Judges 1, part 2: Israel’s success as the Church’s success

Many details in Judges are perplexing if we don’t know how to read symbolically. The Canaanite City of Records is captured and renamed Word—a picture of the church replacing the false identities of the nations through the gospel. Aksah is given a field and asks for the upper and lower springs—a picture of the Church seeking the Spirit from God, to make the world fruitful. The burning of Charamah, and coming on a donkey, similarly are pictures fulfilled in Christ.