Who Can Battle With The Lord?

“Who can battle with the Lord?

Who can battle with the Lord?

Who can battle with the Lord?

I say, NOBODY!”

The lyrics of this chorus aptly sums up the awesome power of our God! Nobody fights with God and wins.

Ask Pharaoh of Egypt!

Ask Haman the Agagite!

Ask Jonah as he tries to run away from serving God!

Ask King Sennacherib as he tries to overrun Jerusalem!

Nobody fight against God and wins!

This is the confidence that every child of God should have, for the Bible says in Romans 8:31:

 ”If God is for us, who can be against us?” NIV

Let us look at the four examples of those who tried to fight against God and their woeful end.

Pharaoh was the King of Egypt and after 430 years of slavery , he was not about to let the children of Israel take off and leave just like that.He had enjoyed free labor and was used to oppressing them as he pleased. So, when Moses, who had been raised in the palace of Pharaoh and was considered a Prince in Egypt, until he murdered an Egyptian, came back after 40 years of running away, to ask for the release of his people, Pharaoh thought it was a huge joke! However, God was not joking with Pharaoh. He had heard the cry of his children through their suffering and was ready to help them leave their land of bondage and captivity.

In Exodus 5:1-5:

“Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”

2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.”

3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

4 But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!” 5 Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.” NIV

Pharaoh did not know and realize that he was dealing with the Lord of Hosts, a tested war General that has never lost a battle!

In Exodus 15: 3, the Bible says :

“The Lord is a man of war;

The Lord is His name.” NKJV

Well, Pharaoh and all of Egypt learnt a hard lesson. After the Lord had visited them with the 10 plagues of Egypt, they were the ones that begged the Israelites to leave! They even gave them anything they asked for, thus paying Restitution for all the years of slavery. However, Pharaoh was still not done with his folly.

After they had departed, he went after them in a fury to bring them back to Egypt. When the Lord parted the Red Sea to make Israel cross to the other side, he did not think that was a strange thing. Instead, he went after them and Pharaoh and his men became “fish sandwich”, as the sea swept them all into a watery grave!

“Who can battle with the Lord?”

Nobody!

Haman the Agagite also tried very hard to exterminate a whole nation, simply because Mordecai the Jew refuse to bow down to him show him respect. Haman had been promoted as the highest ranking government official and his position had gone into his head. He felt that he could do anything and get away with it, especially since he had then ears of King Ahaseurus. He consulted his magicians to find the most favorable day that he can wipe out all the Jews living in the Kingdom of Ahaseurus. A date was chosen and as Haman went to dinner with the King, the nation reeled in disbelief.

However , unknown to Haman, God was quietly working behind the scene to work salvation for his own children. Just like that , the tide turned! Haman was identified by Queen Esther to her husband the King , that Haman wanted to kill her people, for she was a Jew and Mordecai was her uncle.

Haman, who was power-drunk had built gallows, 70 feet high to hang Mordecai on it. By the divine power of God, Haman was himself hanged on the gallows he had built to kill Mordecai!

Talk about the justice of God!

Perhaps if Haman had listened to the words of his wife and friends, he would not have perished .In Esther 6:12-13, the Bible says:

“ When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.” NIV