25. Judges, Part 2

Welcome to the Reformed Bible Study. The closing chapters of Judges offer no heroic deliverers, no foreign oppressors, no familiar cycle of sin and salvation — only two grim appendices that function as the book's final verdict on a people who have abandoned the covenant. What we find here is the inevitable logic of apostasy: corrupted worship breeds a corrupted society, and without a king who can deliver Israel from itself, the cry that frames these chapters, a longing for the one Mediator no merely human judge could ever be. It anticipates the coming of the true King — Jesus.