Episode 267: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 233

Episode Summary:

And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. (Judges 3:31)

59 I see old Shamgar standing out there. He had put in his… all these… He said… Not very much wrote about him in the Bible but what was wrote is enough. He was standing out there. Had his barns all fixed up and everything was just going fine. And he was standing there looking and thought, “Well, now maybe every year them Philistines has come. Maybe they won’t come this year. And I see my family is all starving, and they look so poor and thin. But now…”

And while he was standing there, he heard a noise. He raised open the window and looked coming down the road. Here come six hundred armed Philistines. There goes his crops. Spear and armor. The big old heavyish feet there with the armor on. “Tromp, tromp, tromp,” trained man, warriors from birth, spears in their hands, swords hanging on their sides. Six hundred, “Coming up, Shamgar. You had a nice crop this year. We’re glad you worked for us.” Here they come up like that. That’s the way the devil does: take away everything you got if he can. That’s him.

60 Shamgar looked at him and thought, “Oh, here it goes again.” He stood there and he thought, “Well…” Looked down at his poor little old wife, her little sunk-in face, maybe, and his little children. Their little sleeves were ragged. Their clothes were gone. His poor wife was starved to death. “What will the winter be this time.” There it is.

“Now, all the… year after year they’ve come. And here they are coming again. I’m just… We just about starved last year. Now, they’ll take what I got now. What will I do? Just what gleanings I can get out of the field.” He stood there; he thought, “Here. Here they come, closer and closer.” Tromp, tromp, tromp, these Philistines.

61 After a while, they was… You don’t believe in getting angry, then let the righteous indignation rise. He begin to get—feel it coming up on him. He said, “Here, I’m a Jew. I’m circumcised. I’ve got a right, for this land belongs to us.” And I tell you, he wasn’t a warrior; he couldn’t wait till he learned how to fight. He was a farmer, he wasn’t a fighter. But he knowed that he had—the promise of God was with him. And he was circumcised.

And if every man here tonight would realize that the things that you got, divine health and everything else, God gave it to you at Calvary. Every borned-again man is circumcised by the Holy Ghost. You have a right for every redemptive blessing. Let the devil rob you out of none of it.

Shamgar didn’t have no sword. He didn’t know nothing about it if he had one. He didn’t have a shield. But he—if he’d a shield, he wouldn’t know how to use it. But he reached up and got a ox goad. That’s an old stick that’s got a brass lump on the end of it, they beat the ox through the corral with it. And he jumped out of that window out there in the middle of that road against six hundred armed Philistines, and killed every one of them. Hallelujah!

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Rev. William Marrion Branham

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