"Alleluia! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." --- Revelation 19:6.
God is the Lord of hosts, he is the great commander of heaven and earth; he it is that directs all conflicts in war; no field is pitched, no battle fought, but by his special order and commission, and all the accomplishment of his glory.
But it befalleth us as it doth them who stand in the same level wherein two great armies are ready to engage; they conceive them to be a disordered multitude; whom, notwithstanding, if they beheld from a high hill, they would discern that they are artificially ranged, and every one serving under his own colours.
Even so men who behold the state of the world with the eyes of flesh and blood, dim by reason of the corruption of their judgments and weakness of their affections, think all things are out of order; they see servants riding on horses, and princes going on foot; that the worse men are, the better they fare; and they fare the worse, the better they are: but if they would go into God's sanctuary, and judge of the occurrences by heavenly principles, then they would confess that no army on earth can be better marshalled than the great army of all the creatures of heaven and earth, yea, and of hell too; and that, notwithstanding all appearances to the contrary, all is well, and will end well, especially to God's people; and that the God of order will bring light out of darkness, and order out of the greatest confusion, could they but have patience and let him alone with his own work.
The Lord God omnipotent reigns,
Commanding whatever he will;
And rebels, that scoff at his word,
Are under his government still.