![]() Ěddiction to food, drugs, sleep, all of which can make us to be cold and inactive spiritually.Ěn axe must not get rusted otherwise, it becomes blunt and will not be able to chop anything. Every believer in Christ must be skillful in the use of the sword of the Spirit for both defensive and offensive actions. The Bible says he walks about looking for who to devour, that is while we must never relax in battle against the powers of darkness. The devil is occupied 24hours of the day and he fires arrows at people, day and night. I challenge everyone of us to rise up to the task of living according to the will of God so that we can actually be the mighty instruments that God intends us to be. Some Christians are tools and toys in the hands of the devil, but that is not the will of God. The truth is that the devil knows the stand and the worth of every one. It is very painful that some Christians are lukewarm and some are living a deceptive life. He knows the Christians that cannot be a razor blade, talk less of battle axes. He is battle-ready at all times with a well orgainze agents of darkness in his kingdom The devil is aware of this fact so he is vigilant. He has therefore invested and entrusted His power to us, so that we can achieve this purpose effectively without fail. God expects every Christian to be His battle-axe, which he will use in destroying the kingdom of darkness. The one that has capacity to cut things easily without getting damaged. Ě good axe must be sharp, strong, powerful and easy to use. We shall look at this study under 3 sub-headings:ģ]Ĝases of people who served as God’s battle axe. I pray that every hold of Satan and his kingdom over your life shall be broken in Jesus name. Many Christians have died untimely due to attacks from the powers of darkness and some are in hell because they refused to be the battle-axe of God. A lot of satanic activities are going on, and they are all out to fight the kingdom of God, and to prevent the saints from getting there. The world is a battle-field, and a place of darkness. The Lord wants to destroy many Pharaohs today, and He looks for the Moses that will serve as His instrument of battle, may He found you as one in Jesus name. Pharaoh did not see God, but he saw God’s power working through Moses. Ğx 7:1 Whatever God would have done to Pharaoh, He will do it through Moses. It has capacity to cut down, root up and break into pieces the strong holds of the enemy. Ě battle axe is a weapon in the hands of the warrior that can bring down the enemy. It was God Himself that fought with Goliath by making use of David as His battle axe. He intends to fight battles through you. ěeing God’s battle axe means you are His weapon of warfare. No warrior goes to battle without a weapon to fight. Ğvery warrior goes to battle with weapons of warfare trusted, effective and reliable. The Hebrew and Greek texts are divided in (single) clauses.- God is a warrior and He is mighty in battle. Where the Greek text is longer than or different from MT, I have marked such variant by means of italics. I have used the following conventions: where the Hebrew text of MT lacks an equivalent in LXX, I have marked such a minus in the Greek text by means of three hyphens for each missing Hebrew lexeme. van der Meer, Formation and Reformulation. 1 A synopsis of the two versions makes this clear: 2 1 See the discussion of Joshua 1, 5:2-12 8:1-29 and 8:30-35 in Michaël N. As in so many other chapters in the book of Joshua, the extant Hebrew and Greek texts differ at many relatively small instances. Joshua 2 contains the well-known story of the spies at Rahab's house at Jericho, their oath to let her and her family life when the Israelites conquer the city and it tells the spies' safe escape from the city. In this paper I will readdress this issue in the light of a literary-critical analysis of the book in its own right. 4QJosh b and XJosh) do not lend support for such a thesis, the character of the Greek translation is more ambiguous and judged as either witness to the process of reformulation of the book or rather straightforward rendering and hence witness to a deviating, shorter Hebrew Vorlage. Whereas the extant Qumran scrolls for this chapter (i.c. Ever since Samuel Holmes identified the recurring pluses in MT-Joshua 2 as elements of a re-edition of the Hebrew book of Joshua, scholars have studied the quantitative variants between the MT and LXX of Joshua in light of the presumed process of literary editing of biblical books evidenced by the oldest textual witnesses. ![]()
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