Jdg 6:1-10

Then the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD;
and the LORD gave them into the hands of Midian seven years.

The power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

So they would camp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza,
and leave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey.

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable;
and they came into the land to devastate it.

So Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the LORD.

Now it came about when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD on account of Midian,

that the LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and he said to them,
“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of slavery.

‘I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land,

and I said to you, “I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not obeyed Me.”’”

The sons of Israel had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
Because of this the Lord gave them into the hands of Midian…eventually for seven years.
The Midianites made the life of Israel miserable.
The stole food from them.
They oppressed them.
They destroyed the land.

Israel became very low and cried out to the Lord…in Whose sight they had done evil.

The Lord sends His Word through a prophet.

The prophet reminds them of the deeds of the Lord in the past.
He then tells them to not fear the gods of the Amorites.
That was their arena of disobedience.
They feared the gods of the world rather than the Most High God.

Many professing believers do the same today.
Do not.
Fear not!

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