oSee ver. 13-15
Genesis 15:8
8But he said, “O Lord God, ahow am I to know that I shall possess it?”Exodus 4:1-9
Moses Given Powerful Signs
1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, b“A staff.” 3And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. 4But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5“that they may cbelieve that the Lord, dthe God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” 6Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” ▼▼Hebrew into your bosom; also verse 7
And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was fleprous ▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
like snow. 7Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, hit was restored like the rest of his flesh. 8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile iwill become blood on the dry ground.” Judges 6:17
17And he said to him, j“If now I have found favor in your eyes, then kshow me a sign that it is you who speak with me.Judges 6:21
21Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. lAnd fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.Judges 6:36-40
The Sign of the Fleece
36 mThen Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.” 38And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. 39Then Gideon said to God, n“Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.” 40And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.Judges 7:11
11 oAnd you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” pThen he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.Judges 7:13-14
13When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.” 14And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”Psalms 86:17
17 qShow me a sign of your rfavor,that those who hate me may see and be put to shame
because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
Isaiah 7:14
14Therefore the sLord himself will give you a sign. tBehold, the uvirgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name vImmanuel. ▼▼ Immanuel means God is with us
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