The episode begins with a greeting and introduction to reading Judges chapters 8 and 9, titled 'Quebrados para resplandecer' (Broken to Shine). Daglio bases it on Judges 7:16-20, describing how Gideon divided 300 men into three companies, giving them trumpets and empty jars with torches inside. He references the Gideons International's logo of a small vessel with a flame, symbolizing that light must be seen to shine. The Midianite army threatened disobedient Israel, but Gideon, chosen by God, was on the path of obedience. God allowed Gideon to select only 300 men to face the adversary. These brave men held only a trumpet in one hand and a jar with light in the other—specifically empty jars with burning torches inside. They needed nothing else to win; the sole requirements were obedience and breaking the jars at Gideon's signal. Daglio calls this a great figure of the gospel's power. The church is compared to the 300 men versus the Midianite army, limited in number and reasonable power for victory. What works the miracle is the light they carry. It is only necessary to break the jar at the precise moment so the light, which is Jesus Christ, wreaks havoc in the kingdom of darkness. We are merely empty clay jars but with an unmatched power, though it does not belong to us. Daglio quotes 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 about having this treasure in jars of clay so the excellence of power may be of God and not us, afflicted but not crushed, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. This is all God requires of us—not to be numerous but as instruments with a death sentence in their lives so Christ's gospel reaches those still in spiritual darkness. We must heed the same mandate the apostle Paul obeyed from Jesus: to open eyes, turn from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, receiving forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified, as stated in Acts 26:18. Daglio ends with a prayer for Christ's light and the gospel to illuminate a lost world.
