Judges 8:18-9:21, Luke 23:44-24:12, Ps 99:1-9, Pr 14:9-10
Today is the 28th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we continue our journey forward cause that’s the only way this journey goes, forward, the next step forward together. And that next step forward will lead us back to the book of Judges, where we have been reading the story about the judge, Gideon, who has in fact been able to deliver God’s people under God’s direction with 300 men, 300 men against an entire enemy army. And they have been victorious. They surrounded the enemy army in three different groups of a 100 people and started blowing their trumpets and smashing things and yelling and the armies got up and fought one another and then some of the other tribes of Israel got involved. And, so, there’s a great route happening of Israel’s enemies. And, so, let’s pick up the story. Judges 8, 18 through 9:21.
Commentary:
Okay. So, in the book of Judges we…we get a pretty clear view of what the times were like during the seasons of the judges over the centuries of the judges just by watching what happens after Gideon’s life. So, we followed through the great rescue of Israel and the offer of Gideon becoming the ruler and that his…that a dynasty be set up and he declines and says no, the Lord our God is…is our Lord. And, so, everyone on honors Gideon during his life, and there is peace in the land for 40 years. But as soon as Gideon dies…well…there are 70 contenders then for his spot, even though he had declined any kind of position of royalty. So, we see one of his sons, Abimelech, conspire against the other, his brothers, the other rest of the family and kill them all except for one who escapes and then attempts to set the record straight from Mount Gerizim calling down to the people that basically if they love Abimelech and this is what they intended to do by dishonoring Gideon and destroying his family’s name, if that’s what they intended to do, then, may they all be happy but they have done wrong, and if they can realize that, then he’s hoping that his brother Abimelech and the Shechemites will end up destroying each other. And this isn’t the last we’ll see of tribal warfare in the time of the judges.
Then in the gospel of Luke we are definitely pushing toward the conclusion of the third of the Gospels. We have the story of Jesus breathing his last and dying on that cross and being taken down from that cross a corpse and laid in a tomb. And then the Sabbath day came and a day of rest and then the women went to anoint Jesus body and it was gone. And Peter goes to check it out in the body is gone. We know how this story goes, but as we leave the reading today we are at a moment where there is confusion, but there is this ember of hope that is sparking into a small flame. His body isn’t in the tomb. And that is a point of rejoicing up until this very day.
Prayer:
Jesus, we rejoice in that, that evil would not conquer You, that death would be swallowed up in victory, that You, the Lord of Heaven’s armies would indeed be victorious on behalf of mankind and that we have been invited to be a part of Your story. And, so, we rejoice in this most important of all stories, that Your body wasn’t there, that You had risen from the dead, and You are Lord of all. And we thank You and humble ourselves before You in worship and praise. And we pray this in Your mighty name. Amen.
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Community Prayer and Praise:
Hello Daily Audio Bible it’s Sebastian. I wish to pray today for the gentleman who called in the 22nd day of April. You did not leave a name, but you asked for prayer for your marriage I believe for that you would find peace and that you and Veronica would be blessed. That’s what I pray about. I pray that you Father bless this family, this marriage. I pray for peace, I pray for joy, I pray for hope, I pray that You’d give Your son to trust You, to seek You, to believe that You can help him. Fill him with peace. Help him believe that You can fill him with peace and restore his marriage. I pray in the…I pray in the name of Jesus, in the mighty precious name of Jesus, Father that You bless this whole situation, that You bless Veronica and Your son. Thank You, Father for blessing the situation. Amen. God bless every one of you Daily Audio Bible. Bye.
Good afternoon and happy April fam this is James calling in here from the state of Maryland. It’s been a minute since I’ve called in here but just had a…want to comment and a congrats. A comment was I woke up this morning and thought I just had to read one…one missing Khan podcast from Monday. It’s Monday. It turns out I just didn’t miss yesterday I missed Saturday. And every time that I get to hear Brian, he says the same thing almost every day at the end of every podcast. He says, that’s it for today I love you and it’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow. So, sorry Brian, I missed you here a couple days in a row but looking forward to keeping pace with you this week. And I just heard our gentleman from Pennsylvania as we call it Pennsyltucky who just became finally and Army National Guard chaplain. And I’ve been listening to your prayers and been in your corner and love to buy you a beer, cerebrate with you. I’m happy to hear about that. So, really congratulations brother. __ to see what you do. So don’t see be a stranger. God bless you. And, so, the rest of you all, God bless you all as well and just stay in God’s word and stay reading and stay hungry and take every fearful thought captive in the name of Christ. Until next time. Amen.
Hey everyone, this is my first time calling in at all. My name is Owen, and the funny thing is when I tried to call this in I wasn’t intending to do this today but I pressed on the little red button and then there’s an error so I close the app, but anyway yesterday was my 18th birthday and I’m technically an adult now. I’m in my last couple weeks of high school. And I just don’t feel the best about becoming an adult. Don't…I just kind of have this big pit in my stomach. I don’t really feel like prepared or able to be an adult. So, I’m just hoping that God will have my back and everything…my parents and I’ll be OK. But it’s just little bit of an overwhelming time right now. So, if I could just have some prayers on direction and know what to do that’d be nice.
Good morning, everybody it’s Susan from Canada Gods Yellow Flower calling and I wanna thank you all for your prayers because they it is helping. Oh my. And today is April 26th and Brian read the proverb about the oxen and how he can make a mess and we have to clean up the mess. And it was kind of just for me because over the last…well…long time my sisters and I, we feel like we are shoveling all this crap and poop and the pile just keeps getting higher and higher. So, I really related to that analogy there. But my response is always to shovel faster and harder. But today God revealed to me that maybe I should just lay on top of that pile of crap and plant across and just rest and let God work it out. We…it says like when we put on the armor of God that we are to put on this armor and stand firm. We don’t have to fight. God does the fighting for us. We just have to stand firm. So, God bless you all. Thank you again for your prayers.
Hi DAB family this is Babs in Mississippi. I want to thank the lady that just called in on the 23rd of April in the community prayers to tell the people that were hesitant to call in to call in. I have been thinking about calling in for years and just nervous and afraid but today I wanted to ask for prayer for my grandson Haven who is pretty severe autistic. I’ve been praying for him, like I said, for years. He’s 16 years old and he needs prayer so badly. So, please if you’d lift him up and just…just ask the Lord to heal him. And I thank you for being there DAB family for all the people in the world that need encouragement and hope and just need to be lifted up. Thank you and bye.