Come Follow Me - The Book of Judges, Part 1: Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah (Judges 1-12)

[@lesley4215]

So I planned on watching about an hour or two today but it was like sitting by the campfire having Grandpa tell you a story and I couldn't stop! I've needed this my whole life. I absolutely love the Old testament and to go through with you, brother Halverson brings it to life and I am filled with joy!

[@dotmother]

I look forward to Mondays when I start a new lesson with you. I like to pace them so I can listen and study each day with you. I’ve Gained such a greater understanding and appreciation for the scriptures because of your knowledge, insights, and experiences. Thank you for spending so much time with us!!

[@ewellisamitchell5328]

Thank you Jared for your insight. I have gained so much in my testimony through my studies with you. I really have never been able to get into the Old Testament until now. Now I have such a great love of the Old Testament and I am only this far into it. My study of the scriptures is truly changing my life. I have come to find the mercy of the Lord. So many great examples of loving the Lord and wanting to be like them and him.

[@sbrowning4744]

Brother Halverson I treasure the way you rub off on me through these lessons! Thank you for your insightful wisdom, living testimony, and encouragement. Thank you for sharing all this devoted goodness!

[@jeannineroberton4019]

Bro Halverson, there is so much wealth in the church today. How many people have second and third homes, they seem stiffnecked even proud. Isn't this also a sign of the end times?

[@beverleygillespie5606]

This wss my question too. Where are we in the church today in the pride cycle. Do we recognise it?

[@harrisonbeckett1545]

You are so good at talking about the scriptures thank you we love you brother halverson

[@KDAndrus]

I don’t comment much - and wish to express my gratitude for your work. It is a blessing to me and those I have shared it with. May we all stay in the covenant path and lift and liberate our fellows the remainder of our days, God bless! TDAndrus

[@kathleennielsen5626]

Thank you for the beautiful explanation of God’s parental heart in Judges 10:16 and for the insight it gave about how God balances justice & mercy in His Divine Parenting: “It pains God not to be able to bail us out of every problem. But He is trying to balance short term and long term. He is trying to balance justice and mercy. He’s trying to help us really change. So in His perfect judgment, knowing just how long to wait before He comes to our aid and just how much He can help, He’s hoping we will learn from our experience.” This explanation was an answer to prayer. 🙏🏻 Thank you…again.

[@jonathanduke9863]

Dear Brother Halverson. We enjoy your lessons while we are serving as missionaries in Africa West. We love that you served in Puerto RIco. Five years ago we served in The Caribbean Area, and our supervisor was Hugo Martinez, from PR. He is now the area president here. Also, five months ago, our good friends were called to be the office couple in San Juan. NOW, our grandson just opened his mission call to ...... PUERTO RICO. He'll start in September. What a great land that is... Thanks for everything you do.

[@knz10639]

"When God wants to change the world what does He do? He calls a mother and gives her a baby to raise..." my newest son is 4 months old and I have felt such a tremendous responsibility as his mother because I know his purpose is to be a warrior for God and good and to fight evil. He is a fighter. a warrior. I feel so incredibly humbled to be called to be his mom. This sentence from this lesson hit me so hard and made me think of my youngest son. God has blessed me and mothers everywhere with a tremendous responsibility and calling. I am so blessed to be a mother!!!

[@jodavedavies6815]

Thank you for mentioning your wife and your son at the addiction services. I’ve been on that road. I was inpatient many times. “ Giving of an awareness is a great concept. It’s like keeping a journal. I can put my faulty line of reasoning each day. Finding the negative reasoning of using substances. Connecting The reason why I take the drug in the first place. I admire Your wife’s dedication to her job. The reason why I was in and out , in and out of the hospital. The hospital hadn’t a good staff but A diamond in the rough a great drug counselor was there to help us remember great ways of coping with drugs. It helped me tremendously a lot of my sobriety. So Sister Halverson thank you very much for your work! thank you Brother Halverson using her methods in your episodes. I get two for one because I can learn how to cope with my addictions and learning scripture at same time.

[@mdrago1465]

Thank you for taking the time to record your lessons. I learn so much!! Because of all I learn, I gained an insight as I studied Gideon that I would never had had without spending so much time with you. As I was studying the tools with which Gideon armed his 300 men - a horn and a clay pitcher with a torch inside - I realized that we are living weapons in the Lord's hands. We are vessels of clay with the light of our testimonies of Christ inside of us, and our voices are the horns that call. As members of the Church of Jesus Christ, we form a circle of light around the world.

[@johnbarton7159]

That was so good!!! Your likening the 📚 of Judge’s to our day was priceless. Thanks for all your years of studying and sharing what you have learned with us all.

[@richardpineda1364]

Gracias Hermano Jared!

[@tylerburns1364]

As someone who can struggle with pride and self-pity in equal measures I'm reminded of a quote by Maxwell "Stubborn selfishness is as idolatry." Service is a great escape from the constant urge to focus on myself.

[@tarp11z]

I can relate. Add codependency to that (the great counterfeit of charity), and that is me...in recovery.

[@JennyG.COW5]

Thank you for always honoring Women in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as we study the Scriptures. I am grateful for all the Wonderful Women who have helped me in my life. Especially my Own Mother. 😊❤👩 (And for those who struggle with feeling close to your Earthly mother, perhaps we can look forward to being with our Heavenly Mother in the World to Come! ) 👑👩❤🕊🌤 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Recently I've been feeling like Gideon with my knew calling and attending Church. In the past I looked forward to attending, but for personal reasons, I have found myself becoming overwhelmed and anxious. Especially with my new calling and with my perceived insecurities. Hopefully like Gideon, I can overcome these obstacles and move forward with Faith in the Lord.

[@alistaircox3867]

You are such a good storyteller, and you make all of these episodes in The Book of Judges come to life. Gideon has been one of my heroes since I was a child (as have Deborah and Jael) and I love him to bits! Thank you for raising him still higher in my estimation now I have listened to your enthusiastic description of Gideon’s conversations with God. You make scripture study such fun. Please keep up the good work. Love Alistair’s wife, Janet🎈

[@gaylehendricks4727]

Thank you for being so generous with your time and insight. You make the story so compelling that that I end up reading the parts in between your summaries just to know the whole story. i. e. Judges 8:7-21 😊

[@maryporter4995]

Thank you for such wonderful insights into the gospel. It uplifts & confirms the only way to our Heavenly Father is to keep his laws & covenants.🙏

[@TerenaTalk]

These videos are treasures! I am so grateful when I see when one has dropped!! Thank you @BroHalverson❤️❤️❤️

[@arrluk8154]

I have felt very much like Gideon at times where I have felt the Lord confirming truth and promises to me, but then my doubt comes back and I need more reassurance and God is merciful and continues to provide that reassurance. I have yet to see those promises fulfilled, but my doubts have started to fade and my confidence in the Lord and His promises have grown stronger as I have seen His mercy and as I read of Gideon and His deliverance.

[@tracyrollins9412]

Bro Halverson Your lessons and insights bring me closer to Jesus Christ

[@beverleygillespie5606]

Thank you Bro Jared. You are a gifted teacher and I never get tired of listening to you.

[@barbaraboer7969]

I love this so much thank you for all you do for us

[@eveybeedj]

Jared, thank you for your insight and knowledge. I love art also. I looked up Gideon on found an artwork of him squeezing the dew out of the fleece. The picture was with an article called Profiles of Faith Gideon - When a Few Make a Majority I hope you enjoy it.

[@harmonywoodrome9911]

Wonderful. Thank you ver much 😍👏

[@johnbarton7159]

Your take on Judges chapter 5, and the highways becoming empty, makes me think of what may happen as our country runs out of fuel, and other needed supplies as those planning the New World Order move for the take over of our society. Our forgetfulness of God may be bringing about our own bondage. We need more Deborah’s to awake us from our wokeness, and turn us to the FATHER before it becomes to late. Pride cycle = danger unless we remember.

[@b1of4bs]

And we know where we are on that cycle. We need to stay strong. A few of us can bring victory, just like in Judges.

[@harrisonbeckett1545]

This is a very wonderful explanation to help us with the problems that we have. Thank-you so very much

[@louisevigil4485]

You got your voice back yea yea ! !

[@novawarren5074]

I enjoyed each good Judge And understand this "Pride Cycle" We get caught up in, but somehow we get shook out of it, least I do, with as well as you, good to know I am not alone. Thank you for more personal insight information. This is a Good bedtime Book for many children and can put many children to sleep and taken in this light parts , teach many beautiful memories of the Difference in the ways of the different types of Judges and way's they taught the people.

[@francestimothy2364]

Thank you for your teaching of the scriptures. Mike Healy is our ministering brother and he told me about your podcast. I’ve been listening since January of this year.

[@harrisonbeckett1545]

Thank you for your efforts to. Explain the scriptural versec

[@bsl5788]

Love these lessons! The two talks referenced around the 20.00 mark are Born Again, D. Todd Christopherson, April 2008 General Conference, and The Bitter Cup and the Bloody Baptism, Jeffrey R. Holland, BYU talk, Jan 13, 1987.

[@deboraswarner5507]

Thank you for letting us know that!

[@loribarnhurst348]

Wednesdays are red letter days! Hoping you feel all of the collected prayers in your behalf.

[@lorithornbrue4295]

Fantastic as always

[@aliciamilne2314]

My gosh this is so inspired. I have so many questions and this helps so much:)

[@eltonrobb6208]

What was interesting during Deborah's time, the Tribe of Dan started to fulfill their patriarchal blessing. Deborah mentions, "Why are the tribe of Dan in boats?" Some of the tribe of Dan left for regions unheard (Greece and Europe). While part of the tribe of Ephraim started to chase them. That part of Ephraim landed in Greece and founded Corinth. Eventually, Corinth went on and founded many Greek cities in Southern Europe, fulfilling a part of Joseph's patriarchal blessing. Although we won't see Joseph's patriarchal blessing become fulfilled until 600 B.C. when the Lehites left for America, and in 1600 AD when the Pilgrims left England and Europe to found New England in America.

[@JennyG.COW5]

I remember when I tried reading The Old Testament, I had a hard time getting through some of the Old Testament. However when I started reading about the story of Ehud and the Children of Israel, things seemed to get exciting again! I suppose if it was in a play you could have the King and Ehud enter the "room" (have a sheet in front of it with lights showing on it) and then seeing their silhouettes Ehud stabs the King and flees the other way! Or it's from a balcony door, you only hear them talking, see the back of Ehud drawing his sword, move out of where people can see him, and then finally see him walk out to the balcony and climb down. (Complete with dramatic music when the King is stabbed! 🤺🎶 😉)

[@jerikeeley1361]

Thanks again

[@lesley4215]

I love the Gideon's!

[@nancyvance252]

God has kept bailing me out and I am so grateful for that because without the Atonement I would have been lost a long time ago. I a, so grateful He has not given up on me.

[@brittkelly6326]

I really appreciate your thoroughness. It is helpful and inspiring. The length also keeps it on my mind all week as i cant listen in one sitting- bless you for doing it in one sitting! I have always loved deborah. I wish we had more. I dont like comparing her partnership with barak as a marriage. They were not equally yoked. I dont like the fearful and warbling faithful man buoyed up by a faithful woman as a marriage Maybe we sont know what he brought to that partnership I prefer to see her as a great leader. A prophetess Which leads us to a whole line of prophets and prophetesses who are more related to the spirit of prophecy than prophet as a calling. Though t provoking

[@matthewglosenger3180]

As always, I very much enjoy all that you post and that you take the time to walk through ALL of the scriptures and not just the "assigned and repeated" portions. I did want to ask you though... Is this the first time you'd come to realize that God does the same thing with YOU that he did with THEM in the book of the Judges? I hope not, but if it is I hope you never forget that. Not sure if you have seen the movie "The Shack" but there is SO much great gospel in that movie that I had learned about a year before I watched it. And I think the scriptures aren't so much about truth as they are about principles. As you pointed out, there sure is an awful lot of context missing from the Biblical record. Have you ever noted that Joseph Smith, even AFTER translating the Bible, never corrected or amended his statement on the BoM being "The Most Correct Book"? I think thats a very telling thing. I have come to LOVE the scriptures more because of their flawed characters and incomplete stories. It requires me to pay more attention to the details and it helps me see that I am not too imperfect to be loved by God. As an example...have you noted that Exodus Chapter 6 doesn't belong in the book of Exodus? The genealogy given is dated far AFTER Moses and Aaron as they are 3rd person references only in that chapter. LOL.

[@Kalamabbfan]

When hearing the story of Jephthah's daughter, I immediately thought of the vow of Nuns. Do you think there is any connection between this story and the vows of the Nuns?

[@modify1ful]

Earlier you mentioned that there is no "j" sound in Hebrew so I looked up Jael. Here's what I found: Jael (pronounced Yaa-el) meaning "to be useful". She sure was!

[@kathrynquinn6889]

You said we lost the last Apostle who was alive in 1978, meaning Thomas Monson? the last man who was an Apostle in 1978. I had to clarify that for myself

[@Kalamabbfan]

Yes, that is correct. President Monson became an Apostle in 1963, President Nelson was called in 1984.

[@suzyeames9104]

My forty year old son said that Gideon"s army of 300 were the ones that lapped like dogs. I had to go back and check. 7:5 is clear, bit verse 6 is a bit confusing so I can see how you both saw it differently.

[@mrsblackirish7]

My mom used to give us warm milk so we could sleep better. He should know better lol

[@maryfranjeppesen8932]

Social Chaos!! Describes our world today i think!

[@rconger384]

11:43 Brigham Young quote. The Pride Cycle. 2:29:43 Was Abimelech "my father the king" named to buy his mother?

[@notalltheories]

What I don't understand is why there was not another prophet when Joshua died... it almost seems like they were bound to fail without that kind of central leadership that had finally, over the course of two generations, gotten them out of Egyptian bondage and into the Promised Land. It was like they were finally starting to get it and then they were left to their own devices.

[@grbta1124]

Good thoughts and insights. Problem is the length. 3 hours is just too long...

[@hollayevladimiroff131]

The Scripture in the bible reads under tribute, not to tribute, which does not seem to make sense. Judges 1:28 When the Israelites grew stronger; they put the Canaanites UNDER TRIBUTE, but did not completely drive them out of the land. It does not read to put the Canaanites TO TRIBUTE, the meaning has changed. They put the Canaanites into slavery, they were under a tribute to the Israelites. The Word of God takes authority, God is the author of the bible, not man. Christians believe the Word of God to be the foundational truth, of their faith which is found in the bible.

[@nadinek5638]

Ch 9 vs 4, the vain and light men I call them flying monkeys. Yes just like the wizard of oz. They do the bidding of who hired them.

[@annewandering]

Want to know if someone is from Idaho? Have them pronounce Boise.

[@ireneprice1376]

Boysee

[@paulaburt1]

Where can I find PRESIDENT YOUNG’s quote about prosperity? Thank u.

[@rconger384]

11:44

[@johnmcclure9093]

Can anyone tell me how that there is no letter j in hebrew?? And that it was added to the English language in 1551? According to encyclopedia britannica?? The last letter added to our alfa bet....

[@bonniebeaumier2919]

Where is the Israelites were trying to fight for their independence from the Canaanites, justice North America was fighting for their independence against the British, I am wondering if it’s coming to the point where we will be fighting for our independence from the CCP, Russia, Korea or other middle eastern countries.

[@larryfloydwimber5217]

I and The Lord Jesus The Messiah Word Not Accept so Folish vow worlds Eternity. I SO TESTIFIED God forgive u, Blessing LOL

[@JennyG.COW5]

Gideon isn't crying, but it does show him wringing out the fleece while the ground is dry and cracked. www.theworkofgodschildren.org/collaboration/images/a/aa/Gideon_Squeezed_the_Fleece_001.jpg