finally reached a point where he did accomplish great things. Hebrews looks at the final result, and teaches that Christians should look like Gideon when he stepped out in confidence. The Gideon cycle is about the believer’s struggle to believe God when things are bad. The Spirit of Yahweh clothed Gideon. Thus invested, Gideon sent his own angels (“messengers” [Judg. 6:35]) and gathered Israel. But even so, he wanted to see a sign (the fleece). So the issue continued to be about faith. The question