God is always showing up in the most bizarre places with the most surprising company. It really is a bizarre thing, when you sit down and think about it, that God chose to work through Israel. They were a small, enslaved nation with a tendency to follow after pagan gods. And yet, God promised their father, Abraham, that He would do great things for these, his descendants. As God worked through Israel, it is interesting to see how He so often chose weak and foolish methods to accomplish His purposes (1 Corinthians 1:28). We know the big stories of the Exodus and the rise of David, but there are many stories in the Old Testament where our God is at work in strange, small ways with the least likely of people in the most bizarre of situations. And, all the while, He is accomplishing His purposes in preparing the world for the coming of His Son, Jesus Christ who will come in the most strange way (the eternal God born of a peasant virgin) and save the world through the least likely method (being overtaken by His enemies and crucified on a torturous cross). But that is how our dear Father works, in ways we could never expect.