Today is the 23rd day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian, it is wonderful

to be here with you today as we greet a brand new shiny week out in front of us. And as

we begin this week, we're moving into some new territories, some brand new shiny sparkly

territory as we navigate into the book of judges. And when we hear that name, we can easily

think this is a book of judgments, but that's not the purpose of the book of judges. Let's just

look back for a second. We know that the children of Israel, that that whole story began with Abraham

and then Isaac and then Jacob. And we know Jacob's name was eventually changed to be Israel.

And then his children became known as what they were, the children of Israel. And we know that those

children grew up and proliferated and became the tribes of Israel. While they were in slavery in

Egypt, we know that they were freed from slavery in Egypt under the leadership of Moses.

And we spent an entire generation in the wilderness with the children of Israel before we were

able to finally cross the Jordan River. Like it took from Genesis to Joshua to get there.

But we finally crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land and it was Joshua who led the people

across the Jordan. Yesterday as we ended the book of Joshua, Joshua died. So now as we turn the page,

the land is settled, not every single corner of the land is settled, but the tribes have been

granted their land as an inheritance. And so they have their boundaries and they've moved in.

And judges is the story of what happens next. And we'll watch without this

this dominant leader, the tribes, will begin as we will be told in judges quite a few times that

they begin to do whatever seems right in their own eyes. It's like judges is very, very much trying

to make that point. The people are doing whatever seems right in their own eyes. And that will bring

challenges. And we get to begin to observe patterns that that Mark ancient Israel's existence.

Judges will take us through the next several centuries beyond Joshua.

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