The tents of Midian were toppled by a loaf of barley bread

 Judges 7:25 - King James Version (KJV)

<25> And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

We often make the claim that the old testament histories encode spiritual information into narrative form, and examples of this have often been shown.

In this case, it should be obvious to everyone that the verse is not important in a historical sense, where it sounds ridiculous. Do we slay so and so at the rock so and so? Do we slay Gaddafi at the winepress Gaddafi?

We do not, in general! What then matters? What matters is the array of the correspondences; which weave together predicates of heart and mind, will and understanding.

The rock and wine are both predicates of divine truth, and princes are subordinate truths. The correspondences are in the reversed or tails position; and as such indicate  opposing and defeating spiritual falsehoods.

Judges 7:13 - King James Version (KJV)

<13> And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

This bread which is the good of love is the antidote to a life in which spiritual truths are known but not applied.

When goodness joins itself to ideation appropriate to it, then it is like flesh in a basket burnt up, and the broth in the pot poured out, a combination well pleasing to the Lord. Judges 6:19

Judges 6:19 - King James Version (KJV)

<19> And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

It is thus that the loaf of barley bread overturns the host of the Midianites, destroying the falsities which allow for the justification of living a life of spiritual knowledge but not spiritual practice.

It is similar to the way that wood healed the bitter waters at Mara. Or again, it is like the anointing of stones and kings. This is how the Old Testament histories may gradually be opened to one keenly aware of correspondences, whether they are heads or tails, and the message to those who would practice love of God and the neighbor; those two great commandments on which all the law and all the prophets and all the histories hang.

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