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The strange woman (Judges 11.2)

Who rejected him?

The first question is who was raised with him and rejected him?

Lot grew up with Abraham then separated from him.

Abimalech grew up with Isaac and cast him out.

Esau grew up with Jacob and Jacob had to run for his life.

Rehoboam had kinsmen that grew up with him and Israel cast him out.

The Egyptians and Hebrews grew together and Israel was cast out.

The wheat and the tares grow together and the wheat is separated from the tares.

In each story is is the one who represents the flesh or the earthly that rejects the Christ figure at the time of maturity. Notice: My first guess, that this would be Israel is not quite on the mark. Israel did reject Christ, and I might be able to argue that Israel and Jesus grew up together, but I don't have any scriptures in mind to justify the last point. Initially it looked like it was part of the "outside the camp" imagery which has to do with having been made sin. This may come back into play later down the line.

[If you are jumping in here please take notice that this is being written almost live. I have taken this passage on as a challenge and do not know the end result yet. So you will get to observe, as close as I can document, the thought process I go through to see the shadows. The reason for doing this is two-fold, to teach others to do it, to allow critical discussion about the methodology.]

Who is the strange woman?

The reason given for rejecting the Christ figure in Judges 11.2 is that he is the son of a strange woman. The word for 'strange' also means 'tarry' or 'wait. The word is curious because we don't usually connect the dots and see the pattern.

These are all sons of the women who waited.

Seth: Eve waited about 130 years before giving birth to Seth. Seth was the replacement for Abel as the Christ figure. Ge 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Isaac (a shadow of Christ) was born in Sarah's old age.

Isaac had to entreat the Lord because Rebekah was barren.

Joseph (a shadow of Christ) was born to Rachel after many years of 'reproach'.

Israel was born out of Egypt after 400 years.

Elisha gives a son to an old woman, which son later dies and is resurrected.

Tamar waited patiently for Shelah to grow up but was denied him as a husband.

John the baptist fulfills half of the shadow of Elijah (Christ the other half) and is born to Elizabeth in her old age.

All these Christ shadows were sons of a tarrying woman.

The genealogy of Christ indicates that 42 generations waited for his birth in fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham. He is the son of Abraham's old age.

Isaac was just a shadow. Isaac did not inherit the blessing to be fruitful and multiply. It went to Ishmael. The promise was given anew again to Jacob. Since there are two blessings, one is the earthly and one is the heavenly.

Ishmael would multiply in the flesh, and Jacob would multiply in the spirit. Christ is the long awaited fulfillment of multiplying spiritual children. All the others were just shadows.

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