180. Enemies will be Shattered
1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
The final promise is: We Win! The enemies of the Lord, and our spiritual enemies, will be broken to pieces, shattered to smithereens, ground to dust. Revelation 20: The devil, the beast, and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire. Death and Hell are thrown into the lake of fire. The Word of God and fire from heaven will strike down and burn up all Enemies at the Last Great Battle. Then they are dispensed with forever.
The victories of Christ at the Cross and the Tomb, and the Final Victory at the End of the Age, are prophesied here through Hannah’s Song, as she is inspired by the Spirit to promise us. We are in a war, and we feel it every day, but we are winning even though there are times when it feels like we are losing. The Great Reversal is real. The Victory is ours. The Lord will absolutely and finally judge the ends of the earth, and all the enemies of God and the good are condemned forever.
The Lord will win over the Enemies of the soul and judge all sin and evil by giving strength to His King and exalting the power of His Anointed One. The King and the Anointed of God is the Person of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God and Son of Man. The Lord exalts His “horn.’ A Horn is a symbol of power and might. The power and strength of Jesus is the total and unconditional Love that dies for us. His power is the eternal Life of God that rises from the dead in a violent overthrow of all Sin and of Death and of the power of the Devil.
It may look to us like Sin and Evil are gaining ground in our world over against God and Good. It may feel at times like the devil is winning the battle for our soul. Death never goes away and it will get us in the end, for sure. But we fear not because we have the Promise: the adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces. That’s what the first resurrection (of Jesus) and the Final Judgment (by Jesus) is all about: Total Victory over all that is against us and against our good. When we pray, “Thy Kingdom Come,” we don’t realize what awesome power we are unleashing. Believe it!