Have you noticed the similarities between the story of Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans and the Biblical Judge Deborah?

Joan’s story needs little retelling. She is probably one of the most famous women in history. From peasant girl in Lorraine to the defeat of the English and Burgundians at Orleans to her trial and execution as a heretic.

Deborah’s story is slightly less known.

A summary from Wikiwhatever…

 

“In the Book of Judges, it is stated that Deborah was a prophet, a judge of Israel and the wife of Lapidoth. She rendered her judgments beneath a date palm tree between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel in the land of Ephraim.

The people of Israel had been oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan, whose capital was Hazor, for twenty years. Stirred by the wretched condition of Israel she sends a message to Barak, the son of Abinoam, at Kedesh of Naphtali, and tells him that the Lord God had commanded him to muster ten thousand troops of Naphtali and Zebulun and concentrate them upon Mount Tabor, the mountain at the northern angle of the great plain of Esdraelon. At the same time she states that the Lord God of Israel will draw Sisera, commander of Jabin’s army, to the River Kishon. Barak declines to go without the prophet. Deborah consents, but declares that the glory of the victory will therefore belong to a woman. As soon as the news of the rebellion reaches Sisera he collects nine hundred chariots of iron and a host of people.

Then Deborah said, according to Judges 4:14:

“Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.

As Deborah prophesied, a battle is fought (led by Barak), and Sisera is completely defeated. He himself escapes on foot, while his army is pursued as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles and destroyed. Sisera comes to the tent of Jael; and he lies down to rest. He asks for a drink; she gives him milk; and while he is asleep she hammers a tent-pin through his temple.

The Biblical account of Deborah ends with the statement that after the battle, there was peace in the land for 40 years (Judges 5:31)”

 

Deborah and Barak

 

The message from God. The journey. The dithering Barak (Dauphin Charles.) The great victory. The Judge and the judged. And more.

Could it be possible that these stories are one and the same? That they have been dislocated in time and area not once but twice?

Maybe.

SIDE NOTE:

I did some Gematria on the name Deborah.

In English Gematria the number is 318.

318 also corresponds to

HOLY TELEPATHY AS WAS JOAN OF ARC.

Strange…but True!