Revelation of the word:

THEME: SEXUAL IMMORALITY

Judges 19:20-30 NIV

”“You are welcome at my house,” the old man said. “Let me supply whatever you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.” So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink. While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.” The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this outrageous thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.” But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight. When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, “Get up; let’s go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home. When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!”“

INSIGHT

–A Levite from the hill country of Ephraim had a wife who was unfaithful to him, and she went back home to her father. After four months the husband went to get her back and he was successful. On the return journey, the Levite, her wife and his servant resided at Gibeah where the Benjamites inhabited. Later some men of Benjamin came and asked for the Levite so that they could perform the evil act of sodomy upon him. The old man who had hosted them pleaded with the men to take her virgin daughter instead but they couldn’t listen. So the Levites concubine was defiled to death. It was so shameful and he took her home, cut her body into twelve pieces and distributed them to the other tribes of Israel. Later the Benjamites fought with the other tribes of Israel and many of them were killed apart from six hundred men who survived. This tale outlines the perversions similar to those of Sodom and Gomorrah described in Genesis 19. The house of Benjamin, one of the tribes of Israel was affected by such events of sexual immorality, and more than twenty five thousand men, without counting women and children died. Such perversions have been normalized in our nation and in the world at large. We are called to plead for God’s mercy even as the world is being judged for these things.

PRAYER

Lord You are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. Abba Father You are good to all and compassionate to all Your creation, we praise Your holy name. We have sinned Lord and fallen short of Your glory, please forgive us. We have gone astray and behave like the Benjamites and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah as a nation, please forgive us. May You have mercy on our nation of Kenya and the entire world, and save us. Save us from the sin of sexual immorality that has affected our children and even our churches. May You cleanse us and place Your precious blood upon the door posts of our hearts, families and nation so that when the angel of death comes he will pass us by. May You prosper our businesses and nation and enable us to take new territories. May You bless us in all spheres of our lives for the glory and honor of Your name. Amen

Further reading: Judges 19 and 20

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