The Enemy's Weapon

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Have you ever noticed how Satan likes to take things that mean something good to us, or the people closest to us and use them against us? He also uses what is a weakness of ours, or things that frighten us the most. In other words, he attacks us with whatever he believes will cause the most damage to us, whether it is physical, emotional, or especially spiritual. We aren’t the only ones he goes after and tries to hurt. God Himself is Satan’s favorite target. The only way Satan can hurt God is to turn God’s children away from Him. That hurts God’s heart in a way we can never understand. That breaks God’s heart because He knows that means utter, eternal destruction for that person.

So how does God protect us from these attacks? Let’s look at a few examples.  

Jericho was an evil city and God needed to take it out. The people of Jericho had built a heavy wall around the city to protect themselves from the Israelites.

God told Joshua to have the Israelite army and priests with their trumpets walk around the city wall in silence each day for six days. On the seventh day they were to walk around it seven times. The priests were to blow their trumpets and the army was to shout. Guess what. The wall that had been built to protect Jericho fell to the ground. The city was completely unprotected and the Israelite army destroyed the people of Jericho and their city. God used the wall they raised to fight off God’s army to make them totally vulnerable and defeat them without Joshua’s army ever having to fight. Not one person on God’s side was lost or even injured. Furthermore, God saved Rahab, the prostitute who had helped His people, and He saved her whole family. When we follow God into battle we cannot lose because God does not lose.

When king Nebuchadnezzar made a decree that everyone was to bow down and worship his statue, the three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to do so. The king asked them if they were not afraid of the furnace. They replied that they did not need to defend themselves. They said they knew God was able to save them, but whether He saved them or not they still would not bow to the king or his statue. King Nebuchadnezzar became furious and told his strongest soldiers to tie them up and throw them into the furnace which had been heated seven times hotter than usual. The fire was so hot it killed the soldiers. When the king looked into the furnace he not only found them walking around in the fire, but there was a fourth man walking in the fire also. Nebuchadnezzar described the fourth man as looking like the Son of God. Jesus had walked into the fire with His sons, saved them, and used the fire to kill their enemy.

When the giant, Goliath, challenged God’s army to a one-on-one fight with their best soldier no one would accept the challenge because Goliath was over nine feet tall and they were afraid of him. When David, who was quite small, showed up and saw the situation he said he would fight him. He refused the armor that was put on him because it was too heavy and bulky. David took his slingshot which was his weapon of choice and faced the giant. When Goliath saw David and his slingshot he laughed and made fun of him. David simply took the slingshot and hurled one stone at Goliath striking him in the forehead. Many people believe David slew Goliath with his slingshot, but the Bible says the stone knocked him out. The truth was David took the huge sword Goliath planned to kill David with and he cut off the giant’s head.

Over and over we see in the Bible where God takes what the enemy uses to defeat God’s children and uses it against the enemy to defeat them instead.

So, when you see Satan coming after you with his strongest weapon, look up because your deliverance is near, and it very well might be Satan’s own weapon that God will use to defeat him.

Think about it.