Gideon, judge of Israel: Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Judges 6:14

Gideon's life as a leader and jugde is immersed in the life of the people of Israel after their arrival in Canaan with Joshua, the judges were an aristocracy instituted by Moses on his journey to the promised land. Many of these judges were leaders of Israel who performed superhuman actions like Samson, others more modest like Gideon.
The Book of Judges explains a scheme that is constantly repeated, in which the Israelites abandon the Lord first, then God hands them over to their oppressors as punishment, and finally, at the request of the Israelites, God raises up a savior, a judge to fulfill a spiritual mission. The spiritual meaning of all these teachings is to show the importance of faithfulness and the fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion).
The story of Gideon in the Book of Judges is the story of a God-fearing man who is called by the Lord to deliver his people from the oppression of the Midianites.
This is how the Book of Judges tells us how Gideon was called by the Lord to liberate Israel:
"The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from Midianites. When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, ´The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.´
´Pardon me, my lord,´ Gideon replied, ´but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ´Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?´ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.´
The LORD turned to him and said, ´Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian´s hand. Am I not sending you?´" Judges 6:11-14.

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