Judges 3

(June 3, 2014)
It is so apparent, in light of the history that we now know, that the Lord was preparing His people (through their bondage and deliverance) for the Lord when He came.  But the people, while they recognized the pattern of deliverance, clearly saw the deliverance in a political sense.  They were so intent on being delivered from the king of Mesopotamia that they didn’t recognize what they were really being delivered from was serving Baalim and the groves.  The political situation was just a shadow or a type for the true bondage in sin they were under.  The political saviors, likewise, were only shadows of the Savior who would save them from the true cost of their disobedience.

Of course, it is easy for us to say this now – we know that Christ came and we know what He did.  The bigger question to me, though, is what is going on in the world and in the Church that is designed to teach us truth that we are likewise not seeing?  What is happening around us that our descendants will look at and easily see because of hindsight that we are missing happening right around us today?