The Fiery Wrath of God

                             I Samuel 30:1-14 KJB

For every good work that God does, the Devil has an evil counterpart. God uses His fiery wrath to destroy evil, and the Devil uses his fiery wrath to destroy goodness. The Devil used the Amalekites, who were the greatest haters of the Jews until the Nazis, to invade David's city in Judah called Ziklag and burn it with fire. They took all of the people captives including David's two wives. Often, when the Devil uses his fire to burn a city, he does not have his minions to directly kill the good people, but the Devil has them taken captive so that they can be raped and tortured before being killed. The Nazis burned many of the Jews' houses, and they forced the Jews to ride in closed box cars to the extermination camps, and they selected the pretty girls to be kept and raped. 

When David and his army returned to Ziklag from the field, they became very distressed and dismayed because their wives and children were all gone. Their despair was even greater than if they had found their people killed because they knew that the enemy had taken their people captive so they could torture them before they killed them. The Devil has his evil armies to do such cruel acts in order to cause such deep despair among good people that they will give up on fighting back against evil because they will wrongly conclude that evil cannot be defeated. David's army wanted to stone him because even good people feel that if they lose a fight with evil, they often blame their leaders for their loss. 

But David's faith did not fail. David had his priest to pray to the Lord about what he should do. The Lord promised David that if he and his army pursued after the Amalekites, they would recover all that was taken from them. When the good people of Europe and America fought the fascists and Nazis in WWII, they were greatly encouraged by their leaders' prayers for victory. David and his army pursued after the Amalekites, defeated them, and recovered all of their wives and children and all of their spoil. I Samuel 30:1-31 (KJB).