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SERIES I --- THE NATION UNITES --- LESSON 07
SAMUEL’S LEADERSHIP
THE THUNDER THAT WON A GREAT VICTORY
From 1 Samuel 7:3-17
After the Ark of Adonai returned to Israel, Samuel talked to his people. ‘If you truly want to serve Adonai, put away your foreign gods and the Ashtaroth idols. Serve Adonai with all your hearts and He will save you from the Philistines.’ The people of Israel did as Samuel said, putting away their foreign gods and Ashtaroth idols and serving Adonai alone. ‘Let us gather at Mizpah and I will ask Adonai to help you,’ Samuel told the people. The people gathered at Mizpah to worship Adonai. As an act of devotion, they took water from a well and poured it out before Adonai. All day long they refused to eat as a token of their repentance for their sins. That day at Mizpah, Samuel became judge over Israel. But when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, they marched against them. The Israelites were terrified to hear that the Philistines were approaching and begged Samuel for help. ‘Keep crying to YHVH to save us!’ they pleaded. Samuel did cry to Adonai for help, presenting a suckling lamb as a burnt offering. As Samuel was presenting this burnt offering, the Philistines made ready to attack. But Adonai sent thunder from heaven, confusing the Philistines. The Israelites attacked at once, chasing the Philistines from Mizpah to Beth-car and killing them as they went. As a memorial to this great victory, Samuel placed a stone between Mizpah and Jeshanah and named it Ebenezer, for Adonai had helped them overcome the Philistines. The victory was so complete that the Philistines did not come again to the lands of the Israelites for a long time. As long as Samuel lived, Adonai helped Israel restrain the Philistines. Also, the cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were returned to them. There was peace at last between Israel and the Amorites. Samuel remained as Israel’s judge for as long as he lived. Each year, he went on a circuit, judging Israel at Bethel, Gilgal and Mizpah. From Mizpah, he returned home to Ramah, where he had built an altar and judged Israel in that city also.
COMMENTARY
SAMUEL’S CIRCUIT
During his later life Samuel led Israel in a great return to Adonai. During his lifetime the Philistines were held outside Israelite territory and YHVH gave His people peace. The power of YHVH proved greater than the might of Philistine armies. Shortly after the Israelites entered the Promised Land, Joshua set up the tabernacle at Shiloh. There it remained for three hundred and fifty years, throughout the period of the Conquest and the Judges. Toward the close of the period of the Judges, the Israelites suffered a severe defeat by the Philistines, who probably destroyed the tabernacle at Shiloh, and thus destroyed the central place of worship for all Israel. Samuel moved from Shiloh to Ramah, where his parents had lived. He became the spiritual leader of Israel in place of Eli, but instead of bringing the people to him at a central place, Samuel travelled in a circuit of Bethel, Mizpah and Gilgal, meeting with the people at each place. Thus, he became a travelling judge and was assisted by a group of prophets who helped him speak out against the worship of pagan gods.
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
Matthew 25:10-12
Some deathbed conversions might be sincere, but I suspect that most of them are just charades. If a person says, "I'm going to keep doing what I want right up to the last minute, then I'll tell God I'm sorry and didn't mean it," he's clearly intending to lie to God and God is never fooled.
If you mean to repent, then repent. Or else you don't really mean to repent.
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