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Ask someone who was the strongest man in the Bible and you'll likely hear "Samson." After all, it's not every day that one hears of a man who kills 1,000 men in hand-to-hand combat. Armed with only the jawbone of a donkey, Samson was one tough adversary (Judges 15:15). Set during the time of Israel's judges some 3,000 years ago, Samson's life was a highly unusual one—yet one that bears lessons for us today.
Samson's parents hadn't been able to have children when the "Angel," meaning
Messenger, of the Lord appeared to the woman who would be Samson's mother.
She and her husband Manoah came to realize that the Messenger on this occasion
was actually God Himself (Judges 13:21-22; compare Exodus 3:1-14). It was
not God the Father, whom no one had ever seen or heard (compare John 5:37).
Rather, it was the divine Word of God who was later born as Jesus Christ
(see John 1:1-3,14). This appearance was, of course, a highly unusual
event.
The divine Messenger gave Samson's mother some good news. She was going to have a baby boy. But she was also told to be careful during her pregnancy to avoid alcohol and defiling food and, once the boy was born, not to ever cut his hair because he was to be a "Nazirite to God from the womb" (Judges 13:5). Here is another unusual request.
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