Gaza is where Samson’s final moment of life occurred. After Delilah tricked Samson into telling her the secret of his unusual strength, he became weak. He was put in forced labor to work grinding grain. During this time, his hair began to grow back as well as his strength.

The Philistines had a large party – 3,000 people in all – to celebrate Samson’s defeat. When the revelers got drunk, they demanded “Bring out Samson so he can amuse us!” (Judges 16:25). 

Samson told the servant assigned to lead him to position him between the pillars that held up the meeting hall. The people celebrating were gathering on the roof. Now drunk in their assumption about Samson’s continued weakness, the Philistines had no idea their end was coming. When Samson’s strength finally returned, he pushed the pillars and the building crashed down. “He killed more people when he died than he had during his entire lifetime” (vs. 30).

Many painful layers are happening in modern-day Gaza, a place where the Philistines have lived. While the spirit of the age gathers people to demonstrate mocking and amusing themselves with their assumptions, the Lord has another plan. 

A spiritual Samson has been positioned between the pillars of these assumptions used to support the spiritually drunk politicians, social engineers, and ways of thinking currently being used to hold up the amusement of their assumptions in the public square. When the modern-day Samson extends his arms, everything we currently see happening will make an abrupt change. That change will bring down the imaginations used to create the folly we see playing out on the streets of nations and in our institutions of higher education that support the terror that sparked the Gaza war. 

A Samson event has been planned and positioned to knock down the thinking that opposes God and His will. This will not be a battle using bombs. It will change the way people think. The Lord will destroy the destructive strongholds of human reasoning, destroying their arguments and the platforms of their support. It will happen just as Paul described, “We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments” (II Corinthians 10:4).