In those days YHWH began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel...
2 Kings 10:32
Israel was blessed by Jehu's obedience, but simultaneously cursed by his disobedience. Imperfect obedience brings imperfect blessings.
SERIES H --- THE JUDGES --- LESSON 02
PATTERN ESTABLISHED
THE MESSAGE OF THE ANGEL
From Judges 2:1 -3:4
An Angel of Adonai came one day from Gilgal to Bochim and spoke sternly to the people of Israel: ‘I led you from Egypt into this land which I had Promised to your fathers. I told you that I would never break My Covenant with you. I also told you that you should never make a covenant with the people who live in this land, for your orders were to destroy their altars. But what did you do? You did not listen to Me and you did not obey Me. Since you have turned against Me, I will not drive out your enemies before you and they will remain at your side, along with their gods, as a source of trouble and temptation.’ When the Angel had finished, the people began crying and wailing. That’s why the city was given the name, Bochim, which meant ‘Weepers.’ The people then presented Adonai with sacrifices. Joshua had dismissed the soldiers of Israel and they had returned to their territories to possess the land assigned to them. As long as Joshua and the people of his generation were alive, Israel served Adonai; for they had seen YHVH’s great miracles. After Joshua had died at the age of a hundred and ten he was buried at Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash. When all his generation had died too, another generation grew up in Israel. They did not know Adonai or the miracles He had done for Israel. These people of Israel made Adonai angry, for they worshiped the Baal gods of their heathen neighbours, turning away from YHVH Elohiym Who had brought their fathers from Egypt. When they left Adonai to worship these Baal and Ashtaroth gods, He was very angry with them and turned them over to enemies who overpowered them and took away their possessions. Without Adonai’s help, they could not stand up to their enemies. Whenever they went to fight, Adonai was against them to punish them, just as He had warned. In the midst of these troubled times, Adonai raised up judges to rule over Israel and save the nation from its enemies. But the people didn’t listen to their judges either; but worshiped gods other than Adonai. They wouldn’t obey Adonai who had done so much for their ancestors. Adonai felt sorry for His people and helped the judges save them from their oppression. But after each judge died, the people of Israel were worse than their fathers, serving and worshiping heathen gods. They clung stubbornly to their evil practices. Then Adonai’s anger burned like a flame of fire against His people. ‘Because the people of Israel refuse to keep the covenant I made with their ancestors, I will refuse to drive out their enemies who are still left in the land after Joshua’s death. I will leave these people to test the Israelites, to see if they may yet walk in Adonai’s ways as their ancestors did.’ Adonai let the heathen nations remain in the land. He did not drive them out or let the people of Israel defeat them as Joshua had done. The Israelites of this generation had not fought in Joshua’s wars, so they lacked experience and found the wars with their enemies very trying. But Adonai used the heathen nations to teach Israel to depend upon Him. These are the nations that Adonai left in the land to test Israel: the Philistines with their five princes over five cities; the Canaanites; the Sidonians; and the Hivites, who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-Hermon to the entrance to Hamath. These enemies were a test to the Israelites to see if they would obey Adonai’s commandments, which He had given to their ancestors through Moses.
COMMENTARY
VISITS BY ANGELS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
The years that judges ruled in Israel were dark years. The Canaanite people that Israel refused to drive out ensnared the Israelites. Soon many turned to worship the Canaanite gods, called Baals. For many years a tragic pattern was followed in Israel. There was sin, defeat by enemies, a turning to YHVH and deliverance when YHVH sent a {judge} to lead His people. The Old Testament tells that many times angels appeared to the Israelites and that each visit had a special purpose.
ABRAHAM AND SARAH
Abraham was promised that his descendants would be as countless as the stars. But he and Sarah were old and childless. One day three angel visitors appeared at their tent, they reassured the couple that Sarah would give birth to the long-awaited child.
JACOB
Jacob was Isaac’s son and Abraham’s grandson. YHVH’s Promise to build a nation through Abraham was passed on to Jacob. One night Jacob met a powerful angel and wrestled with him until daybreak. When Jacob won, the angel blessed him and renamed him {Israel.} Israel’s twelve sons became the founders of the twelve Israelite tribes.
BALAAM
A Canaanite king hired the prophet Balaam to curse the invading Israelites. But on his way to the palace, Balaam met an angel who warned him that he was displeasing YHVH and instructed him to bless the Israelites.
GIDEON
An angel appeared to Gideon in a time of crisis and instructed him to lead the Israelites in battle. When Gideon asked for a sign, the angel set fire to a food and grain offering.
SAMSON
The angel who visited Manoab’s wife foretold the birth of her son and promised that Samson would help deliver Israel from the Philistines. She was instructed to raise Samson as a Nazirite; a person who is specially dedicated to YHVH.
DANIEL
A Babylonian ruler threw Daniel into a cage of hungry lions, but he lived to tell an amazed crowd of an angel who had protected him from certain death.
He's opening doors no one can shut.
When you first realize that your church taught you something contrary to Scripture, it’s tempting to reject everything else they taught you too. “If that was a lie, what else have I been lied to about!? So many traditions don’t seem to have any basis in the Bible!”
Be careful! I want to help you work through these troubled times, but not everything you were taught is a lie. Not all traditions are wrong.
Our job isn't to throw out everything we ever learned, but to test each doctrine against Scripture, to hold on to what is true, and reject only those things that aren't compatible.
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And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.
2 Kings 10:27
Even pagans have limits to what kind of defilement they will tolerate in their holy places. They'll bury the bodies of sacrificial victims and the relics of "saints" beneath the floors of their temples, but at some level, everyone knows human refuse is defiling. By turning the temple of Baal into a latrine, Jehu ensured that this place would never again be used for as a place of worship.
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
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Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Genesis 45 and 46.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 44.
The Greek Testament reading is in Mark 3.
Links to essential studies.
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Genesis 45 and 46, Thematic analysis
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DISCLAIMER: I am NOT telling you what is the ONE and ONLY CORRECT version of the Name. In my own opinion, anyone that claims they have the ONE and ONLY TRUE/CORRECT Name hasn't done enough research. These next few comics are my studies on certain Names and the conclusion I came to with them. If you use one of these Names and don't agree with my conclusion, that is totally fine. I know many people that use each of these Names and we get along just fine. This disclaimer will be at the top of all the commentaries for the different Names.
Now that we have covered the Father's Name, let's cover the Son's. I am including the all variations I know in one post, because much like the comic is showing, in my research they are just variations of the same name.
If we are looking at the Bible honestly, we know His Name is not Jesus. We can't even claim this is the English translation of His Name because another Biblical person that had the same name isn't translated as Jesus in most cases. That person? Joshua the son of Nun. All through the Hebrew Scriptures, his name is translated as Joshua. However, he is mentioned in the book of Acts (7:45) and in Hebrews (4:8). In modern translations, knowing this is Joshua son of Nun, our Bibles will show Joshua there. However, the KJV says Jesus. Also, when you look at the Greek it is IESOUS, the same name as Jesus throughout the Gospels.
If we were to look at the Hebrew of Joshua's name, what would that be? Well, there are actually three different spellings of Joshua's name in the Hebrew. Nehemiah 8:17 has ישוע. Joshua 1:1 has יהושע. And Deuteronomy 3:21 has יהושוע. While, this is 3 different spellings, it is actually just two different pronunciations. The first is Yeshua, the later two are Yehoshua. I used to believe the Joshua 1:1 spelling was Yahusha, but that was before I went and checked the vowel pointings of the word in the verse. It is actually the same as the Deut. 3:21 instance, but instead of using a ו to represent the "oo" sound after the "sh" sound, they have vowel pointers there. I then later ran into a Hebrew speaker giving a teaching about His Name, and he had pointed out that in Hebrew, Yahusha would not be grammatically correct.
In the long run, there is definitely no reason to argue or "correct" someone on the Son's Name. Most of us came to know Him by the name Jesus. If it wasn't for that name, we wouldn't be having these discussions. Then we have the Biblical accounts of Joshua being called by the other variants. So, whichever you choose, just know that is your choice and it doesn't have to be everyone's.
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