Not normally a Biblefag here, but I consider myself a man of faith. I have had the story of Gideon from the OT on my mind much of late and I think I know why.

In Gideon's time the Israelites had turned to false gods, and were suffering. They cried out to their one true God for help, not realizing the reason for their suffering.

An angel came to a good man named Gideon and wanted him to lead his people against their enemies and back to God. After some quite amazing gamesmanship with the angel, Gideon agrees and raises an army of 32,000 men.

God, through the angel tells him that is too many any instructs him how to reduce the number, which he does… to 10,000. God, in n his inscrutable ways, tells Gideon this is still too many, and tells Gideon how to further cull the number… to 300.

Now, the enemy he faced was described as being as numerous as the locust in a field. But Gideon held fast and planned an attack with 3 companies of 100 men.

What followed was a slaughter… but not like you'd think. God made their enemies turned on each other, and wiped the majority of their forces out. The rest were easily finished off by Gideon's small force.

The message? We are being culled here, anons. God (or random chance, to our atheist anons), will handle the numbers. All we have to do it stay faithful and true to our beliefs.

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