The Removal of Heroes is a Judgment from God


The Removal of Heroes is a Judgment from God

2 MIN READ ◦ DOUG GILES

Here’s another thing they never told you at youth group: When God’s people have decisively “gone wrong” (Isa. 3:8) and have been “an affront to the Eternal (God), resisting His glorious presence.” And “they flaunt their sins like Sodom”...and “they don’t even try to hide them (Isa. 3:9)” while “they persist in wrongdoing. (Isa. 3:11 VOICE).” One of the ways God brutally disciplines His people is by removing the hero from their midst and replacing that masculine deterrent to evil with a bunch of chinless-wonder boys and lyin’ ladies. Check it out...

“See here! The Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, will take away the supply of bread and water—the whole supply—from Jerusalem and Judah. He will take away their heroes and warriors, judges and prophets...and elders, He will take away their military officers and high-ranking officials.
- Isaiah 3:1-3 (VOICE)

Did you catch God’s removal of the “heroes” and “warriors” part of that judgment? You did? Awesome. In case you were wondering, according to the scripture, that is not a good thing when that happens. That means that God has pulled His frontline of defense from His people making them oh-so-vulnerable to their mortal enemies. Yikes, eh?

With the removal of the hero and warrior, guess who God allows to lead in the hero’s and warrior’s absence?

If you guessed a bunch of flaky young males and women with horrible, ungodly ideas -- you guessed right.

“And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them, And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable ... O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.
- Isaiah 3:4-5; 12 (NASB)

Since God’s people were acting the ungodly fool, blowing off His will and His way, God removes the heroes and replaces them with zeroes and when that happens, as you just read, all hell breaks loose upon His people. Yep, God’s people get trampled by the enemy. They get completely stripped by demonic forces. That’s what happens when the heroic spirit is gone. Evil rules the roost.

One of the biggest reasons why I think heroism is more lost in our churches than Britney Spears is during a Jordan Peterson lecture is because God’s not lauded as The Ultimate Butt Kicking Hero the scripture ubiquitously hails Him to be. Pastors emphasize Jesus being a “Personal Savior” and “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild” and de-emphasize He’s a bold Dragon-Slayer and Hero, par excellence!

* From Lionhearted: Making Young Christian Males Rowdy Biblical Men.


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Doug Giles is Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Wimberley, TX, and is the founder of ClashDaily.com

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Doug Giles is the host of The Doug Giles Podcast, the co-founder and co-host of the Warriors & Wildmen Podcast (1M+ downloads) and the man behind ClashDaily. com. In addition to driving ClashDaily.com (300M+ page views), Giles is the author of several #1 Amazon best- sellers. His book Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass (2021) spent 26 weeks at #1 on Amazon. In 2018, Giles was permanently banned from his two-mil- lion followers on Facebook.Doug is also an artist and a filmmaker, and his online gallery can be seen at DougGiles.Art. His first film, Biblical Badasses: A Raw Look at Christianity and Art, is available via DougGiles.Art.Doug’s writings have appeared in several other print and online news sources, including Townhall.com,The Washington Times,The Daily Caller, Fox Nation, Human Events, USA Today,The Wall Street Journal,The Washington Examiner, American Hunter Magazine, and ABC News.

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