Who Is The Angel Of The Lord (Manoah and his wife)

God's people had done it again. They had gone back to doing evil and God did not like it at all. So he gave them over to the Philistines. Not for a day or a week or even a month. It was for 40 years.

But there was a man named Manoah who had a wife that could not bare them children. It was she that the angel of the Lord appeared to first and he told her that she was going to get pregnant and have a son. God was going to use her son to release his people from the Philistines.

She went to her husband and gave him this news. "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was as the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible; but I asked him not whence he was, neither told me his name."


She went on to tell him what the angel of the Lord had told her.

Monoah then asked the Lord to send the man of God that had appeared to his wife, to come again to the both of them and teach them what they were to do with the child.

The angel of the Lord did come again, but again just to his wife, as her husband was not there. His wife went to her husband and told him that the angel of the Lord had come again. They both went back and her husband asked him if he was the one that had appeared to his wife. He then asked him what they were to do to raise  him. The angel said the same as what he said to her before. .

Monoah did not know this was really the angel of the Lord and he asked him his name. But the angel of the Lord asked him why he wanted to know his name because it was a secret. Then the angel took a kid and laid it on a rock and offered it to the Lord as the man and his wife looked on. The flame went up toward heaven from the rock and the angel ascended into the flame and this is when they realized it really was the angel of the Lord and they fell on their faces to the ground. Judges: 13:1-23

What can we take from this passage in Judges 13? What can it mean for us? Did Monoah and his wife have their son? Did he grow  up to defeat the Philistines?

Come back tomorrow and I will try to have some answers for you.

September 8, 2019 Promise:  I have sworn and I will preform it, that I will keep thy righteous commandments. Psalm 119:106

Thanks for coming by friends! God bless you in the coming week!