Judges 19-21 - Skip Heitzig

[@vivasmartin6029]

Lord God, who knew what was in this Book!!!! Reading without understanding!!!! Thank you Pastor Heitzig your teaching is so enlightening!!! I'm praying that we NOT do what we think is right in our own eyes and lean on God's Voice!!

[@sabrinadaisybess]

Thank you! 😊

[@margaretgreen1957]

Wow! So pleased we have come to the end of this book and time period. Definitely not one of my favourite Bible books! They did what was right in their own eyes - sounds pretty much like today!

[@JerseyGurl4Life]

Sounds a lot like today

[@racheltroutwine1999]

It’s what this country is becoming :( Scary!

[@alicerodriguez9332]

Thank you for helping me understand this chapter ❤️

[@meishameisha3455]

Listening from Portmore Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@katiegardiner806]

I have been studying judges for at least a month and 19-21 for several weeks. I've been watching videos that explain these chapters and I've found yours the most interesting. This is a fascinating story and I greatly appreciate the comprehensive historical context you bring.

[@johnc4774]

Excellent, thank you and Praise our Lord.

[@Dan-sc9lq]

You are my go to expositor when I want the historical context of a chapter.

[@Sharkyvr-y4g]

Thank you.

[@davidboldman136]

Thank you for these teachings. I have been leading a small group on judges and have seen the same allegorical connections as you have and am encouraged that though we go through deep darkness He is with us.

[@undergodsbanner4888]

Again it was a blessing to know the words

[@patbrumph6769]

Excellent video. Makes me want to go deeper into a subject that I had pretty much concluded was a waste of time.

[@ANDREAGALLARDO-zs3ec]

Me too😅, but really know that every Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit. So I know even these Scriptures have a Rhema/Revelation. Thanks to this message 🎉🎉🎉 for our benefit.

[@samuelvelu7488]

Wonderful msg. Samuel from Mumbai.

[@udunknow2172]

What an insightful and well researched sermon! Just subscribed

[@amandabrieno3487]

Happy Thanksgiving Pastor skip!

[@peat_dont_repeat]

My life are these chapters. Psychologist say it is dysfunctional families. I say It is survival of the upper-class. This runs America. The corruption enables it. Fight abortion through these chapters. These pages are the root of it

[@kylert30]

How did Benjamin win the first 2 days against an army of 400,000? Even if God wasn’t with them, I can’t wrap my head around that one

[@justaguy4742]

That was pure of the fact that israel didn’t send all the tribes at once

[@autumnpendergast9151]

Yes men do wish to rush over the uncomfortable parts of the book that might hold up a mirror. Btw, the concubine who was clearly his wife, may have just been in a rage, not have had relationship outside the marriage. Translation is a funny thing.

[@edwardneko1569]

Scripture mentions left-handed slingers as elite soldiers because their enemies were unable to block flying stones with their left-handed shields.

[@rodneyspence7441]

In one of his sermons A.W. Tozer said that if he could take a survey of a nation’s population and ask them about their concept of God, he could accurately predict the future of that nation. As a nation’s collective concept of God rots, so that nation will rot. The ruin and deterioration that results from forsaking God seems to be a general principle of the universe that applies to both nations and individuals. Also, I’m guessing the father of the concubine in Ch 19 did not invite the Levite back to his house for drinks after he allowed his daughter to be gang raped and then hacked her into pieces! God bless!

[@clariaevans6782]

The concubine father may have been grateful to his son in law for not having his daughter stone for being unfaithful.

[@ANDREAGALLARDO-zs3ec]

I don't think she was unfaithful by adultery. I think she was unfaithful to the marriage vow/ covenant to be forever together. She left him and went back to her father.

[@יוסיששון-ח4מ]

the book of judges tries to demonstrate an teach us what the meaning and what disaster anarchy brings to the state an its inhabitants. and yet we see in our time and around us countries that ar in anarchy it turns out as usual that they have learned nothing from history

[@jillsuhr6381]

@jillsuhr6381 58 minutes ago Thank you for your brief but excellent explanations and applications of Judges. My Bible Study group read through the book of Judges this past month, and I looked forward to your teaching every day as I read each chapter. Know that your work and ministry makes a difference. May God continue to bless you.

[@marcuspi999]

This is the best apologetic talk I've ever heard about this section of the Bible. Well done. Total kudos to you! I barely noticed how you glossed over the God sanctioned holocaust against the innocent women and children of the Benjimites for the sins of their men. Well done! It was fabulous. God sanctioned slaughter isn't an easy subject, for sure!

[@katiegardiner806]

You do realize that conflict was dealt with differently before Jesus came right? Back then one sin was a blot on generations (remember Achan?) In those days it was nothing to obliterate a whole town and an entire family because of sin. (When I became aware of this as a youngster I had great difficulty understanding this). But that was the practice. Praise the Lord, the coming of Jesus made this no longer necessary.

[@marcuspi999]

@@katiegardiner806 Achan?! That one is another horrific example. Why bring that up? The Israelites engage in another God sanctioned slaughter of every man, woman, child, sheep, goat, cow, and bird, in Jericho because even the infants and fetuses, and chickens are hopelessly evil? Except the prostitute. Then they plunder all of the loot and one guy takes some gold, silver, and a jacket from the plunder. You recall that God told the Israelites to divvy up the stolen goods in past massacres, right? Including the virgin girls to do with as they pleased. At least the virgin girls had the dignity of being murdered this time. So God decries that Achan, along with all of his family and his sheep get stoned and burned because God likes gold? These stories have zero moral value. The take-away is that God is cruel and random. Nearly every story is that way. The crucifixion story is just as illogical. God reincarnates himself as a human in order to offer himself up as a blood sacrifice to himself? This is the greatest story ever told? And to what end? To forgive us from eternal torture because the first couple ate some fruit? The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? They didn't know the difference between good and evil before they ate the apple, right? They didn't know nakedness was wrong, so how could they understand that disobedience for a stupid, random rule be the ruin of every human that will ever live. How old were they at the time? Two weeks old? It's all mythology. I find it all quite fascinating, but I don't think these weird stories, written by archaic men are actually true. But I respect your right to believe what you want. Have a great day and a prosperous life, Katie.

[@melv3488]

Hi Marcus. If you read the beginning of chapter 21, it explains that the congregation lamented before God, but did not consult Yahweh. This act of killing women and children was not instructed by God. This just goes to show what happens when men do 'what is right in their own eyes'.

[@anonymous-ms4lv]

@@melv3488 Bingo

[@lenlee14]

@@melv3488 probably just following the example set by 1 Samuel 15:3

[@NEChristo]

I don’t get it

[@samuelross9884]

Thank you, sir.

[@ABrown8676]

Wait, so let me get this straight. God, who is Jesus in human form who later in the New Testament thought this behavior was horrible for lack of a better word (and sinful), didn't feel/think this way in the Old Testament? He had to bring himself to earth to realize and start teaching that raping women until they were dead was wrong and sinful and they should have never been thought of as "second class" human beings??

[@Chris-kf6yd]

33:20

[@7thangelad586]

47:40 Judges 21

[@ABrown8676]

Unreal. You conveniently skipped over Chapter 21 Verse 10. They didn't just kill everyone, blah blah blah, now onto Chapter 13. 10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children. 11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.” 12 They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan

[@ABrown8676]

At 31:10 or so you say "there is no record of her being dead". Isn't that what they HOLY BIBLE is supposed to be?? The record of things that happened and God allowed in a time we weren't in and are now supposed to have faith that what that book says is accurate and without error??

[@ABrown8676]

And around 31:20 you say "I don't trust the testimony of this Levite". IT'S in the BIBLE!!! If you can renegotiate and retranslate that part of a story out of something that is supposed to be Holy Scritpture, why can't anyone do that to the entire book to fit whatever agenda they have or shape it into whatever story THEY want???