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Hello, this is Janice reading with him, and I'm so glad you're here with me tonight.

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We're going to be taking a look at Gideon, and this is actually, believe it or not, going

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to tie in with Psalm 91, which is the basis for everything I do, but once again, I found

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it in this as I was studying the scriptures, and I just had a laugh because we will never

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get away from that. That is where we live from, so we will see it again later this evening

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as I do this teaching, but we're going to start with Gideon, and I will give you a little

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background on this. For those of you that are following in the Word, you can turn to

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Judges chapter 6, and we will be looking at verse 11 after I kind of just lay out the

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story a little bit. So here we are in a situation that Israel got themselves in again, and what

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always happened after God would deliver them, then they would get their eyes off of him,

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and they would start worshiping other gods, and they'd get themselves in a pickle, and

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he would step back. When they started worshiping other gods, they were out from under his authority.

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They were out from under his protection, which means they were fair game to all the nations

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around them. So here we have that situation, and the Israelites were crying out for him to

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deliver them. It had been seven years they'd been dealing with this. The Midianites, Amorites, were

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so numerous that when they would come in to the Israelites' land, they would come in at harvest

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time. So it had been seven years of this. They would come in harvest time, and they would take

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the harvest. They would bring all their animals. They would bring their camels, and they would just

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let them go at it and just eat everything that they had not picked up themselves. And so it was

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decimated. Their land was decimated, and the crops were decimated, and Israel was starving. Not only

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were they starving, but they would run to the hills. Literally, they would run and they would

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hide out in caves during this time. So here we have them calling out to God. He sends a prophet

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to them, an unnamed prophet. We don't know who this is, which I had a laugh at. I just found

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that funny. And he went and said, well, you know, basically he said, you know, you did this due to

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your choices. You haven't been worshiping God. This is what happens when you're not under his protection.

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And so here we are, and you did this to yourself. And they cried out, and they asked for deliverance

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and for help. And so the next scene we see is Gideon, who, this is very interesting because

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he's usually presented, at least in what I have heard taught, he's been presented as someone that's

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frightened, someone that's scared, someone that is kind of a wimp hiding out. This man was not

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that at all. He was amazing. As a matter of fact, I have decided I very much like him. Let's first

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look at his name. Amazing. Now this name was given to him at birth. It wasn't something that the angel

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of the Lord, which was Jesus, gave to him in that moment. He had this from birth. And this is amazing.

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Now remember, Israelites went before God, they sought him, and they named their children

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with a name that represented their destiny and what they were called to do.

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So he was named Gideon, which means feller, which means warrior. Now you need to understand

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what feller means. It is, a feller is someone that chops down a tree, that takes a tree down,

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that destroys it, that hews it, which means to take your hand, take an implement in your hand,

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and chop into pieces. It means to destroy something. So that's where the word warrior

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came out of feller. And from the time that he was born, Gideon had said over him, whenever he was

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called Gideon, it was like saying, warrior, warrior, come here. Warrior, let's do this.

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Warrior, always spoken over him, released over him prophetically. And he knew that's who he was,

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and that was called to be. And I think that's why he was not afraid. He was amazing. I think

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that's why he was able to...

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do. Even before he saw Jesus, he was able to do what he did. Now consider this.

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All the rest of the Israelis, they were hiding out. They were in the caves.

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They were. They took their livestock and they ran for the hills. Here's Gideon.

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He is taking a step, taking a step into his destiny. He is a warrior. He is doing what is

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necessary to provide for his family and those he loves. He is thinking out of the box.

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You don't thresh wheat in a wine press. You thresh wheat on the top of a hill

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and you go out there and you shake it and you let the wind pass through it. The wind

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takes the chaff and blows it away and the wheat falls because it has the weight to it.

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Well, what would happen if Gideon did that? If he went to the wheat fields,

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because this is where they did it. This is where they threshed the wheat. It was

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right there by the fields. What if he went to the fields and went to a hill

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and stood up there while the wind was blowing, threshing the wheat, beating this stuff,

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shaking it in the wind? All of the Midianites would see him. They'd all come running. He would

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be in the open. They not only would take what he was doing and take those resources and that food,

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but they would have killed him at the same time. That was not an option for Gideon. He actually

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was very smart and instead of hiding like everybody else in the caves, he's like,

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I have an idea. I'm going to go to the vineyards. Now, the vineyards were not where

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the wheat was. It was not in the same area. It was at the vineyards that you find the wine press,

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which was hewn out of rock. It was down into the ground. They cut it out of limestone

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and then they actually built wooden walls around it on the outside that also would kind of cover

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it on the top because they wanted to keep the sunlight off the grapes and off the men because

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they would dump all the grapes in there. The men would be the ones dumping on it, pressing it

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because they were trying to separate the juice from the rest of the grape. If there was too

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much pressure then the bitterness of the pips would be released and they did not want that

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to happen. They wanted something nice and sweet. So, the men would tread on it. They would stomp

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on it with their feet and they would hold on to these ropes above down in this hole in this wine

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press in this like a little room made specifically for this in this area in the ground that had

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covering. So, he was thinking out of the box. He was doing what had not been done before

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so he could provide for his family. So, instead of hiding like everyone else, instead of going

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to the back of the cave and pulling a sheepskin over his head and what was me, he actually was

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a man of great courage in doing what he needed to do. He needed to get that wheat. He needed

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to get sustenance for his family and for others and he was taking the grand amazing out-of-the-box

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idea he had and making it work. In the middle of being surrounded by his enemies, in the middle

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of being surrounded by this vast uncountable army and nation, he was doing what was unthinkable

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and he was being successful. So, this is not a man of fear. This is actually a mighty warrior

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just as he was named from the very beginning. Now, there's also something else interesting I

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learned in all this that I'd like to show you share with you. His father was named Joash.

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So interesting! Have you ever seen how things can pass down generationally good or bad?

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And there's also, especially in the Hebraic

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situation and with Hebrew families, but I've seen this. I saw this in my own family with my mother.

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You can see it with other ministers and other people you see. There could be mantles passed down.

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Mantles passed down in

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the Spirit from one generation to another. I actually even see that. I watch it with

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one of my pastors and her daughter. One of her daughters is functioning under one of her

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anointings and I can sometimes see in the Spirit an overlay where there is an overlay of the two

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and it's like, wow! I've seen it a few times and it's like, wow! That is cool. That is amazing.

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Her daughter will go beyond, as always is meant to happen, that you take what you've been given,

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you take that mantle, but then you are mantled and you go beyond what the one that came before

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you ever did. So anyway, here is Joash. I want to just take this. I was shocked when I looked

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up his name. I'm just like, oh, let's just look it up and see what it means. I wasn't prepared

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for this. His word comes from a word that is actually a spinoff of Jehovah. It comes from

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number 3101 and that comes from 3060 in the Hebrew and you would find that in Strong's

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and that means Jehovah. That specific word for Jehovah comes from two words, one being Jehovah,

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one being Jehovah as we know it, and the other one being Esh. The prime root of that means to be

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fire. So, fire or fire hot. So, Joash's name is a spinoff. It's kind of like you have Jonathan

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and then the son is called John. So, you have Jehovah. Well, Joash is like the John of Jonathan.

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So, he's like a spinoff of Jehovah. Joash is a spinoff of Jehovah. Very interesting

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because Jehovah means deliverer. Jehovah also has a component in it. The first time we see

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that in the Old Testament has to do with sowing and reaping and it also means fire. It also means

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burning off, burning hot. So, here is Joash. He carries that as a mantle. He carries that

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in his name. He has Gideon who is a son and now Gideon warrior has that mantling extending from

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his father to him and I believe there was like a deposit in him. He was not only a warrior,

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but he ended up being used by God as a deliverer and I think that mantling for that

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partly came from his father. I just found that extraordinarily interesting. It was just right

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there in a word and I was like, wow, God, here again we see how you work legacy and generations.

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Here again we see the wonder of what you do in the families. Here again you see the wonder of

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what you do when one is mentored under another like Elisha mentored under Elijah and that mantle

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and that anointing was passed on. So, once again we see an element of that with Joash and his son

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Gideon. So, let's look at Judges chapter 6 verse 11 and I am going to actually read this

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from the New Living Translation and then we're going to examine this. I'm just amazed. I learned

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so much doing this and I could just sit there forever. So, it says chapter 6 verse 11,

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the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah. Okay, we're going to start

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with, we're going to stop with that. The angel of the Lord. This, the angel of the Lord, this is

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actually Jesus. Angel. Where's my notes? I wanted to give you the specific. The angel here means it

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dispatches the deputy. It means a messenger. It means a teacher. If you coordinate that word with

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Hebrews 1 verse 4, it talks about the angel of the Lord there as well and it's a term used for God

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for implying his presence, the presence of deity, the presence of an uncreated being that becomes

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present in a situation. But the interesting thing

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that I learned from Wilson's is that it is a messenger of God, but it has to do

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more with the office than the nature. So here is Jesus' office. Jesus, Son of God,

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Jesus, Deliverer, Jesus, Jehovah, Jesus, Salvation, the Angel of the Lord. And

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remember, Lord, this is capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, and we have

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discussed this in other teachings, that this first came out in Genesis chapter

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2, and whenever you see Lord, all capitals, it is talking about sowing and

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reaping. It's talking about harvest. So here we have Jesus appearing, the Angel

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of the Lord, but Jesus of the sowing and reaping, Jesus of harvest. He is there

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because there has been sowing against Israel, and now there is going to be a

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harvest, a multiplied harvest, back to the Midianites, back to this

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nation that stood against Israel. They are going to reap in multiplication,

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because remember, sowing is always multiplication. Whenever you sow, whenever

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you put a seed on the ground, you always get back more than what you put in. So

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just as the Midianites, just as this nation sowed against Israel, they are now

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going to reap more than they ever sowed. They are going to reap their own

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destruction of an entire nation. And Jesus, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus

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himself, Jehovah, is on the scene to do this. And it said there that Jehovah, it

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says there, the Angel of the Lord came and sat beneath a great tree. So here is

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Psalm 91, verse 1. It says, those who dwell in the secret place. That word

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dwell, remember, it means to sit as royalty in judgment. Remember that?

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Remember that teaching? Go back and listen to it. It's like episode 2 or

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something like that. This is the exact same word. It says, the Angel of the Lord,

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Jesus sat. He was sitting there. So we have the Angel of the Lord. Here is

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Jehovah of the harvest. Jehovah of sowing and reaping. Jehovah, now, that's gonna

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call us out. It says he sat. He is sitting in governmental authority. He is sitting

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as royalty. And he is about to judge what has taken place here. He's about to

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call forth. He's about to declare. And he's about to set into motion judgment

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over these people. And the interesting thing is, he not only sat, but he sat

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under a big tree. Well, what is important about that? That's why I said to the Holy

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Spirit, I'm like, okay, you did not put this in just by accident. Because there's

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nothing coincidental. There's nothing by accident. So, you could have just said, oh,

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Jesus, the Angel of the Lord, came and sat. Why did you need to let us know he sat

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under a big tree? Hmm. So, this is what I believe that tree stood for. Let's go back

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to the garden. Genesis chapter 1. In the garden, he had the tree of life and he

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had the tree of knowledge of the good of knowledge and evil. So, we're gonna set

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that second tree aside. They ate of it. That was a bummer. We know what that got

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us. But we have the tree of life. The tree of life. Jesus was slain before the

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foundation of the earth. He chose, he said, when they had a council, when Elohim

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had a council, Jesus has said, I will go. They're gonna mess up. I will go. I will

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redeem them. I will be crucified on a tree. I will die. And in that garden,

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prophetically, God put that tree of life. Prophetically, that Jesus would hang on

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and bring life to us. Bring redemption. Bring freedom. Bring deliverance. And that

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tree of life was in the garden, right there, declaring what was to come. So, here

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we have Jesus, once again, in a horrific situation. He is sitting, about to declare

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from his place of royalty, from his government,

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mental authority. He is going to declare judgment on the nation of the Midianites

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in deliverance and freedom for his people. And he's doing it. He's sitting there in that position

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under a great tree. I think it's a picture. I think it's a prophetic picture of what was to

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come in the moment, but what was to come for us all those many years later.

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That once again, Jesus would be on a tree and it would give us our deliverance and our freedom

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and give us life. So let's go on. It says, he sat beneath a great tree at Ophirot,

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which belonged to Joash, the clan of Edbezer. Gideon, son of Joash, was threshing wheat at

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the bottom of the winepress. Now we've talked about, we need to talk about the threshing.

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We've talked about that he was mighty. He was smart. He did this and threshing of the wheat.

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They did this in, they would go where the wheat was grown to the top of the hill.

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They would shake it. They would beat it, a wind. They would do it when there was a breeze.

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So the breeze would come and blow the chaff away. The wheat would fall. I talked to a friend

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and I had not even thought about this, but I was just so excited about what I was learning.

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And I called her. She lives out of state. I'm like, you're not going to believe what I'm

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learning and what I'm seeing and all this. And she's in her seventies and was raised in Kansas,

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even went to a one-room schoolhouse, was raised on a farm. And I'm telling her this and she's like,

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oh my gosh, that brings back so many memories because that's exactly what we did on the farm.

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The men would go out there and the laborers would go out there and they would find the high place

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in the fields of wheat. They'd go to the high place. They would take the wheat and they would

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shake it in the wind and let the wheat fall. And the chaff would be blown away. And she said,

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that's exactly what we did when I was a little girl. That's exactly what took place.

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And I was like, yeah, well, here it is in the word. And she, she was astounded. And I was actually,

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I was pretty astounded too, that it was like, wow, this is, this is what they did.

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And here is Gideon being smart enough to go to the wine press to run there, not because

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he was a wimp, but because he was thinking out of the box. He was walking in the wisdom of God

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and he went to the wine press. He kept moving. You know how hard it is

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to get someone to move when they're standing still. You know, I'm a mom of kids, of six kids.

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And if I have a child, like if I have a little child, a toddler, maybe three or four year old,

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and they are standing firm and they don't want to do something or they're just not moving, it's real

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hard to get them moving, to get them going a direction I want. But if they are already walking

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and moving, it's very easy to come behind them, put my hand on their shoulders and go,

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oh, we're going to go over here and pick up your toys right now. It's time to pick up the toys.

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And it's very easy to adjust and move someone who is already in motion.

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And Gideon was not hiding. He was not running away. He was not in a cave. He was in motion.

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Therefore, it's very easy for the Spirit of God to come in and give him ideas and move him the

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direction he needs to go, making changes, saying, hey, Gideon, here's a great idea. Why don't you

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take that weight? Let's go to the wine press. Perfect hiding place. Perfect place to thresh it

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perfect place to thresh it out. Perfect way to provide for your family. So he had that continual

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movement. He had his heart turned towards God or God wouldn't have been able to lead him because

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it says his sheep know his voice and Gideon was able to follow his leading and his guidance.

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And we also know he knew his voice because he recognized the angel of the Lord. He recognized

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who he was when he showed up, which we're going to find out about in our next verse in chapter in

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verse 12 of chapter 6 the next time we get together. So he was moving. He was listening.

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He was walking out his name as a warrior, unafraid, doing what he needed to do in a moment.

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They had

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prayed for deliverance. They had reached out. A prophet had come. They were still reaching out to

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God. Please turn your eyes towards us. We need deliverance. We need your help. We have messed up,

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but we need your help. And then he was walking forward just like many of us have to do in our

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lives. We cry out to God. We say, I need your deliverance. I need direction. I need understanding.

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I need you to give me breakthrough. I need to break through out of the situation I'm in,

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but we know we need him and his power and his wisdom and his anointing to do it.

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And just like with Gideon, he shows up not late, not early. He shows up just in time.

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He always shows up and he gives us and provides us what we need. So I'm going to leave you with

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that today and we will continue this in my next teaching. Thank you for joining me. And I'm just

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going to pray with you. Father, thank you for your word today. Thank you that just as Gideon,

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that you have called us out and given us a name that you speak over us. And I thank you that you

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call us priests and kings before you, that you call us your children, your sons and daughters,

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and your anointed worshipers. And I thank you that you call us courageous and faithful and true.

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Father, allow those things to grow. Allow those things to come forth in our lives and allow us to

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ourselves the way you see us. And to walk just as Gideon did,

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fearless, fearless before the enemy, fearless

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knowing what God had called him to be, and fearless in holding on to their faith

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in their relationship with God. So Father, I thank you for that. I ask you for your blessing

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on everyone that's watching this. And Jesus name, we just thank you for what you're doing.

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And just a reminder to all of you that I will have this on my website and I will have

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notes to go along this and outline. And there are also resources there. So please go ahead and

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subscribe to this YouTube channel if this is where you're watching it. And you may also go to

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my website to get other resources there. So I look forward to seeing you as we

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continue this journey with Gideon. And I will see you next time. Bye-bye.