The lesson understood :

In reading and meditating on the first chapter of Judges, once again a tiny grain of truth seeps through.  

Since Abraham, the Lord had promised, “every place on which your foot shall tread, I have given it to you.”

Yet here we are hundreds of years later, Joshua has led them into the promised land, yet it is still not wholly theirs.   Joshua has died, what next?

The Lord  told them : “Judah shall lead you, I have delivered it to his hand.”

Judah said to his brother Simeon come help me and I’ll help you.   Let’s review :

Reuben the first born.  His name means, The Lord has seen .

Simeon the second born.  His name means, The Lord has heard.

Third born. Levi, whose name means the Lord will join us together.

Forth.  Judah,   now I will praise.

“Billism, brewing ”

Judah chose Simeon to go with him to defeat the enemy    They won in the mountains but lost in the valley because the enemy had chariots with wheels of iron.

Now the Lord doesn’t seem upset…yet His directive wasn’t followed.   The enemy wasn’t completely distroyed.

The Lord always provides a path or a plan for victory.  We are just terrible at following His plan.

What would the outcome have been if Judah had teamed up with Levi instead.

When you join Levi the tribe charged with protecting the Tabernacle of God, the House of God, the keeper of the Knowledge of God with the Praise of God.

I  think they could have become victorious.

I  understand that all these Christian Denominations are really just the different tribes today.  

The problem is the tribe of Judah, the people who understand Praise and Worship are out there on their own.

The tribe of Levi are few in each Denomination,  the few who reverence the Word of God over the book of rules for their sect.

We must get the Word, teamed up with Praise. “So, every place on which your foot shall tread. “

“He will give it to us”   

As we truly spread His Gospel of the Kingdom in power and might as the Lord spreads signs and wonders behind.    As He has promised.

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