“ Now it
came to pass the same night that the Lord said
to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and
tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside
it; and build an altar
to the Lord your God on
top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer
a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down.” So Gideon took ten men from among his
servants and did as the Lord had
said to him. But because he feared his father’s household and the men of the
city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.” (Judges
6:25-27)
Between Gideon and the altar of
God, which by the way was destroyed, there was the altar of baal! The altar
of God was totally destroyed because during seven years the people had
stopped to challenge,
for this reason they feared the
Midianites!
When there is no
challenge, there is fear! But when there is challenge the
victory is certain!
The
altar of Baal
was standing, which
means that even when the times are
so difficult Gideon's father sacrificed
to Baal.
