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a Farmer Called to Be Deliverer
Jdg 6:7-18
God is not content with sending a prophet to condemn our sins; He commissions an angel to bring help. Surely there is truth in the old belief that the Angel-Jehovah, designated here, was our Lord, whose delights were ever with the sons of men. Compare Isa 63:9 and Act 7:30 with Exo 3:2; Exo 3:6. He still comes to us, not visibly to the eye, but sensibly to the heart. There is a peculiar burning at the heart, which those who love Him understand, when He manifests Himself to them as not to the world. See Luk 24:32 and Joh 14:21
Gideon was the youngest son of a poor family, which had suffered greatly at the hands of Midian. See Jdg 8:18. He was compelled to thresh his wheat in the wine-press, below the surface of the ground, lest the Midianites should descend on it and carry it off. He seemed the least likely to be the chosen deliverer. But remember the Apostle’s words, 1Co 1:26. There is a might that no human valor can impart; it is that which is communicated directly from Christ, as in Jdg 6:14. And when Jesus looks and speaks, the young soul that stands in all humility before Him knows that it can do all things through Him who strengthens, Php 4:13.