How God conducts warfare... Numbers 10:35-36
The passage in Numbers concerns the carrying about of the Ark of the Covenant, which apparently was the cause of much fear among Israel's enemies. The point of having such a fearsome preemptive weapon was to avoid violence, not to create it. Specifically, passage says:35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses said,
"Rise up, O LORD!
May your enemies be scattered;
may your foes flee before you."36 Whenever it came to rest, he said,
"Return, O LORD,
to the countless thousands of Israel."What's especially interesting here is the prefigurement of Christ who at first Rises up to scatter God's enemies, and then afterwards Returns to His people.
