Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 208 (The Time Traveler's Quick Guide to Armageddon Pt 3) for week of 16 August, 2026

  The Time Traveler's Quick Guide to Armageddon Part Three     Hello, again, time travelers. It's Part Three of our Quick Guide ot Armageddon. Next week we'll finish up with a look at the horses of Armageddon, but this week, we're back with Deborah and Barak. We're rolling the scrolls back in time to Sinai and the time of Avraham. We're putting together just how Deborah knew to assemble exactly 10,000 soldiers on Mt. Tabor.   Of course, she was a prophetess, and she heard from the Father, but typically He builds on our preparation to be His messengers. As with the disciples who were prepared and waiting in Acts Two, so Deborah, whose name comes from the Hebrew word for "bee" and dvar, "word," was prepared to be a vessel of the Ruach HaKodesh. Her husband is named Lappidot, which means "torches," but it is thought that perhaps it was another name for Barak, whose name means "lightning." Many people in Scripture went by more than one name. Ol' Jethro had a lot of them!   How do we know Deborah is hearing from the Spirit of Adonai? As they discuss the details of the battle, Barak says to her:   “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.” She said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh." (Judges 4:8-9)   I don't think Deborah is just warning Barak he better not have a problem with being a macho man. He is acknowledging her spiritual gifts and anointing, and she is affirming his request. It is a request for the Word and Ruach HaKodesh, of which Deborah is a minister, to accompany him in battle. Barak knows that mere military might will not be enough against such a formidable enemy, and he is more than willing to give the credit for the victory to the "woman," which sometimes is a symbol for the Ruach HaKodesh in Scripture (see CG Workbook Four):   Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts. (Zec 4:6)   So Deborah and Barak in their time machines had hovered over Mt. Sinai, then listened in as Moses spoke and sang his last song to the Israelite tribes about forty years later (that's not long if you're in a time machine):   He said, “The LORD came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; at His right hand there was flashing lightning [lit. "fiery law"] for them. (Dt 33:2)   What follows in Moses' exhortation is a summary of each tribe’s courage and blessings. What does Deborah do in her victory song after the battle? Summarizes the tribes’ courage or lack of in the fight at Har Megiddo!   The Torah time machine works great, doesn't it?   The fiery Word of God was in His right hand when He dawned on them with a myriad, ten thousand holy ones, an angelic host. As they hover over the scroll, Deborah and Barak know they are not going to need 10,000 soldiers to win the fight. This number tells them that the Holy One will come marching with His myriads of angels to fight for Israel, which is exactly how the Song of Deborah begins. Oustanding study in the Word! Truly a holy time machine of prophecy. Those 10,000 soldiers will merely be the mop-up crew and decoys to lure in the enemy.     In Moses' blessings, the lightnings in the Torah fire hint again to this coming victory over Sisera’s iron chariots. Barak says, I am not going to go without you, Deborah, you've got to go, too. Her husband's name is Lapiddot, which means torches.     Deborah is not just coming in the power of the Holy Spirit and prophecy, it mentions her husband's name, so she also is a type of a torch, one flesh with him. Lappidot is "torches, flashes," plural, yet they are one in this battle. As a judge of Torah, Debo