DEBORAH

Q5)a. WE ARE MARRIED TO GOD AND TO HIS WORD. WHEN WE DISOBEY HIS WORD, AND PUT EVERYTHING ELSE FIRST, WE DIVORCE HIM IN THE SENSE THAT WE HAVE GIVEN TO EVERYTHING ELSE BUT HIM. I ANSWERED THIS ONCE UNDER A POST. OH I THINK I'M SO SMART!!!! HAPPY LOVE TO U ALL, IN JESUS NAME,

Q6)a. PEAVE I THE LAND FOR 40 YEARS. "SUBDUED". b. GIDEONS LEADERSHIP KEEPS ISRAEL PEACEFUL AND WITHOUT INVASIONS. WE GET TO READ AND LEARN FROM HIS MISTAKES.

Q)5a. WE, THE PEOPLE OF GOD, ARE MARRIED TO HIM, AND THAT MEANS HE COMES FIRST, IN THOUGHT, IN PRAYER, IN IDOL. WHEN THIS IS NOT DONE THEN WE PROSTITUTE OURSELVES, MEANING THAT WE GIVE OF OURSELVES TO EVERYTHING ELSE , WHICH MAKES US MATERIALISTIC, SELFISH, GREEDY, AND THEN OF NO TRUE SPRITUALITY.

Q4)a. A SNARE IS A TRAP. Q4)b. THE EPHOD WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT BECAME A SYMBOL OF WORSHIP WHICH GIDEON PLACED IN HIS TOWN. AN IDOL GOD SO TO SPEAK. Q4)c. HISTORY BEGAN TO REPEAT ITSELF, AS THE EXAMPLE WITH GIDEON'S FATHER, BAEL WITH THE ALTER. Q4)d. ENTRAPMENTS, ARE WHAT WE STILL HAVE TODAY. GIDEON WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH WHAT THE LORD GAVE TO HIM. HE HAD TO MAKE A REGUEST, HIS REGUEST WAS GREED. YOU CAN NOT SERVE BOTH GOD AND MONEY, EX: MATTHEW:6:24.

Q3-a) THE EPHOD IS A WELL MADE GARMENT FOR A HIGH PRIEST. Q3- FABRIC OF THE FINEST LINENS, MADE BY THE BEST CRAFTSMEN, WITH COLORED YARNS AND WITH JEWELRY , ONYX, AND GOLD FILIGREES. KNOW TODAY AS "VERY HIGH END" MEANING, THE BEST OF THE BEST WEALTH CAN OFFER.

Q-1b) THE PEOPLE STILL SEE GIDEON AS THE SAVIOR NOT GOD. THEY WANTED SOMETHING , TANGIBLE, THAT THEY COULD WORSHIP.

Q-1a) FOR GIDEON THIS WOULD BE A STATE OF TRESON, AS GIDEON KNEW THAT HE WAS THE WARRIOR SENT BY GOD TO BATTLE WITH THE HELP OF GOD.

Q-1) THE LORD IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD AND KING AND HE TOLD THE PEOPLE THIS. GIDEON POINTS THEM TO GOD. GIDEON ALREADY KNEW THIS BY WHAT GOD HAD SHOWED HIM, AS THIS WAS GOD'S RULE

Q5. GIDEON WAS AN AVENGER, AND THE "AVENGER OF BLOOD SHALL PUT THE MURDERER TO DEATH" UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS TIME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. HE WAS JUST IN THE TIMES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ITS LAW AND THE CITIES OF REFUGE. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT JESUS IS TELLING US TO LIVE IN PEACE AND IN HARMONY, AND HE WILL BE THE BEFORE AND THE AFTER JUDGE. ROMANS 12:21 DO NOT BE OVERCOME BY EVIL, BUT OVER COME EVIL WITH GOOD. ARE PRESENT SUFFERINGS ARE NOT WORTHY, NOR SHOULD BE COMPARED,TO THE GLORY THAT WILL BE REVEALED TO US.

Q4. THEY FELT A DOUBT OF GIDEON'S STRENGTH AND PURSUIT TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE HAD SET OUT TO DO, AND FELT THEY WOULD NOT BE SPARED IF THEY NOURISHED GIDEON AND HIS WARRIORS, AN THEIR WAS NO DEFEAT. THEY DID NOT SUPPORT HIS WORD AND THE WORD OF GOD. THEY BROKE A COVENANT WITH GOD AND DISOBEYED, AND THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF BROTHERS OF GIDEON AND A NEXT GENERATION OF MONARCHY. WE SHOULD NOT FEAR THE GIFT OF SHARING. THE LORD WILL GIVE US MORE THEN WE EVER THINK POSSIBLE WHEN WE OFFER, IN TRUE FAITH AND LOVE, AND IN FELLOWSHIP AS HE PROCLAIMED. PSALM 83:9-12

Q.3) Gideon disolved the midianite army of 15,000, so he could protect his family his people from further attacks. In uncertainties, God reminds us that he is here to protect us and guide us and see us through when we are deaf and blind to his word. He is a faithful God.

4.2) THE EPHRAIMITES, IT SEEMS WANTED TO TASTE THE SEED OF VICTORY, AND WERE ANGRY THAT GIDEON, NOT TO MENTION THE LORD, DID NOT SEEK THEM OUT FIRST. IN ALL WE DO WE ARE VULNERABLE TO TEMPTATION AND SIN. FOR ME TO CONTINUE TO BE HUMBLE MYSELF TO THE LORD SAVIOR AND ASK FOR MERCY.

GIDEON ATTACKS WITH 3 COMPANIES AS TO GIVE THE ILLUSION THAT THE MIDIANITES ARE BEING ATTACKED FROM ALL SIDES . WHEN ATTTACKING LATE AT NIGHT, GIVES AN ELEMENT OF SURPRIZE AND OF CONFUSION. SOUNDING 300 SHOFARS IN MANY DIRECTIONS, ECHOS A HUGE SOUND, AND THE TORCHES ARE LIT AND THEN ARE BROKEN IN THE RIGHT TIME FOR THE PANIC EFFECT, AND AGAIN CONFUSION. THE LORD KNEW WHAT TO DO AND HELPED GIDEON SET FORTH THIS PLAN AS A TEAM.

Q6) ONLY GOD CAN INTERPRETEDREAMS ACCURATELY, AND HE DID THIS FOR THE ENEMY AS WELL AS FOR GIDEON, THE BARLEY BREAD SYMBOL OF STRENGTH, WHICH BROUGHT ENCOURAGEMENT AND FEARLESSNESS TO GIDEON.

Q5. I FIND NO ANSWER AT THIS TIME. WELL THE LAPPERS DID NOT LEAVE THEMSELVES VULNERBLE, FOR ATTACK.