Psalm 83 Battle

Always Victorious

Throughout Biblical history Israel has had many enemies. The enemies of Israel never took them captive less God sought to draw their hearts away from idolatry of the nations and back to Him. And when Israel’s hearts were no longer hardened and they cried out to God, God was and is always victorious over all Israel’s enemies.

This war is just as biblically prophetic and the same as those of ancient days.

This battle we are seeing today is called the Psalm 83 Battle.

First, you need to understand that as followers of Yeshua, those who are truly grafted into this covenant, should feel for Israel during this time because they are our family. They are not of a different covenant but the same covenant Yeshua grafted you into.

Psalm 83 was written by Asaph who was a canter for David. A canter is one who sings the Torah. Asaph was during the time of Gideon. This is important to remember.

Psalm 83:2–8 ESV

For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant— the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

The covenant of the terrorist is to wipe the name of the God of Israel off the face of the earth. What we have here is a war of covenants. Remember these people are decedents of those going back from Goliath to Naomi’s daughter-in-law who did not make covenant with Naomi’s God and back to the people of the land of Canaan. These people listed here in this Psalm are of the same people who were in the land during those days.

This battle is taking place on the same grounds as many other Biblical battles you see throughout Scripture. Gaza is the Biblical the area of Philistia.

Remember when Gideon raised an army and God told him it was too many. Remember that God weeded Gideon's army down to 300. Do you know how many Israel drafted for this current battle? 300,000.

Ecclesiastes 3:14–15 ESV

I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

This battle has already happened once. This battle is happening again that the fear of God may be. God was victorious then and He will be victorious now.

This battle will bring all Israel in peace (Eastern Concept; all those who oppose the God of Israel are put down) with Israel’s neighbors.

The problem for us is that we have taken Israel’s enemies, the enemies of the God of Israel, into our land. They are on our soil and in our communities. And they are in as much of a covenant with wiping us off the map as they are Israel because they know our history as a nation who was established on the same covenant as that with the God of Israel. But as a nation, we have forgotten.

So, how do we pray? Pray as they did in the Psalm 83:18

Psalm 83:18 ESV

that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.