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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Somethings burning! What could it be? Judges 14:19-15:6

Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!!!
    Okay, remember, the 30 young men came back and had solved the riddle.  Samson was not happy and said, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle!"
   Now in verse 19 it says the spirit of the LORD came powerfully over him,  remember, he was using God's gift selfishly; went-killed 30 men, took their wares, gave to the 30 men and returned to his father's house.
   When Samson went to his father, Manoah's house, the father of the bridge gave her to another in marriage who was Samson's best man.
   Judges 15 Samson returns with a goat as a present to his wife.  He said I am going to my wife's room to sleep with her.  Her father stopped him and said I thought you hated her so I gave her in marriage to your best man; but look, her younger sister is even more beautiful - marry her instead.
   Okay, once again, Samson is angry, mad, mad, mad!!!  He said he could not be blamed for what he was going to do to the Philistines.  Revenge is boiling to great heights in Samson, it is becoming an uncontrollable monster.  There appears to be no forgiveness in Samson's heart at this time
  Sooooo, he goes out, catches 300 foxes, tied their tails together in pairs, Judges 15: 4......  " and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives."
  Oh, yeah, now he has angered the Philistines.  They wanted to know who did this.  The reply was Samson.......but it did not stop there..... it was said -6....." And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. "   
    One act of revenge created another act of revenge.  Does it cease?  Only forgiveness can halt revenge - which is a terrible animal that can destroy us all.  Wow!  What is going to happen next?  Samson and the Philistines are at war.  Stay tuned!  See you tomorrow. Love you all.
   In Christ's Love and Grace
     Johnny
 

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