So for the last couple months, I've been going through the Old Testament again, just kind

of reading some of the books that I just haven't spent a lot of time in one of the books

that I've been spending a lot of time in recently.

It's been the Book of Judges.

I don't know if you ever, Judges is kind of, we know it because of Samson and some other

people that are very famous in Judges.

But one of the themes of the Book of Judges is, it keeps coming up at least four times

the Book of Judges says this same refrain.

It says, in those days there was no king in Israel.

So you have all these different people and basically you almost have, even though they've

been given the law, God even though they've been given the will of God in Scripture, there's

almost anarchy so often and then God raises up a judge and unites the people and they can

fight their enemies and they can be united and turn back to the Lord and then that judge

passes away and they descend back into anarchy.

And it says this cycle happens again and again, the Book of Judges.

But when you get to the end of Judges, it's when things get like devastatingly awful.

In fact, the last three chapters of Judges tell, like two stories, I'm going to kind of

edit these because they're not really stories for kids.

That's another thing, a little side that this isn't a book for children.

I think it's important that we realize that.

This is a book for adults.

Like that church is actually for adults, it's not just for kids.

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