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2026 Bible in a Year - Unsheathing the sWord - Week 10 - Judges and Ruth

Bible In A Year - Week 10 - Judges and Ruth The Book of Judges has some of the most painful accounts in the Old Testament, one that highlights the sinfulness of human beings and emphasizes the importance of repentance, turning back to God, but at the same time it shows us the faithfulness and patience of God. A book that shows us as we study the past we can learn from it. Judges refers not so much to a judge in a court, but rather a person appointed and anointed by God to protect, restore, redeem and defend His people. They stand between disaster and hope in the living God. We see a repeated pattern in the book of Judges: God is faithful, then His people become unfaithful, disaster comes, they cry out to God, and God who is faithful answers them. It is a tragic time, but it keeps us reminded of God’s faithfulness. Pastor shares a timeline from the exodus (around 1446 BC) through King David (1010 BC) and shows the period of the Judges from 1374-1050 BC. A 300 year period of immorality, chaos, upheaval, idolatry, and where they wandered away from God. Summary of Judges There are many parallels to our world today… 2:10 …another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. 3:7 …they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. 21:25 …everyone did as they saw fit. The Judges that Pastor focuses on: Ehud ( Judges 3) Eglon, the King of Moab had oppressed the Israelites for 18 years. They cried out to God and He sent them a deliverer - Ehud. Ehud killed King Eglon and the Israelites defeat their Moabite oppressors and there is peace for 80 years. Deborah (Judges 4-5) A prophetess of great faith and great courage. Through a prophetic word from Deborah, Barak and Deborah lead the Israelites in battle against Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite King Jabin’s army. Sisera flees as the Israelites defeat the Canaanite army and he comes to Jael’s tent to hide and she kills him. The Israelites defeat the Canaanites and there is peace for 40 years. Gideon (Judges 6-8) This story reminds us that God does things His own way and that when God’s people follow Him, He brings victory, renewal and triumph, though He does it in ways that are counter-intuitive. God is to be in charge and He is to get the glory. The Israelites have again fallen away from the Lord and Midianites are oppressing them. An angel of the Lord comes to Gideon and tells him he will be their deliverer. And from this story we see that what man calls impossible is never impossible with God. Gideon, following God, takes 300 men with 300 shofars, torches and jugs at night to surround the huge Midianite army camp. They blow shofars, shout “a sword for the Lord and for Gideon,” shatter the pottery and the Midianites turn on each other as the power of God is revealed. But Gideon and the people lapse again into spiritual ruin. Jephthah (Judges 10-11) A skilled warrior but again the people fall into spiritual sin. Samson (Judges 13-16) Samson’s mom and dad receive a visit from an angel saying that their son Samson will be raised up as the Israelite’s deliverer. He is a powerfully strong man. But he goes against what he is supposed to be and who God had called him to be. It’s the story of a wedding gone wrong that ends in a contest of Samson against the Philistines where he is captured, blinded, and his hair cut. Samson ends up in his death killing more Philistines than he had throughout his whole life. Throughout the rest of the book we see how moral indifference and chaos lead to spiritual rejection of God and great chaos. We see the decay of the people and the Benjaminite tribe nearly wiped out through their evils ways. Pastor moves into the Book of Ruth, a love story that took place in the 300 year window of the judges. During this time ungodly time, we see there are still godly people. The book starts with a famine in Bethlehem so Elimelek takes his family to Moab. He dies and his sons die. His wife Naomi and her 2 daughter’s in-law are alone. One daughter in-law stays with her, a moabite woman named Ruth. Naomi returns to Bethlehem taking Ruth with her. Widows with nothing. Ruth, by God’s design, gleans wheat from a field owned by Boaz. Boaz is a man who lives his faith and he allows her to continue to glean wheat from his field and promises her protection. And the story ends with Boaz marrying Ruth. The Book of Ruth ends with a genealogy showing us that Boaz was the son of Salmon and Rahab (the prostitute from Jericho who had protected the Israelite spies). Boaz marries Ruth (a moabite) and they have a child named Obed who had a child named Jesse (David’s father) who has a son name David (King David). We see this genealogy in Matthew 1 in the lineage of Jesus. We see God in the details in this story of Ruth! God always wins! Join us next week for a study of the book of 1 Samuel. For all of our FREE resources: https://www.awakeusnow.com/bible-in-a-ye