How Do We Deal With Horror Stories In The Bible? Judges 19

We are continuing our series of character studies in the Bible in the perspective of an abuse survivor. Today we are talking about a very difficult passage of Scripture: Judges 19, which is the story of the Levite and the concubine. Why is this horrific story included in the Bible? Why did they go to war with their own people? Did God condone these events? What practical application can we get out of this story? These questions and more will be answered. There is a trigger warning for this episode for sexual assault and kidnapping. Website: https://dswministries.org Email: diana@dswministries.org Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DSW-M....inistries-2301353370 Twitter: https://twitter.com/DswMinistries YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCxgIpWVQCmjqog0PM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dswministries/ https://dswministries.org/subscribe-to-podcast/ Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Stitcher, Listen Notes Keep in touch with me! Email subscribe to get my handpicked list of the best resources for abuse survivors! https://thoughtful-composer-4268.ck.page #abuse #trauma Mentoring https://youtu.be/WWgkERpkIoY An easy way to help my ministry: https://dswministries.org/product/buy-me-a-cup-of-tea/ A donation link: https://dswministries.org/donate/ Affiliate links: Can’t travel to The Holy Land right now? The next best thing is Walking The Bible Lands! Get a free video sample of the Bible lands here! https://members.walkingthebibl....elands.com/pages/ref Get one free month of Blubrry podcast hosting with the promotional code: FAITHFUL http://create.blubrry.com/reso....urces/podcast-media- Get quality podcast guests and interviews from PodMatch! Get paid to be a host! Sign up below: https://podmatch.com/signup/faithful Visit my friends at the Heal Thrive Dream Boutique for some cool T-shirts, jewelry and other merch! Simply share the discount code we created just for you and receive a 10% discount on your order!  DIANA98825  https://www.htd-boutique.com/ Bible Study Notebook From Karen Robinson! Check it out!  https://www.htd-boutique.com/products/bible-planner-for-survivors-includes-prayer-requests-sermon-notes-bible-study-notes-and-other-note-pages-to-enrich-your-spiritual-life Transcript Judges 19 [00:00:00] Welcome to the Wounds of the Faithful Podcast. Brought to you by DSW Ministries. Your host is singer songwriter, speaker and domestic violence advocate, Diana Winkler. She is passionate about helping survivors in the church heal from domestic violence and abuse and trauma. This podcast is not a substitute for professional counseling or qualified medical help. [00:00:26] Now here is Diana. [00:00:33] Hello everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for joining me today. I hope that you guys got through last podcast about the I B L P and the review of Shiny Happy people and about the Duggars. It was a difficult, yet important [00:01:00] episode to do, and it was a bit triggering I'm sure for a lot of you who have been through something similar. But I hope that now that this documentary is out that. People will start to see the man behind the curtain, so to speak. We need exposure for these cult groups because otherwise nobody would leave, nobody would get any healing. [00:01:28] And these men like Bill Gothard would be more powerful. [00:01:35] So what are we gonna talk about today? We are going to go through Judges 19, and this is called the Benjamite War. And if you're not familiar with that, you may be familiar with the Levite that had a concubine. So this is one of these [00:02:00] stories that is, horrifying, and I almost didn't want to do this particular chapter because it's hard and it's gross. And it's like, well, what am I gonna say to this narrative,