DESTROYING ARROWS, No. 3, WE MUST DESTROY THEM ALL!

Numbers 33: 55, 56 (HCSB) says: “But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live. And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.”

Do you realize that the kingdom for which we fight, shooting forth our arrows, is the kingdom that will eventually rule the whole earth?

We read in Daniel 2:1-49 of a dream the heathen king, Nebuchadnezzar received in the second year of his reign. Even though the king could not remember the dream, he knew it was very important, for his spirit was troubled and he could not sleep any more. Therefore, the king commanded his magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dream.

After reasoning with the king concerning his unreasonable request to reveal his forgotten dream, the king became very angry. He then commanded all the so-called wise men of Babylon to be destroyed and their houses to be made a dunghill!

However, God showed Daniel, a Jew from Judah, the king’s dream as well as the interpretation, which saved not only his life and the lives of his three Jewish friends, but the lives and families of all the so-called wise man of Babylon.

We read part of the interpretation in Verses 44, 45: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it SHALL STAND FOREVER. For as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure.”

We notice that the stone, cut from the mountains without man’s hands, broke in pieces and consumed all the kingdoms represented in the image and became an everlasting kingdom.

We can be assured of this eternal truth that no matter how powerful, glorious, and wise the kingdoms of man may be, they will, without doubt, be broken and utterly destroyed by the kingdom represented by the stone, cut out of the mountain without hands.

This stone or rock is none other than Jesus Christ who is the “rock of ages (Exodus 33:22).” He is the rock upon which the He builds the church (Matthew 16:18). Jesus Christ is the rock on which those who hear His words and obey them will never fall (Matthew 7:24-27).

True believers are the arrows of this ETERNAL CONQUERING KINGDOM.

God’s arrows are meant to destroy ALL the enemies of Christ’s kingdom. 1 John 3:8 says: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

King Saul was way too casual with the explicit command of God regarding the Amalekites to “UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THAT THEY HAVE, AND SPARE THEM NOT” (1 Samuel 15:3).

Because he only obeyed partly, but did not destroy them all, God said to Saul through the prophet Samuel: “Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken that the ft of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king” (1 Samuel 15:22,23).

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell