Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands

 Judges 7:9-22

During that night the Lord said to Gideon, “Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.”

Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.” His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.”

When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands.” Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.

When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

The Barley loaf stands for Isreal, the tent for the nomadic Midianites

Why?

Gideon was afraid to attack the whole enemies of Midianite. So the Lord asked he went down to the camp to listen to the dream of Midianite.

It is the Lord who caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. So Israelite did not attack them. Only three hundred men bring them victory.

So Gideon bow down to the Lord and worshiped.

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神如何讓基甸有膽量?這就是最後的印證了，以後就有足夠的信心去打仗了。

1.順服中給最後的印證，因為人已經有足夠的信心。給同工，給他壯膽。從敵人口中說出來的。基甸真的是害怕的，神知道他害怕。神知道我們的情況，神不因此輕看我們，體恤我們的軟弱，信心不足。神透過不同方式讓我們有信心。約書亞、掃羅、大衛都有這樣的例子。

夢和夢的講解有三方面含意。連敵人都這麼說，難道我們還不相信嗎？基甸因此敬拜神，明白神真了解我。這個夢和夢的講解透過敵人，夢境沒有出現基甸、刀，神，約阿司的兒子，解夢的人卻都說出來。後來基甸就以「基甸的刀」來呼喊。這個印證太重要了，基甸要進入敵營才能聽見這些話。基甸敢進入敵營就要有信心的第一步。信心本身要冒險。一旦願意踏出信心的第一步才能經歷，得到大信心。1.火，2.羊毛前兩次是基甸主動要求，這次是神給的。義是本於信，因於信。

耶和華和基甸的刀：基甸只聽到基甸的刀，他加上耶和華，因為他知道這是耶和華的緣故。當我們已經知道會打勝仗，我們還會記得神嗎？為何不說耶和華的刀?基甸的刀是出於解夢的，保留了。這是耶和華的刀，也是基甸的刀。前面，過程，成果都是神的工作，讓我們在其中，讓我們同享榮耀。

打破瓶子的聲音讓人驚恐，平時在家中，在餐廳都讓我們特別刺耳，300個瓶子輪流打破。基甸的人也沒有說殺敵人，都是敵人彼此對殺，都是神在工作。

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How?

Give praise to the Lord for my God is mighty and full of mercy.