Gideon

If Deborah had definite and special significance for Israel and the kingdom of God in general, so too, Gideon (and for that matter all the heroes and prophets of God). Deborah was prophetess, who told the glories of Israel's God, as revealed in all his marvelous redemptive works, and who thus anew united God's believing people, instrumentally, on the foundation of the great principles of truth that, as was said, lay embedded in Israel's history. Gideon and his band of three hundred -- the hero...