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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. The book of Judges, now we don't know exactly who the author of this book was, but Jewish tradition believes that this was
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- Samuel who was the author. Now this is one of the first books that we come to where you may not realize that the way we're going through this is in the
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- Protestant tradition, but there is differences with the way the Jewish Bible is laid out, and this book is actually not the sixth book of the
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- Bible following Joshua. It is actually in with the prophets, probably more so because of Samuel the prophet and him being the supposed author.
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- Now what is this book about? Well this actually is an unfortunate sequel to the book of Joshua, where Joshua shows the triumphs, this is the tragic follow up to Joshua, and this is now they've entered into the land,
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- Israel is in the land, and there's seven distinct cycles that we see of Israel drifting away from the
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- Lord. You see this and you'll see a four part sequence throughout the book. You'll see
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- Israel departing from God, their disobedience, the second step will be
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- God's chastisement, sometimes permitting other nations to rule over them, third you'll see the
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- Israel pleading to God, and then the fourth you see God providing a judge or a savior, someone that will turn them back to God, and that's the cycles that you see.
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- What is the most common phrase you see in this book is that men did what was right in their own eyes.
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