Throughout the history of mankind, there has been war on the male child. From the beginning of the Old Testament we already experienced that Pharaoh wanted to kill the male child. We saw Herod in the New Testament engaging in that same tactic to de-stroy all male children in his time. Even in the book of Revelation we see the dragon wanting to devour the male child that the woman is giving birth to.
Why does the enemy target the innocence of little boy through a battle which appears to be one of his major strategies to keep God's people in bondage? It's because the "male child prophetically represents 8 attributes of God's people, needed to become a victo-rious army. This message reveals the "why" of the battle and show that when won, this battle will bring God's church to victory.