40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Judges 16:5-31 (Episode 215)

Episode Date: May 9, 2020

Chad and Daniel wrap up the life of Samson in this episode. Sin is everywhere. Betrayal is everywhere. But the Christ whom Samson foreshadows has the final word. Have a listen! 1517 Podcast Network 1517 YouTube Donate

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conference talks where's all those chad bird videos well they're all over there in one place so if you subscribe to that you won't ever miss any of them chad uh we we ended last week with samson meeting delilah falling in love with her apparently this is this is what the text says and now things are going to take a little dark turn yeah like right away it's almost a uh i don't i don't know if this is intended or not but i can't help but see it so this all happens in a place called the valley of sorek and uh so you're like you know kind of last thing we heard about samson he's on this mountaintop you know in hebron and now he's down in a valley things are really going to get get pretty low here uh the valley of sorek is just like this uh wadi like a what

would we call them in texas dry gulch or something like that you know wadi it only has water in it when it rains it's gonna have a low dry creek bed type deal runs from the judean mountains all the to the Mediterranean. It was pretty close to where Samson's hometown was at, but that's where all this goes down. We're not sure. I don't think I brought this out last time. We're not sure about Delilah's nationality or whatever you'd say that fits with that culture back then. Probably a Philistine though. I mean, she has a name that could be Hebrew. I mean, it kind of fits with the Semitic language, but I'm guessing she's a Philistine just because of her interaction with the Philistines. Anyway, the main point is that we know her name, and she now has a man whose

head over heels in love with her. And the lords of the Philistines, not to miss an opportunity, decide they're going to take advantage of this situation and use her as they tried to use as at least some philistines tried to use his his fiancee to to get to him except now what they they want to know there i mean it's obvious you know this was never any question that samson has this just superhuman strength but nobody knows why like how can he how can he be this strong i mean even you know uh the the guys that win the strongman competition thor they're not walking around lifting up city gates and hauling them for 40 miles away up some mountaintop you know that's not part of the arnold classic competition going on here so samson uh is well known for this

but they just don't know like why what's the source of this drink so they come to her they use the same words that we heard way back in chapter 14 verse 15 for entice or seduce the same language of philistine jews when talking to samson sion say so entice him or seduce him and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him so that we may bind him to afflict him. And then, you know, to make matters a little bit more enticing for her, they said, here's what we'll do. We will basically make you a very, very rich woman because they offer to give her, these are the lords of the Philistines. So five lords of the philistines one for each city and they're each going to give her 1100 pieces of silver i mean

she would hit the jackpot yeah so we'll uh i i like uh i like the the way the esv translates this you can tell me my hebrews not quite as good as chad's it uses this word it says uh that we may overpower him that we may bind him to humble him and the reason the reason i like that is obviously if you know what happens is they very much go about the work of humbling but it also fits very much with the christologically uh which was which happens you know you have the humbling of christ yeah that's actually a very good translation i mean it's it's uh it's often used in sort of that way uh in the psalms for instance to to humble i mean it it it has this variety of meanings i mean it can mean you know to humble to afflict to put down

to make low but it all has kind of that same that same kind of yeah i mean they're not they're not asking her to seduce him to find and find out where his strength is so we can kill him that's that's not the goal that's not the goal here yeah yeah that that's a great point i mean they're they're wanting the kind of revenge that you can't get simply by taking someone's life right yeah they're wanting a complete humiliation of him and then ironically it turns out that they get exactly what they're wanting, right? They do get him humiliated, but what they don't realize is that in doing that, they're going to place him in a position in which he's actually is going to use that humiliation to seek his revenge against them. But I'm getting ahead of

the story. So that's kind of the deal. I mean, it's a terrible situation. I mean, it really is a tragedy when you have samson in love with this woman and you know as as has happened countless times throughout history still happens today all that ends up mattering to delilah is how she can enrich herself off of off of this situation so she starts the process of trying to find out what the secret of his strength is she you know she you can see through each of these four episodes that she intensifies her feminine wiles, if you will. I mean, she's like trying every tactic that she can think of. She starts out just, you know, with kind of a seemingly innocent question, I suppose. Please tell me where your strength is and how you may be bound

to afflict you. You know, I'm just curious, right? Like, you know, if someone was wanting to bind you and to afflict you how can they go about that and samson has at least the first three episodes he has an answer to each of these which of course is not the right answer so he starts out by saying if they if they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried then i'll become weak and be like any other man yeah you have to assume the first time he doesn't he's not thinking that she's going to attempt this so so the first time is he's like well let's make something up it's not like we're gonna try it and even if we did try it i could fake it you know like he's not thinking probably what's gonna happen is she's gonna do this and there's gonna be all these guys

i'm gonna have a fight on my hand you know so you know if you're like tell me this and you're like this is not something that we're ever gonna do yeah i i'm trying to get into the head of samson in this situation is a bit of a challenge. I'm like, what is he like detect any sinister motive here? Or does he think she does playing or, you know, what's, what's going on in his head more or less? Well, you can, after the first one you could write off as a, you know, a fair, you could think it's a fairly honest question.

Yeah. You know, if, if I, if you were out there doing all this crazy stuff and you know, your wife says, how are you able to do that stuff? Seems reasonable. yeah reasonable question yeah yeah so yeah the first time yeah the first time but after that come on man yeah yeah yeah so what they they're gonna try it so the the lords of philistines brought her these seven fresh cords that had not been dried well we all we have this recurring

freshness right if we had the fresh jawbone now we have seven fresh cords which are probably like strips of leather that have not dried yet from some sort of animal hide i'm guessing anyway there's men that are already lying in wait and she says the philistines are upon you samson but he as as before he snaps the cords as a string of towel snaps when it touches fire and his strength was not discovered so that wraps up the the first episode so what's going to happen with this the second try of of delilah so she says to samson again uh she's just she says she's pushing a little bit harder this time look uh you tricked me right you deceived me and told me lies that is rich

it's rich yeah that classic case of the pot calling the kettle black on that one how dare you lie to me you you tricked me like wait what yeah how dare you act deceptively toward me when i'm so pure of heart just crazy man that is that is also what we're going to find out is that apparently samson's like really sound sleeper yeah he must be one of those guys like you know have the proverbial train go through the living room and he doesn't wake up uh i've known a couple guys like that but he so he's pressing pressing him you know you're mean why'd you lie to me so he comes up with uh another another reason or another way in which he supposedly can be weakened so that's what you got to do so you got to get new ropes same hebrew that

was used uh when the men of judah bound him get these new ropes never been used and if you bind me with those and i'm gonna become weak and be like any other man so that's what delilah does she takes these new ropes she ties them up same thing philistines are upon you samson because the men are lying in wait once more and he snaps the ropes from his arms like a thread now if he's not on to her by now uh he's got some he got some problems i mean but evidently he's he's he's not i mean i guess i guess what it doesn't say in the first in these accounts um and that that so she's she's crying out she's doing it and then crying out the philistines are upon you i'm assuming that these philistines are not upon him no right so i mean they're not

yeah because i mean no one's that dumb so she's obviously playing this off as like i did the thing and i told then i i scared you and and then i found out you were lying so you shouldn't read it that that you know the philistines are rushing in and he kills a bunch of guys he's like oh you lied to me i can't believe it like she said she wants to know uh at least the first two it seems that like he's tying up and then he breaks it so they haven't they have not they have not rushed in yet yeah yeah yeah she's just she's testing the waters to see how honest he's he's being and of course these first two times nothing whatsoever to do with his hair right this is all just being tied up so fresh cords or new ropes now it's going to get a little closer to

home when we get into the third the third try she says uh verse 13 up to now you have deceived me and told me lies and to tell me tell me how you are bound so she just trying the same tactic once more accusing him of deception and lies now here's he gets a little closer and this is a it's kind of a strange uh strange description here and it's this is also one of those cases where the hebrews messed up and uh the translators have taken some words from the septuagint to kind of fill this in so my translation has he replies if you weave the seven locks of my hair with a web and fasten it with a pin then i shall be weak and be like any other man so he falls asleep delilah takes the seven locks of his hair weaves them into the web fastens it with a pin says the same thing he wakes

up pulls the pin out and uh he's just as strong strong as ever i don't really know exactly what this look like this you know she's weaving his hair anyway fastening it in some way but i think the important point is that he's getting a little closer he's got a lot closer actually to revealing the source of his strength because he's no longer talking about you know being tied up by different kinds of cords or ropes but now he's actually moved to his head he's talking about his hair his hair now yeah it kind of seems like uh that there was a horrible uh movie made about samson a few years ago but the one thing that it seemed like they maybe got got right was that they the guy they had played samson had like these huge dreadlock type things and it kind of seems

like that's the case right like like what what does this mean the the you know that he has uh the seven locks of his hair so you you assume that maybe that's what it is so he's got these seven you know huge dreadlocks or something which kind of is kind of like intimidating right yeah yeah especially considering that he's never cut his hair as you can imagine how long it was yeah so uh that could have been could have been what was happening but he's getting closer closer and closer to revealing the revealing the truth to her so we find out the truth beginning in episode four of this kind of back and forth between samson and lila beginning of verse 15 so now she's like she's pulling she's pulling out the the full artillery emotional artillery against him she

says to him how can you say i love you when your heart is not with me you have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is and then verse 16 you gotta love verse 16 and it came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him that his soul was annoyed to death it's got to be one of the most humorous verses verses in the bible you just got a picture i mean she's kind of become the he's kind of become the uh they're not married but like the henpecked husband you know she just won't let up won't let up just constant barrage why aren't you telling me why are you so mean you don't really love me why don't you tell me your strength over and over and over until he's just become so annoyed that he'd rather die than go on

listening to her. So he finally gives in. Verse 17, he spills the beans. He told her all that was in his heart, and he said, this is what my strength is. A razor has never come on my head because I've been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I shall become weak and be like any other man. You know, Samson had, he had broken his Nazarite vows in other ways. He had touched that which was dead. He presumably was drinking at his wedding feast. That's what they did, a Philistine wedding feast. But he had not cut his hair. That's like the one part of his life where he had remained faithful to his Nazarite vows. and Delilah can evidently tell what's going on here it says that she saw that he had told her

all that was in his heart so she arranges everything right she she calls for the lords of the Philistines and says all right one more time now he's told me all that it's in his heart so the Philistine lords they they come up to her and they come with with a credit card in hand right or cash in hand i should say they bring all that this sack loads of uh of money to her all this silver that they that they promised to her and uh she she made him sleep on her knees i guess he just he falls asleep with his head on her lap more or less and then she calls for the barber the philistine barber and he comes in and he shaves off the seven locks yeah he must have been a i don't think i could get a haircut no without waking up i mean i would i would have to

be like out cold not to wake up when somebody's cutting cutting my hair uh but that's what happens it shaves it off and then it says this is this is i don't know this might be in some ways like the lowest point of this story she began to afflict him and his strength left him i mean it was bad enough that she she lied to him used him and uh betrayed him and now she she's just like hurting him afflicting him just to see just to see what happens and his strength left him so she says the philistines are upon you samson and he wakes up and he thinks ah you know same song second verse third verse fourth verse i do what i've always done i'm gonna go out and i'll i'll shake myself free but he did not know that the lord had departed from him so just kind of wrap

up this little section the verse 21 the philistine seized him and as was relatively common back in that culture when you had captured an enemy you mutilated him in some way either by we've seen it earlier in Judges, about chopping off fingers or toes. In this case, they gouge out his eyes, and they bring him down to Gaza. They bound him in bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison. So he's blind, he's bound, and he's exiled, and he's made to do servile work. so you you can't you can't help but but see this as yeah a tragic end to samson but in in some ways just something he's almost prepared himself he's almost like paved the way for all this to happen right um but anyway that's that is uh that's where we see him at this point yeah i mean all

all of this all of this is is really interesting if you're if you're looking at samson as as this type of christ i mean i think this is why we talked about it last episode why the the fact that it says that he loved delilah is important because um it's a it's a real betrayal uh and you know if you if you if you're thinking about people being betrayed by people they love for silver well you you you the first samson's not the first thing that comes to mind the first thing that comes to mind is christ being betrayed by someone that he loves uh for silver in fact if you take you know denials or betrayals of peter and and then you have the denial of uh or the betrayal of judas you end up with four which is the exact same amount of times that samson is

betrayed by by the one that he loves and then what is it what does this betrayal result in well it results in in his humbling which is why that that that word is interesting that they do they do humble him and uh they gouge out his eyes and they they they bind him they they're mocking him and not only that but then he where they make him do that it's if if you have if the gates of gaza are are symbolic for the gates of hell well this is exactly where they go and stick him so they so uh he is is literally they've literally now uh he's been betrayed for silver uh he's been captured he's been beaten and and ridiculed uh he's been humbled and then he is now uh grinding at the mill in hell essentially and that would be that there's there's a lot of uh

a lot of christ-like things going on there uh and it wouldn't be a full christ-like picture uh if you didn't have this but right which is the which is the the next verse right which is all this is happening you're like this is tragic there's a horrible end you have this guy betrayed by the person he loves for silver and now he's being humbled and he's down in hell what's what's gonna happen here and you have but the hair of his head began to grow after it had been shaved this is this is like the gospel coming in or something at this point this is like but god thing which by the way also how stupid do you have to be to not make sure the hair of this guy's head does not grow i'd have the barber i'd have the philistine barber in there three times a week

shaving samson's head yeah no hair on your head buddy yeah but yeah when i read this i i think uh of yeah of christ down down in hell and there's a butt there um that he's he's certainly this is not this is not the end now there's there's so much stuff that that happens to samson that foreshadows what happens to the ultimate deliverer of israel which is which is christ of course but you have to go all the way back and and hear the the words of christ to his mother that he will begin right he will begin to save israel yeah yeah same hebrew word by the way yeah i was just looking at that this morning same same word he'll begin to to save israel the spirit began to stir him uh to action and here we have the hair in his head began to

begin to grow again yeah yeah yeah i i think this this particular verse verse 22 about the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off i think that is like that is the literary masterpiece of the book of judges yeah because it just you know it just kind of drops it in there you know but it's such a beautiful foreshadowing of what's to come it's like a a big wink right there in the middle of the story oh by the way his hair began to grow again and it just kind of drops it right there right and it never even returns to it again it just kind of it's like a pregnant expression just kind of leaves you expecting something to happen.

Yeah. You're, you're like, well, if it gets long again, does that, does he, does that mean that the Lord comes back to him or once he shaved it, is it just done? Which is also an interesting, an interesting point. Is Samson beyond the point of no return? The answer to that question is no. Yeah, absolutely not. Yeah. You know, I don't know about you. this is kind of a side note, but since you brought it up, I don't know about you, but I, I get a communication from people on a pretty regular basis who are concerned that they are

outside the pale of the faith, you know, because they're in a kind of a Samson-like situation, man, I've done this, or I was in rebellion against God for this long. I did these things And they're struggling with wondering, you know, has God basically washed his hands of me? Is there any room for me anymore in the kingdom of God? Or more or less, have I out sinned God's grace? Yeah. And of course, the answer is always and emphatically, absolutely not. Yeah.

Or maybe you even think, well, maybe I could be forgiven, but God would never use me. yes that too yeah and uh and we find out this is not the case either no no yeah i mean he might take me back you know but uh he'll make me like the lowest servant something like that and yeah that's uh that's not the way the grace of god works he forgives and forgets and i mean he is the god who throws a party when prodigals return yeah he doesn't sit there and and chastise them and give them uh you know a chance maybe to prove their sincerity no he runs out to meet them embraces them and throws a party to rejoice at their return and i think that's what's going on here with samson yeah i mean we might not see a party but it really is a it's a it's it's a

rejoicing on the part of god what's going to happen yeah and at the very least i mean in the in the Old Testament narrative, which just foreshadows the gospel over and over and over and over again, right? He's constantly letting the role of his son be played by actors like Samson. It's always like that. The role of Christ is always played by someone who just is, I mean, a total sinner, right? Quite fittingly, because Christ ends up being the greatest of sinners. Yes. Yeah. He becomes the, as Luther says in his commentary on Galatians, that Christ to become the the murderer he's become the adulterer he's become the idolater he's become all of this because it's no longer our sin that's on us but our sin is completely on christ so he becomes the one

who who becomes that sin and that's why uh you look at some of the psalms that are obviously about the messiah like jesus will quote these psalms himself as referring to himself and these same psalms contain confessions of sin well how's that well because christ took that sin upon himself he who knew no sin became sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of god yeah i mean you even see this part uh that's very that looks a lot like christ where it says that the lord left him yes this sounds very much like my god my god why have you forsaken me right that god has left him and and let him be taken you know he's been delivered into the hands of his enemies and not only that but he's there and his enemies are rejoicing you know it's kind of

like the hordes of hell thinking that they've won the day at the crucifixion of crucifixion of christ but uh they are going to be wrong after the recording of his hair began to to grow again it says that they decided they were going to have a party of their own right lords of the philistines They assemble to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon, their god, and to rejoice. Now, we're going to meet Dagon a little bit later on after we get out of Judges, because this will be the god in whose temple the Philistines place the Ark of the Covenant. Great story. After they capture it.

Yeah, yeah. One of the best stories of scripture. They go in in the morning, and first of all, the idol has fallen on his face. So it's almost like he's worshiping Yahweh, and then they go back in the next day, and his hands are cut off, and he's been decapitated. So that's what happens. That's what happens when you put the Ark of the Covenant inside a temple of Dagon. But I love the way that it ends the way it does. It doesn't end, this final episode in Samson's life, doesn't end with him like at maybe the king's palace or the lord's palace or something like that.

or in some open square or something like that. I mean, this is a religious festival, a religious party, and quite appropriately, because what's about to happen is the ultimate of contest. Just like we saw Yahweh attacking the gods, the Egyptians in the Exodus, this is going to be Yahweh through another Moses, through Samson, attacking the gods of the Philistines.

And they're rejoicing, so they bring, they're going to offer this great sacrifice to Dagon in rejoicing and in thanksgiving for the fact that, as they say, our God has given Samson, our enemy, into our hands. So they're attributing their success not to their sneaky endeavors with Delilah. They're actually attributing their success to the work of their God. This is the kind of theological reasoning that would have been pervasive in the ancient world. They attributed all the good stuff, all the bad stuff to their god. So they're attributing this victory over Samson to their god Dagon. And then it's not just the rulers, but the people saw him. They praised

their god. They said, our god has given our enemy into our hands, even the destroyer of our country who has slain many of us so this is like a almost a kind of a national religious festival you could say in which they're gathered together to give thanks to the god Dagon for delivering this greatest of their enemies into their hands and then verse 25 they they're in high spirits so they're literally their heart was good but I suspect we know the Philistines like to drink beer i was about to say this says when their hearts were merry i'm like yeah it says when they had when they had had a couple too many they come up with this great idea i don't know if i mentioned earlier but i mean archaeologists have found because there's been a lot of archaeological

digging at the pentapolis cities uh and they have found these beer canisters with like a little uh filter on the end of them to you know capture any of the stuff that you don't want to drink so the philistines were big into beer so i can just kind of get this picture it's a religious festival but it's also a drinking festival and everybody's happy and they're getting wasted and they call for samson from the prison they say call for samson that he may amuse us literally it's uh make us laugh it's the same route from isaac yitzhak to make us laugh and they call from for him from prison and then make him stand between between these two pillars well what's going to happen well Samson addresses the young man who I guess brought him from the prison and he says let me

feel the pillars on which the house rests that I may lean against them I mean I love the way the story is told because I mean if you didn't know the story it's kind of you know speeding up and slowing down making things what's going on here you know why does he want to feel the pillars what's going on here then we have this uh intervene in there this interlude this one verse that uh kind of paints the scene for us this is the house was was full men women all the leaders of the philistines were there there's like 3 000 men and women on the roof looking down while Samson was amusing them. Now, I've got to point out a little bit of a Hebrew wordplay here.

It's a little bit hard to describe without actually seeing it. But the word that's translated as amused is sahak. But in the original Hebrew, it could either be pronounced sahak or shahak. It's not clear either one. Now, if you pronounce it as sahak, it means to amuse. But if you pronounce it as shahak, it means to crush. So I think this is sort of a double entendre, in other words, that's going on here. So was Samson amusing them or was Samson about to crush them?

Well, the answer is yes. And it's at this point that we now hear Samson's second recorded prayer. he calls on god and says oh lord please remember me let's go let's go with remember me yeah okay let's go there you go zakar me right please remember me it's a good prayer to pray no matter who you are very good prayer yeah and strengthen me just this one time oh god that i may be avenged of the philistines for my two eyes let's go and finish it out then we'll talk about So Samson grasps the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left, and Samson utters then finally his dying words, his last words were, let me die with the Philistines. Bends with all his might, the house fell on the lords and all

the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed with his death were more than those whom he killed in his life. And then it wraps up by saying that after this, his brothers and all his father's household came, took him, brought his body up from there and buried him between Zorah and Eshtoel and the tomb of his father Manoah thus he had judged Israel 20 years now that is some that is some rich storytelling yeah yeah yeah and dude I mean yeah I mean there's there's so there's so many things to point to right I mean I mean like where do you start Christ has written all over this all over it man I mean the the fact that he would I mean the fact that he would he would literally die like with his arms stretched out stretched out yeah right and and in doing so

i mean i mean this line like in his death he killed i mean this is i mean this is this is exactly this is exactly what happens with christ that in his death he defeats every everyone all the enemies of god are destroyed in his death and again this is why samson begins to save israel but man uh it's quite the beginning and and christ will have a similar death mocked ridiculed spat upon entertainment and yet in his death uh he will he will destroy all the all the enemies and in that case we're not talking about people we're talking about sin death the devil hell all of it uh being destroyed so uh it's pretty remarkable this is like the gospel of judges right oh yeah yeah yeah this is one of those stories that you that if you have if you have

christ before your eye is when you're reading the old testament you cannot read the 16th chapter of judges without seeing basically the humiliation and crucifixion resurrection of christ just all over this all over this story i mean this i mean even even the i mean obviously this is like this like a pagan sort of event uh but even even sort of uh christ talking about destroying the temple and you know all of this i mean this is all happening here right i mean so this you assume this is some sort of temple like thing going on here right there's a big this big sacrifice and stuff uh he's ending that okay i mean and the way that these these stories where too there's things just weaved in there i mean the remember me while while samson of course

is the sort of christ figure in this story he's also uh this like this horrible sinner uh and uh as we know horrible sinners sometimes especially when they're crucified next to christ will say words like remember me yeah yeah right uh so he's a figure of christ and a figure of the of the thief at the same time yeah yeah he's got pillars on each side of him uh for sure but yeah so he yeah he he sort of gets to play the role of of christ but then he obviously is someone who needs to be redeemed and remembered by god yeah this is uh this is one of those stories where when you're when you're reading it alongside christ story you realize that really they're one and the same and that by the time you get to reading the gospels you've already read the

gospels in other words you've read them in a different sort of way you've read about the exodus you've read about stories like samson you've read about david uh you've read the writings of isaiah so in many ways you've read matthew mark luke and john before you read matthew mark luke and john it just so happens that what you're reading what you did read in black and white you're now seeing in full color and in the gospels of christ but it's it's all there just in a old testament old testament sort of way yeah i mean it's so it's so all there that you're you're almost shocked that you know there's not some place in the new testament where paul says just as samson whatever you know it's it's so there i mean it's one of those things where you know

when christ says all these all the scriptures testify me like samson's one of the ones where you're like i like well i believe you yeah yeah i can't i on the road to emmaus uh christ surely visited the the story of samson he was talking with uh cleopas and and his companion oh this is one of those emmaus road kind of experiences you know you read this and your heart is burning within you because you realize oh wow yeah this is about christ this is a portrayal beforehand of the work that he would do in his sacrificial death in which by death he would destroy the power of death yeah yeah i i one time heard listen to this horrible horrible sermon uh about how to to not choose women the way samson does and how he just has like the worst the worst taste

in women right which and the reason that was so horrible is that essentially what that that sermon is about this guy doesn't didn't know this but uh what it was about is don't choose a bride like god does yeah right because this is what this is what he does right i mean so he's like don't choose a woman who will betray you i'm like well god does well it's yeah that's a great example of what uh of what a non-christological approach to the scriptures will yield you right you're looking for something in the bible that the bible is not concerned about whatsoever this not dating 101 that's what assassin story is all about no you don't look at god uh the only thing you could look at look at uh the way that god interacts with his people is to say here's how

you love your sinful spouse yes but if you were going to god saying i bet you i bet you i could go to god and figure out exactly the kind of person to choose it's like well god chooses the worst yeah yeah you're gonna be marrying gomer right that's exactly right you're gonna be another jose that's exactly right well all right man we finished out samson yeah we're uh we're gonna enter into the the final section of judges next time beginning with chapter 17 uh in which we we are not finished with some crazy stories and some pretty dark stories that are coming up as well so stay tuned all right well guys we will see you next week