It is hard to believe how far people can fall in their lives. We are certainly able to watch it in the lives of celebrities who seem to have it all only to lose so much due to their foolish ways and sinful decisions. But this is not a problem that only afflicts those who are without God. There are many people in the scriptures who are recorded for us to show the great fall that they experienced so that we would learn from them. Unfortunately, Gideon is one of those men whose life takes a catastrophic turn to spiritual disaster. In our last two lessons we have seen the rise of Gideon by the power of the Lord. We were introduced to Gideon as a man hiding in winepress, threshing wheat in order to hide it from the Midianite invaders. We concluded Judges 7 with Gideon taking 300 men by the power of the Lord and defeating the 135,000 Midianite army with only trumpets and torches…

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