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“The Lord said unto him [Gideon], Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it…and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down” (Judges 6:25-26).
The Lord was going to use Gideon, but several things had to happen first. One thing that was most important was that there was an idol to the false god Baal, right in Gideon’s backyard! The Lord told Gideon to destroy the idol and the altar to Baal, and then to take the second bullock and offer a burnt offering unto the Lord. God could not use Gideon until that idol was gone.
We notice how this bullock speaks of Christ, for it had to be the second bullock. Adam was the first man, but Christ is the second man, in the sense that He is now the Head of new creation, as Adam was head of the first creation. Also, the children of Israel had been under the control of the Midianites for seven years, and the bullock was seven years old. God had prepared the bullock as soon as Israel sinned. As soon as sin entered this world, God told Adam that “the seed of the woman (Christ) would crush the serpent’s head.” God knew that sin would come into the world, and had the remedy for it all ready.
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