Put On The Armour

I am sure Paul must have been looking through the iron bars in his prison cell at the Roman guards and studied their armor in great detail. The armor that the Roman soldier puts on is able to protect him from all danger; likewise, the armor of God will be able to help us stand against all kinds of attacks that the devil will try and throw at us.

It is interesting to note that Paul starts the description of the armor in verse 14 with the belt. You would think that he starts with the top of the head but he chose the belt as the first piece of armor. I asked the Lord why the order was such and He reminded me that Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life; no man comes to the Father but by Me". You see, the belt holds all the pieces of garments together. I used to avoid wearing a belt in the past but about four years back, I started having to wear one to hold my pants up otherwise I would be most embarrassed. Paul calls the belt - truth - because Jesus our Truth has set us free and we need not feel embarrassed or ashamed of who we are or what we have done because He through His Blood has cleansed us from our sins.

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11 " Put on the full
armor of God so that
you can take your
stand against the
devil's schemes."
Eph 6:11 NIV

15 " See to it that no
one misses the grace
of God and that no bitter
root grows up to cause
trouble and defile
many."
Heb 12:15 NIV

And she..."shall sit on the ground"

Isa 3:26 "Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground." (NKJ)

When Isaiah gave this message by the Word of the Lord, it was during the last part of the 8th century BC. This was a time when the southern kingdom of Judah were about to follow in the ways of their brothers in the north, the ten tribes of Israel, who had been destroyed by the Assyrians and led captive to Assyria in 722 BC.

Judah was warned continually that the same fate would fall upon them. In chapter 3 Isaiah vividly depicts the destruction of Jerusalem and mentions in verse 26 that Judah' gates would weep (the common meeting place for the husbands of the daughters of Israel, who had fallen in war) and Judah would become "desolate and sit upon the ground"

Sitting upon the ground was an ancient Jewish way of displaying intense grief. Psalm 137:1 says that when they were destroyed and taken captive to Babylon "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion."

It is interesting to note that this is exactly how the Jews were depicted on Roman coins, commemorating the events after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The inscription on certain coins reads: Judaea capta, or devicta.

Some coins (gold, silver, and brass) would show a woman sitting on the ground under a palm tree, usually with one hand on the head, leaning forward, and the other hand hanging over the knee, and some with the hands tied behind the back, with a Roman soldier standing in front of her. (see coins of Titus, Vespasian, and Domitian).