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The period of the judges was an evil one, requiring hard words for hard times. The people of Israel had rejected their God for the desire of an earthly ruler, and had rebelled against his laws. Yet even in this time of unbelief and hypocrisy, God raised up men and women to call his people back to a personal faith in the living God. The author, in taking us through the books of Judges and Ruth,...

the civil and religious leaders—is the harbinger of the outpouring of God’s wrath. Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as Gibeah of Benjamin, and remember also the words of our Lord when he said of those who utterly reject the gospel of his grace: ‘I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement than for that town’ (Matthew 10:15). The Lord places a choice before men: will it be retribution or will it be redemption? A second mark of a collapsing society
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