BEFORE GIDEON COULD become Israel’s deliverer, he had to first come to know God in a very real, personal, and reverent way. To bring this about, God revealed Himself in a special way to Gideon. He came to Gideon in the form of “the angel of the LORD,” the Old Testament revelation of the second person of the Trinity which some other notable Old Testament characters also saw in their experience. Hagar was visited by Him in the wilderness by a fountain of water when she
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