GIDEON’S 300
How Yah Separates
Matthew 10:34-39: “DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE COME TO BRING PEACE TO THE EARTH. I DID NOT COME TO BRING PEACE, BUT A SWORD. FOR I HAVE COME TO BRING DIVISION …WHOEVER LOVES FATHER OR MOTHER MORE THAN ME IS NOT WORTHY OF ME, AND HE WHO LOVES SON OR DAUGHER MORE THAN ME IS NOT WORTHY OF ME, AND HE WHO DOES NOT TAKE UP HIS EXECUTION STAKE AND FOLLOW AFTER ME IS NOT WORTHY OF ME. HE WHO HAS FOUND HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT, AND HE THAT HAS LOST HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE SHALL FIND IT”.
Luke 14:25-33, excerpts from: “WHOSOEVER DOES NOT BEAR HIS EXECUTION STAKE AND COME AFTER ME IS UNABLE TO BE MY DISCIPLE (“taught one”)…SO THEN, EVERYONE ONE OF YOU WHO DOES NOT GIVE UP ALL THAT HE HAS, IS UNABLE TO BE MY DISCIPLE (“taught one”). (Italics mine)
Mark 8:34-36: “WHOEVER DESIRES TO COME AFTER ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF AND TAKE UP HIS EXECUTION STAKE AND FOLLOW ME. FOR WHOEVER DESIRES TO SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT, BUT WHOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE AND THE GOOD NEWS, SHALL SAVE IT. FOR WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSES HIS OWN LIFE?”
Laying down our self-life and committing to obeying Him as our Master in Covenant relationship, without compromise as good servants in training for reigning, must be the core response upon hearing the good news of His salvation. There is no salvation without repentance, separation from everything that is not of Him, and commitment of our lives to serving Him. Thus, our goal is to love Him so much that we develop an intimate relationship with Him, a relationship built on mutual trust.
Where anywhere in the Word does it say that following Messiah means to believe in a free gift without responsibility--just pick up your free ticket out of hell by praying a prayer, and tuck it in your pocket to give to St. Peter at the gate of heaven? That is Greek philosophical paganism at its core—easy belief, easy life, no maturity or responsibility necessary, fulfill your lustful desires, seek to gratify the flesh, go after your own agenda, and then spend eternity in the Roman-style “Elysian Fields” heaven. Not one verse in the Scriptures tells us that the eternal state of Yahuweh’s people will be in “heaven”…NOT ONE! But, the whole Word does tell us that those who are in Covenant relationship with Him will spend eternity in His Kingdom on earth.
The requirements for following the Master Yahushua Messiah of Israel—the real One—is total abandonment of the self-life to become a bond slave of the Master, Messiah Yahushua. It is the process of Deuteronomy 15:16-17—having ourselves pierced to the door, marking ourselves as a servant because we love the Master. He said: “I am the Door”… (John 10:7)
Messiah, in coming to earth, makes Himself a bond servant of the Father, and says that His ear is pierced to the door, and He delights to do the will of the Father. (Psalm 40:6-7)
Unless you are a bond slave, in training for reigning, you are not one of His! If you got “saved” thinking you were getting a freebee, sorry, there are no freebees. Once you put your faith in Messiah Yahushua for your salvation—the real Messiah of Israel—not the Greco/Roman counterfeit fake—then you enter into Covenant relationship with the Father, Yahuweh, and are fully responsible to guard your citizenship in His Kingdom. To be a citizen in His Kingdom, you are required to obey the rules and regulations of that Kingdom, which He has given to us as “teachings and instructions of the Kingdom”—the eternal Torah. You are grafted into the tree of Israel at the new birth, and enter into the promises of those who fear Him enough to obey Him without excuses. (Ephesians 2:8-19) You have the privilege of dying to self, (Romans chapter 6) of submitting to His eternal Word (which means studying it with the Spirit of Yahuweh as your teacher), and of learning to know Elohim by being in His Presence—knowing Him, His nature, His ways, His thinking, His modus operandi—so that you do not disobey Him. “The fear of Yahuweh is the BEGINNING OF WISDOM”. (Psalm 111:10) Only the wise survive.
Leviticus 11:44-45; 19:1; 20:7-8; I Kepha (Peter)1:16: “BE SET APART AS I AM SET APART”.
Hebrews 12:14: “…pursue set-apartness, without which no one shall see the Master”.
Receiving Messiah Yahushua also means that you receive a “love of the truth”.
John 17:17: Messiah says to His Father: “Your Word is truth”.
Psalm 119:142, 160: “…Your Torah is truth”…”The sum of Your Word is truth”.
II Thessalonians 2:8-12, excerpts from: “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood and with all deceit of unrighteousness in hose perishing, because THEY DID NOT RECEIVEA LOVE OF THE TRUTH in order for them to be saved. And for this reason, Elohim sends them a working of delusion for them to believe the falsehood in order that all should be judged who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness”.
Throughout the word “unrighteousness” is equated with rejection, rebellion, and apostasy, or “transgression” against the Torah of Yahuweh. I John 3:4: “…sin is the transgression of the Torah”. Yahuweh’s wrath comes on all who reject, thus disobey, His Torah, and who harm His land and His people. The whole Word attests to this reality…
When people are asked to receive a cheap grace message that requires nothing but a belief-system--no study of His Word, no obedience to His Word, no personal relationship, self sacrifice, no fear of Father, and on and on—they do not “receive a love of the truth”. The word “truth” in Scripture is equivalent to the word “Torah”—the instructions and teachings of the Kingdom of heaven—the Covenant that He made with His people from Mt. Sinai…onward FOREVER!
Messiah came to renew the Covenant of Yahuweh and to restore the tribes of Ya’cob (Jacob) – Yahuweh’s people – back to the Torah and to Yahuweh through the sacrifice of Himself. Jeremiah 31:31 uses the word “renew”—as a new moon is renewed—the Covenant was renewed with the twelve tribes of Jacob.
In Matthew 26:28, when Messiah lifts up the cup, the Greek word is “renewed covenant in My blood”. Messiah is the living Word—the living Torah. Everywhere in the Word that the Word is referred to is talking about the Tenak—the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings—miscalled by mocking Rome, “The Old Testament”. It is not OLD—it contains hundreds of passages about our day, Messiah’s Kingdom, and eternity. Without being taught the Tenak by the Spirit, no one can know the Father (John 5:46-47; 6:45) Dump the lying counterfeit by repenting of your mistake of being a part of it, and come out into the freedom of knowing the real Elohim of the Scriptures!
He is separating those who are guarding His Word from those who are “without the Torah”. The poor religious fools in Matthew 7:21-23 think they are saved
because they have dealt in signs and wonders supposedly in His name, but He tells them, “I do not know you; Depart from Me, you who are without the Torah”. He is separating those who are true disciples from those fakes who are living for themselves.
Here is how Father is separating now--take note of this story of Gideon in and his 300 warriors in Judges 7. Read the story carefully for yourself—let the Spirit of Yahuweh teach you personally!
Father says (Isaiah 55:7-11) that His ways are not our ways. Therefore, the smart ones learn His ways and conform their thinking to His!
In Judges 3:1-4, He says that he left the enemy in their midst in order to test and prove them, to see if they would stay with Him, or join the enemy.
In Exodus 13, He took them by the long, hard way in order to prevent them from being too scared of the enemy in the land, thus being defeated.
Gideon amassed his army from four of the tribes of Israel (Jacob) to fight an overwhelming army of Midianites. He gathered 32,000 volunteers. These 32,000 were mostly gung-ho guys who thought they would have some adventure, without realizing the reality of the enormous odds against them. They are like most believers who boastfully say they are ready to die for Him, but freak out at a roach on the kitchen counter.
Judges 7: Yahuweh says to Gideon: “THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WITH YOU ARE TOO MANY…”
The reason He gives for the 32,000 being too many is that He would get no honor or esteem if they won. They would pat themselves on the back and go have a pride party. He only gets honor, esteem, and worship, out of a victory by a few who trust Him enough to obey Him…those that He trusts to do the work His way. Those who are into “self” are not submitted to the Master, and therefore they go off with pride and arrogance following their own head-guided ambitions. He can’t and won’t deal with head-guided ambitions! He can only
deal with a few humble ones. (Isaiah 66:1-3) Matthew 7:13-14: The FEW find the narrow gate to the Kingdom!
The first test Yahuweh gives to get the number of soldiers down is found in Joshua 7:3: “WHOEVER IS AFRAID AND TREMBLING, LET HIM TURN BACK”. Twenty two thousand turned back!
Father needs no cowards in His service! If you are in fear of what “might be”, then you do not know Him well enough to be trustworthy in His service—so stay home. He doesn’t need the weak or the whiners.
His army must be trained, disciplined, and fearless. (II Timothy 2:3-6) His army must have forsaken all in order “to please only him who has called them to be a soldier”. He needs mature soldiers who won’t balk at His commands. He does not need scardy-cat weaklings.
In Revelation 21:8, we read that the cowards and the fearful will not inherit the Kingdom of Messiah. If one is fearful, they are not in faith, and faith and fear cannot co-exist. Fear gives honor to what man, demons and Satan can do. Faith overrides anything, believing only what Yahuweh says in His Word!
Ten thousand are left standing with Gideon. How does Yahuweh get them down to 300?
Judges 7:4-5: “Bring them down to the water. Everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a doglaps, SEPARATE HIM FROM EVERYONE who bows down on his knees to drink”.
Verse 7: “BY THE 300 MEN WHO LAPPED, I WILL SAVE YOU, AND SHALL GIVE MIDIAN INTO YOUR HAND. LET ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE GO TO THEIR PLACE”.
Verse 15: “Arise, for Yahuweh has given the camp of Midian into your hand”.
Verses 19-22: The miraculous battle—the miraculous defeat. All Yahuweh’s warriors had to “fight” with were sofars, pitchers, and lights, and good vocal cords, and the Midianites killed each other.
II Corinthians 10:3-6: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war in the flesh. For, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds—casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, and bringing into captivity every thought in obedience to Messiah”.
A good soldier has disciplined his mind, his emotions, his will, his actions and his body. Only the commands of His Captain cause him to react. He has cast down fear, discouragement, rebellion, revolt, and any other thing that would cause him to fail. (II Timothy 2:3-6)
In Judges 7:13, we see that Gideon went in to spy out the enemy camp. Wise soldiers know what the enemy is doing! Gideon overheard a Midianite man telling his dream to others, which was spread throughout the camp, scaring the daylights out of the enemy’s troops. The dream was that he saw one single barley loaf tumbling into the camp of Midian, which smote it so bad and overturned it that it fell down.
This is a fantastic picture of Messiah, who gave His life at the time of the
barley harvest—at Passover—the “bread of life” He compared Himself to was a barley loaf. By His death and resurrection, He smote the enemies of His people.
As Gideon and his mighty 300 moved out towards the camp of Midian, the enemy was confused and confounded by the blast of the shofars, by the breaking of clay pitchers, by the lights held high, and by the shouting of His Name—YAHUWEH! This is true spiritual warfare—sounding the warning blast of the ram’s horn, brokenness before Him--death to the self-life--holding high the Light of the world, and our light from Him, and our shout of His real Name—the Name He has restored to us to defeat the enemy!
Now, as we are having the “restoration of all things” happening, and truth is being made known, only the Name of Yahuweh and Yahushua Yahuweh will defeat the enemy—the pagan names won’t stop the Nephilim, the mutates, the demons/fallen angels, the creatures of Revelation 9, etc.
Young David who became the great King David of Israel was well trained. He had killed the wolves, lions, and bears, defending his sheep. (I Samuel 17) Joshua and Caleb were skilled, trained and disciplined, by following the example of Moses, so that they were unafraid of the 15’-30’ giants—the Anakim. (Numbers 13)
The mighty men who stayed faithful to David when Saul was trying to kill him, were faithful to the end—when David became King. (I Chronicles 11 and 12)
They laid down their lives because they loved David… Messiah demands that if we are going to follow Him, we have to be ready to lay down our lives in obedience and faithfulness to Him, because we love Him. If you love Him, it will cost you everything to remain faithful to Him! If you are not ready to go all the way with Him, realize that you’ve bought into a counterfeit lie.
What were the major characteristics of “those that lapped”, like a dog laps?
Dogs don’t kneel to drink, they keep their legs straight. They keep their eyes forward. They stay focused. They watch. They lap water without lowering their heads into the water. A good soldier must be alert and watching at all times. He must not be found in a compromising situation.
Luke 21:34-36: “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony (self indulgence), drunkenness (mindless uselessness), and the worries of this life, and THAT DAY come on you suddenly. For it shall come as a snare on all those dwelling on the face of all the earth. Watch, therefore, and pray that you may be counted worthy to escape all this about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Adam”. (Italics mine) Sorry, this doesn’t exclude you if you are a skinny teetotaler—this is talking about the Western lifestyle!
When He comes, He will be looking for servants that are watching, faithful, going about His business, and not looking around in laziness. Those that have been diligent to obey Him, He will reward. Those who have been lazy, He will reward. (Matthew 25:13-30) You do not want the reward of the lazy!
Study this passage of Judges 6 and 7. Gideon had a test before Father let him lead the troops. It is found in Judges 6.
Father asked Gideon to tear down his father’s idol to Ba’al. He tore it down. He also tore down the Asherim—the pole -- phallic symbol of Ba’al. Then following Yahuweh’s instructions, Gideon built an altar to Yahuweh and used the wood of the statue to Ba’al to burn the sacrificial animals to Yahuweh.
Isaiah 45:20, 22: “Gather yourselves together and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the gentiles. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that does not save…turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am El and there is none else”.
“Gentile” means: “pagan, heathen, barbarian, foreigner, stranger and alien”—words used to describe Arab tribes, Greeks, and Romans in the Word. Yahuweh never made any covenant with gentiles, nor does He ever call His people “gentiles”. He says He will bring His people out from AMONG the gentiles, and then He will destroy all gentiles. (Please refer to the article: “Are You a Gentile”)
If you have read my mini-book/study “The Foundation of Deception”, or the recent article “The Synagogue of Satan” or other articles that expose the roots of the Ba’al system, you will realize that this passage from Isaiah 45, set in context of the last days, is talking about the man-created religious of Christianity. Even the name “Christ” is the name of a god that comes from the worshippers of Serapis in Alexandria, Egypt. Christianity is a system created by Hellenistic Jews and Greeks in the first century, to counteract the success of the ministry of the Apostles of Yahushua. After the Romans added to it, it became the “church system”—based on a foundation of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Persian sun gods…called in general “the Ba’als”. Ba’al’s symbol is his phallus—like the Washington Monument, church steeples and the Christmas tree. The “carved wood” of this passage is the Roman Catholic crucifix—which is worshipped as a god. The “cross” symbol was invented as a symbol by Constantine—it is an ancient fertility symbol of the Queen of heaven, Asteroth, or Ishtar/Easter. Before that, the symbol of the Torah-guarding believers in Messiah Yahushua was the menorah. In translating the Bible from Greek to Latin, Jerome used the Latin word “crux”, rather than using a word that was equivalent to the Greek word “stauros”, meaning “straight pole, tree, or stake.” This cross/crux cannot save--neither can the figure Catholics put on it. The god IEsous (Yesu/Jesus) is not Yahushua! It is just another Nimrod-based sun god religion that was so close to the real that it became the substitute for those who hated the Torah of Yahuweh, yet wanted out of hell. The Greeks and Romans passed laws against the Torah of Yahuweh, promoting hate against it and Him, by trying to kill off all those who loved the Torah and Him. Today this goes on by the Order of the Jesuits.