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<\/a>Gideon’s story is a more involved one than any of the saviour-judges<\/a> we have looked at so far in this series. Gideon’s victory leads to the first call for a King in Israel, while Gideon doesn’t take the title he lives like a king \u00a0(though not in a good way) with many wives and concubines, one of his sons by a concubine is even called “Abimelech” which means “My Dad\u00a0is King”.<\/p>\n Gideon also acts a bit like a priest, taking the clothing and gold from the conquered\u00a0\u00a0king’s and makes a lavish priestly garment, an ephod from it. Unfortunately the people start worshiping the Ephod.<\/p>\n Despite his failures from a modern perspective, Gideon is remembered as a good man, he is even a Saint in the Orthodox Church, because Gideon prays, listens, obeys and defers to YHWH. \u00a0He even turns down the offered kingship with the words ” The LORD shall rule over you”, Judges \u00a08:23.<\/p>\n When the people see that nothing happens to Gideon they start to lose their fear of the Midianites. So Gideon’s real victory is one of\u00a0\u00a0spiritual warfare… as is the cross.<\/p>\n And the pattern of prayer and listening for an answer is maintained by Finally it is the Spirit that comes on Gideon\u00a0to make him a\u00a0leader of men.<\/p>\n Gideon is a man from an unimportant family anointed by the Spirit he\u00a0challenges gods and kings, he behaves like a king and a priest though he never formally accepts\u00a0either position<\/p>\n Ultimately though it is the dynamic of Spiritual Warfare that Gideon adds to emerging picture of Christ and his saving work. He contended with the prince of this world and won!<\/p>\n Gideon’s story is a more involved one than any of the saviour-judges we have looked at so far in this series. Gideon’s victory leads to the first call for a King in Israel, while Gideon doesn’t take the title he lives like a king \u00a0(though not in a good way) with many wives and concubines, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,19],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gideon](\"http:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gideon-the-hacker-300x225.jpg\")
But the point of these articles is to examine the contribution each of the seven saviour-judges makes towards our understand of Jesus, the<\/strong> promised<\/strong> saviour-judge. For that we need to think about Gideon by his nom-de-plume, “Jerubbal” which he acquires for chopping down the Asherah pole and pulling down Baal’s altar before building one for YHWH. “Jerubbaal” means “He will contend with Baal” (Jones’ Dictionary of OT Names).
\nIn chopping down the Asherah, Gideon lives up to his birth name, which means Jones’ translates as “Feller” or “Cutter down”.<\/p>\n![\"gideon](\"http:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gideon-and-angel-225x300.jpg\")
But there are some other nice parallels too. For instance an Angel first brings the instruction to “Deliver the people” in a dialogue in a wine press (Gideon is hiding there for fear), Judges 8:11. Jesus fully\u00a0accepts his role in the Garden of Gethsemane, which means “Olive Press” \u00a0when an Angel comes to\u00a0“strengthen” him in his task, Luke 22:43.<\/p>\n
\nGideon right through his victory. It is a hallmark of Holy Spirit led spiritual victory that those controlled by the demonic or occult tend to become fearful ![\"Gethsemane\"](\"http:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gethsemane-210x300.jpg\")
and confused, which is exactly what happens \u00a0to the vast Midianite army when Gideon leads 300 men to pretend to be a vast army, by lighting torches and making a lot of noise at night on three sides of the encamped enemy… they rush up hill to escape the perceived hoard running straight towards the 10,000 men who have stayed back at camp.<\/p>\n![\"Facebook\"](\"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/facebook.png\" "\\"Follow")
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