Dailey Bible Food - Day Nineteen (19)

Good morning;

Here we go again and we will begin reading in Judges chapter 16.  Here we see that Samson went up to Gaza and met a harlot and laid with her.  This is funny or rather odd, here is a man who couldn't cut his hair, nor drink wine because of a vow to the Lord; but he went into a harlot.  Then he also met a lady he liked named Delilah.  And the men of Philistine gave her money to find out where his strength was and she went along with it.

It's from women like her than men down the generations say things like "do not trust any woman."

She pressed him daily about lying to her about what would cause him to have weakness, and finally he gave in to the woman as Adam did and she cut his 7 locks and the Lord departed from him.  Samson's action cause the Lord to depart because he broke his nazarite vow because he loved women more than God.  

The Philistines put his eyes out and put him in stocks.  And the Philistines threw a big party while they had Samson entertain them and he prayed one more time to Lord to give strength to pull the pillars down and God granted him it.

³⁰And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Samson judged for 20 years but he died also in the last action where he killed a great number of top officials of the Philistines.

In chapter 17 we are talking about a man named Micah who had a house of gods and graven images.  We see they were not keeping God's commandments at all at this time.  ⁶In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Micah hired a Levite to be his priest in his house, instead of seeking the true God.  Look at Micah's words when the men of Dan took his gods and hijacked his Levite priest.  ²⁴And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

We love to do this, make God in our image; but we are made in His glorious image. The Danites finally took the land that was given to them and quickly set up the graven image in the house of God.

Judges chapter 19 begins by telling the events of a Levite who's concubine wasn't too faithful to him.  But look how this has been said in the last few chapters...  ¹And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

There was no king in Israel in those days; no physical king and the Lord wasn't their King either.  This Levite sent his concubine back to her dad's house because she was playing the harlot.  After a few days there they were to leave and they left pretty late in the day, he and his concubine and they looked for a place to lodge.  ¹⁶And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

They were in this city where the children of Benjamin dwell and the old man saw them and begged the man not to stay in the streets.  Sounds like they were in one of those real bad neighborhoods.  When they began to drink wine and relax into the night; the men of the city demanded the man be brought out so they can sleep with the Levite.

 ²⁵But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

I don't know why men in those days offered a woman to men who wanted to lay with them; back in those days the men who were "homosexual" were strong & rough men.  And they wore her out until they practically killed her.  Can you imagine this; rape and abuse at a level continuously by different men who were all wanting a man but wow.  And the Levite wrote a letter to all the tribes demanded they do something about what the people of Benjamin had done unto him.

In Judges 20 the Levite tells the story to the elders of the tribes of Israel.  And the men of Israel decided to go up and arrest the men of Benjamin who did the abomination to the woman.  The children of Benjamin would not release the men who did that wickedness.  Instead they came out to fight against them.  Benjamin protected the homosexual men who practiced that horrible behavior of rape and even murder.

So the men of Judah ask the Lord who should go up to fight against Benjamin.  After a couple defeats finally the Lord helped them and smote Benjamin so bad they only left 600 men.  ⁴⁷But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

In Judges 21; the men vowed not to give those men their daughters to wife; but it later repented them because Israel will be minus one tribe if those men do not procreate.  They then sought the men who did not come up to help them fight against Benjamin and killed them and only took 400 virgin girls for the men of Benjamin to keep the name of Benjamin alive.

They ended up kidnapping 200 girls who danced at Shiloh during a feast to fulfill the other 200 men left without wives.  Do you see how crazy and wicked Israel lived in those days?  Not much has changed today either mainly because of the verse the ends the book of Judges: ²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Every man did what was right in his own eyes.  If I feel it is right to kill you; that will be done and that is a horrible environment to dwell in; where every man thinks they are doing right in their own mind.

Now the book of Ruth chapter 1; it gives the account of the times of Judges where a famine was in the land.  This family left Judah to live in Moab where there was bread.  The woman had a husband and two sons who died.  Naomi was the woman, and her daughter in law was Ruth.  Since Naomi's sons died, she told their widows to return to the parents house, but Ruth did not want to leave her mother-in-law because she loved Naomi.  And who said daughter-in-laws and mother-in-laws can't get along?

¹⁶And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
 ¹⁷Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Ruth loved Naomi; but she also knew that Naomi's God was the true God and she wanted to deal among the children of Israel.  This made her the mother of a beautiful blood-line.

In Ruth chapter 2; a wealthy man named Boaz meets Ruth and was very friendly to her because he knew of her background.  It pays to be a good humble person.

In chapter 3 Naomi helps Ruth plan on how she can get in with Boaz to perform what is suppose to be done when a woman's husband dies; then a near kinsman is suppose to give her seed to help the name of her husband live on.

In Chapter 4, Boaz plans to redeem Naomi and Ruth that comes with it, to the men who were near kinsmen to Naomi's husband: ⁵Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.  So Boaz purchased the rights to Ruth to keep the name of Mahlon her husband alive.  

So Boaz took Ruth to wife and they had a son and named him Obed, who is the father to Jesse, who fathered David, king of Israel.  See what I mean, she is the great grandmother of king David.

We move on to 1 Samuel chapter 1 where we read about a man and his name was Elkanah.  He had two wives, the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.  Hannah went to the temple to pray for a child.

There was also a man name Eli, a priest who saw Hannah sadden because she had no child and she prayed in the sight of Eli and he answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.  

Then the Lord remembered her after she knew her husband.  She had a son, and named him Samuel which she was to dedicate to the Lord.  And after he'd been weaned she would allow him to go stay with the Levites in the house of the Lord.

In chapter 2 Hannah prayed a thanks giving prayer to the POWERFUL GOD OF ISRAEL; this was a prophesy prayer and a beautiful prayer unto the Lord.  ⁶The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

 ⁷The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Now Eli had two sons that were sons of Belial and they did not know the Lord (¹²Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.).  Just because you are the son of a pastor does not mean you believe in the Lord GOD.

Meanwhile, Hannah had more children.  ²¹And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

²²Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Eli was an old man now and he knew about all the wicked things his sons were doing in the house of the Lord, sleeping with women, taking bribes, forcing people to give offerings, but Eli never removed his sons from their positions.  He condoned their behavior.  It's one thing to allow your kids to do wickedly in your house; but you cannot permit this in the house of the Lord God.
And making people turn away from God is basically the biggest transgression you can commit as a man or woman.  If you sin against a man; another man can intercede for you; but if you do so with God; who can stand in the gap for you then?  

 ²⁵If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
Then God sent a man of God to prophesy against the house of Eli and remove him and his sons from the work in the house of the Lord forever, and the Lord spoke that there will not be an old man in Eli's house, that they will all die in the flower of their age. 

³¹Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
 ³²And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
That is today's reading; thank you for joining me; grace and peace.

Tomorrow's reading on the Sabbath day will be from chapter 3 of 1st Samuel to chapter 15.  See you then.

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Bible Food Day 17 - Finishing Joshua

Good morning it is 5 AM central standard time and I'm on no coffee just pure excitement to read the Word of the Lord.

We are starting in Joshua chapter 15.  This chapter begins by reading Israel's land borders mainly the tribe of Judah, for all the land they had.  Jebu of the Jebusites was what the Israelites called Jerusalem.  The children of Judah (the Jews) had a great deal of land.  However they didn't push the Jebusites out of the land completely (remember this later on).

⁶³As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

Chapter 16 shares the border of the children of Joseph, which in this case was Ephraim.  They also didn't push the prior inhabitants totally out.  ¹⁰And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

In chapter 17 we learn that Manasseh also had land as the oldest child of Joseph.  Manasseh had Machir who had Gilead; when you hear of Gilead that is a son of Joseph.  We see a trend of not being able to drive out the inhabitants of the land as God commanded; but put these people to tribute.  This means the Canaanites will be a thorn in the side of the children of Israel, as Moses warned them.  ¹²Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
 ¹³Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out.
In chapter 18; there are still 7 tribes have not taken their land in which the Lord gave them; and Joshua charged them to go through the land and described it for Joshua to cast lots for them, that means divide it to them.  And Benjamin was given their lot in the land according to their inheritance.
Chapter 19: The second lot was cast on Simeon.  ¹⁰And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:  
This may be boring reading to you but it has a big meaning for the future.  ¹⁷And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
²⁴And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
³²The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
⁴⁰And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Now every tribe received a plot of land for an inheritance; and the children of Israel gave Joshua a plot of land as well and they set up the Tabernacle of the Congregation in Shiloh.
In chapter 20 the Lord reminded Joshua to tell the children of God to build cities of refuge for someone who murders or kills on accident.  So they can seek refuge there from the retribution from a hot family member until the killer has had a trial.
The Levites were given their inheritance among the suburbs of the cities among the tribes of Israel.  ⁴¹All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs. This is in chapter 21.  The Lord Israel all the land He promised to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Lord gave them peace from all their enemies and delivered Israel from their enemies.  The Lord did not fail to give the children of Israel any good they wanted.
In Joshua chapter 22; the tribe of Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh; Joshua blessed them for keeping their promise to help their brothers and sent them back to the other side of Jordan but admonished them to: ⁵But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Now when they left they built an altar unto God; and the ten tribes sent leaders there to ask why they had done this (as they thought they were rebelling against God in doing so)?  And the Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh did it that years later when the 10 tribes children will say to 2 tribes; you have no part in the Lord, so they wanted to make sure their children were taught about the God of Israel and were not utterly put out from before the Lord.  Thus it pleased Phinehas and the 10 tribes who came up to them.
In chapter 23 Joshua is old and is preparing to pass and gives his final orders to the children of Israel.  He tells them to ⁶Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
As all the good things the Lord promised had happen to Israel; Joshua let's them know the evil tings will come to pass that the Lord has spoken if they break the covenant of the Lord.
In chapter 24, Joshua gathers the heads of state and gives them the history lesson of Israel:
²And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
 ³And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
 ⁴And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
He ran it down all the way to their current state and all the good the Lord had done for them driving out their enemies.
¹⁴Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
 ¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
This is what we have to do independently today; "as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord Jesus."  And Joshua made a covenant with the people, and wrote it on a stone and made the stone a witness unto the covenant.  Then he died at 110 years of age.  Even Eleazar died, the high priest, and Phinehas his son took over.
In Judges chapter 1; Israel ask the Lord who should go up first and fight against the Canaanites.  And the Lord sent Judah telling them He has given them the land already.  And they did; destroy the city of Jerusalem as they took it; and killing over 10 thousand Canaanites.
Some of this reading is a recap of what we read in Joshua chapter 15 to 16 just given in more detail.  In Judges chapter 2, because Israel did not utterly destroy the prior inhabitants of the land and angel appeared and said this:
 ¹And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
 ²And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
 ³Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
It is so greatly important to follow the instructions of the Lord to a tee.  After this generation passed the next generation did not seek the Lord and took up other gods; and the Lord delivered them to their enemies and the Lord gave them for evil as He had spoken to Moses.  However, the Lord would send them judges to correct them; but they would not listen to their judges.
¹⁹And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
The Lord did not like it; and the Lord promised not to remove those nations out, but keep them there to prove Israel to see if they will serve the Lord or not.  We have to be aware of test the Lord gives us so we fail not.
Judges chapter 3
¹Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
³Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
 ⁴And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
 ⁵And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
 ⁶And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
 ⁷And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
 ⁸Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel,
The Lord then gave them into the hands of their enemies and they served their enemies for 8 years.  The Lord sent a judge Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother to deliver Israel and he did and they had rest 40 years.
Then they rebelled again.  ¹⁴So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Then Israel would pray to be delivered and the Lord sent them a judge named Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite.  And he killed Eglon.  After a judge would die a new generation would come up and serve other gods and Israel would go back to their vomit and the Lord would punish them.  
Today, why put ourselves through all that hardship.  Serve God and keep His commandments for it to be well and good with you and your family throughout all generations.
I thank you for reading with me today; tomorrow we will read Judges 4 through 15.  Have a biblically knowledgeable day in Jesus name, Amen.

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