S5 E42 The True Meaning of Judgment, and Choosing What Kind of Judge to Be (Book of Judges)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a live recording and Q&C on July 8 in Lehi, and celebrate over 5 million listens with us. Email us at TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.com to hold your place.
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For fantastic extra content, join us at / enlightenedgeedu where you will also be supporting the podcast. This week the extra content will help us learn more about the story of the Judges in the Promised Land. With a lot of pictures and video that go beyond what is in the podcast, Kerry goes into great detail about how the whole things worked and allows you to picture it with much greater clarity.
In this episode Kerry teaches you what it the word judge and judgement really mean, and how it will affect the way you understand hundreds of scriptures and hugely important concepts in the Gospel. Then in a roundtable the oddities and importance of the era of the judges is explained. Then Kerry and Camille Fronk Olson discuss Debora as a prophetess and judge. Then Kerry and George Pierce explain archaeology that will help you understand the era. Then Kerry helps us draw on some of the most important lessons from the Book of Judges by comparing the Gideon and Samson stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we're so grateful you would join us on this episode of the Scriptures |
| 0:14.0 | Are Real, whether you're a regular part of our podcast family or you're joining us for the first time. |
| 0:18.8 | You're going to become part of our podcast family. |
| 0:26.3 | We are glad to have you with us. The Book of is a book that is tough for a lot of people a lot of power in it a lot of wonderful things we're going to talk with camille frank coltson |
| 0:31.9 | about uh deborah and baroque we're going to have a roundtable discussion to help you understand some things, some archaeological discussion. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm going to walk you through a couple of the key stories. |
| 0:41.5 | But what I want to do is preview the book here just a little bit. |
| 0:45.5 | And this is a lesson I've been talking about for a long time, letting people know that it was coming up, |
| 0:51.6 | because I'm going to explain what it means, what a judge is, what it means to judge, justice, judging. |
| 0:58.1 | We understand this incorrectly, almost universally Christians do, and I want you to understand |
| 1:05.7 | it correctly. |
| 1:06.5 | If there's any episode that takes the internet by storm ever for us, I hope it's this one. |
| 1:12.9 | I hope we take the church, not like the church hierarchy or something, but church understanding of judgment by storm. |
| 1:19.2 | I hope you pass this around. |
| 1:21.1 | I get as many people to watch this as it as possible because you are going to understand what you're supposed to be doing right now differently. |
| 1:28.3 | You're going to understand your future differently by coming to understand the word judge and judgment the way it should be understood. |
| 1:34.2 | You'll understand the Book of Mormon differently, the New Testament differently, Christ's teachings. |
| 1:38.9 | We just don't get this word. |
| 1:41.0 | And when we get it, it's going to change things. |
| 1:42.6 | So we're going to get to that in just a minute. But first of all, I want to help you by just kind of previewing the book and |
| 1:49.9 | help us see the pattern that is in this book. And then we're going to talk about what it means to have a |
| 1:55.1 | judge. All right. So the book of judges has a definite theme. You can't miss this theme. And if you're familiar with the book of Mormon, you're going to recognize it as a very, very familiar theme. I wouldn't quite call it the pride cycle here. But it's something, I mean, the pride cycle is really just a different version of what I would call the covenant corruption cycle, meaning we keep the covenant, we break the covenant, and so on and so on. |
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