No Peace with Amalek
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· 9 viewsWhen God is at war with an enemy, so are we
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14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
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Esau had a son named Eliphaz and he had a son named Amalek.
Amalek grew to be a mighty man, and by the time of the Exodus his descendents had grown into a powerful nation, the Amalekites.
From their very earliest dealings with Israel, they stood against him. Resisted him. Fought against him. Hated him.
The Amalekites fought against Israel in the wilderness in Rephidim. Joshua led Israel against him and he prevailed as long as Moses kept his hands raised.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
16 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Here God gives His people a new covenant Name - “The Lord our Banner”
God swore that He would forever be the enemy of Amalek.
Fast forward to the reign of king Saul - God commands Saul to utterly destroy the Amalekites.
2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
God’s command was to utterly destroy the nation of the Amalekites from off the face of the earth.
There was to be no one and no thing spared. Everything and everyone was to be destroyed.
God’s command is that our enemy is not to be spared. No mercy. No quarter.
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
And that crime was so heinous in God’s sight that He utterly rejected Saul from being king!
The enemies of God are our enemies!
Look how God deals with His enemies:
Not with mercy
Not with compassion
He will have war with them until they are utterly consumed!
There were still surviving Amalekites in the time of David
1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
Because Saul failed to carry out the commandment of the Lord, now David has suffered one of the lowest points of his life.
David’s response to the enemy
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
David recieved answer from the Lord that he was to pursue hard after the enemy, and that if he would do this, he’d get back everything the enemy took from him.
Our response is typically a pity party, and then, once we’ve prayed through about it, a defeated resignation.
Our response ought to be go and pursue after the enemy and take back what he took from you!
We read later that David did indeed recover not just what was taken from him, but everything the enemy had.
Mordecai and Esther
Relate the account of Mordecai not bowing to Haman, and what that does to Haman.
It could be argued that Mordecai is the one to blame for all of this in the first place
If only he’d have submitted to Haman according to the king’s commandment none of this would have happened.
Should he have submitted to the king’s commandment?
Remember who Haman was
He was an Amalekite, one of the sworn enemies of God
He was probably a descendant of king Agag
Should we submit to the enemy so that we can have peace?
You were hand picked by God Himself for this time, and for this place
You were built from the ground up to establish the kingdom of God here on earth