The Judge Abimlelech

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Daily edition. Where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we continue to look at the judges, our next judge is

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Abimelech. And we said that with Israel, each of these cycles, they went further and further into decay, moral decay.

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And we see this with Abimelech, this judge. We see this in Judges chapter 9.

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And what you end up seeing here is Israel is actually now, the judge is going against his own people.

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So the oppressors here are Israel. They're at civil war. So there's oppression within. Abimelech is the son of Gideon by a concubine.

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So he's the son of the last judge. But if you look at chapter 8, verse 33, it says,

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As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the

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Baals. And so what you end up seeing is as soon as Gideon dies, Israel immediately this time is going right back to the wrong that they were doing.

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And again, now you end up seeing Abimelech comes up. Now, what's the problem? Well, Abimelech, they made a king, which they should not have done.

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But they ended up making him a king. He ends up going to war and has a woman who ends up throwing something on his head and kills him as he is trying to burn a tower down.

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Now, you end up seeing that that's actually a curse. He doesn't actually die. He ends up asking for his armor bearer to thrust him through in order to kill him off so that he would die not by the hand of a woman because that would have been a shameful thing in those days in his mind.

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And so what you see, though, is Israel immediately went back into their disobedience. That is the pattern we end up seeing with Israel, and it's a problem.

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