Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight. And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' Could you please explain one more thing? And he did so. Ultimately though it is the dynamic of Spiritual Warfare that Gideon adds to emerging picture of Christ and his saving work. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. In this Bible story, from chapter 6 of the book of Judges, Gideon is called upon to save the people of Israel by leading them against the Midianites. Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? . Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father's household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night. Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled. All the rest got down on their knees to drink. Yet Gideon said to them, "I would request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his spoil." At the end of the Lord’s 1,000-year reign, there is one last attempt to wage war against Christ Jesus. That brings me to another important confusion… will the devout christians see anti christ? His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. But the LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.” So Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me. When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and routed the whole army. He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." Thank you for the enlightening commentary. Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it The LORD is Peace. Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the camp when the camp was unsuspecting. So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon; and he blew a trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called together to follow him. When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD, he said, "Alas, O Lord GOD! The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. "Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." He went up from there to Penuel and spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered. So for six years, while the marauding Arabs are depleting Israel’s livestock and diminishing the land’s grain, Gideon’s Israelites are hiding in caves. 23 For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. ~ Judges 6:1-2, CJB. 26 There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” (Judges 6:14-15). And when they searched about and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash did this thing." In chopping down the Asherah, Gideon lives up to his birth name, which means Jones’ translates as “Feller” or “Cutter down”. When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian." Shalom . After Gideon dies, the Israelites once again turn away from God to worshipping idols, and once again peace is broken. And he captured a youth from Succoth and questioned him. But the LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man." Victories to the king, loyalty for the Messiah in Psalm 18. When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built. And the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink.”, When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for testifying about Yeshua and proclaiming the Word of God, also those who had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received the mark on their foreheads and on their hands.