Judges 13-15, Psalm 81

Published: May 11, 2022, 4:05 a.m.

b'Today, we\\u2019ll begin to look at the life of Samson, a man who kept the Nazirite vow from his birth, until he didn\\u2019t, and violated it several times over. In short, Samson is a picture of Israel in one person. Meant to be set apart and holy, he instead takes his vows and his God lightly, defiling himself over and over. A Nazirite was supposed avoid dead bodies, yet he eats honey from a lion\\u2019s carcass and uses a jawbone for a weapon. A Nazirite was supposed to abstain from wine, yet Samson threw a drinking party for the Philistines. And, in our next episode, the last vow to go is that of not cutting his hair, which he hands over to a Delilah, a woman of the very nation that Israel had been tasked with destroying for their perpetual evil.'