Maintaining the victory!

Judges 9:45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

This is a strange verse. The Bible tells us that Abimelech sowed salt over the city after conquering it. Why would he do that? What was the reason for it? In the Old Testament they would use salt to destroy the soil and land so it couldn’t grow any crop there. If there were a barren land where nothing grew, they would call it a salt land. Jer 17:6 says this: “For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.” They likened a place that was not inhabited with a salt land. It actually was a custom in the ancient Near East to do so. They would sow salt over it, and curse anyone who dared to rebuild it. So Abimelech is trying to say that this city shall never rise again. I will make sure this Kingdom, and this city will not rise again.
After Jesus conquered the Devil and his Kingdom at Calvary, he wanted to make sure his Kingdom would not rice again. He sowed salt over the earth. We, the church are the salt of the earth. Jesus is using us to make sure his victory remains, and that the Kingdom of Death will forever be conquered. Let us make sure we still have the power, and are full of the Holy Ghost. For if the salt looses its power, what shall it be salted with?