God called Abraham so that he and his family would be a blessing to all the nations of the world. In the previous post of this series, I noted that had they kept the Law God gave them from Sinai after they entered the Land of Promise, they would have blessed the nations around them, and ultimately would have blessed all the nations of the world.
For more than 300 years, they lived in Canaan with only occasional leaders, called Judges or Deliverers. God raised up these 14 men and 1 woman to deliver the people when they had fallen so far away from God that He sent oppressors to afflict them. God sent the affliction to call them to repentance. Over and over, they would sin, suffer, sorrow, cry out to God for deliverance and find salvation. As someone put it a little differently, there was a cycle of relapse, retribution, repentance, and restoration.
The People Ask for a King
Near the end of the life of the last of these Judges, Samuel, the people came to him and asked him for a king. Samuel warned them of Continue reading
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