{"id":958,"date":"2016-01-11T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lion-of-judah.eu\/mmus\/?page_id=958"},"modified":"2016-01-11T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:49:20","slug":"gideon-army","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/?page_id=958","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Army?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><span class=\"notranslate\">Gideon Army?<span id=\"transmark\" style=\"width: 0px;height: 0px\"><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> The story of the 300 Spartans is well acquainted with the latest since the broadcast of the film on\u00a0TV\u00a0.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"> Of course only a movie &#8211; albeit a good &#8211; but it is based on a true story, the battle of the Thermophyen took place\u00a0in the year 480 <\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">BC <\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> A relatively small Greek army of about 6,000 soldiers held in a bottleneck a much larger force of the Persian Empire (50000-200000 man) for several days on.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> Until they, caused by a betrayal, could be taken from both sides in a pincer movement.<\/span> A<span class=\"notranslate\">ll the 300 Spartans, who had borne the brunt of the fight, lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> Nearly 1,000 years before that event also a battle with similar power relations took place, but <\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">herein\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">300\u00a0men <\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">won, <\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">without any losses against the enemy, consisting of the united armies of Midian, Amalek and other eastern nations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"> Originally, the army of Israel persist out of 32,000 people, but God dictated that all who were fearful or despondent should go home.<\/span> <span class=\"notranslate\"> Then disappeared 22,000 men from the battlefield, only for God\u00a0 the rest was far too numerous.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"> He started to select the men, not by their aptitude but by their character, so that only 300 brave warriors still remained.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"notranslate\"> Together and under God&#8217;s guidance Gideon succeeded with his fighters a complete victory over the enemy, who did not fall\u00a0of them sought salvation in panicky flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notranslate\"> This historic event is a great example of that\u00a0under God&#8217;s guidance and in fraternal unity with one another, nothing is too big or impossible!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Army? The story of the 300 Spartans is well acquainted with the latest since the broadcast of the film on\u00a0TV\u00a0. Of course only a movie &#8211; albeit a good &#8211; but it is based on a true story, the battle of the Thermophyen took place\u00a0in the year 480 BC . A relatively small Greek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-958","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}