Deborah of the Bible: A Prophetess to Reckon With

Take delivering a nation like Israel from oppression of a King, being a woman and doing it in Biblical times, mix it all up and voila, here comes Deborah.
It was no easy task to take on yet she did. Deborah of the Bible served a fairly important position at a time when no men were willing to take such roles. The position was that of a Judge and she was also a prophetess. God simply told her that after years of oppression from the Canaanite King Yavin, she was to save the people.
Would any logical thinking woman in those Biblical times be thinking ‘Yes? I can do this!’ or would most have simply said ‘Even though I love You, You must be crazy Lord’ she then strategize on how best to achieve this conquest and appointed an army leader named Barrack to prepare for this challenge. This was a logical thinking man, because as it turned out he was afraid to go without her and even said that if she was not coming with him, then he was not going alone.
For a woman to tell a man to go take the troops and head into battle was a myth. But in her intelligence she told him she would accompany him; however his glory would be very minimal because the King would be delivered into the hands of a woman. Deborah had the confidence that she could do it if he was unwilling, because she knew that the ultimate purpose was to deliver the Israelites and she prophesied as much. She reminded him that she would be remembered as the real leader.
Deborah believed in herself and she knew she could do it because the faith that she had in God is what brought Israel through and the prophecy was became real, Deborah came to be known as the real leader of the people . Her day job really entailed people coming to her for resolutions and judgements to various issues and it was known that her abilities were from God. She often did this in a public place where she instructed the people in Torah. Thus not only was she just a judge and prophetess, she was a teacher too. Very few women in the Bible have been referred to by the word ‘prophet’ but Deborah of the Bible was one of the five, she made the cut.




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