Judges 11:12-28

I include the whole of the treaty, which passed between Jephthah, and the leader of the Ammonites, in one point of view, not only for the sake of shortness, but also for the sake of connection. In the perusal of this passage, I would desire the Reader to keep in remembrance the spiritual state of God's church, while he reads the historical events of God's people. And in this sense, I would call upon him to look back, and recollect how Moses was commanded to go in unto Pharaoh, and demand the release of God's people, before that the Lord brought them out. And was not Ammon ' s oppression of Israel similar? Was it not the church of Jesus, Satan endeavored to ruin and destroy? Let my people go, that they may serve me, was the demand of God? Was not our nature God's right by creation, before that Satan ruined that nature by the fall? And if Ammon pleaded long possession of those territories, were not these lands the Lord's gift to his people before? Reader! If Satan hath had long possession of our poor humbled nature, do not forget you are the Lord's prior possession, both by creation and by redemption. For Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8.