{"id":2165,"date":"2022-04-10T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2022-04-10T04:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:47:13","slug":"judges-6-gideon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"Judges 6 Gideon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar-container\"><div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Judges 6 Gideon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ttCazTAmN_8?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ttCazTAmN_8&amp;t=2s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ttCazTAmN_8&amp;t=2s<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar\" style=\"color: #ffffff;background-color: #1b1b1b;\">\n\t\t\t<div>Please consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t<iframe\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscribe_embed?usegapi=1&amp;channelid=UCAxkC8h9g4fhxldTECUgIsg&amp;layout=default&amp;theme=default&amp;count=default&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1-6Yet again the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God\u2019s sight. God put them under the domination of Midian for seven years. Midian overpowered Israel. Because of Midian, the People of Israel made for themselves hideouts in the mountains\u2014caves and forts. When Israel planted its crops, Midian and Amalek, the easterners, would invade them, camp in their fields, and destroy their crops all the way down to Gaza. They left nothing for them to live on, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey. Bringing their cattle and tents, they came in and took over, like an invasion of locusts. And their camels\u2014past counting! They marched in and devastated the country. The People of Israel, reduced to grinding poverty by Midian, cried out to God for help. 7-10One time when the People of Israel had cried out to God because of Midian, God sent them a prophet with this message: \u201cGod, the God of Israel, says, I delivered you from Egypt, I freed you from a life of slavery; I rescued you from Egypt\u2019s brutality and then from every oppressor; I pushed them out of your way and gave you their land. \u201cAnd I said to you, \u2018I am God, your God. Don\u2019t for a minute be afraid of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living.\u2019 But you didn\u2019t listen to me.\u201d 11-12One day the angel of God came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, whose son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress, out of sight of the Midianites. The angel of God appeared to him and said, \u201cGod is with you, O mighty warrior!\u201d 13Gideon replied, \u201cWith me, my master? If God is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all the miracle-wonders our parents and grandparents told us about, telling us, \u2018Didn\u2019t God deliver us from Egypt?\u2019 The fact is, God has nothing to do with us\u2014he has turned us over to Midian.\u201d 14But God faced him directly: \u201cGo in this strength that is yours. Save Israel from Midian. Haven\u2019t I just sent you?\u201d 15Gideon said to him, \u201cMe, my master? How and with what could I ever save Israel? Look at me. My clan\u2019s the weakest in Manasseh and I\u2019m the runt of the litter.\u201d 16 God said to him, \u201cI\u2019ll be with you. Believe me, you\u2019ll defeat Midian as one man.\u201d 17-18Gideon said, \u201cIf you\u2019re serious about this, do me a favor: Give me a sign to back up what you\u2019re telling me. Don\u2019t leave until I come back and bring you my gift.\u201d He said, \u201cI\u2019ll wait till you get back.\u201d 19Gideon went and prepared a young goat and a huge amount of unraised bread (he used over half a bushel of flour!). He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and took them back under the shade of the oak tree for a sacred meal. 20The angel of God said to him, \u201cTake the meat and unraised bread, place them on that rock, and pour the broth on them.\u201d Gideon did it. 21-22The angel of God stretched out the tip of the stick he was holding and touched the meat and the bread. Fire broke out of the rock and burned up the meat and bread while the angel of God slipped away out of sight. And Gideon knew it was the angel of God! Gideon said, \u201cOh no! Master, God! I have seen the angel of God face-to-face!\u201d 23But God reassured him, \u201cEasy now. Don\u2019t panic. You won\u2019t die.\u201d 24Then Gideon built an altar there to God and named it \u201cGod\u2019s Peace.\u201d It\u2019s still called that at Ophrah of Abiezer. 25-26That night this happened. God said to him, \u201cTake your father\u2019s best seven-year-old bull, the prime one. Tear down your father\u2019s Baal altar and chop down the Asherah fertility pole beside it. Then build an altar to God, your God, on the top of this hill. Take the prime bull and present it as a Whole-Burnt-Offering, using firewood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.\u201d 27Gideon selected ten men from his servants and did exactly what God had told him. But because of his family and the people in the neighborhood, he was afraid to do it openly, so he did it that night. 28Early in the morning, the people in town were shocked to find Baal\u2019s altar torn down, the Asherah pole beside it chopped down, and the prime bull burning away on the altar that had been built. 29They kept asking, \u201cWho did this?\u201d Questions and more questions, and then the answer: \u201cGideon son of Joash did it.\u201d 30The men of the town demanded of Joash: \u201cBring out your son! He must die! Why, he tore down the Baal altar and chopped down the Asherah tree!\u201d 31But Joash stood up to the crowd pressing in on him, \u201cAre you going to fight Baal\u2019s battles for him? Are you going to save him? Anyone who takes Baal\u2019s side will be dead by morning. If Baal is a god in fact, let him fight his own battles and defend his own altar.\u201d 32They nicknamed Gideon that day Jerub-Baal because after he had torn down the Baal altar, he had said, \u201cLet Baal fight his own battles.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0VmMWtPSXpRSUxCVkNHellNc1NWcm42eHFtUXxBQ3Jtc0trMmlxN243bnA4a3dVY2ZPUkl5Q1E1clRWaUVIOUstSWJtQWk4TjVhT0FWdS1CZndxY3p5eVY5cTd2b2pSdHF0SWdWTlpxMjRlYVdBSmFVTkxWTW0yclV6OXZVQy1TMmpya1M1eDQtdFlHR2VJMEFzMA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/temtube.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-6Yet again the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God\u2019s sight. God put them under the domination of Midian for seven years. Midian overpowered Israel. Because of Midian, the People of Israel made for themselves hideouts in the mountains\u2014caves and forts. 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