The Game One Defeat Of The Midianites #TonyandDurant

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+------The Game One Defeat Of The Midianites 

Kevin, your basketball skills,
the angel of the Lord, your jump shot
his sword forged by fate’s blacksmiths
in Mount Zion’s mines, your court
vision his staff of wisdom-analytics
firmly clenched. Watching... your hopes
and dreams - film studies, free-throw
honing, gym sessions- like Gideon
threshing wheat in a winepress
whispering jeremiads of last year's
losses. Striving to keep your
goals safe from the Cleveland
Cavaliers, savage court-Midianites,
unscrupulous floppers. And now, angel-
speak: KD “go in the strength you have
and save [Golden State] out of Midian’s
hand. Am I not sending you?” Tonight’s
win, your meat (GOAT), bread offerings
miraculously burned as holocaust by
the staff. Smoke rising from your
Game 1 victory as confirmation:
the favor of the NBA Finals God
is with you.              (You shall win it all)

-----Gideon 6:7-22
When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.” 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 the 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?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.” Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”