Our Heavenly Father makes a very important point here. Why would man put his trust upon the things of flesh, instead of God who is Spirit? Can the flesh overcome God's Spirit? No way. As our Lord Jesus Christ said in John 15:5, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing."
     The main reason why many refuse to have faith in The LORD is because they rely only upon what their flesh eyes can see. Old Israel had this problem when GOD only was their KING, yet Israel still wanted a flesh king like the nations around them, because they needed to 'see' something in the flesh in order to believe.

 

1 Samuel 8: Read All.

 That really hurt our Heavenly Father's feelings, for He only is our Rightful and True KING, and yet His people still rejected Him then as many still do to this day.

Isa 31:4     For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, "Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

     Our Heavenly Father is saying that just as a strong lion will not ease up when attacking its prey; neither will God be deterred to the side by men nor any other. What God said He will do, He will accomplish, as He is not man, and will not go back on His Word. He will rise up to fight against the wicked ones as a Lion upon its prey at Zion in Jerusalem.

Zephaniah 3:5-8. Read All.

 The time when our LORD will come down to fight for mount Zion is still future to us, and is the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Zech.14;

Rev.16;            Read All

Isaiah 42.

 

Isa 31:5     As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also He will deliver it; and passing over He will preserve it."

     Here's yet another verse that was not only historical towards Judah in Jerusalem when the king of Assyria came up against it, but this is also future to us as a pattern for our LORD's second coming to silence all wickedness, and to preserve Jerusalem forever .

 

Psalms 132; 125:                                   

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Zechariah 14:

 

Isaiah 51:11: Therefore the redeemed of the lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

 

The "birds flying" comparison is as a great eagle that preserves its nest of young ones.
     There is much more revealed from the Hebrew of this verse. The phrase "passing over" is the Hebrew word 'pacach', and is the root word from which the word 'Passover' is derived from (Strong's 6452 & 6453 - Pecach). God told the captive children of Israel while they were in Egypt to observe His Passover which became a symbol of His Covering over them in protection. God's Passover shielded them when He passed through the land of Egypt during the night, and slew all the firstborn of the Egyptians.

 

Exodus 12: Read All.