Gideon

Gideon was a very important person in Israel. Israelites had offended the Lord by worshipping the gods of Amorites. As a punishment the Lord sent them to the power of Midian for seven years. During this time, the Israelites would harvest their land, and the Midians, Amaleks and the Kredemites would camp opposite of them and destroy what the Israelites had harvested. The Israelites begged God for mercy. Although God was not happy with the Israelites disobedience, he decides to save the people through the young Gideon.
Gideon was the youngest son of Joash the Abiezrite. Gideon was outside beating the wheat in the wine press trying to save it from the Midians, when an angel came and said “the Lord is with you O’ champion. Meaning the Lord wanted Gideon to save his people. Gideon questions “if the Lord is with us why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds of which our fathers told us when they said ‘did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ for now the Lord has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian.” The lord’s response was “go with your strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you.” After Gideon hears the Lords response he asks the Lord for a sign. Gideon was told by an angel to bring unleavened cakes and meat to a rock where he was told to pour broth on them. The Angel then touches the unleavened cakes with her staff and a fire immediately springs from the rock. Then, in a dream Gideon is told to destroy the altar of the Canaanite of Baal built by the unfaithful Israelites. Baal was a god that the Israelites worshipped. When Gideon does this, the townspeople are furious. The Israelites order Gideon’s Father, Joash, to kill Gideon. Joash outwits the town people by suggesting shortly after that if Baal is a God himself, then he should be the one to kill Gideon. To mock the God, Gideon is given the nickname Lerubbaal, which means let Baal contend against him. At this point, Gideon then...