When the writer of Hebrews listed the Old Testament heroes of faith,
he included Samson (Hebrews 11:32). Really? Samson’s story, recorded in
Judges 13–16, reads like a narcissistic super hero’s whose Kryptonite
weakness does him in in the end.
But God wanted Samson included in the list because there are crucial
things about faith that God wants us to understand from him. To explore
these, let’s imagine two of Samson’s brothers on their way to collect
Samson’s body in Gaza (Judges 16:31) reflecting on all that went wrong
(I’ve given them the fictitious names, Abijah and Nadir).
The two brothers said nothing for a long time after the ruins of
Dagon’s temple came into view. It lay on the ground like a torn carcass.
The living were crawling through the debris extracting the dead. Continue at Jon Bloom
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