Jonathans daring plan, to approach the Philistines with just him and his armour bearer and prove that the Lord is who He says He is! It appeared that the glory had departed the priesthood at that time and it therefore took a non-priest to cause God's will to happen. How sad throughout history when the church has failed to do God's will and He has chosen someone outside to do it instead!
The root issue here was quite simple to Jonathan, a simple but challenging premise: God is able to save us from the Philistines, therefore even two of us will be able to defeat 20 men.
We then read of the foolishness of man (Saul in this case) who decides that making an oath about his men not eating is some sort of way to motivate them to success. We cannot motivate each other to success, success only comes as we align our will to Gods. The result, almost calamity as the person who had followed God (Jonathan) nearly suffered execution. Fortunately, God intervened and Jonathan got to be an influence on his father for many more years.
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