“And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.”
Judges 6:11 KJV
The Angel of Yahweh came to the village of Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing some wheat in a winepress so that the Midianites would not see him. Gideon means ‘warrior’. Wheat was not threshed in a winepress but on an open, elevated place where the wind could blow the chaff away. Gideon was a timid, cowardly man who made excuses concerning himself and his family. God was going to do in Gideon what Gideon was doing with wheat - thresh his heart, and remove the chaff of unbelief from his true identity. God called Gideon to be a hero who would deliver Israel. God rescued a nation by first rescuing a man from his unbelief. Because of Jesus’s finished work on the Cross, every believer can ask to be rescued from an evil heart of unbelief. Thanks be to God!
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