I realize the blessings enumerated in Deuteronomy 28 are conditional. Israel MUST obey God for these benefits to accrue. But still … verses like number seven of that chapter are phenomenal!

“The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.” Deuteronomy 28:7

They (the enemies of God’s people) might attack from ONE direction!

But God will scatter them in SEVEN directions!

That’s quite a promise!

I love the way God does math!

Deuteronomy 32:30 (not yet studied in our series) gives another example of God’s mathematics in action! Again, to an “obedient, godly” people.

“How should ONE chase a thousand, and two put TEN THOUSAND to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?”

Seems like one chasing a thousand (pretty good fighting ability) … would equate to two soldiers chasing two thousand. But no, two can now handle ten thousand enemies!

Wow!

Seems like God being on one’s “side” exponentially increases that side’s ability to be overcomers!

As in Leviticus 26:8. “And FIVE of you shall chase an HUNDRED, and an HUNDRED of you shall put TEN THOUSAND to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”

All I’m saying today is this: “If God be for us, who can be against us?” Actually the Apostle Paul said it first, in Romans 8:31b.

Christian friends, rejoice today in the fact that God can be our Protector!

And Refuge.

He can empower us to be victorious!

Amen.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell