(Judg 6:14)  And the LORD looked upon him [the Glory Light suddenly turned on – Gideon got saved], and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel [he will rule as God - the saved] from the hand of the Midianites [brawling, contentious, discord, strife – the unsaved]: have not I sent thee [God’s first affirmation]? (Judg 6:15)  And he said unto him, Oh my Lord [‘Adonay – supreme in authority vs. ‘adon – one in authority – in v.13 (evidence of salvation)], wherewith [how] shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh [poor materially (physically), and poor in spirit], and I am the least [(in value) ignoble] in my father's house. (Judg 6:16)  And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee [God’s second affirmation], and thou shalt smite the Midianites [who have “entered into the land to destroy it” v.5] as one man [unfulfilled prophecy].

1.       “as one man” = Your army shall smite the Midianite host of 135,000 as if they were one man.

2.       “as one man” = Your army shall smite the Midianite host of 135,000 as if you were one man, unified in the Body of Christ – a composite many membered Body with the full mind of Christ, each member of the Body in complete accord, i.e. when the Lord appears (the second coming) – in you.

3.       (Rom 8:18)  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed [to take off the cover, disclosed] in us.

4.       (2 Th 1:7-12)  And to you who are troubled [suffer tribulation] rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

5.       (Rom 12:4,5)  For as we have many members in one body [11x], and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

6.       (2 Tim 2:3,4)  Thou therefore endure hardness [i.e. tribulation], as a good soldier [warrior] of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth [to serve in a military compaign] entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he [Who he?] may please him who hath chosen [selected] him to be a soldier. [You’re in the Army now!

THE ARMY OF GOD IS BEING FIGURATIVELY RAISED UP, TO FULL EMPOWERMENT

Ezek 37:1-14 “and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army”; 1 Th 4:13-18 “to meet the Lord in the air”; Rev 6:12-Rev 7:17 sealing the saints with the fullness; Rev 20:4-6 “the first resurrection”

THE SIXTH SEAL IS OPENING: I HEAR A SOUND…

(Joel 2:1,2)  Blow ye the trumpet [of assembly] in Zion [the fifth feast, The Feast of Trumpets, the fifth seal – Great Tribulation: Rev 6:9-11; 7:13-17 – Judg 6:1 “seven years”], and sound an alarm in my holy mountain [“then the camps (army)… shall go forward” Num 10:1-9]: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble [shake]: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand [the sixth feast, the Feast of Atonement, the sixth seal: Rev 6:12-Rev 7:17];  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness [for the unsaved], //// as the morning [dawn] spread upon the mountains [for the saved]: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like [i.e. a people forevermore walking in the fullness of the Holy Spirit], neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations [i.e. to the end of the Millennium].

1.       (Num 10:9)  And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you [to cramp: adversary, besiege, bind up, shut up], then ye shall blow an alarm with the [two silver] trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

2.       (Exo 14:19,20)  And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel [Jehovah: Exo 13:20,21], removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them [the Egyptians], but it gave light by night to these [the Israelites]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

(Joel 2:3-8)  A fire devoureth before them [a pillar of fire, i.e. they shall then be pillars of fire]; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses [i.e. power, might]; and as horsemen [powerful men, mighty men – “The LORD is with thee (forevermore), thou mighty man of valour” Judg 6:12)], so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops [shaking] of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble [“wood, hay, stubble” 1 Cor 3:12], as a strong [mighty] people set in battle array. Before their face the people shall be much pained [to dance, to writhe in pain]: all faces shall gather blackness [darkness vs. gather light]. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks [i.e. no quarreling: brawling, contentiousness, discord, strife]: Neither shall one thrust another [i.e. no denominational disputings]; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

1.       (Isa 5:26-30)  And he will lift up an ensign [nec, nace; pole] to the nations from far, and will hiss [(as a call)] unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle [belt] of their loins be loosed [“having your loins gird about with the truth” Eph 6:14], nor the latchet of their shoes be broken [i.e. loosed “your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace” Eph 6:15]: Whose arrows [thunder-bolts] are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs [split hoof: cloven-footed] shall be counted like flint [i.e. able to set on fire], and their wheels [a type of Holy Spirit empowerment] like a whirlwind [a type of God]. Their roaring shall be like a lion [the Lion of Judah], they shall roar like young lions [a many membered Body]: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey [Jer 16:16], and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it [rescue it, save]. And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof [the sixth seal: Rev 6:12-Rev 7:17].

2.       (Num 21:5-9)  And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water [but they had the Rock: Num 20:10,11; Psa 78:20]; and our soul loatheth this light bread [manna]. And the LORD sent fiery serpents [burning, poisonous serpents] among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole [nec, nace]: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass [base (as compared with gold or silver): filthiness – i.e. a  type of sin], and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass [i.e. his sin], he lived.

3.       (Luke 3:16)  John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose [break]: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost [salvation – at His first coming] and with fire [judgment – at His second coming – the sixth seal: Rev 6:12–Rev 7:17]:

 (Joel 2:9-11)  They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall [of protection], they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief [1 Th 5:1-5]. The earth shall quake [shake] before them; the heavens shall tremble [shake: 4x]: the sun and the moon shall be dark [darkened: be black], and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong [powerful, mighty] that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

1.       (Rev 6:12,13)  And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal [the sealing of the saints with the fullness of the Holy Spirit; first the officers in the Army of God: Rev 7:4, then the enlisted men and women: Rev 7:9], and, lo, there was a great earthquake [Heb 12:26-28]; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

2.       (Amos 8:12)  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD [the pure, the true, the unadulterated Word of the LORD: Phil 4:8], and shall not find it. [Why not even now? Because the dispensation of Grace is ending - the Light is being withdrawn (2 Th 2:6,7), the land is rapidly darkening, and Judgment cometh].