Miracles for the Hebrews

“Peculiar Strategy” The ways of Deity seemed peculiar, even bizarre.   No General alive would approve of His strategy. Imagine it, if you can!   He told them to just march around the city of Jericho and blow trumpets.   But it worked!   The walls with their massive towers, teetered and heaved, and crashed outwards to the earth.   “The wall fell down flat” (Joshua 6:20), permitting the taking of the city.   The walls were caused to fall outward!   Now walls of cities do not fall outward but inward.

When Jericho was excavated (1930-1936) archaeologist Professor Garstang found something so startling that he and two members of the team signed a statement:-

  As to the main fact, there remains no doubt: the walls fell outwards so completely that the attackers would be able to clamber up and over the ruins into the city.

It was discovered that the city at that time had been burned, not looted – again corresponding to the Bible account.

King Jehoshaphat

Another strange strategy occurred in the days of king Jehoshaphat, when the country was invaded by an army that would make anyone tremble.   But the king, with Yahweh’s encouragement, sent out a choir at the head of the army to praise Yahweh for victory – even before the battle started!   What a seemingly ridiculous act!   But it worked.   When the enemy heard the singers claiming victory, they were so alarmed and confused that they simply turned on each other, destroying themselves.

Gideon

Then there was Gideon’s army of 32,000 men.   Yahweh told him that was too many.   So Gideon (although fearful and perplexed at the instructions) kept sending men home, until he had only 300 left. In the dead of night, these men approached the Midianite camp from three directions.   On a signal, every trumpet sounded.   Then, breaking their jugs so that 300 blazing torches were displayed, they rushed shouting, “The sword of Yahweh, and of Gideon,” (Judges 7). Awakened by the noise and the lights on every side, the enemy thought that an overwhelming force was upon them.   Fleeing in panic, they mistook their own men for enemies and destroyed one another!

  What strange methods!   Again and again it happened.   Time after time, by doing that which appeared not very sound, by violating all the rules of war, Yahweh made it plain that there was no way man could have done it.   He himself was at work.

From - Scripture News Digest