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After a prayer by Elisha, a servant was able to actually see
the Lord’s supernatural army.
“And Elisha prayed, ‘O Lord,
open his eyes so he may see.’ Then the Lord opened the serv-
ant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and
chariots of fire all around Elisha”
(2 Kings 6:17). The invading
enemy forces were later struck with blindness.
These Old Testament battles were all “types.” All of the su-
pernatural elements of these ancient battles of Israel will again
be used in the brief battle at Armageddon, as shown later. As
her judge, the Lord is terrible and fearful to Israel; as her de-
fender, He is even more fearful!
After the Antichrist and his forces have gone into Jerusalem
and are ransacking houses and raping women (Zech. 14:2), the
Lord decides to fight for Israel as in days gone by!
“The Lord God will come, and all the holy ones with him”
(Zech. 14:5).
“Like dawn spreading across the mountains, a large and
mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be
again. Before them fire devours; behind them a flame blazes”
(Joel 2:2-3).
“The Lord thunders at the head of his army; his forces are
beyond number…”
(Joel 2:11).
We who are in Christ (either by death or rapture) are in
this formidable army. We will meet the army described in Isai-
ah 5:26 that, by earth’s standards, is certainly formidable. This
earthly army will be the same army God will have used to puri-
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