![]() ![]() Samson knew the Philistines were the enemies of Israel, and he also knew that as an Israelite, he was commanded to stay away from idolatrous women from other nations. Notice that Samson eyed a Philistine woman. “Then Samson went down to Timnah and eyed in Timnah a woman, one of the daughters of the Philistines” (Judges 14:1). In order to see what I am talking about, we must look in Judges 14 and read the first thing the Bible actually tells us that Samson does, which also tells us the beginning of Samson’s fall into sin. I believe that there is a spiritual lesson, which I believe directly ties together with Yeshua’s words in Matthew. ![]() There had to be more G-D wanted us to glean from this part of the story of Samson. Why did they pluck out his eyes, rather than cut off his arms? After all, Samson didn’t kill thousands of Philistines with his eyes, he killed them with his arms. The plucking out of Samson’s eyes has always seemed interesting to me. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he became a grinder in the prison” (Judges 16:21). “ Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Once Samson was captured and bound, the Philistines gouged out, or plucked out, his eyes, as we read in verse 21. When we read in Judges 16 about the end of Samson’s life, we see that Delilah deceives Samson into sharing the secret of his strength, and Samson’s hair was cut, making it possible for him to be captured by the Philistines. I believe that I found within Samson’s story a lesson from which we can glean a lesson we can apply to our lives today from Yeshua’s words in Matthew. So, I turned to the book of Judges to re-read the story of Samson. If that is the case, and I believe it is, then there must be an equally important application of these words for His disciples today.Īs I pondered these two verses in Matthew, I immediately thought of a place in the Bible where someone’s eyes were in fact plucked out. However, if Yeshua made this statement twice, we should pay special attention to it and we must conclude that He felt this was such an important lesson for His disciples that He repeated it. ![]() If He was, then the whole world would be filled with blind people. First, it is clear that Yeshua is not telling His disciples that they should physically blind themselves so they won’t sin. So, I began to wonder how we, as His disciples, might apply His words today. 18:9).Īs I read these words from Matthew 5 and 18, I started to think about what a powerful statement Yeshua makes with these words. It’s better for you to enter into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to be thrown into fiery Gehenna” (Matt. “ If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. ![]()
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