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The Weapon of Substance that Fooled Moab. 2 Kings 3:1-27 THE BATTLE OF MOAB.How do we know what isn't so? Satan always works in one of two ways to deceive: perversion or diversion! Satan cannot create anything! He can only try to pervert what God has already created.This was an unusual word from God in an unusual situation. The armies of Israel, Judah, and Edom were stuck in the hot desert and dying of thirst. The three kings went to the prophet Elisha and asked for a word from God. This was the start of God's answer: "Go dig many ditches in the desert."That was strange advice to soldiers dying of thirst in the desert. It seemed that all the hot, hard, seemingly useless work of digging in the desert would make the problem worse. But God gave more than this command. God also promised they would conquer their enemy.When it's hard to do the right thing, when it doesn't make sense to do whatever it is God tells you to do, when you have to make tough decisions, those are the things that change the course of your life.Obedience when obedience doesn't make sense.The problem with digging trenches is that there isn't always a cloud on the horizon. We're often called to participate with God in Kingdom work without seeing how he might fill the space. It's something empty we ask God to fill.