Heaven Land Devotions - Jael's Tent of War

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Every time I read about wars that are written in the Bible, I always see the heart and mind of God as to how He sees things. They reveal His emotions, His thoughts and ways. In Judges chapter 4 the children of Israel were oppressed for twenty years under the wicked Canaanite King Jabin of Hazor.

They cried unto God for help and soon after they came to Deborah the wife of Lapidoth for answers. She was the current Judge of Israel who sat under a Palm tree. Yet she does not answer them a word, instead she calls for Barak the commander of Israel's army to come to her.

She asks him why he has not done what God has commanded him to do. Why he has tarried and not done according to the prescription of war. He told her that if she did not go with him then he would not go. She tells him that "God will sell Sisera in the hand of a woman." So she went to war with him and the armies of Israel.

The Lord was already defeating Sisera the commander of King Jabin's army when they arrived to the plain. He fled away on foot because of a sudden flood that disabled his chariot. He fled to Jael's tent and out she came and told him to turn into her tent. She put a blanket on him, fed him "butter in a lordly dish," and he fell into a deep sleep. Jael took a workman's hammer and a tent peg nail and smote him in his temples and he died.

Then Barak came to her tent on foot and she came out to meet him. She told him to come into her tent, and showed him the dead commander. Deborah's song said, "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 woman Jael the wife of Heber fought the battle with a mantle, a cup of milk, a workman's hammer and a nail. This story is not just for women, it is for both men and women who love the Lord. The main Person in view and focus is God in this account. Look at what He does when He gives a charge to war. He will use His people and give them power over and against the will of the enemy. He will give them all out victory. He will give you courage, strength and power.

The final words of Deborah's song will be theirs that fight in the Lord's battles, and will be given the same outcome. "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." Amen.

"Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious." ~Charles Spurgeon