Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Clint Poppe, pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Lincoln, NE, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Judges 13:1-25. The book of Judges slows down to give the account of Samson from the very beginning of his life. The angel of the LORD goes to the wife of Manoah. Her barrenness is the epitome of hopelessness, yet the LORD is the One who brings hope to His hopeless people. He tells her that the son she will bear will be a Nazirite from birth; he will be set aside for service to the LORD. Details throughout the account foreshadow both the miraculous birth of John the Baptist and the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. The LORD is gracious to Manoah in coming a second time to speak His Word yet again. Manoah is not yet aware that this is the angel of the LORD, and so He graciously reveals Himself in the sacrifice Manoah is instructed to offer. Though Manoah fears he will die after seeing God face-to-face, his wife catechizes him in the truth of the LORD’s mercy. Their son’s name Samson foreshadow