TODAY’S PROPHETIC NUMBERS

October 12, 2024 – 10/12/2024
10 – Perfect Order
12 – Perfect Government

THE PERFECT COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

Know your enemy. It’s not the person across from you with a different skin color or point of view. It is satan, plain and simple. Joshua found this out after miraculously crossing the Jordan with 4 million Jews looking to take the land God promised them, starting with the walled city of Jericho. 

Now Jericho was an evil society where babies were burned alive as sacrifices and women were raped in the temples of the false gods of Ashera and Baal. They had no value for human life and violence ran rampant. Joshua was waiting on God’s battle plan when the most amazing thing happened: 

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, ‘Are you for us or for our enemies?’ 

Neither’ he replied, ‘but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.’ Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, ‘What message does my Lord have for his servant?’” – Joshua 5:13-14 

Of course, the Commander of the Lord’s Army is Jesus himself! But what fascinates me is His reply to Joshua’s question – “Neither.” 

As Christians, aren’t we in the right? Isn’t God on my side and doesn’t He want to smite those I feel are against His people and His commands? No. He wants to redeem them.  If the people of Jericho would have turned from evil and followed the King of Kings, Jesus would’ve forgiven them and spared them. 

When you’re locked in a debate over race, sexuality, abortion, politics, guns, immigration or any other hot button topic in the headlines, know this: the person (or mob) you’re arguing with is not the enemy. God wants to redeem them through love and offer them salvation. 

The enemy of our times is satan. So, take control of the atmosphere! Get off whatever bandwagon you’re on and get to what really matters — loving people into the Kingdom of Heaven. The days are not only evil — they are short! 

Declaration:  I am a thermostat, not a thermometer, I can change the atmosphere around me.  Where there is anger, I can be a peacemaker; where there is suffering, I can bring comfort.  When there is great sadness, the joy of the Lord that is in me will overflow.  Lord, make me an instrument of Your Peace in the world today. 

From My Book:  Daily Transformation 365 Day Devotional Book