PROCLAMATION
“And The Angel of The Lord appeared unto him, and said
unto him, ‘The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.’ ” Judges 6:11-12 (KJV)
EXPLANATION
These
are the words of God which were written under the influence of The Holy Spirit
of God by the Prophet Samuel. After Deborah
the prophetess and judge and Barak captain of the army defeated King Jabin and
his army, the Israelites sang a song of praise to them. (Judges 5:1-31) The land was at peace for forty years, then
the Israelites again did evil in the sight of The Lord. Then The Lord God allowed them to be taken
into the hands of the Midianites and to be oppressed for seven years. (Judges
6:1-6) When the Israelites cried out
unto The Lord because of the Midianites, He sent them the prophet Gideon to
rescue them. (Judges 6:7-16) Gideon
asked for a sign from The Lord and he prepared an offering for The Lord. Then fire flared up from the rock and
consumed the meat and bread offering and Gideon knew that it was The Lord
speaking to him. (Judges 6:17-22) Gideon
built an altar there unto The Lord. Then
The Lord told him to go and tear down the altar that his father had built to
Baal, cut down the Asherah pole beside it, build a proper altar to The Lord,
and offer a burnt offering. (Judges 6:23-28)
Then the Midianites and the Amalekites joined forces to attack the
Israelites. The Spirit of The Lord came
upon Gideon and he blew a trumpet summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. Again Gideon asked The Lord for a sign by
letting dew fall on a wool fleece while the ground around it is dry. The next day he asked God to let the fleece be
dry and the ground around it be wet with dew.
The Lord God did this for Gideon. (Judges 6:33-40)
APPLICATION
This is a case where The Lord God saw something within
the man (Judges 6:12) that he did not see in himself, as he was the least in
his father’s house. (Judges 6:15) Here
is a believer who had doubts that he was being chosen (Judges 6:17) and doubts
about what The Lord was asking him to do. (Judges 6:36-40) He was a believer who questioned God, but he
was obedient. We need to talk with The
Lord God often enough that we recognize His still small voice when He speaks to
us. (1 Kings 19:12-13) We need to
believe and we need to pray that God would remove our doubts and any unbelief.
(Mark 9:24) We need to recognize,
understand, and believe that with The Lord God, all things are possible.
(Matthew 19:26 and Mark 9:23)
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