Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
"And Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah"  (Judges 6:22).  Only the power of God could have wrought the wonder which Gideon had just witnessed, and the full realization of what had happened swept over him chilling his heart with fear.  Gideon was familiar with the Five Books of Moses (Yes, they most certainly existed when Samuel wrote the Book of Judges), and the passage in  Exodus 33:20 came instantly to mind: "No man shall see me (God) and live."  The fear that clutched at Gideon's heart came from the knowledge that no man could see God and live.