Saturday, April 4, 2020
Judges 5:24 says, Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. The song now singles out one woman, Jael, the wife of Heber. Not all the heroes of the Bible were men, and not all the heroes of Christianity today are men. Verse twenty-five says, He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. There is a recounting of what she did. When Sisera asked Jael for water, she gave him milk, seemingly only wanting to do more than was asked of her. Verse twenty-six adds, She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. Jael drove a nail through the head of Sisera and then cut his head off. He had escaped the battle and evidently felt safe where he was. The enemies of God may feel safe where they are today, but they will not escape God's judgment, even if they feel that they have managed to save themselves. Verse twenty-seven states, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. This would imply that Sisera had bowed down to Jael, possibly in gratitude, and he fell where he bowed. Sisera had been a powerful king, but he was killed by a simple housewife. God can use those who seem the least powerful of people to accomplish His work. Verse twenty-eight says, The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? We are told that the mother of Sisera looked out her window crying, wondering why his chariot was so long in returning. She had expected a quick defeat of the enemy, because the army of Sisera seemed to be better equipped for the battle. She forgot that Sisera and his army were opposing the people of God. There will be much weeping for loved ones who do not accept Christ as their Savior and Lord when God's judgment comes, and there will be no place to run away and hide from His judgment. Verse twenty-nine adds, Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, The song says that the wise ladies of Sisera's mother answered her, but their wisdom was not from God, so it was of little value. The answers from people who do not know God will never really be answers based on wisdom. Verse thirty continues, Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? Sisera's mother still expected him to return victorious with his army and the spoils of war. Lost people of the world today still expect to be victorious over God and His people, but there will be no everlasting spoils of war. They may look with hope, but only defeat is coming. Verse thirty-one concludes, So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. The song concludes with praise to God once again, asking that the enemies of God's people might fall. This would be contingent on God's people being obedient, and evidently they were for forty years.
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