The enemy had the upper hand for a season, but THE TIME CAME FOR THE RISING OF GOD AND HIS PEOPLE!
31 ‘So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
BUT MAY ALL WHO LOVE YOU BE LIKE THE SUN
WHEN IT RISES IN ITS STRENGTH.’
Then the land had peace for forty years (40 years, time of a generation; rose to serve God wholeheartedly – coming once again in our day). Judges 5
The Victory Song of Deborah and Barak, which we mentioned yesterday, was longer than the Biblical account of the battle against the Canaanite enemies. God and His people were deserving of more Praise than the enemy.
There’s much of note in this prophetic Song of Victory.
2 ‘WHEN THE PRINCES IN ISRAEL TAKE THE LEAD,
WHEN THE PEOPLE WILLINGLY OFFER THEMSELVES –
praise the Lord! Judges 5
There are those who are called to lead, but the people have TO OFFER THEMSELVES in service to God for His purpose.
4 ‘When you, Lord, went out from Seir,
when you marched from the land of Edom,
THE EARTH SHOOK…
5 THE MOUNTAINS QUAKED before the Lord …
Antarctica and the southern oceans are experiencing repeated large earthquakes, God is ON THE MOVE to expose hidden works in that area today.
12 “WAKE UP, WAKE UP, Deborah!
WAKE UP, WAKE UP, break out in song!
ARISE, Barak! (Barak means Lightning, a lightning strike) Take captive your captives …
Four times the word says WAKE UP! Then ARISE Barak – strike the enemy. God has been trying to awaken His people to what has been going on in our time, just as He did with Deborah.
Verses 13-18 identified those who took part in the battle and those who did not. Heaven knew and recorded the part each played in the fight against the enemy. The last verse of this section notes that some went at risk of their lives;
18 The people of Zebulun risked their very lives;
so did Naphtali on the heights of the field.
The enemy kings fought, but this time there was no plunder for them – God was on the Battle Field!
19 ‘Kings came, they fought,
the kings of Canaan fought.
… they took no plunder of silver.
20 From the heavens the stars fought,
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21 MARCH ON, MY SOUL; BE STRONG! (Hallelujah, Great encouragement for the battle)
The people today have been plundered by the enemy for a long time, but God is moving to end the stronghold of His enemy.
24 ‘Most blessed of women be Jael, (her name comes from the Hebrew for ‘wild mountain goat’, also from verb ‘to be useful’)
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
Jael slew the enemy who thought he’d found a safe place in the tent, but he lay down never to wake again. (No safe places for the enemies of God)
The Victory Song ends with A CALL to God’s people to be like the sun when it rises in its strength. RISE AND SHINE, God’s call to us today, a unique generation is coming in the earth to fulfil His End Time purpose. May He be greatly honoured and glorified as in Deborah’s Song.
God bless and keep you today.