Judges 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Judges 21:19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
If you are going to use the Book of Judges for a precedent for women prophesying, why not use it for the preferred way for men to get their wives as well. Go to a dance; see the woman you like, run after her and catch her; steal her and take her home.
Sound like a plan?
The theme of the Book of Judges:
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
And you ask "Why Deborah??"
God works in different ways at different times in history.
He doesn't talk to people through burning bushes, but he did talk to Moses that way.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
--In the OT God spoke through prophets in different ways.
But now in the NT he speaks through his Son. The way that his Son is revealed to us during this time is through his Word. His completed revelation is the method that God speaks to us. The Holy Spirit speaks to through His Word.
