4 Responses to “turn the battle to the gate”  

1. 1 SED on Sep 28th, 2008 said:

   I don’t know if this is what you are looking for, but it the verse reads to me like this: back in days of yore, kings lived in fortified cities, and there were big gates in the front. If the enemy, attacking the city, reached the gates, that was bad news if you lived in the city. But suppose the enemy reached the gates, but then the defending forces got a burst of strength, courage, etc., so that they could turn the tide of the battle, and push the battle back from the gate, from the entry-point of the city. Thus,

   “He will be a spirit of justice
   to him who sits in judgment,
   a source of strength
   to those who turn back the battle at the gate.”

   seems to me to say that in the day the Lord is victorious for the remnant of his people, he will give them wisdom the execute justice, and strength to overcome even enemies on the verge of breaching their defenses.

   Not sure if this is the kind of answer you are looking for. Was the question looking for a deeper, more prophetic, systematic, or comprehensive answer?

2. 2 beef on Sep 29th, 2008 said:

   bro please tell us what the Lord has shown you with this verse

3. 3 Glen Galaxy on Sep 29th, 2008 said:

   What SED said about kings in fortified cities is true, and the point about allowing no breach in defense is so right on. Only this verse is really talking about turning the battle TO the gate. Here’s a literal translation of Isaiah 28.6: “And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might [to] those turning back the battle to the gate.” That means taking the fight to the enemy’s gate – going completely on offense.

   Look at these verses:
   Matthew 16.18-19 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

   Matthew 12.28-29 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

   Jesus spelled it out clearly, and established it irreversibly by his death and resurrection – he has bound the strong man, and he builds his church and gives us his own kingdom authority. In both these passages, we are storming the gates of hell and totally plundering the demonic realm of everything it thinks it has claims on. All out offense.

   So if our lives and our churches don’t look like this, what are we supposed to do?

4. 4 Glen Galaxy on Oct 2nd, 2008 said:

   just came across this…look how quickly God can turn fight-for-your-life defense into mega-plunder offense >>