Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Now, as we mentioned with the book of Judges, that there's 13

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Judges mentioned here that we're going to look at. There's actually more Judges altogether.

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However, when we look at the Judges, this actually does apply to you and I today as Christians.

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You say, how? Well, very simple. There is a cyclical nature to the book of Judges.

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There's actually seven cycles that we're going to see, and within each of those cycles, there's four elements or cycles.

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So it's kind of cycles within cycles. So first thing we're going to see is that there's four elements to all seven of the cycles.

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You're going to have Israel's disobedience, then you're going to see the oppression at the hands of their neighbors because of their disobedience, which leads to Israel's repentance and crying out to the

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Lord for deliverance, and the last or the fourth is that God delivers Israel by sending them a judge.

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However, each cycle is short -lived, usually by the death of that judge, and each of those cycles end up progressing to more overall disobedience of Israel.

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And so there's going to be basically five cycles of spiritual decline that we see as they continue to get worse.

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There's the disobedience and falling, failing to drive the Canaanites out of the land, idolatry, third is intermarriage with the

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Canaanites, fourth is not heeding the judges, and fifth is turning away from God to death of the judges.

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So you see cycles that actually apply to Christians today because we could be disobedient too. This podcast is part of the

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Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org