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My Daily Blessing from My Daily
Bible Reading
with meditations
by my mother, Poetess Gertrude Sanborn
JANUARY
24
Exodus 16:8 -- Exodus 19:13
ISRAEL
& AMALEK: ENEMIES TODAY
Exodus 17:13
"And Joshua discomfited Amalek
and his people with the edge of the sword."
Brave Joshua
raged a battle against Israel’s enemy, the people called
the Amalekites. If you remember, it was during that war
that Moses held his hands up as he stood high on hill
above the fray. As long as they were stretched towards
the sky, Israel would win. But when weariness hit his
body, Moses hands dropped. Then the Amalekites would
gain the advantage.
This seesaw
battle went on and on. Seeing the problem, Aaron and Hur
rushed to Moses’ side. They found a stone upon which
their tired leader could sit. Then they held his hands
high for victory.
Amelek was
an awful people. Many feel that enemy were descendants
of Esau, Isaac’s son. Others feel that clan was in the
land during the days of Abraham. Amalek is a name given
to the Amorites and the Canaanites, as well as to the
Hyksos.
If you
recall, Saul spared Agag, the king of the Amalekites.
That was a sin! That heathen group kidnaped David’s
wives and others at Ziklag. It was an Amalekite who slew
King Saul and took the fallen leader’s crown to David.
In the book
of Esther, we learn that Haman was an Agagite. To win
the battle with Amalek in the days of Moses in the
wilderness was a step in a good direction. God wanted
them destroyed. It was such a glorious, newsworthy
victory that God told Moses to write the results of that
wilderness war in a book.
In
gratitude, Moses build an altar and called it
JEHOVAHNISSI (the Lord my banner). It was a war
monument. "I will utterly put out the remembrance of
Amalek from under heaven" was God’s promise. The
children of Israel and Amalek would be enemies forever.
In later
years, some euphemistically speaking of Hitler called
him an Amalekite; and Rabbi Israel Hess claimed that the
Palestinians were Amalekites. Israeli’s president Itzhak
Ben-Zvi, in refusing mercy to Adolf Eichmann, repeated
Samuel’s words to Agag (I Samuel 15:33): "As thy sword
hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be
childless among women." (ysw)
"IT
IS GOD THAT GIRDETH ME WITH STRENGTH AND HE MAKETH MY
WAY PERFECT!"
I have no
strength, He girdeth me. My way is hard,
He girdeth me. Some days it
seems I cannot put forth any energy. I have learned
that God is not necessarily glorified by our energies– UNLESS HE IS OUR
STRENGTH IN THEM!" (GGS)
(Psalm 18:32)
And
Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he
said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son. (Genesis 18:10)
Under God's Care,
Yvonne S. Waite
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