RAF: The one-word theme of Judges is: Revealing. In this series of accounts of the Judges God raised up to deliver Israel time after time – is the revealing of their unstable and unconverted hearts. Left to themselves, without a man to lead them in right ways, they stubbornly refused to follow God individually. This sets the stage for God to given them an earthly King. We come more and more under the bonds of human government, the more we fail to serve God individually.
1 – Judges 16:21 (ESV) 21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
RAF: Unrepentant sin will result in being seized by it – mastered by it. Blindness. It will find us away from where we ought to be – in foreign places. It will bind us in judgment. Our labors will increase the kingdom of darkness rather than Christ’s.
