Judges 19-21 - Skip Heitzig 

Sounds a lot like today

It’s what this country is becoming :( Scary!

Me too😅, but really know that every Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit. So I know even these Scriptures have a Rhema/Revelation. Thanks to this message 🎉🎉🎉 for our benefit.

I don't think she was unfaithful by adultery. I think she was unfaithful to the marriage vow/ covenant to be forever together. She left him and went back to her father.

That was pure of the fact that israel didn’t send all the tribes at once

You do realize that conflict was dealt with differently before Jesus came right? Back then one sin was a blot on generations (remember Achan?) In those days it was nothing to obliterate a whole town and an entire family because of sin. (When I became aware of this as a youngster I had great difficulty understanding this). But that was the practice. Praise the Lord, the coming of Jesus made this no longer necessary.

@@katiegardiner806 Achan?! That one is another horrific example. Why bring that up? The Israelites engage in another God sanctioned slaughter of every man, woman, child, sheep, goat, cow, and bird, in Jericho because even the infants and fetuses, and chickens are hopelessly evil? Except the prostitute. Then they plunder all of the loot and one guy takes some gold, silver, and a jacket from the plunder. You recall that God told the Israelites to divvy up the stolen goods in past massacres, right? Including the virgin girls to do with as they pleased. At least the virgin girls had the dignity of being murdered this time. So God decries that Achan, along with all of his family and his sheep get stoned and burned because God likes gold? These stories have zero moral value. The take-away is that God is cruel and random. Nearly every story is that way. The crucifixion story is just as illogical. God reincarnates himself as a human in order to offer himself up as a blood sacrifice to himself? This is the greatest story ever told? And to what end? To forgive us from eternal torture because the first couple ate some fruit? The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? They didn't know the difference between good and evil before they ate the apple, right? They didn't know nakedness was wrong, so how could they understand that disobedience for a stupid, random rule be the ruin of every human that will ever live. How old were they at the time? Two weeks old? It's all mythology. I find it all quite fascinating, but I don't think these weird stories, written by archaic men are actually true. But I respect your right to believe what you want. Have a great day and a prosperous life, Katie.

Hi Marcus. If you read the beginning of chapter 21, it explains that the congregation lamented before God, but did not consult Yahweh. This act of killing women and children was not instructed by God. This just goes to show what happens when men do 'what is right in their own eyes'.

@@melv3488 Bingo

@@melv3488 probably just following the example set by 1 Samuel 15:3