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[Site Curator’s note: This teaching did not appear in Thomas Gibson’s Old Dog I collection. He was unable to find it. However, I was to find it on a website prepared by a brother in Christ which has a fairly extensive collection of Bob Neumann’s prophecies and teachings: Profeetallista. Therefore, I am inserting Armies of God 1-3 in the Old Dog I collection as they are intended to be read together.]
Armies of God 2 – Gideon’s Company
Bob Neumann, August 2, 1998
As a change I will not quote any scripture at all. Anyone reading this who has not read the story of Gideon in Judges 6, 7, & 8 can do so at their convenience.
Gideon like many in the OT has a story that defies contemporary credibility. Today if someone share a story of the ANGEL of THE LORD sitting under a tree, throwing down fleeces, and all that would get a difficult reception in 90% of our churches today. Goes to show that by our present day standards GOD’S ANOINTED servants are most often categorized as between strange and unacceptably radical..
But I really have no intention of talking about Gideon, but the 300.
Imagine if you can your town and family regularly ravaged by an enemy. If that is too hard for you to imagine, then maybe you stumbled onto the wrong Internet sit. JESUS himself warned us that tests, trials, and tribulations we would have because of the present world authority. So I feel safe to say that the image is accessible to all without a major stretch.
So back to the enemy, who steals your fruit, your harvest, your dreams, and your promise. And has done so for years. One day a radical young leader arises and calls all out to do battle. And he’s got the ‘juice’. The ANOINTING is on him and he blows the trumpet.
32,000 show up and are ready to take on the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the ‘kings of the east’. Now I am not reminding anyone that this is an end time prophecy but you’ll get over it.
So imagine yourself standing with me in the gathered fighting men. You and I are blooded veterans, skilled and deadly. We look at the numbers and feel pretty good. And young Gideon steps up and says we are too many. Now we had never, ever had that problem before, but. GOD’S all over the kid. And he says all who are afraid can go home. That’s okay .we look at each other and nod .we both know we don’t want anyone either besides us our behind us we might not trust. Like I said the kid’s got it, 22,000 cut out, but we got 10,000 real warriors ready to fight and take back some spoils.
And then comes the force march and we get to the water. And all the newbies forget that we are behind enemy lines and forget their training. You and I keep our eye on the horizon and scoop up the water. Then the kid says all can leave but us, and suddenly we are down to 300, less than 1% of what we started with. But we’ve been on raiding parties before, and then comes the kicker .Ol’ Gideon wants to attack the enemies main camp at night, and leave our swords, shields, spears behind .Oh, man, the kid must be pentecostal /charismatic /messianic. Who ever heard of fighting a battle with shofars and crockery. But none of the 300 leave. We look at each other and think ‘if he’s dumb enough to stay, then so will I’; and all 300 thought the same thing. Then this guy over there has a dream of a heavenly bagel rolling down from the FATHER and destroying the enemy. And we knew this had to be GOD. No man is this crazy.
And that night it all happened. The shofars sounded, the shouts went up as the crockery got smashed, and the enemy started to die. We blew trumpets and 120,000 died as we ran them down. It was just mop up. Yeah we took our spoil. And when ol’ Gideon refused to be king it was okay. And the earrings he asked for were so little. Each of us could have taken the spoil off of 400 of the enemy soldiers, but who could carry that much? But when we got home your two kids, Trixie and Bubba run up and say. Uncle bob! How many Midianites did you kill! Tell me about the big battle and how you saved the world.
And there are no war stories this time. No lies to tell because the TRUTH alone is enough GOD won the victory and killed our enemies. Nothing any real warrior would be proud to speak of. But everything a true worshipper would like to sing praises about. THE TRUE ARMY of GOD fights no battle. He stays under discipline in the heat of the day. He does exactly what he is told to do; and when he is told to do so. That is the WHOLE REALITY OF PROPHETIC INTERCESSION
That is fighting the battle GOD’S way. But the battle can be fought in man’s way. But GOD still gives the victory. That is ARMY # 3.
Selah
Bob in Miami