Strength To Strength Oppose (Sun Tzu 3:6) (Luke 13:32; Eccl. 3:1; Esther 4:14; John 7:1-13)

Strategy, tactic, principal, rule,
Act of engaging – for thumb here's a tool:
A broad fundamental of using your troops
Is really quite simple – stand back and hang loose.

In digital terms, you’ve eight fingers, two thumbs,
To their little finger – surround – they’ll succumb;
If one hand of five, then attack and push down;
If two fingers only, then pinch when they’re found.

If you have one digit, engage with a shove;
If they have more digits, go ’round or above;
If their hand is stronger, then hit the road, Jack,
For they’ve got two hands to your finger – pull back.

Order to chaos; excited to sloth;
Can tip the balance – it pays, as it ought;
Soldiers, strength, strategy, courage all fit,
Into equation – they’re part of your kit.

Pincer’s a movement you see quite a lot;
In from the front, from the back if you’ve got
Clear opportunity – each one backs up
Other in trouble when fight’s looking tough.

Pincer’s a Brandon way, standard in fact –
Build up a debt-load, no need to attack;
Manage the cash-flow, the spigot, the tap;
Perfect the pincer – control groups with that.

Pull back’s a tactic that’s useful of course;
Opportune moment will come for resource
To be applied, but the timing’s the key –
If not today, then just sound the retreat.

Strategy, tactics – quite simple they are;
Forward and backward they move near or far;
One can pull backward, be held till it’s time;
Other one forward, engaged ’cause it’s fine.

Friends spoke to Jesus, said, “Herod is near,
Best hit the road if it’s him that you fear”
“I do not fear him, but I have my work,
It’s not completed – first that, then that jerk –

“He doesn’t get it, but someday he will –
Pyramid scheme is emerging here still;
First four disciples (two pairs), then to twelve;
Seventy-two sent, whose work pushed back hell.

“It works like leaven – stand back let it rise;
Meantime tell Herod I’ve got a surprise:
We will surround him just like ten to one –
Thus when he gets me, my work will be done.”

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