“That very night Adonai said to him, ‘Take your father’s bull and the other bull, the seven-year-old. Destroy the altar to Ba‘al that belongs to your father, cut down the sacred pole next to it’…”-Judges 6:25 From verse 25 we see that God didn’t waste a second kicking off the purification process to free Gideon […]

Remember, Israel’s situation in the Book of Judges is pretty much the same situation the modern church is in today. This situation can be described in two words: Religious Syncretism. Just as the Israelites blended and mixed their pure worship of God with the worship practices of the Canaanites, so too has the Church. The […]

Gideon finally realizes the mysterious stranger called the MALACH YHVH or the “Angel of the Lord” he has been conversing with is indeed God. Since Gideon addressed this person as YHVH and the man didn’t decline being called that, we know this figure wasn’t a human being and neither was it your average angel. So we have […]

“Gid‘on realized that he was the angel of Adonai and said, ‘Oh no! My Lord! Adonai! Because I’ve seen the angel of Adonai face-to-face!’  But Adonai reassured him, ‘Shalom to you, don’t be afraid, you won’t die!’  Then Gid‘on built an altar there to Adonai and called it “Adonai-Shalom”; to this day it remains in […]

When we last left off, Gideon had just offered a “gift” of food to the Angel of the Lord. What’s interesting is the Hebrew word used to describe this gift. That word is MINCHAH. Do you remember what it means? A MINCHAH is the grain offering that’s always offered up together with the Burnt Offering […]