YHWH Will Fight For His Faithful Ones

We read the following quote: 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says YHWH. We cannot go under our own power and might or our own determination and expect success unless YHWH has sent us and we go in ‘HIS Time’.

What then does He want us to just sit and rest on our own laurels and do nothing? Remember the pillar of fire and the cloud that guided Yisrael through the wilderness after they left Mitzrayim. When either the cloud or pillar of fire lifted up, they were to travel and when it set down they were to stop and rest. They were being taught about YHWH’s timing, His authority and His providence.

ZecharYah (Zech) 4:6
6 So He said to me, "This is the word of YHWH to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the Sovereign YHWH.

We read the words given to Melekh HaDaviyd (King David):

Tehillim (Ps) 46:1-11

1          The Mighty One is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

2          Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3          though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Selah

4          There is a river whose streams make glad the city of The Mighty One, the set-apart place where the Most High dwells.

5          The Mighty One is within her, she will not fall; The Mighty One will help her at break of day.

6          Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; He lifts His voice, the earth melts.

7          Sovereign YHWH is with us; the Mighty One of Ya’acov is our fortress. Selah

8          Come and see the works of YHWH, the desolations He has brought on the earth.

9          He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire.

10        "Be still, and know that I am The Mighty One (YHWH); I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

“Be still and know that I AM is your Mighty One and once you know that, then you can move in His Name and according to His timing”

11        Sovereign YHWH is with us; the Mighty One of Ya’acov is our fortress.

Divrei Yamim Bet (2 Chr) 32:7-8
7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is YHWH our Mighty One to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Chezek’Yah king of Judah .

Tehillim (Ps) 33:16
16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Tehillim (Ps) 44:1-8
1 We have heard with our ears, O Mighty One; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.
2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.
3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
4 You are my King and my Mighty One, who decrees victories for Ya’acov.
5 Through You we push back our enemies; through Your name we trample our foes.
6 I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
7 but You give us victory over our enemies, You put our adversaries to shame.
8 In The Mighty One we make our boast all day long and we will praise Your name forever.

Shemot (Exod) 15:1-27

1 Then Moshe and sons of Yisrael sang this song to YHWH: "I will sing to YHWH, for He is highly exalted. The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.
2 YHWH is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. He is my Mighty One, and I will praise Him, my father's Mighty One, and I will exalt Him.
3 YHWH is a warrior; YHWH is His name.
4 Paro's chariots and his army He has hurled into the sea. The best of Paro's officers are drowned in the Reed Sea .
5 The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.
6 "Your right hand, O YHWH, was majestic in power. Your right hand, O YHWH, shattered the enemy.
7 In the greatness of Your majesty You threw down those who opposed You. You unleashed Your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
8 By the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood firm like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 "The enemy boasted, 'I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.'
10 But You blew with Your breath and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 "Who among the Mighty Ones is like You, O YHWH? Who is like You-- majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
12 You stretched out Your right hand and the earth swallowed them.
13 "In Your unfailing love You will lead the people You have redeemed. In Your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
14 The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia .
15 The chiefs of Edom will be terrified, the leaders of Moav will be seized with trembling, the people of Kena’an ( Canaan ) will melt away;
16 terror and dread will fall upon them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone-- until Your people pass by, O YHWH, until the people You bought pass by.
17 You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance-- the place, O YHWH, You made for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O YHWH, Your hands established.
18 YHWH will reign for ever and ever."
19 When Paro's horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea, YHWH brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the sons of Yisrael walked through the sea on dry ground.
20 Then Miryam the prophetess, Aharon's sister, took a tambourine in her hand and all the women followed her, with tambourines and dancing.
21 Miryam sang to them: "Sing to YHWH, for He is highly exalted. The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea."
22 Then Moshe led Yisrael from the Reed Sea and they went into the wilderness of the wall called Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.)
24 So the people grumbled against Moshe, saying, "What are we to drink?"
25 Then Moshe cried out to YHWH, and YHWH showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water and the water became sweet. There YHWH made a decree and a law for them, and there He tested them.
26 He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of YHWH your Mighty One and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Mitzrayim (Egyptians), for I am YHWH, who heals you."
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.

Shemot (Exod) 34:10-16
10 Then YHWH said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, YHWH, will do for you.
11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Kena’aniy, Chittiy (Hittites), Perriziy (Perizzites), Chivviy (Hivites) and Yebuciy (Yebuciy).
12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their ‘groves for pagan worship’ (Asherah poles).
14 Do not worship any other Mighty One, for YHWH, whose name is Qanna (Zealous or Jealous), is a jealous Mighty One.
15 "Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their idols whom they call mighty ones and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their mighty ones, they will lead your sons to do the same.

Yehowshuah (Josh) 10:42
42 All these kings and their lands Yehowshuah conquered in one campaign, because YHWH, the Mighty One of Yisrael, fought for Yisrael.


Yehowshuah (Josh) 11:23
23 So Yehowshuah took the entire land, just as YHWH had directed Moshe and he gave it as an inheritance to Yisrael according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.


Yehowshuah (Josh) 21:43-45
43 So YHWH gave Yisrael all the land He had sworn to give their forefathers, and they took possession of it and settled there.
44 YHWH gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their forefathers. Not one of their enemies withstood them; YHWH handed all their enemies over to them.
45 Not one of all YHWH's good promises to the house of Yisrael failed; every one was fulfilled.

YHWH owns everything and there is nothing now or ever has been or ever will be that does not belong to Him. He truly can and does ’give and take away’.

Tehillim (Ps) 78:55
55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; He settled the tribes of Yisrael in their homes.


Tehillim (Ps) 105:42-45
42 For He remembered His holy promise given to His servant Avraham.
43 He brought out His people with rejoicing, His chosen ones with shouts of joy;
44 He gave them the lands of the nations and they fell heir to what others had toiled for--
45 that they might keep His precepts and observe His laws. Praise YHWH.

At the ‘edge’ of the wilderness, Moshe sent spies into the land to find out what the land and the people were like. Where we live, as a general rule, we have no problem with thievery, breaking in etc so we are not nearly so cautious about ‘locking up’ everything we have. On the other hand if we lived in an inner-city setting, we likely would have many locks which would always be locked.

Moshe wanted to have answers to the questions,

B’Midbar (Num) 13:18-33
18 See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.
19 What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they un-walled or fortified?
20 How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees on it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land." (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
21 So they went up and explored the land from the flatland wilderness called Tsin (Zin) as far as the broad place called Rechob, toward the fortress which is called Lebo Hamath.
22 They went up through the south called the Negev and came to the place of association which was named Chebron ( Hebron ), where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the  gifted,  the noble and furrowed sons of the giant Kena’aniy Anak, lived. (Chebron or Hebron had been built seven years before Tso’an (Zoan) which was the place of departure for B’nei Yisrael upon leaving Mitzrayim [ Egypt ].)
23 When they reached the Valley of, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.
24 That place was called the Valley of the Clusters called Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes sons of Yisrael cut off there.
25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
26 They came back to Moshe and Aharon and the whole community of Yisrael at Kadesh or ‘Holy’ in the Desert of the Caverns called Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
27 They gave Moshe this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
28 But the people who live there are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of the Giant Kena’aniy who is called Anak there.
29 The Amaleqiy live in the South ( Negev ); the Chittiy (Chittiy (Hittites)), Yebuwciy (Yebuciy (Jebusites)) and Emoriy (Amorites) live in the hill country; and the Kena’aniy live near the sea and along the Yarden or Descender (Jordan)."
30 Then Calev silenced the people before Moshe and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it."
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are."
32 And they spread among sons of Yisrael bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
33 We saw the Giants, the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."

B’Midbar (Num) 14:36-45
36 So the men Moshe had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it--
37 these men responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before YHWH.
38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Yehowshuah son of Nun and Calev son of Yephunneh survived.
39 When Moshe reported this to all Yisrael, they mourned bitterly.
40 Early the next morning they went up toward the high hill country. "We have sinned," they said. "We will go up to the place YHWH promised."
41 But Moshe said, "Why are you disobeying YHWH's command? This will not succeed!
42 Do not go up, because YHWH is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies,
43 for the Amalekiy and Kena’aniy will face you there. Because you have turned away from YHWH, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword."
44 Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the high hill country, though neither Moshe nor the ark of YHWH's covenant moved from the camp.
45 Then the Amalekiy and Kena’aniy who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to the place of Devotion called Hormah.

These men brought back reports of a ‘land flowing with milk and honey’ but also were not willing to go in when YHWH said for them to go in and take the land. Instead they let their lack of trust and fear to hold them back. When they realized they should have trusted YHWH, they went into battle in their own might, their own power, and by the whims of their own spirit and we read it was a dismal failure and many died because of their rebellious nature.

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