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April 4

April 4
God's Hornets
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
from before thee. (Exodus 23:28)
What the hornets were we need not consider. They were God's own army which He sent before His
people to sting their enemies and render Israel's conquest easy. Our God by His own chosen means
will fight for His people and gall their foes before they come into the actual battle. Often He confounds
the adversaries of truth by methods in which reformers themselves have no hand. The air is full of
mysterious influences which harass Israel's foes. We read in the Apocalypse that "the earth helped
the woman."
Let us never fear. The stars in their courses fight against the enemies of our souls. Often times when
we march to the conflict we find no host to contend with. "The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall
hold your peace." God's hornets can do more than our weapons. We could never dream of the victory
being won by such means as Jehovah will use. We must obey our marching orders and go forth to
the conquest of the nations for Jesus, and we shall find that the Lord has gone before us and
prepared the way; so that in the end we will joyfully confess, "His own right hand and his holy arm,
have gotten him the victory."