Gideon pleaded for another confirmation from God and tested him again. In the second test, he asked for the fleece to be dry and the ground to be covered with dew. And so it was.

Gideon then asked God to give him a physical sign of reassurance saying, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised -- look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor.

Given an unusual amount of space in the Bible, the sixth through the eighth chapters of the Book of Judges, Gideon’s story is one of initial skepticism and eventually powerful faith, ministers ...