Judges
Overview:
judges ā deliverer or savior; leadership Theme: Failure Through Compromise
Chapters 1-2: The consequences of Compromise (failure to completely drive out Canaanites; national unfaithfulness to God) Chapters 3-16: God raises up judges (Gideon, Deborah, etc.) Chapters 17-21: Israel devolves into political corruption and chaos
Purposes:
- To show how Israel drifted away from God
- To show how Israel was punished for compromise
- To show how Israel went into cycles of sin because of compromise
Messages:
- The effect of Original Sin is that we have a tendency to wander
- When we free ourselves from God we enslaves ourselves to sin
- Freedom from God is slavery.
- God is always faithful and makes a way for salvation