Johnny Horton: "The Battle of New Orleans"

If only history classes were as hilarious as this song about British troops being routed. I especially love the line about using an alligator as a cannon, filling his head with cannon balls and powdering his behind. And when they touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind. Listen to this tune here.

God often used unconventional warfare tactics. We read of one in the book of the Judges. The Lord knew that people would claim the victory over the Midianites for themselves if they all fought them. So he told Gideon to bring only three-hundred of his worst men to surround the camp.

Judges 7:22 (Bible in Basic English) demonstrates his zany deliverance of Israel. "And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath."

A different sort of panic struck the Philistines, as we can read in 1 Samuel 7:10 (BBE). "And while Samuel was offering the burned offering, the Philistines came near for the attack on Israel; but at the thunder of the Lord's voice that day the Philistines were overcome with fear, and they gave way before Israel."

Then there was the time when God made the Egyptian army quite literally take a bath as they per sued the Israelites. After making the chariot wheels stiff, this is what the Lord did in Exodus 14:27 and 28 (BBE). "And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen."

If our Lord hasn't returned in flaming fire by Saturday, I hope to post about how important it is for Christians to avoid hypocrisy.