Tune in to Pastor Josh as he preaches about the folly of King Saul in this passage this morning:
“Jonathan takes half of Israel’s armory - the One Sword he has - and sneaks out with his young ‘armor bearer’ — You know, he’s carrying all the sling-shots and sharpened sticks; maybe a club — And Jonathan, then, presents the dumbest plan in military history: first they will intentionally give up the element of surprise: ‘we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.’ Then, they would not fight if the Philistines were foolish enough to abandon their position of strategic superiority on the hilltop, and then exhaust themselves coming down to them. But, he would attack if the Philistines invited them to scale the sheer rock wall to fight them outnumbered and exhausted. The brilliance of Jonathan’s strategy is that it is so absurd that if it did succeed it could only be because ‘the Lord has given them into our hands’.…The victory was brought about by Yahweh, not by Saul and his pitifully tiny and under equipped army, not even by Jonathan or anyone else, though many joined in for the mop-up action. As in the case of David’s fight with Goliath the battle is the Lord's…”