The tendency is for us to limit God down to what we ourselves are able to do for Him (individually mainly as our expectation of the collective suffers). It must have been astonishing for Gideon to peek in the enemies camp by night and hear what God was in the process of doing for Israel.
Is this Hand against the Philistines evidence of the effect of one holy man or just coincidence that the amount of time was similar to the time of Samuel?