32 – The Prophecies Of Jephthah

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You have not been taught how powerful is the story of Jephthah nor how prophetic. It is no accident that Jephthah’s story comes right after Abimelech’s, the would-be king of Israel. It will be important for you to watch the video, listen to the audio or read the transcript about Abimelech.

This is the third account of a Judge (or king) who came out of Manasseh. This should be a clue to us that YHVH is already removing authority from Ephraim.

This is exciting so let’s get started.

Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar. And he lived in Shamir in Mount Ephraim.

The Judges were not just judicial “judges” but they were Israel’s military commanders. Tola defended Israel not only judiciously, but in war. He was from the tribe of Issachar of which it would later be said in 2 Chronicles 12 that the Issachar tribe had men who knew the times and knew what to do (1 Chronicles 12:32).

The village of Shamir, Tola’s home town, was centrally located in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 10:2 And he judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges 10:3 After him Jair, the Gileadite arose, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 10:5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. 

Gilead is situated in Jordan’s northwest and the name, “Gilead”, is sometimes used in a more general sense for all the region east of the Jordan River and in the north of Jordan in Manesseh’s territory.

Jair was wealthy man as indicated by his 30 sons each riding on donkey colts. It’s like a man with 30 sons who gives each one of them his own Ferrari. Between Tola and Jair, Israel had 45 years of peace. But then, after these 2 Judges were gone…

Judges 10:6 And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals and Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they left Jehovah, and did not serve Him.

Now we see Israel is not satisfied with only the Canaanite Baal and Ashtoreth. Now they began to branch out seeking to go whoring after the gods of the nations around them, not just the gods that were still in the land, the Canaanite gods.

And not only did they take up the gods of the Philistines, Israel now completely went astray from YHVH no longer were they even worshiping Him at all, not even mixed worship of Him along with their other gods. Israel, then, was totally backslidden, lost.

Judges 10:7 And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.
Judges 10:8 And that year they troubled and oppressed the sons of Israel; all the sons of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead, for eighteen years.
Judges 10:8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Judges 10:9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
Judges 10:10 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
Judges 10:11 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges 10:12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
Judges 10:13 Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

This is a declaration that should cause terror to arise in people. When YHVH says He will no longer deliver us, we are in for a bad time! It is a false doctrine in Christianity that YHVH will never fail to forgive us.

Judges 10:14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
Judges 10:15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”

David would later say it is better to fall into the hands of God than the hands of men. They were so desperate that they discarded their other gods and…

Judges 10:16 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Even though they had completely stopped serving YHVH, they knew about Him. They were just deliberately rejecting Him in favor of all the fun they were having with the other gods, i.e. temple fornication rituals, being able to manipulate the gods to get what they wanted instead of accepting when YHVH said yes or no to a situation and not having to be accountable to YHVH’s list of sins/crimes. Oh! Don’t we see this still today, 3,000 years later! But they knew the promise of mercy and counted on it, and would now make use of it as if they could manipulate YHVH the way they did the other gods. But He DID have mercy on them. Not for their sakes, but for the sake of the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Judges 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.

The Ammonites were gathered. This can be taken 2 ways. First, that the Ammonites just got it into their heads to gather for war or that it was YHVH, the God they forgot, who put this gathering for war into the heads of the Ammonites!

Now we need to know where is Gilead and Mizpah where the Ammonites and the Children of Israel were gathered and where this covenant was made?

The Ammonites were gathering here when the elders of Gilead became alarmed.

Mizpah means “watchtower” or “lookout”. Watching is one of our tasks given to us by Yeshua in the end of days (Matthew 24:42, 25:13, Mark 13:33-35, 14:38 and Luke 21:8).

Mark 13:37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.” We will find that Jephthah being taken to Mizpah is a clue that he embodied the principle Yeshua taught about watching.

Here is the real problem. They were not sorry for their rebellion and complete abandonment of YHVH. They just want Him to deliver them. It is this way, today. People don’t really want to serve YHVH, they just want to be delivered from their enemies so they won’t be inconvenienced in their worship of other gods. We saw this at 911. That attack brought people into the churches and synagogues but within only weeks the pews began to go empty again.

Judges 10:18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

We must now understand how Jephthah becomes Israel’s deliverer, and to do this, Samuel explains Jephthah’s life.

The Prophecies Of Jephthah

Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadean was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

Jephthah was a Gileadean, from the area of Gilead in the eastern tribe of Manasseh, whose father was named Gilead. The area was not named after Jephthah’s father. It was the other way around. His father was named for the region of his birth.

The issue of Jephthah being the son of a prostitute has prophetic value which I will show you in a minute. I WILL tie all of the parallels between Jephthah and Yeshua in this teaching.

Judges 11:2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

We don’t know how many sons Gilead’s wife bore him, and it appears he had only 1 wife. We also know nothing of the prostitute. Was she a street whore or a temple prostitute? We just don’t know, but it became Gilead’s wife’s duty to raise Jephthah as her own. At least Gilead had not left Jephthah to be raised by this prostitute. So bless Gilead’s wife for raising Jephthah.

As for Jephthah, the misfortune of having a whore for a mother was not his fault and there was no cause for his brothers to reject him. We must never judge people based on their parentage but always on what they do and what kind of character they have. Jephthah’s righteous character will shine through even after his brothers rejected him. This, too, is prophetic.

We also will see that Jephthah had a personal relationship with YHVH while his brothers were likely only marginally faithful to YHVH if at all. So despite his harlot mother, Jephthah was part of YHVH’s remnant. Herein is the beginning of understanding the first prophecy of Jephthah.

Judges 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

Prophetically now, we can begin to see some parallels between Jephthah and Yeshua. Think about how Joseph, Mary and Yeshua fled Israel to go to Egypt. And think about the band of outlaws that followed David. Think about what the religious leadership in Jerusalem thought of Yeshua’s disciples – outlaws, because Yeshua operated outside their religious law.

The name, Tob, is a place which means “good”. The Hebrew word ‘tob’ is good. So the place where Jephthah first fled to was a good place where he had peace regardless of what his brothers did to him.

Where was Tob? It was located in the region of Gilead in the territory of Manasseh east of the Jordan river and the Sea of Galilee.

Judges 11:4 After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

Before, in Judges 10, the Ammonites were only gathered. This was YHVH’s mercy in that they did not immediately make war. YHVH gave them time to repent and return to Him but He did not remove their consequences.

Judges 11:5 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

They took Jephthah away from Tob where they had driven him to another place, Mizpah. The rebellious religious leaders will call to Yeshua from the place where He is to ask Him to come rescue them.

These elders thought they had a brilliant military strategy here in that they would put Jephthah and the village of Tob on the front lines to face the Ammonites in order to save themselves. They really didn’t care about Jephthah, they just NEEDED him now. They were just looking for a convenient hero.

Judges 11:6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief [H7101, qatsiyn, magistrate (as deciding) or other leader: – captain, guide, prince, ruler], that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”

They were offering Jephthah to be their judge of Israel if he won the war. This is the carrot they held out to him. We will see that his attitude ultimately was in line with YHVH in that he delivered them not only for their offer but because he loved them. Love for the rebellious brethren is a trait of Yeshua.

Judges 11:7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

This is the same answer that YHVH had just given them in chapter 10:11-14 when He told them to get their chosen gods to fight for them. Don’t come to Me! You don’t serve Me. Why should I help you, He asked? He says it a little differently but the sentiment is the same.

Judges 11:8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

H7218
ראשׁ
rô’sh
roshe

From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literally or figuratively (in many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.): – band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief (-est place, man, things), company, end, X every [man], excellent, first, forefront, ([be-]) head, height, (on) high (-est part, [priest]), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.

They now use a different word than ‘qatsiyn’. They are not just offering to make him their magistrate, their Judge, but now have upped the ante in that he will be the “head” over them. In other words, he will rule them.

Judges 11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will I be your head?”

Jephthah now verifies what they said. He speaks their words back to them in order to make them testify before YHVH.

Judges 11:10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”

See the similarity between what the people said when Moses came down from Mount Sinai and what the elders of Gilead said. They said, “We will do what you say”. The Israelites told Moses in Exodus 19:8 “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”

Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

Thus, Jephthah established the pattern of Moses which is also a prophecy about Yeshua coming down from Heaven. In this, Jephthah renewed the covenant between YHVH and Israel just as Moses had. In the end of days, YHVH’s people will call for Yeshua to come down from Heaven to be on the earth to rule over them.

So it was that Jephthah agreed to help his Gileadean brethren in an act of love and forgiveness. He personified the type of Yeshua, the Messiah, who rescued His brethren even though they rejected him. In the end of days, YHVH’s people will call for Yeshua to come down from Heaven to be on the earth to rule over them as the prophecy says in Zechariah 12:10-13:1.

Verse 11 says, “Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah”. That he spoke his words before YHVH is our clue that he had a personal relationship with YHVH and was pointing Israel to YHVH as Yeshua does.

Judges 11:10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”

Jephthah became a pattern of Moses and a type of the rejected Messiah, Yeshua. There is another significant way in which Jephthah was a type of Yeshua. He was the son of a whore in Judges 11:1, and he was rejected by his brothers. Who has Yeshua been to the Jews for the last 2,000 years? They call Him the son of an adulteress.

The Talmud in Shabbath 104b states the mother of Yeshua was Miriam the dresser of women’s hair and that she had been false to her husband. In other words, Mary was an adulteress and the man she mated with during her betrothal to Joseph was Yeshua’s father which makes Yeshua a bastard in their eyes to this day. The Jews reject the Holy Spirit, YHVH Elohim Himself, as Yeshua’s Father and that Mary’s pregnancy fulfilled the prophecy of a virgin birth.

The time is coming when the Jews will ask for Yeshua’s help and will tell Him, “We will do what you say” when He asks: Will I rule over you and will you obey me? They will say they will obey Him and they will no longer call Him the son of an adulteress.  

Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
Judges 11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

Jephthah now takes on the Judge’s role as commander in chief of Israel in the sending of messengers. Rather than asking ‘why are you attacking Israel’, Jephthah makes the fight personal to himself, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”. This is the way Yeshua will fight Israel’s enemies at Armageddon. He will say:

Isaiah 63:3 “I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

Judges 11:13 The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

The lie of the nations will be that Israel has taken the land from them. This will be charge by the Amalekites, Esau’s descendants, who want Esau’s birthright back so they can rule the earth.

Jephthah will now defend Israel with the truth just as Yeshua will.

Judges 11:14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
Judges 11:15 and he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
Judges 11:16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
Judges 11:17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.
Judges 11:19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
Judges 11:20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Judges 11:21 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Judges 11:22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
Judges 11:23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

At Armageddon, Yeshua will “explain” to the nations that the land of Israel was set aside as a promise to Shem’s descendants through Abraham and the nations have no right to it!

Judges 11:24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

Don’t you believe YOUR gods have given you that land you live on? Why aren’t you satisfied with it? We know YHVH provisioned that land for Ammon but Ammon doesn’t know so Jephthah just uses that against them. It will be part of the reason YHVH will judge them in the end of days before He restores them as the scripture says in Jeremiah 49:6.

Judges 11:25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

Balak was the king of Moab, not Ammon, but he didn’t come to fight with the Israelites in the wilderness in Numbers 31. If anyone had a right to fight against the Israelites, it would have been Balak because the Israelites were living in his territory! Only 5 kings of Midian and Balaam fought in that war and it was only self defense because YHVH told Israel to attack them because they had sent their Midianite women among the Israelites to entice them to fornication which resulted in Zimri and Cosbi trying to overthrow YHVH in His own tabernacle when they entered it to fornicate as they did in the temples of the other gods!

Also, Ammon had to claim to war against Israel because the territory in dispute some 300+ years earlier was not even Ammon’s!

Judges 11:26 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?

The only claim Ammon had was to recover what had been won in the war against king Sihon in Numbers 21. There was no reason for Ammon to enter Israel’s territory claiming it belonged to them because it had NEVER belonged to them!

Judges 11:27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

Again, like Yeshua in the future Armageddon war, Jephthah makes Ammon’s encroachment personal to himself.

Judges 11:28 However the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Nor will the nations listen when YHVH warns them in the future.

Judges 11:29 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

Yeshua IS YHVH’s Holy Spirit which will win the future Armageddon war.

Jephthah’s Good Vow

Judges 11:30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
Judges 11:31 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”

It is taught that Jephthah’s vow was a tragic one. But the scripture says he made the vow when YHVH’s Spirit came upon him so it was a vow YHVH wanted him to make.

Judges 11:32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
Judges 11:33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

Jephthah delivered Israel from the Ammonites who, here, symbolize the Tribulation enemies of Israel at the Battle of Armageddon.

Judges 11:34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

This house was part of the deal the elders made with him. Jephthah did not have this house before. It was necessary for him to now live among them if he was going to Judge them.

This house symbolizes a place of safety for both Jephthah’s daughter and YHVH’s last generation who will be gathered to safety, away from the battle.

Judges 11:35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

Jephthah’s response here does not fit with the vow he made to YHVH, a vow made willingly and gladly when he was called upon by YHVH to make it according to His Holy Spirit. People talk about counting the cost of the words that come out of our mouths but they don’t understand this as prophecy. Jephthah here is showing how difficult it sometimes for the flesh to fulfill a vow to YHVH because we humans can’t see the future, but there is a deeper meaning here.

Don’t identify with Jephthah’s agony now. That’s just his flesh, as he said – “I can’t go back”. Focus on his daughter who symbolizes the end times “Daughter of Zion”, the TRUE remnant of YHVH who will come out of their father’s place of safety.

Judges 11:36 She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”

She said to him, “my father”. My FATHER. We call YHVH “Father” because through Yeshua we have the power to become sons of YHVH which means we are authorized to call Yeshua’s Father, “Father”, just as He does.

Notice that she came out to serve YHVH only came AFTER the war against Ammon. In the latter days, this will come only AFTER the defeat of the nations at Armageddon. But that isn’t the most important part.

Jephthah’s daughter’s life will now be one of a living sacrifice. Paul didn’t make up the doctrine that we must be living sacrifices. He understood it from this and other accounts in scripture. It is with Jephthah’s daughter. She will lay down her individual life because her “father” required it! OUR Father has the same requirement of us. The “daughter of Zion”, the Kingdom, is comprised of those who individually have laid down their lives to serve Yeshua’s Kingdom. THIS is the meaning of this conundrum in which people berate Jephthah for making a rash vow. It wasn’t rash at all. It was that YHVH wanted to show us, in the end of days, what it means to be a living sacrifice! Remember, the scriptures were written for all Israel, but it was written TO the end times generation when many things will be understood that have not been understood before.

But it wasn’t only her life that became a living sacrifice. Jephthah’s life was also a living sacrifice because he put aside the woe of his flesh and the future of having grandchildren through his daughter in order to obey and fulfill his vow to YHVH. Yeshua’s entire life from the foundation of this world has been a living sacrifice! And we are to be like Him! It isn’t only the sacrifices of the Tabernacle/Temple that YHVH wants. He wants US to BE HIS TEMPLE and to BE HIS SACRIFICE as Yeshua was.

Ha Satan and his demons have perverted human sacrifice in that they require the actual death of the human. YHVH, on the other hand, requires the LIFE of the human, He requires the human being to live and to serve Him with their life.

Jephthah’s daughter now makes a request:

Judges 11:37 She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”

We will now examine those mountains and the companions. In doing so, we must understand that parallelisms provide general understanding of prophecies, but do not necessarily give the details of the final fulfillment of them.

Matthew 24:15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Matthew 24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 

Where are the mountains Yeshua was speaking of? They lie on the east side of the Jordan River and south of Ammon in the territories of Moab and Edom. Jephthah’s daughter will spend 2 months alone in the wilderness of the mountains on the west side of the Jordan river, not on the east side. Prophetically though, the direction in the end of days will be in the Ingathering place east of the Jordan river in the plains of Moab and the desert of Edom (Daniel 11:41). The parallel in prophecies of location and time from her time to ours is different.   

The 2 months’ timeframe is not prophetic in itself. The prophecy is in the fact of her bewailing her virginity in the mountains and she will have her companions with her. The companions prophesy of grafted in believers. This same scenario parallels a time period of YHVH’s people preparing for Yeshua’s arrival by washing their robes, and making them white in the Lamb’s blood (Revelation 7:14).

She went with her companions. I believe these companions were actually her bridesmaids. I believe she was betrothed and that betrothal would never come to marriage. In a sense, she and her companions are like the 10 brides of Matthew 25 leaving their chambers.

There are also the companions of Ezekiel 37, the grafted in believers. Why are they grafted in? It is because ALL believers are now grafted in after all 13 tribes rejected YHVH and He came as Yeshua to finish the job of killing off the failed nation of Israel. After that, all who believe in Him become “Israel”, as it were, but only through His blood which grafts us all back in.

Ezekiel 37:16 “You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’

Judges 11:38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

“Go” prophesies of YHVH sending His people to fulfill Yeshua’s prophecy of fleeing to the mountains. There will come a time when He will utter that word and His people will flee from Israel to the wilderness through the mountains on the east side of the Jordan river and then others will join them from all around the earth.

The parallel events of Jephthah’s daughter were in reverse to our coming experience in that we will be kept safe in the wilderness and then we will come out of safe place. Nonetheless, the elements of safety during that time parallels the account of Jephthah’s daughter.

She mourned over her virginity but, in the opposite sense, so will Yeshua’s Bride in the wilderness of the people. Unlike her mourning for a virginity that will become motherhood, our mourning will be for the times when we betrayed Yeshua and yet He forgave us, and His forgiveness restores the virginity of His chosen Bride.

But remember that the Tribulation will be a time of travail in which YHVH’s “woman” will give birth, a virgin birth to YHVH’s Kingdom, unlike Jephthah’s daughter who never gave birth. Yet, as one who served YHVH, Jephthah’s daughter will be part of birthing the Kingdom of Israel. This will be a far better outcome than if she had rebelled against becoming a living sacrifice to serve YHVH in His Tabernacle.

Judges 11:39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel

Also notice that:

Judges 11:40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Zechariah 14:16 says “tt will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.”

The true Daughter of Zion’s companions, and the nations, will come to celebrate the anniversary of the marriage of the virgin to her destined husband, Yeshua, at Sukkot!

Judges 12:7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.

A couple of final words about Jephthah’s life as a parallel to Yeshua. First, YHVH has been judging the earth for 6 Millennia just as Jephthah Judged Israel for 6 years. There is one more Millennium to come in which I believe we will meet Jephthah and his daughter. Thus, Jephthah’s life is prophecy.

Second, at the start of this teaching, I said it was significant that Jephthah’s story came right after Abimelech’s. This is because Abimelech is a type and shadow of the yet to come Antichrist and Jephthah is a type and shadow of Yeshua, both in His first coming as the rejected Messiah, and in His second as Israel’s deliverer. The future Antichrist, the self-made political would-be usurper king of Israel, must precede the arrival of the actual and true King of Israel. Thus, the two stories go together to show us a prophecy of the end times.