Judges 2:18-23. There is a cycle described in Judges where
the Israelites apostatise, suffer, repent, and become restored. This is all in
the context of covenant. When I look at what God is trying to do, it seems a
bit controlling at first glance. God is willing to do all sorts of things to
get Israel to be loyal to him. But when you think about it, God needs to
prepare a group of people to be the context of his Son’s first coming. I’m not
sure why God needs this, but that is how I make sense of the Old Testament.
God has a desire to prepare another group of people today. I
don’t understand everything about this group but I know I want to be a part of
it. I also want others to be able to be a part of it. The judges had a good
influence on the Israelites, I can too in my modern context. God has called all
Christians to be an influence in favour of loyalty to himself, do I have such
an influence?
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