Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
God fights because He is Jehovah the Man of war, the Lord
strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
God fights in diverse ways through elements of creation, with the sword
of His mouth – Revelation Chapters 2 verse 16, 1 verse 10, 2 verse 12, 11
verses 3 to 6, Significantly, God has numerous weapons at His disposal. He
therefore deploys whichever best suits His purpose. After all, He is the
Creator and Owner of everything created. Please read Genesis Chapter 1. Before
anything existed, the Word had already existed alongside God because the Word
is God; the Creator of everything that exist and will ever exist.
Importantly, God has a beautiful and unparalleled history of
always fighting victoriously for His own. He fought for Abraham over seemingly
powerful kings of his day who took Sarah away from him. Please Genesis Chapters
12 from verses 10 to 20 and 20. Please read Exodus Chapters 15 verse 3: 14
verses 13 to 14, 23 to 41, for in depth details of how God overthrew Pharaoh,
his army and chariots in the red sea;
Psalm 24 verse 8, Joshua Chapters 10 verses 1 to 43, 11 verse 20 of how
God fought for the Israelites against the nations who attempted to stop their
progress to Canaan; 1st Samuel Chapters 5 verses 1 to 12, 6 of how
God afflicted the people of Ashdod, Gath and Ekron with tumors for receiving
and hosting the Ark of God. Some of the people even died. It was only after
they returned the Ark with trespass offerings that they were free. Even the men
of Beth Shemesh, fifty thousand and seven of them were struck down because they
dared to look into the Ark of the Lord, an act of great irreverence as they had
no business whatsoever looking into the Ark of God.
The Bible records that God thundered against the Philistine
army from heaven, confused them because they rose against Israel while Samuel
was offering burnt offerings for Israel. The Philistines were consequently
overcome by the Israelites and were subdued to the point where they had to
restore occupied cities to Israel. They also stayed away from Israel. Please
read 1st Samuel Chapter 7 verses 6 to 14. God also empowered David,
an unschooled warrior to kill an experienced giant warrior like Goliath. Please
read 1st Samuel Chapter 17 for details.
