Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Dr. Adam Koontz, assistant professor of exegetical theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, IN, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Judges 21:1-25. The book of Judges comes to the end of the course that Israel has set for itself when everyone does what is right in his own eyes and rejects the LORD’s kingship over them. Rather than look for reconciliation and atonement from the LORD, the people of Israel continue with the foolish oaths that they have already made. On the one hand, they rightly recognize the need to preserve their Benjaminite brothers; on the other hand, they fail to see the sinful role they have played. As they had previously acted toward Benjamin in the civil war, they now treat the tribe of Jabesh-gilead as unbelievers in devoting them to destruction in order to gain wives for Benjamin. When that plan fails to gain enough wives, they engage in further deception toward the women of Shiloh, attempting to find solace in their self-made piety. All of this points to the d