Alrighty, let’s get on with the third golden nugget to be learned from Gideon’s story. It is this: Anyone who accepts a leadership role in the Kingdom of God is going to be tempted to abandon that position. And what makes matters worse is that very temptation may come from fellow brothers and sisters inside […]

Alrighty, so we’re mining the text of Judges Chapter 8 to dig out the golden nuggets contained in the story of Gideon. Yesterday we discussed the first nugget which was that when the Lord stands with Israel, no force in the universe can stand against them. So let’s get into the second golden nugget. It is […]

Starting from today and over the next couple of days I’m going to be extracting some golden nuggets from the story of Gideon that we can apply to our own lives. So let’s get started with golden nugget number 1. It is this. When God is in charge and stands with Israel, there is literally […]

“But as soon as Gid‘on was dead, the people of Isra’el again went astray after the ba‘alim and made Ba‘al-B’rit their god.  They forgot Adonai their God, who had saved them from the power of all their enemies on every side; and they showed no kindness toward the family of Yeruba‘al, that is, Gid‘on, to […]

“Gid‘on became the father of seventy sons, because he had many wives.” -Judges 8:30 Yesterday I talked about how Gideon welcomed the lifestyle of a king even though he declined to become one. Verse 30 is even more evidence to this fact. We’re told he became the father of 70 sons because he had many […]