Gideon Part II: The Dwindled Army

The Chosen People

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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# 130 - Gideon Part II: The Dwindled Army - In this episode of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein, Gideon’s victory over Midian should have ended in gratitude—but instead, it sparked a descent into pride, vengeance, and idolatry. In this episode, we witness how a humble servant of God becomes a compromised leader, revealing the danger of forgetting who truly gives the victory.Episode 130 of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Sign up for The Chosen People devotionals at https://www.thechosenpeople.com/sign-upFor more information about Yael Eckstein and IFCJ visit https://www.ifcj.org/Today's opening prayer is inspired by Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” Listen to some of the greatest Bible stories ever told and make prayer a priority in your life by downloading the Pray.com app.Show Notes:(01:46) Intro with Yael Eckstein(02:23) Gideon Part II: The Dwindled Army(25:01) Reflection with Yael Eckstein See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on the Chosen People.
0:03.0	Before the breaker of chains came, the Lord would send lesser heroes,
0:09.0	fractured and broken images of the deliverer to come.
0:13.0	Over the southern hills, dark shapes emerged, a seething, writhing mass of swift and unrelenting Medianite marauders.
0:23.6	Keep planting, Israel.
0:26.6	Raise your livestock. Press your grapes and harvest your grain.
0:33.6	Tend to your orchards, as you have always done.
0:40.3	But know this, what you saw is ours.
0:46.3	Refuse, and we will kill you.
0:51.3	Obey.
0:53.3	And perhaps we will leave you just enough to survive
0:58.0	the Lord is beside you and before you Gideon son of Jewish
1:02.0	Nobody in their right mind would send me rescue anyone
1:06.0	If you were the Lord you'd know that
1:08.0	I'm somewhat of a professional coward.
1:12.2	That night, as he lay in his tent, he thought of the heroes of old.
1:18.0	Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah.
1:22.0	Their bravery felt like a distant legend, something unattainable.
1:27.3	He was nothing like them.
1:29.6	He was consumed by his weakness, crippled by his fear.
1:35.0	But this, Gideon did not yet realize, was precisely why God had chosen him.
1:45.6	This is an I-Heart podcast.
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