Gideon And His 300 Chosen Men- The Screening Process & Its Implications

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The Book of Judges is as contemporary as it gets; it is marked with a repeated pattern that we see in the current world we live in. The people cry out to God and in His faithfulness and mercy He provides them with a deliverer. They obey God until the death of the deliverer and fall back into the old habits again. The 6th chapter of the Book of Judges presents the instance of Gideon, a very unlikely hero of the faith that becomes God’s instrument to deliver the Israel from the Midianites’s oppression. As I read the narrative, God’s screening in the choosing of the 300 men became the object of my contemplation. And this is what we’ll be discussing today.

 

Scripture References:

Main Passage: Judges 7

other passages:

Judges 6

Isaiah 62:1-3

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Matthew 15:26-30 

2 Corinthians 4:7

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