How Do We See God's Character in the Book of Judges?

How Do We See God's Character in the Book of Judges?
  • Updated Jan 21, 2019
Greg Gilbert

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“I think you can see a lot of different aspects of God's character in the Book of Judges. One is just His unfailing compassion for His people. He brings His people into the land of promise and tells them that He's fulfilling His promises to them by giving them the land. He tells them exactly how they're supposed to go in and conquer the land and take it, and they just disobey Him. And in spite of that, He sticks with them. He doesn't abandon them, He doesn't cast them off, He raises up judge after judge after judge. There's this amazing progression in the Book of Judges over and over again where you see God delivers people, and then the people rejoice, and then after a few years the people fall right back into disobedience and rebellion. And then what does God do? The next step in the cycle? He raises up another judge to save them again. Just seven or eight different times in the book He does that, so I think you see His compassion.