The general cycle contained in the Book of Judges is:
– Evil committed
– Oppressor is sent
– Time of servitude
– Evil repented of
– Deliverer is raised up
– Rest
The Book of Judges shows that history will repeat itself, maybe not exactly, but it will certainly run parallel. Let’s focus on the story of Gideon. A friend of mine who had a vision from THE LORD in the 1980’s, similar to mine, was given the template of deliverance parallel to the story of Gideon. Over the years, we have discussed the current need for deliverance out of Mystery Babylon.
Gideon’s oppressors were the Midianites which means “strife and contention”. Our current state is similar. We are in the middle of two wars with a third and forth conflict threatening, there is a global currency war heating up, and the parties in Congress are at extremes, full of strife and contention. This has been a time of servitude for the globe with the current monetary system enslaving us all.
A remnant around the world has repented of the evil, and many of us have been instructed by Our Heavenly Father to repent of the evil and go before the Throne of Grace to end the judgment. I believe we are at the parallel point of the “Deliverer being raised up”.
Judges 6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide [it] from the Midianites.
The winepress is symbolic of the third feast: the Feast of Tabernacles (revelation of Love) yet it was at the end of the Church age as indicated by the threshing of wheat. Gideon’s name means “tree feller” or “to cut down” thus creating a stump. He is the exact person you need when you have a grove of trees to remove. In Deuteronomy 16:21, Our Heavenly Father instructed Israel not to plant trees around the altar of THE LORD. Why? Trees had begun to be related to the sexual aspects in the worship of false gods. I find it interesting that the U.S. Supreme Court is now been tasked with two cases involving the “sexuality” of America. If this country was truly living according to the Commands of Our Heavenly Father, there would be no issue whatsoever. Entertainment in America has continued to use sexuality as a primary draw to entice viewers and buyers of merchandise. Modesty is out, flaunting sexuality is “in”.
Gideon was met “face to face” by an angel. This has a subtle reference to the angel called Penuel that Jacob had an encounter with, another reference to Tabernacles. “And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valour.” The angel spoke of a gift contained in Gideon that had not yet become operational. He was not confident that he was called to deliver Israel. He needed a sign. He sounds like most if not all of us today. The first act he was required to accomplish was to remove the idols of the hearts from the midst of his family. His father had an altar to Baal and had planted a grove of trees around it. There was definitely sin in the camp and it had to go! The angel said “throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it.” Gideon took ten men and did just that. The number 10 means Divine Order or Law. Since Jesus tied the Law specifically with Love, we must conclude that this was an act of Love for the deliverance of mankind. Divine Order is the works of the Law. When we follow the Law, we are walking in Divine Order. In order to be delivered from the current system, we must embrace Divine Order. To do that, we must embrace Love and remove the idols and the “sexuality” from our midst. We must cut down those symbols that have infiltrated our thinking as well as our surroundings. Then will our calling be fully operational.