King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 2 notes
1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
See, God is not condemning the horses nor chariots; what he's saying is, putting your trust in them when he, God, is not in the cycle 🚴 is a failed venture.
The God factor is what completes the cycle 💫.
So he mocks at them that go to war with incomplete armor. It's like having a gun without bullets... Completely useless.
This illustration is of war, but it's applicable in all else.
God is needed in all things to complete it.
This is akin to the scripture that says:
Proverbs 21:31 KJV
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
In essence, God is superior to man and the spirit far superior to flesh.
In other words, the life of man is God and the life of the flesh is the spirit.
Like fuel is to a machine is the spirit to the flesh; let us therefore not exalt the flesh above its place, nor man above his honour.
So Paul exhorts us in
Philippians 2:3 KJV
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
4For 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.
5As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
6Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.