Exodus 15 is a song of praise for God's mighty deliverance for Israel after they crossed the Red Sea. A song which should have been sung before they crossed over to the other side.
In verse 9 it reads, "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied on them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them." This same Satanic boasting is found in Isaiah 14:14: "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
In response God says to the enemy in 15:12, "...the earth shall swallow them" and in Isaiah 14:15, "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
For all the empty boasting the enemy whispers and taunts in our minds to tell us we will be overtaken, we are going down and will never recover, the Lord has one answer to Satan: You will be swallowed up!
God gives us this precious promise in Isaiah 25:8: "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it."
The word for swallow in the orginal means to engulf, to be brought to confusion, to destroy and confound.
When we worship the Lord in the midst of our trying circumstances, in our pain and when there seems to be more questions and fewer answers, and when everything it seems in life is hurled at us - worship the Lord!
For when we worship the Lord despite our circumstances or the outcome, we make room for victory for the enemy to be swallowed up.
Praise will set up an ambush for the enemy who is never satisified until we are destroyed. But what might seem a certain defeat is for his own fall just as the Lord drove the Egyptians to the Red Sea.
So raise your hands to the Lord and fix your gaze on Him alone even when you hear the sound of horses and chariots bearing down upon you. Worship is about to part the waters to swallow him! And it will be you that will be satisifed at his fall!
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