WHEN THE BULLET HITS THE BONE [Judges Conclusion]
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down
the strength of the confidence thereof. Proverbs 21:22
ON VIDEO [new notes- verses- links below]
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.Drugs planted
.They fought their own
.Civil war
.Lincoln
.12 body parts
.Seat of authority
1-JUDGES CONCLUSION
2- ARE PASTORS HELD RESPONSIBLE?
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JUDGES CONCLUSION [verses at the bottom]
I did not plan on covering the last 2 chapters of Judges-
but did it ‘on the fly’ [or drive?]
But there is some good stuff there- as I have been teaching
the book, I want you to see the ‘spiritual’ truths behind the actual history.
The apostles in the New Testament were unfolding how Jesus
is seen/prophesied thru the Old Testament.
So- we saw Samson and the Lion parable- and the Jaw bone.
To me- the ‘honey in the lion’ that he ate- was a type of
Christ’s death.
Because Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah- and it was
thru his death [Samson slew the lion- and later found the honey- dead lion gave
life- see?]
I showed you how the jaw bone was a type of a prophetic
[speaking] gift.
[Jaw- not foot bone]
So Samson killed the enemies- with it.
Then- when he threw it away- was famished.
God opened up a hole in the jaw bone- and he drank water out
if it.
This is a symbol of ministry in a way- we often ‘preach’ or
do war with the sword of the Spirit- then ‘throw it away’.
Meaning we can see the bible as a tool- to just preach to
others.
Yet- when we are tired- God says ‘drink from the jaw- the
word’.
So- I kind of talked about these symbols in the book of
judges the last month.
To spark you own interest- for you too to ‘drink from the
jawbone’.
We saw the Levite [a type of law] take a bride from Judah [a
type of the church].
Yet- she was unfaithful- he still pursued her- but he [the
law] could not change her ways.
Just like the law- the apostle Paul taught that the law was
unable to save us.
Yet- when the wicked men of the city had sex with the woman
all night- she died at the doorstep of the home where the Levite was staying.
The man took his ‘bride’ now dead- and cut her up into 12
pieces- and sent them to the 12 tribes.
The tribes were shocked- and all came together to war
against the tribe of Benjamin- because they were the tribe that killed the
woman.
So- the Levite [law] simply revealed the sin of the other
tribes- just like Paul the apostle taught.
Samson was a great deliverer [savior] at the end of his
life- he put his 2 hands on the pillars of the building where the enemies were
having a great party.
He destroyed the building- and ‘killed more of the enemy
in his death- than life’.
Jesus- at the Cross- destroyed him that had the power of
death- that is the devil.
Gideon defeated the enemy as ‘one man’- a type of the Body
of Christ- the Midianites had a dream that a barley loaf [bread] rolled into
the camp.
13 And
when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his
fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread
tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it
fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14 And his
fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son
of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all
the host.
Judges 7
What kind of dream is that?
Bread defeating the enemy?
Yet- in the New Testament we are the Body- bread- of Christ.
Jesus said he was the bread that came down from heaven- and
we are part of his body too.
The Midianites- after dreaming of a loaf of bread- said
‘this is the sword of the Lord- and Gideon’.
Hmm?
Bread- then a sword?
Yes- Jesus is the Word- the sword of the Spirit- and the
bread of life.
Jephthah came from the wrong side of the tracks- his
brothers rejected him because he was an illegitimate son.
Yet- he turned out to be the one who God sent to be there
deliverer.
Much like Jesus in the New Testament.
His brothers [Jews] rejected him- yet the ‘stone that the
builders rejected- was the corner stone’.
Jesus was born of the virgin Mary- and we often do not see
how ‘unbelievable’ this story was to the people of his day.
Unbelievable?
What do you think others thought- when they heard Joseph was
going to put away Mary- because he too thought she was unfaithful.
We know- today- that the angel appeared to them- and truly
Jesus was born of the Virgin.
Yet he bore the stigma- much like Jephthah- of an illegitimate
son.
Jesus came thru the line of David- when we trace his roots-
from Solomon- the son of King David.
Solomon was born from Bathsheba- a woman David committed
adultery with- and schemed to have her husband killed!
And I could go on- but like the writer of Hebrews says
‘time’s running out’.
Hebrews 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail
me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David
also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
Hebrews 11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
Hebrews 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of
the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens.
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and
others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a
better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were
tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
Hebrews 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in
deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through
faith, received not the promise:
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that
they without us should not be made perfect.
ARE PASTORS HELD RESPONSIBLE?
The last few months as I have posted- angrily- about the Gaytan
case- or news articles where you saw corruption in our city.
I have also criticized the church- particularly Pastors- for not
being concerned with local [or world] injustices.
Many of those I criticized are friends of mine- they mean well-
they have ministries.
The normal response [I think] is along these lines-
‘I am called to preach the gospel- and to deal with injustice- is
not my calling’ or ‘I deal with injustice by preaching the gospel- only’.
When Jesus said ‘43 I was a
stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in
prison, and ye visited me not.’ what was he saying?
Who were those ‘in prison’ that he was speaking about?
If you reject the concept that he was talking about the guilty-
fine.
But what about the Black man that was on death row for 30 years-
and the DA still wanted to ‘kill him’ even after they knew he was innocent?
Jesus was not just talking about a ‘jail ministry’ here.
To ‘visit’ is to be active- concerned.
If Pastors think ‘But John- I didn’t know about it’.
Look at Jesus response when they said ‘when were you in prison’
[passage below]- they were counting on ignorance as an excuse.
Jesus said that was no excuse.
And he was talking about those ‘in prison’.
31 When the
Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And
before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he
shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then
shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was
an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked,
and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came
unto me.
37 Then
shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and
fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw
we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when
saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the
King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then
shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was
an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a
stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in
prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then
shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or
athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister
unto thee?
45 Then
shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not
to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these
shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Look- listen ‘when saw we THEE’- Jesus was an innocent man-
condemned to death.
If you are not concerned about the guilty- then for sure those who
are on death row- and have been later declared innocent- surely these fit the
bill.
Yet many in ministry even seem to not care much about their
plight.
Yet- we are required to be concerned.
LINKS-
I comment on our
local media a lot. But wanted to send my condolences to the Terhune family.
Matt was a beloved local media personality- he had a
wonderful family- and sadly passed away this week.
May God bless his wife and beautiful children.
http://www.kztv10.com/story/32092673/mosquito-spray-demand Ok- I’m going to do something that I swore I
never would! I’m bowing- ‘Please spray our city for mosquitoes’- The stores are
on the verge of selling more repellant than water.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/30/world/belgium-russian-plane-intercepts/index.html
Notice how the article says ‘NATO policing
mission’.
NATO was supposed to simply be a defensive force- The U.S.
has brought Turkey and other nations into the umbrella.
NATO has deposed leaders of countries- backing up protestors
in these countries.
The U.S. is moving forward with new troops- and rockets in
former USSR states- on the European/Russian border.
Putin has warned- if we keep doing this- he will respond.
‘what can we do to avert war’?
It’s not hard- keep our word- and stop expanding NATO’S
‘Policing mission’ on the Russian border- like we promised.
CHICAGO MURDER RATE UP- WHY?
http://www.infowars.com/dozens-shot-over-memorial-day-weekend-as-the-collapse-of-chicago-accelerates/ Why post this link?
As a listener of all sides- I’m aware that many on ‘the
right’ blame this violence on the Obama ‘crack down’ on cops.
That the police in Chicago- and other cities- feel ‘under
attack’ by the feds.
Ok- I actually think this is true- that some cops have pulled
back- because they are afraid that some video will go viral- of them doing
their job.
And then they will be prosecuted for murder.
But the cases that have sparked outrage- are the ones- like
in Chicago- that the police lied about.
The case that stirred people up was a black kid that was
shot- 16 times- while walking away. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Police-Release-Disturbing-Video-of-Officer-Fatally-Shooting-Chicago-Teen-352231921.html
The police cars had their dash cams purposefully damaged- by
the cops- and the audio/video from the other cars at the scene were muted.
The official reports said the kid was shot once- while going
after the officer.
Then- after a year or more of protests- they got the Department
to release the one video they had- and sure enough the kid was shot- 16 times-
even after he was down.
The city of Chicago pressed charges against the officer- one
hour before the video was released- after more than a year of not only having
the video- but knowing they lied.
Solution?
The problem is not with all cops- but the departments have a
systemic problem- they simply go by the reports of the others on the scene.
And many times they lie- even in the murder of a person.
The country does have a problem with this- and to blame the
crime in Chicago on ‘the left’ or ‘the right’ is a mistake.
I saw the tragic incident where the child fell into the
gorilla cage- and they decided to shoot the animal.
When I watched the video- I said ‘it seems like the gorilla
was actually trying to protect the child’.
But- the zoo people made the right decision- the gorilla
drug the kid- even though it seems he didn’t intend to harm him.
But the zoo keepers could not risk the child being killed.
It was sad- but the right call- in my view.
VERSES-
Judges 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife,
and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into
twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
Judges 19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was
no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out
of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your
minds.
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with
the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
Judges 20:2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the
tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God,
four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
Judges 20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children
of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us,
how was this wickedness?
Judges 20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was
slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and
my concubine, to lodge.
Judges 20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the
house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my
concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
Judges 20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and
sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have
committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges 20:7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your
advice and counsel.
Judges 20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will
not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
Judges 20:9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to
Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
Judges 20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all
the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten
thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to
Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in
Israel.
Judges 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the
city, knit together as one man.
Judges 20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the
tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
Judges 20:13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of
Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil
from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of
their brethren the children of Israel.
Judges 20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the
children of Israel.
Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that
time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the
inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Judges 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen
men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Judges 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered
four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
Judges 20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the
house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first
to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall
go up first.
Judges 20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning,
and encamped against Gibeah.
Judges 20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against
Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them
at Gibeah.
Judges 20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of
Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and
two thousand men.
Judges 20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged
themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put
themselves in array the first day.
Judges 20:23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before
the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again
to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up
against him.)
Judges 20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the
children of Benjamin the second day.
Judges 20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah
the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel
again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Judges 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people,
went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the
LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before the LORD.
Judges 20:27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for
the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle
against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD
said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
Judges 20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
Judges 20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the
children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against
Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the
people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people,
and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the
house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten
down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee,
and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Judges 20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place,
and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came
forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
Judges 20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men
out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was
near them.
Judges 20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the
children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five
thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges 20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were
smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they
trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
Judges 20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah;
and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the
edge of the sword.
Judges 20:38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of
Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke
rise up out of the city.
Judges 20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle,
Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for
they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
Judges 20:40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city
with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame
of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges 20:41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of
Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
Judges 20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of
Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them
which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Judges 20:43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and
chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the
sunrising.
Judges 20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all
these were men of valour.
Judges 20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto
the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men;
and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges 20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were
twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
Judges 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness
unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
Judges 20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children
of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of
every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all
the cities that they came to.
Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying,
There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
Judges 21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode
there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Judges 21:3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to
pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Judges 21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people
rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings.
Judges 21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among
all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD?
For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to
Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Judges 21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin
their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Judges 21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing
we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
Judges 21:8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of
Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to
the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
Judges 21:9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were
none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Judges 21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men
of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges 21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall
utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Judges 21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead
four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and
they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Judges 21:13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the
children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto
them.
Judges 21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave
them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so
they sufficed them not.
Judges 21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because
that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall
we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?
Judges 21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them
that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Judges 21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters:
for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife
to Benjamin.
Judges 21:19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD
in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east
side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of
Lebonah.
Judges 21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,
saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
Judges 21:21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come
out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every
man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Judges 21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren
come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them
for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye
did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
Judges 21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them
wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and
they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and
dwelt in them.
Judges 21:24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that
time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence
every man to his inheritance.
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man
did that which was right in his own eyes.
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