Judges 5-7

And we meet Gideon, because Israel had again done evil in the eyes of the Lord.   For seven years the Midianites oppressed Israel (the were desert people descended from Abraham's second wife, Keturah) and evilly decimated the crops the Israel's had planted.

Gideon is called a Mighty Warrior by the Angel of the Lord before he is one 6: 12.....Gideon needs signs!  So the Angel of the Lord works with him and has fire flaring from a rock...


Gideon has to take down the gods of his father, and in the night (yep, that's our mighty warrior...sneaking under cover of the night)  broke the Asherah pole and Baal's altar and the people called Gideon Jerub-Baal which means let Baal contend.

Gideon needs more signs and askes God to leave dew on the fleece he will put out, and leave the ground dry....it happened and Gideon got a bowl full of water.....he asked God for another reqest and asked for the fleece to be dry, and the ground wet.....God obliged.



Gideon defeats the Midians under God's power with only 300 men.....there could be no doubt that God did this.  Trumpets are blown again (remember the walls of Jericho falling down when the trumpets were blown on the 7th day?)
Now Gideon asked for signs.......we don't really have to ask for signs now (though God is fully capable of giving them), but if we are looking for signs, we have the Bible (2 Timothy 3: 16, 17).  Unlike Gideon, we have God's complete, revealed Word.......