Rolling Loaves

So Gideon and Purah (a trusted servant) went down into the valley to 'drop some eaves' on the Midianites. What they heard was even more bizarre than the 'sip' test. . . .

A Midianite sentiry had had a dream in which the cheiftain's tent had been flattened by a huge, rolling loaf of barley bread!

Now, dreams held a lot of weight in these times [Gen. 41] and straight away an interpretation came from a fellow Midianite soldier.

A LOAF OF BREAD_ was a common symbol for the Isrealite nation. Also, barley bread was only eaten by poorer classes, which after many years of invasion and oppression, Isreal was.

Now this loaf was rolling towards a Midianite tent. To a Midianite (nomadic), the tent represented life, EVERYTHING.

To these Midianite soldiers, the dream was all too easy to interpret. Their identity, the fibre of their very being, was about o be crushed by the uprising of the poor, humble Hebrews!_little did they know that these 'humble Hebrews' were only 300 strong.

By now God had planted fear, doubt and terror within the Midianite camp.

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