Since the Garden of Eden, mankind has loved the idea of self-rule (Genesis 3:1–7). We don’t want anyone else, including our Creator, to tell us what to do. We imagine that the throwing off of all restraints equals freedom and that, if left alone, we and our neighbors could peacefully coexist without enforcement of laws and standards. But this utopian dream has never proved true. Every society that has tried this has ended in disorder. The book of Judges is a picture in biblic