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Tuesday - 10:00 a.m.
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Wednesday - 6:30 p.m.
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First Saturday of the month - 9:00 a.m.
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Last Saturday of the month - 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
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The Book of Judges
The Book of Judges stands
in stark contrast to Joshua. In Joshua an obedient people
conquered the land through trust in the power of God. In
Judges, however, a disobedient and idolatrous people are defeated
time and time again because of their rebellion against God.
In seven distinct cycles
of sin to salvation, Judges shows how Israel had set aside God's
law and in its place substituted "that which was right in his own
eyes" (21:25). The recurring result of abandonment from
God's law is corruption from within and oppression from without.
During the nearly four centuries spanned by this book, God raises
up military champions to throw off the yoke of bondage and to
restore the nation to pure worship. But all too sonn the
"sin cycle" begins again as the nation's spiritual temperature
grows steadily colder.
The Hebrew title is
Shophetim, meaning "judges," "rulers," "deliverers," or
'saviors." Shophet not only carries the idea of
maintaining justice and settling disputes, but it also used to
mean "liberating" and "delivering." First the judges deliver
the people; then they rule and administer justice. The
Septuagint used the Greek equivalent of this word, Kritai ("Judges"). The Latin Vulgate called it Liber Judicum,
the "Book of Judges." This book could also appropriately be
titled the "Book of Failure."
