The sinful and shameful times, described in the book of Judges, are
summed up in the book’s final verses of chapters 19, 20 & 21.
“Never has such a thing happened or been seen from the time the people
of Israel came out of Egypt until today” (Judges 19:30). “Then the men
of Israel went back to attack the rest of the territory of Benjamin ...
“ (Judges 20:48). “Everyone did what he considered right” (Judges
21:25). It was an ‘anything goes’ situation/ Left to our own resources,
we will go from bad to worse - further and further into sin,further
and further away from God. There is only one thing that can be done in a
situation like this. We must repent. We must return to the Lord with
our whole heart. When there is a true return to the Lord, even the most
sinful people can be mightily transformed. We do not see this at the
end of the book of Judges. We see the reverse of this - ‘where grace
abounded, sin did much more abound.’ As we see the same thing happening
in our own day, we must pray for the triumph of God’s grace over human
sin.
"Be careful! Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!" (Matthew 17:6), even after there is divine revelation (Matthew 16:17), the influence of evil can be felt (Matthew 16:23), The warning - "Be careful! Watch out... !" must never be forgotten. Satan is looking for an opportunity to lead us away from the Lord. We must hear what Jesus is saying to us about discipleship (Matthew 16:24), and we must commit ourselves to Him (Matthew 16:25). There is nothing more important than this (Matthew 16:26). If we are to be true followers of Jesus, we must learn to live our lives in the light of eternity (Matthew 16:27). We are to seek revelations of God's eternal Kingdom, revelations which will send us back, from the mountain-top, to live each day for Jesus.
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