The Disaster Of The Wall

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. 1 Kings 20:30

These were the survivors of a losing battle with Israel. The city and its massive wall afforded protection from the enemy, or so they thought. That number of troops inside a fortification large enough to fall on them would provide a significant challenge to whatever Israelite commander had to fight them. But the story does not go that direction, instead the wall fell on those 27,000 soldiers of Syria. Had the nation not lost almost four times that number already in the battle, then there might be the story of the disaster of the wall told by itself and not as a following note. The larger number of dead in the battle overshadows what would be more than 20 times the population of our little town. And of course with those numbers of the dead, we might forget that the larger story is one of unbelief and disobedience to God our Father. Consequences of sin brought a large death bill to Israel and Syria in this story.

Okay, now I'm supposed to sign off with some bit about joy and peace? Yeah, well sin does not bring about those things, and sometimes we need to be reminded of that.

Remember the Christ who paid the price for our sin,

Bucky