1 december 2025
BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS
Daily Bible Reading
Judges 18 – The Lost Path of the Tribe of Dan
When people act without divine guidance
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Introduction
Judges 18 takes us into the unrest and disorientation of a time “when there was no king in Israel.”
Not only political leadership was missing — spiritual grounding was absent.
The tribe of Dan, dissatisfied with their situation, searches for an inheritance and does find land — but through a path shaped by human planning rather than divine guidance.
What follows is a quiet yet striking testimony of what happens when a people keep religious appearance, yet lose living obedience to God.
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Commentary
You can see the Danites on the move — determined, maybe desperate, seeking land to claim.
Five scouts travel through Ephraim, and almost by chance — or perhaps as a divine mirror of testing — they come to the house of a man who has built his own shrine: Micah.
A private priest.
A self-made faith.
A household altar that looks like religion, but does not follow God.
They recognize the Levite’s voice — the one Micah made priest, a man from Bethlehem seeking a place, recognition, perhaps purpose.
The scouts ask him for God’s will, although God never appointed that place.
And the young priest answers calmly:
“Go in peace.”
Words that sound right — yet without divine authority.
Like many voices today that promise peace but carry no truth from God.
Soon they see the city of Laish — peaceful, carefree, unprotected.
No alarm.
No preparation.
A silent courtyard before judgment.
They return convinced:
The land is good — easy to take.
So 600 armed men march back to Micah’s house.
No prayer. No humility.
Only the thought:
“We know what to do.”
They steal the idols, the ephod, the priest — and offer him promotion:
“Be priest of a whole tribe.”
Ambition triumphs over loyalty.
The priest follows.
Micah runs behind them and cries:
“You have taken my gods — and my priest — and you ask what I lack?”
One of the most heartbreaking lines in Scripture.
He made gods — and now cannot save them.
The Danites advance.
Laish burns.
The innocent fall.
And instead of repentance, they build their own sanctuary with Micah’s idols.
A priesthood that endures for generations.
Faith that looks like faith — but God is absent.
In the end remains a bitter taste:
Success without obedience.
Worship without truth.
A land — but no blessing.
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Summary
Judges 18 shows how the tribe of Dan gained land —
but without God’s guidance, and contrary to His will.
They stole sacred objects, seized a priest, destroyed an innocent city, and built a long-standing shrine built not on truth, but human invention.
A warning that religious form can exist while the heart is far from God.
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Message for us today
• You can have religion — and still miss God’s will.
• Success is not proof of God’s blessing.
• When ambition outweighs faithfulness, faith loses its root.
• The gods we make — comfort, desires, security — cannot save us.
• True guidance comes not from circumstance, but from obedience to God’s Word.
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Reflection
Where in my life do “private altars” still stand —
things that appear spiritual but are not founded in God’s truth?
Today is a good day to recognize them —
and lay them down.
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30 November – 3 December 2025
BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS
Weekly Reading – Spirit of Prophecy
Ellen White | Patriarchs and Prophets – Chapter 45
The Fall of Jericho | When walls break before faith
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BLOG 2 – Faith That Marches
Seven Days in Circles
Obedience against all logic
Introduction
There was no attack, no war engines.
There were only footsteps, silence, and trumpets.
God did not command battle — but circling.
Not assault — but patience.
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Commentary
The first day began quietly. Mist hung over the Jordan, and Israel moved like a river of people.
Priests carried the ark — symbol of God’s presence — and walked slowly ahead.
Behind them the army, silent and orderly.
Jericho stood still like an animal sensing danger.
The inhabitants watched from the walls, peering down, perhaps laughing, whispering nervously:
“What are these Hebrews doing?”
No ladders.
No battering ram.
Just a procession — like a shadow touching stone but not striking it.
Day two. Silence again.
Day three. No change.
Day four. Mockery begins to sprout.
Day five. Some tremble.
Day six. Expectation hangs like thunder before lightning.
Yet Israel remains silent.
Obedience is their strategy.
Then the seventh morning — the sun rises red like fire over the plain.
Today they do not march once — they march seven times.
Step by step they tread the ground, while walls still stand — but hearts tremble.
At the seventh circle, time holds its breath.
Then the sound breaks — trumpets like swords from heaven, shouts like thunder.
And Israel sees the impossible take place:
Stones slide, towers tilt, walls burst like paper in the storm of God.
No hammer.
No spear.
No man.
Only faith.
Only obedience.
Only God.
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Summary
The Israelites circled Jericho for seven days.
On the seventh day the walls fell — by God’s power, not by human weapons.
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Message for us today
• Faith means acting even when the purpose is hidden.
• Patience and obedience open doors that strength could never break.
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Reflection
In what area is God calling you not to fight — but to persevere?
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