 Ponder this. Proverbs 29, 18 says, where there is no vision, the people perish. We need to see, no matter if God appears to us and an angel is in Gideon long ago, or whether God speaks to us in another form. And if you wish God would speak to you as he spoke to Gideon through the angel of the Lord, remember, you have something better than Gideon ever had, the word of God, the Holy Spirit of God living in you to guide and direct you.