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🗓️ 4 April 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Today we beat our 12th and final judge, Samson. |
0:16.6 | He may be the only one you've heard of before. |
0:18.7 | He's definitely the most famous. |
0:20.6 | In part because his story is the most detailed in the book, but also it might have something |
0:24.8 | to do with the fact that he feels like the closest thing Christian culture has to a |
0:28.2 | traditional superhero. |
0:30.7 | I hope today's reading helped paint things a little more clearly because he's probably |
0:34.4 | the worst and most wicked of all the judges in the book. |
0:37.8 | Not only that, but he probably doesn't actually have big muscles like we usually imagine. |
0:42.2 | I'll tell you why tomorrow when we wrap up this story. |
0:45.4 | As for today, the people of Israel have fallen into sin again and are oppressed by the |
0:49.5 | Philistines for 40 years. |
0:51.9 | And according to 1017, this is all probably happening simultaneously as to the stuff we |
0:56.0 | read about yesterday. |
0:57.0 | Yesterday's battle with the Ammonites was happening in the Transjordan east of the Jordan |
1:00.8 | River. |
1:01.8 | And this stuff with the Philistines is happening along the Mediterranean coastline of Israel, |
1:05.6 | west of the Jordan River. |
1:07.1 | First, we meet a man named Manoa and the angel of the Lord who is likely God the Sun shows |
1:13.1 | up to tell Manoa's bear in wife that she's going to have a son. |
1:16.8 | He says her son will play a role in helping rescue Israel and that she should raise him to |
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