Positivity Successor - Episode 220 - Positivity Successor (Judges 6-7)

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hey, positive people. Welcome to Positiveity Successor. Scheduled from Monday through Sunday, according to holidays, every season every year, according to leap year. Thanks for tuning to the live-changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to Positiveus Successor Episode 220. Continuing on with the Bible. Let's get into it. Gideon 6. Again, the Israelites stood evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years, he gave them into the hands of the Midianites because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites
Starting point is 00:00:37 prepared shelters for themselves and mountain cliffs, caves, and strongholds. Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other Eastern peoples invaded the country. They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel. Neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels. They invaded the land to ravage it,
Starting point is 00:01:24 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help. When the Israelites cried out, cried to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet who said, This is what the Lord, the God of it Israel says, I brought you up out of Egypt out of the land of slavery. I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of. of all your oppressors. I drove them from before you
Starting point is 00:01:59 and gave you their land. I said to you, I am the Lord, your God. Do not worship the gods of the Emirates and whose land you live. But you have now listened to me. The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the opera that belonged
Starting point is 00:02:22 to Josh the Abis write Where his son Gideon was Threshing wheat In a wine press To keep it from the Midianites When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon
Starting point is 00:02:37 He said The Lord is with you mighty warrior But sir Gideon replied If the Lord is with us Why has all this happened to us Where are all his wonders That our fathers told us about
Starting point is 00:02:53 when they said, did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt, but now the Lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian. The Lord turned to him and said, Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you? But Lord, Gideon said, how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manessi, and I am the least in my family. The Lord answered, I'll be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Gideon replied, If you, if now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you. And the Lord said, I will wait until you return. Gideon went in, prepared a young goat. And from an effet of flour made bread without east, putting the meat in the basket and its broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to him under the tree, under the oak. The angel of God said to him,
Starting point is 00:04:21 take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth, and Gideon did so. With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the living bread. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread, and the angel of the Lord disappeared. When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exhumed. exclaimed, Ah, sovereign Lord, I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face, but the Lord said to him,
Starting point is 00:05:02 Peace, do not be afraid. You are not going to die. So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord is peace. To this day it stands in opera of the Ebbah's rights. That same night, the Lord said to him, take the second bull from your father's herd that the one seven years old tear down your father's altar to baah and cut down the ashura pole beside it then build a proper kind of altar to the lord your god
Starting point is 00:05:38 on the top of this height using the wood of the ashura pole that you cut down offer the second bull has a burnt offering so gideon took ten of his servants and did, as the Lord told him, but because he was afraid of his family and the men of the town, he did it all night rather than in the daytime. In the morning, when the men of the town got up, there was bow altar demolished with the Asherah people beside it cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar. They asked each other, Who did this? When they carefully investigated, they were told, Gideon, son of Josh, did it.
Starting point is 00:06:31 The men of the town demanded of jealous. Bring out your son. He must die because he has broken down Ball's altar and cut down the Astero pull beside it. But Josh replied to the hostile crowd around him, Are you going to plead Ball's cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by more. If Bal is really is a god,
Starting point is 00:06:58 he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar so that they called Gideon Jerobal saying let Ball contend with him because he broke down Ball's altar. Now all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the valley at Jesru. Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon,
Starting point is 00:07:29 and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abbas rites to follow him. He sent messengers without Mnese, calling them the arms, and also went to Asher, Zubelon, and Nephetele. To that they went up to meet him. Gideon said to God, if you will save Israel by my hand, as you have promised, look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is due only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said. And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day.
Starting point is 00:08:18 He squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew, a bowl full of water. Then Gideon said to God, do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece this time. Make the fleece dry and the ground covered would do. That night, God did so. Only the fleece was dry. All the ground was covered would do.
Starting point is 00:08:44 So that's where we're going to stop. We'll pick back up with Gideon defeats the Midianites 7. People in Bible times, Gideon. Gideon was a mighty warrior who trusted and obeyed God, even though he was often afraid. Gideon led an army of only 300 men that saved the Israelites from their enemy. The Midianites, Gideon was a great judge, and the Israelites lived in the Israelites,
Starting point is 00:09:14 peace for many years while he was their leader. Life in Bible times. Bao and Asherah. Bile was the chief Canaanite God in Old Testament times. Ashera was the chief goddess. Her symbol was a tall wooden pool. Gideon destroyed the altar of Baal and cut down the Ashera pull. Then he built a proper kind of altar.
Starting point is 00:09:43 Judges 626 to use in worshipping the true God instead of these false gods. Thanks for tuning to another interesting boundary. Remember to look back up the reflection of yourselves in the mirror to all the beautiful and handsome people out there. Because you're a work in progress and we'll get to what you want to and like believe that. Thanks for tuning to another episode of Positiveity Successor. Thanks for tuning to another positive another byword.
Starting point is 00:10:14 God bless, amen. Tune tomorrow for the next episode of Positiveity Successor. God bless, amen. Have a positive day.

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