The Woman Ran to Get Manoah - Judges 13:10

In the book of Judges we learned how Manoah’s barren wife told him an angel told her, “Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which you did send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her”, and in chapter thirteen and verse ten of Judges, we learn how “the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband” where we read,

And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, 

Behold, the man has appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

The verse reads, “And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, …” The writer began with the words, “and the woman made haste” which means  “and the female human being, Manoah’s wife, moved quickly, hastened and precipitated”, “and ran” or ”and swiftly darted and moved”, “and showed her husband” which means “and was conspicuous, announced, expounded and informed her, Manoah’s wife’s, male spouse”, “and said unto him” or “and uttered, declared and proclaimed to him, Manoah” the following words. The writer shared how “Manoah’s wife” acted swiftly and quickly “ran” to “Manoah” so she could tell him what she was seeing with the following words. 

The verse continues, “Behold, the man has appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.” The writer added the words, “behold, the man has appeared unto me” which means “lo, look and consider, the spiritual male being has revealed, made known and visibly presented himself”, “that came unto me the other days” or “who entered and approached Manoah’s wife who had appeared to her previously”. The writer shared how “Manoah’s wife” told “Manoah” that the male spiritual being had returned who appeared to her previously. 

When we think through the words in this verse, we learn how “Manoah’s wife” responded after seeing the spiritual envoy yet another time. She went to retrieve “Manoah” to reveal the spiritual being’s appearance and told her husband about this second revelation. God wants us to be spiritually minded, (See Romans 8:6), and when we yield to His son Jesus who was crucified on the cross for the sins of everyone and was raised from the dead after three days, we enter the spiritual world where God will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and grant us His Holy Spirit who will guide us into all truth and empower us to live according to that truth so we become spiritually aware in this world. (See John 3:16: Romans 8:6-10)

Next time we learn how, “Manoah arose, and went after his wife”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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