Deuteronomy
20 Warfare
The
question any nation should consider – and certainly a so-called civilized and
Christian nation – is whether this is a war that God is in. If He isn’t in it,
then we shouldn’t be in it either. We need to make sure that we are on God’s
side.
God
puts down four conditions which would keep a man from going to battle. 1. If a
man has built a new home and has not had the opportunity to live in it. this is
because his heart would be in the new home. 2. He had just planted a vineyard;
Because he hasn’t had the opportunity to eat a grape off it yet. 3. He is
engaged to a girl, and he gets drafted. He is in love with that girl; he wants
to marry her. That is where his heart is, and he is not to go to war. 4. If a
man was afraid, faint-hearted, fearful, he was not to go.
This
law was applied to Gideon’s army. He started out with 32,000 men who rallied to
him to free their nation from the oppression of the Midianites who impoverished
them. Whoever was fearful and afraid could go home! 22,000 men picked up their
gear and went home. Those who lapped like a dog and were all set to go wanted
to free and save their nation. So, they were the ones who went to war, and the
others went home.
Two
things God wants us to know before we go: 1. We must be on His side. We must be
fighting for what is right and know that God is with them. 2. We must be
enthusiastic about it. If we fight a war, we are to fight to win- that is the
purpose of it. And that is exactly what God says, we have no business to fight
a war unless we are fighting to win it.
Please read the chapter listed so that you can understand
God’s Word better.
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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick
Reference Commentary.
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