When enemies turn on each other

There’s something almost poetic about it, Boko Haram and ISWAP two monsters born of the same chaos, now tearing into each other with ferocity. Over 200 terrorists dead in less than 24 hours. The very forces that once united in bloodshed are now spilling each other’s blood. Is it strategy, or divine irony? Are they playing a friendly match or fulfilling prophecy?

When God decides to fight for you, He doesn’t always send angels. He sometimes lets your enemies destroy each other.

Even evil has an expiry date, and sometimes it comes in the form of friendly fire. The war in the North just proved one thing,when darkness multiplies, it eventually devours itself. You know God is at work when your enemies start fighting without your prayers.

Even mighty empires like Rome did not fall to enemies at the gate, but to the rot within. Swords turned inward before the world ever struck. And now, their swords have turned inward, a prophecy fulfilled, chaos feeding on its own children.

When God steps in, He doesn’t create new enemies. He makes the old ones fight themselves. Sometimes divine justice is not thunder from heaven, but confusion in the camp of the wicked. History is full of such moments when evil turns inward, when those who brought suffering to others begin tasting their own venom.

For years, Boko Haram and ISWAP have burned villages, kidnapped children, bombed churches, and shattered lives across Nigeria’s Northeast and North Central. They preached destruction, not faith. They sowed fear, not conviction. But like every empire built on deceit and violence, their unity was fragile, held together only by greed, ego, and control.

Now, they are dismantling themselves. Each bullet they fire, each ambush they plan, each life they take, it is no longer against innocent citizens but against their own kind. And perhaps in that chaos, there is divine justice at work.
When enemies turn on each other, it is not luck. It is the unseen hand of retribution. Wickedness eventually eats its own. Just as serpents coil until they devour their tails, evil cannot sustain itself.

Yet we must not forget the lesson beneath the headlines. Evil does not die because it is tired, it dies because it cannot stand unity. It thrives when people of conscience stay divided. Boko Haram and ISWAP are proof that disunity is destruction. When light stands divided, darkness thrives. When darkness stands divided, light emerges.

Let them fight. Let them exhaust each other. Let confusion be their camp and mistrust their commander. Because when God fights for you, He doesn’t always send fire from heaven. Sometimes He simply turns your enemies against each other until they finish what they started.

And when the dust settles, may the same fire that consumed them never find its way back to us.

When God is on your side, He confuses your enemies before He destroys them. They thought they were invincible. Now they are each other’s destruction.

Every bullet fired against themselves is one less aimed at the innocent. When evil turns inward, justice doesn’t need a courtroom. It unfolds on the battlefield.

Perhaps this is what divine justice looks like. Not thunder from heaven, but chaos in the camp of the wicked. And now, their swords have turned inward, proof that when God rises, even hell trembles.

Shaakaa writes from Makurdi [email protected].