I was sleeping the other night and i heard the name David softely, though not with my audiable hearing, or in my dreamlike hearing, it was a whisper that i heard in the Spirit. I prayed for clearity in a subject and the LORD whispers one word, and yet thats all it took.

Im not studying the Story of David and Goliath, im studying the reasoning of Warfare and when is it approved by God. I Think the story of David and Goliath is a great example of clarity on the Morality of Combat.

So everyone knows the Story, Saul was the Anointed King of Israel, and Israel is the Anointed people of God, they stood on one side of a valley ready to fight the philistines, and the philistines stood on the other side of the valley eager to destroy the Israelites. And a mighty warrior from the philistines named Goliath who was a huge man and a lifelong warrior went out every day for fourty days cursing the God of Israel and challenging any one man of the Israelites to come out there and meat him one on one to decide the Battle. But the Israelites were afraid, and noone would go out there to fight Goliath because he was so huge and terrifying. But when this young kid named David comes to bring his brothers who are in the army food he heres goliath defying the Israelites and God, and David full of Zeal for God is sent before Saul and convinces Saul to let him fight the Philistine Goliath. So david with only a staff and a slingshot goes out there and kills goliath and cuts off is head and brings it before Saul the King of Israel. Now this is the man of whom it is said, “A man after Gods own heart”? This is the conflict to me that i think this story answers, how could a godly man justify essentially murder? For this we have to look at Davids reasonings for wanting to fight the philistine.

1. Goliath defied the purpose and will of God by defying the army and people of God.

1 Samel 17:26 “…Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he sould defy the armies of the living God?” David was not fighting out of hate, but out of Zeal for God, and for the purpose of God which was being lived out through the people of Israel. God was using Israel for his purpose in his altimate goal of Salvation for the world, David was not fighting a man who wanted a piece of land, David was fighting for the purpose of God and for the glory of God for the will of God. The way of our God is peace, but the way to peace is through Gods will, and it is Gods will for his chosen people to live, God is a God of life, yet it was his will that Jesus would die for us, from death came life to the world, from Davids warfare came the protection of a people that from them would come the Savior of the World Jesus Christ.

1 Samuel 17:45-47 “David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I COME AGAINST YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

46 This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and Ill strike you down and cut off your head. Today i will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know THAT THERE IS A GOD IN ISRAEL.

47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORDS and he will give all of you into our hands.

So David went out to fight David in the Name of the God of Israel so that people would know that there is a God in Israel. This was not to give glory to david or to the Jews of Israel, but to the God of Israel, who is the one true God. Through Davids victory God is still being glorified today, who hasnt heard about David and Goliath? why is it one of the most popular stories of all time? because God worked a miracle, by which God is glorified.

So David fought with Zeal for God, not hate for man, David fought for the will of God, not for his own will, David fought to bring God glory, not men, and through his obediance and bloodline came the Savior of the world, the Son of God, the Messiah! David had a heart after Gods own heart, for this God blessed his descendents one of which was Mary who gave birth to the Christ! If Davids actions of warfare were unjustified and wrong, God would have not so richly blessed him. This with the multitutudes of other occations in the scriptures of the Holy Spirit leading men into battle along with the knowledge that God does not change, we must conclude that it is possible and reasonable for us to say that God could and will lead men into battle, for his will and his glory and his divine purpose. And this is in fact the answer to my question i raised up to God in prayer, in which he lead me to the answer through one word, “David”…