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🗓️ 20 February 2025

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Is all our hardship a consequence of our sin? What about natural disasters? Disabilities? In today's episode, Patrick shares how Judges 6:1-10 reminds us that we are not God and encourages us to repent and heal. Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Judges 6:1-10

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.9	In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Patrick Miller.
0:13.3	Sometimes in the aftermath of war or natural disasters, I'll have people come to me and ask
0:19.2	whether or not it's an act of God's judgment.
0:22.1	Was COVID God's judgment? Or the L.A. fires God's judgment? Were the wars in Ukraine God's judgment?
0:29.5	And of course, people wonder the same thing on a personal level. What about my personal sickness?
0:34.8	What about my mental illness? Are those? God's judgment? And my answer is almost always the
0:40.3	same. I don't know. There are some things that are gods to know and there are some things that are
0:46.2	ours to know and disasters are gods to know. They're not mine. I say that because sometimes disasters
0:53.3	are the results of sin and sometimes they're not the result of sin.
0:58.4	In today's passage in the book of judges, we learn of an awful disaster that was the result of human
1:04.4	sin, of human idolatry, of human injustice. That tells us that these kinds of things do happen.
1:14.3	Judges 6 verse 1, The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.
1:20.1	Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves
1:24.8	in mountain clefts, caves, and strongholds. Whenever the Israelites
1:29.8	planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
1:36.7	They camped on the land, and they ruined the crops all the way to Gaza, and they didn't spare
1:42.6	a living thing for Israel, neither sheep, nor cattle,
1:46.4	nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.
1:51.8	It was impossible to count them or their camels. They invaded the land to ravage it.
1:57.7	Midians so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help. When the Israelites
2:03.6	cried out to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet, who said, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians, and I delivered you from the hand of all
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