Judges and a White Horse?

Judges 3

Chapters 1-6

• God “” Israel –
• God “” war –

The parade of Judges begins:

• (7-11)

Lineage = Edomite
Position = prototype

Peace/Rest
Time Frame = 40 years
Condition = as long as Othniel lived

Revolting Reversal – when God uses the objects of judgment to judge his people

• (12-30)

Peace/Rest
Time Frame = 80 years
Condition = as long as Ehud lived

• (31)

Unique in the parade of judges.
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Ryan’s opinion about why he is here:

God’s deliverance is not dependent upon the cry of his people.

Remind the reader that God is working in more than one place at one time.

Why did the original readers need these stories?

• Judges is a rubber band around the wrist of God’s people helping them to .
• Judges is a memory book.

What did they need to remember?

God raises up deliverers who cannot righteously and eternally save Israel and cannot defeat the evil empires of the world.

What do the stories reveal to us and Israel? .

We need God to raise up an unlikely perfect, immortal deliverer who can righteously and eternally save all people and defeat the evil empires of the world.

What does this have to do with a white horse?

The is best pictured by Jesus on a white horse.

Revelation 19

What do I do?

When you read Judges, hear judges, hear the word judge, deliverer, Savior from this day forward; think, say, and shout:

Jesus on a white horse

– Jesus on a white horse

– Jesus on a white horse

– Jesus on a white horse

– Jesus on a white horse