The search for God’s battle axes in this end-time

Olohirere Ezomo’s concept of the battle axe is definitely not the normal, physical axe which one can use to attack one’s enemy. She is simply explaining the men and women God is raising at this end-time to fight the devil, who is desirous of having more people join his camp.

Therefore, the book focuses on people who would be willing battle axes of God in this end-time ‘war.’

In the first chapter, the author, using Jeremiah 51: 20-21, which says: “You are my war club, my weapon for battle. With you, I shatter nations; with you, I destroy kingdoms; with you, I shatter horse and rider; with you, I shatter chariot and driver,” describe a battle axe as a person God is using as an arrowhead in waging His ‘war.’

She, therefore, goes on to describe the roles of the battle axe as, to break nations in pieces and to destroy the kingdom of darkness, to take the battle to the gate of the enemy, to declare and ensure the will of God, to possess the land for Christ and to drive revival on the land.

The next chapter focuses on why we need battle axes. According to the author, there has never been a time when God needs vessels He can equip as His battle axes as much as now, because the spirit of God has spoken through prophecies and visions that God is raising an end-time army. As a result, God is calling His people for the task ahead.

In the third chapter, the author looks at the lives of Ezra and Ruth in the Bible. She focuses on how both characters lived their lives for God, and how today’s Christians can also follow suit.

The fourth chapter dwells onhow  to sustain one’s effectiveness for the task ahead. Ezomo highlights certain essential virtues Christians must possess in order to be found worthy of the task. They are: purity, brokenness, diligence and sensitivity. Each of these are explained thoroughly in the book.

In the last chapter, the author asked who would be ready to become a battle axe for God, especially at this end-time. She explains that God has never forced man to make any decision. Rather, He places options before us and gives us the Holy Spirit to guide us into making the right decisions. She further takes us to the Book of Isaiah 6:8 which says: “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us,’ and I said, ‘Here am I, Send me!”

It is this question God is asking believers again through the author. He needs people as His battle axes for the end-time war.