Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. (Moses is reminding Israel of God's promise to them that He not only will lead them to a new land of promise, but that He also will help them defeat their enemies in that land. Though the land would be flowing with milk and honey, the Lord knew His people would face resistant and destructive forces in this new land, but He said He would help them defeat those forces. In such a land of honey, hornets will be abundant, and the Lord assures His people that He will use both the land's own resources and His Own creative means to root out and destroy the powers aligned against them. Hornets can penetrate into the smallest places where the enemy might be trying to conceal himself, and the Lord will uncover even those small hiding places and eradicate the enemy trying to hide himself there. The Lord still promises us that He will use His strength on our behalf to uncover and eliminate the insidious and menacing displays that the enemy parades against us today. While we live today in the Promised Land to which the Lord has led us, situations and blind sides in our lives today may be tucked away and lurking in unsuspected corners of our hearts and minds, and the Lord promises He will root them out and help us name them. Then even though they may appear menacing and overwhelming, He will use His Own strength to help us defeat them so that nothing of them remains and we are set free.)
