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Deuteronomy 20
Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest out to battle
against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more
than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee,
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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Here we have the rules of engagement which God
gave to Israel when they were making war.
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We can learn from Fathers instruction.
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If God is with you, there is absolutely no
reason to fear.
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You will have the victory.
2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the
battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
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There are very few foxhole atheists.
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The priests were sent to the soldier to pray
with them.
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They were reminding them not to be afraid: God
is with them.
3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye
approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts
faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of
them;
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If God be for us, who can stand against us?
4 For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to
fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
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If God be for us, who can stand against us?
5 And the officers shall speak unto the people,
saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not
dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it.
6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet
eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man eat of it.
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It just would not be right for a man to never
enjoy the fruits of his labor.
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We have a red line being drawn.
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Those on this side of the red line are going to
war, and those on the other side of the red line
are going home.
7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife,
and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he
die in the battle, and another man take her.
8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall
say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and
return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his
heart.
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Cowardice is contagious
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Don't take cowards into battle with your
military
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The courageous men will see the cowards faints
and their own heart will faint also.
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All of you cowards get on the other side of the
red line.
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God instructed Gideon to draw a red line and
invoke the "send the cowards home rule" in the
book of Judges.
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Good reading Judges 7
9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end
of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies
to lead the people.
10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim
peace unto it.
11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee,
then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be
tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against
thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
13 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou
shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is
in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God
hath given thee.
15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give
thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the
Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which
they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your
God.
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it
to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe
against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them
down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the
siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,
thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks
against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be conquered by the
Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly
2520 years later America became a nation on
July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the Lord.
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