Warning: The following post comes straight from the Bible, but contains explicit content! Don’t believe me? Read on…!

Massive war, brother against brother. Thousands die as entire cities are wiped out. Idolatry is regularly practiced. Homosexuality, with men beating down a door trying to fulfill their own lusts. An entire group of people raids a city, kidnaps all the virgins, and then gives them to another tribe as wives.

Think that’s enough? How about a man cutting his dead concubine into twelve pieces and sending them express-mail to the 12 tribes of Israel? And most of this (here’s the worst part) is done after supposedly “seeking the Lord” about it. Is this a gnostic Gospel? The new hollywood blockbuster? No! It’s the last few chapters of the book of Judges! Old Testament!

Completely inspired of the Holy Spirit Old Testament. Why would God record such amazing brutality, idolatry, and immorality? Surely He didn’t approve of such behavior, much less want to condone it in the Bible. I was reading these chapters last week and was astonished again and again after reading through them. Until….

I came across the very last verse of Judges.

And through this verse everything about this madness made sense.

And since then - my thoughts have been going wild. And I’m going to write them here if you care to read them this week. Oh yeah - what’s the verse?

“In those days Israel had no king; and all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.” - Judges 21:25