Not
too long ago, the Biden creature claimed that the second amendment would be
useless against nuclear weapons and F-15s, [1] seeming to anticipate an eventual mass
armed revolt and insurrection and sadly he is correct in that case: Guns and ground forces are no use against fighter
jets and nuclear weapons and it doesn’t take a military expert to know that.
Before we go charging onto the battlefield, it is vitally important that we learn as much as we can about the enemy with whom we are at war. What are his strengths and what are his weaknesses? What resources are at his disposal? Once these things are known, his weaknesses must be exploited, his strengths used against him, and his resources and advantages neutralized and there would have to be a plan in place to make that possible so as to level the playing field and gain power and advantage over the adversaries against whom we fight.
I would also recommend taking some time to educate ourselves on military history; how and why battles and wars are won or lost. But what must also be done, and this is the most important and yet overlooked and dismissed of any war, is how the enemy thinks; the founding ideology and principles that inspire and drive his actions which then need to be discredited in the hearts and minds of those who might otherwise be following them and then replaced with right thinking and a right set of morals and principles but which can only be made possible if they can be persuaded to embracing the right Spirit who is able to transform hearts, minds, and souls.
That
is the most difficult part of any conflict:
Causing they who may be pawns and vessels of the adversary to lose faith
in that which they follow and leading them to follow the Spirit and God in whom
there is victory and liberty.
Now granted that the Biden creature who shambles about appears to be devoid of any conviction. He clearly is no leader. He is an empty suit and a sock-puppet lacking in authenticity; a nowhere man making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Would be nice if he were driven back into his Delaware basement where he can continue making all of his nowhere plans for nobody.
But make no mistake: Those in control are driven by an ideology to which they are devoted and by which their course in life is guided. It is also an ideology upon which their desired policies are founded and which they seek to impose upon all of us but in order for their religion to be firmly establish and to be given the preeminence, they have been relentlessly at work at dismantling the religion upon whose teachings and principles our nation was built and founded in the hearts and minds of the multitudes to the point that even they who desire to maintain a free an open society no longer know what is necessary to maintain a free and prosperous society; they may still have some understanding but unfortunately not enough and then there are those who simply do not understand what freedom is anymore or what a free and open society is supposed to be because the spirit of oppression and tyranny has caused a sleep to fall upon the masses and while we have slept, he has infiltrated and largely taken over our media and academic establishments and now actively suppresses anything that challenges or questions his desire doctrines and creeds and of which there are many.
He
has mocked, ridiculed, misrepresented, and vilified that which is good, noble,
honorable, and has accused the upright of that which he himself is guilty. He manipulates, tries to shame, and
intimidate by various means. What he
cannot destroy from without, he will try to infiltrate and destroy from within
and he has done this slowly overtime and yet wonderfully by lulling the masses
into a deep state of complacency in which that which is good, noble, pure, and
bright is so taken for granted that we have become unaware or unconcerned about
the forces that could suddenly rob us and destroy all that which we hold dear.
We have blindly bought into the things that can only lead us into darkness while neglecting, counting insufficient, and even rejecting that which is of the light and produces the liberty we hold dear while the spirit of darkness offers to us what appears to be freedom but which only results in bondage and oppression.
The course of every nation is influenced and directed by whatever is serving as their spiritual and moral conscience which establishes the very founding religion, ideology, principles that nation and society either is built on; sometimes for the better or for the worse. If anyone wants to know what is wrong with a nation, look no further than the philosophies and ideologies that the people have embraced and applied to their lives and what a people give themselves over to can either build them up or tear them down even to their own destruction because there is a set of founding principles that can make a nation prosper and there is a set that lead to its eventual demise.
Lasting change does not happen from the top down. It can only happen from the bottom up. Even if numerous political victories are scored and policy changes are accomplished, any political gains achieved will be only be temporary unless the populace can be persuaded into adopting a religious and moral system in agreement with the desired political structure and changes and that must happen before the desired policy changes and political structure can be implemented and cemented.
Those
who embrace the new ideology must be committed to converting as many souls over
to it as they can so as to ensure hope of it being embraced throughout society
for the more it is embraced by society, the more we will see the tenets thereof
taught, implemented, and affirmed throughout every sector of society.
Our enemies know very well the foundational principles upon which the concept of freedom rests and have been relentlessly attacking that foundation every day while we have only been attacking the resultant consequences of their ideology while neglecting to attack the foundational precepts of their desired system when we need to be attacking both while restoring and defending the foundational precepts of the freedoms that have defined America ever since its founding.
But the hardest and most humbling thing for anyone to accept is that they may be a part of the problem instead of the solution. Before we can ever hope to be victorious against the outer darkness (seen and unseen) we must first conquer the darkness from within us lest we play into the hands of evil forces and what can make us a part of the problem are evils within us such as selfishness, hatred, bearing grudges, greed, pride, foolishness, laziness, cowardice, complacency, self-serving motives, lust, envy, jealousies, and dishonesty which then all lead to the various injustices and wickedness that we see today such as prejudice, racism, rape, incest, pedophilia, falsehood, murder, religious hypocrisy, civic corruption, intellectual deceit within academia and the media, affirmation of evil within our entertainment, civil unrest, impulsive behavior, lack of self-control, rebellion against upright authorities, the exploitation of workers and the cheating of patrons by some of our businesses and corporations, needless wars, and brutal oppressions by governing authorities.
Only when we confront the evil within our own selves, will we then be made a vessel fit for the forces of the Light to dispel the darkness and open the eyes of them blinded by the lies of this wicked world from the truth that comes from the One who is the source and definer thereof and who does not embody any man nor is made with the hands of men, nor is the product of anything imagined by any man or defined and controlled by any earthly government or authority, and who every day calls as many as will come, out of the darkness of this present world and away from their own wicked ways.
And it is by that very light that we overcome the evil within our own selves and in its authority that we confront the evil of this present world and in its name we bring that redeeming truth to as many as can be persuaded to receive and abide therein; that light being the Father of all lights who spoke the light into existence and from that light brought forth every vessel of light that there is and by whose hand all things that are were created. Without Him, nothing was made that has been made (Jn.1:3) and what He created, He made good in His sight, (Gen. 1) but when sin entered through the disobedience of the one man, from whom all of us descend, that which was good was corrupted, twisted, and defiled and subjected to miseries, suffering, pains, sorrows, and evils not present on the earth before. This sin was then passed down from this one man to all of mankind which is why all men sin and therefore all men die as a consequence (Rom. 5:12, 6:23) but worse than the bodily death itself, is, because of sin, we are all born estranged from our Maker, conceived in sin, into sin, and under sin, not knowing anything else except reliance upon our own faulty understanding, pursuing self-serving ambition and the fleeting pleasures of this temporal life and yet never being satisfied, trusting in the wisdom of this world and being tossed to and fro by every kind of philosophy, doctrine, creed, and code; all of which being opposed to the precepts, laws, counsels, and wisdom of the God who made us leading us into bondage, despair, hopelessness, and a meaningless existence and blinding us to the eternal damnation that await all those who die in their sin because the sinless and incorruptible God cannot allow sin to go unpunished for if He were to allow sin to dwell in His Kingdom, then His throne would be corrupted and defiled just as the entire material universe has been tainted and defiled.
Men may measure outward behavior and performance but the God of all creation judges not just the outward action or even words spoken, but also the inward man as well; every thought, motive, and attitude; an account for which will be demanded and the sentence for which can only be an everlasting punishment of torment in the eternal fires of a place called Hell where men who die in an unrepentant condition will be forever separated from the presence of their Maker.
And because we will be judged by so high a standard, it is impossible for us to rely on our own goodness to gain favor with our Maker and deliver ourselves from damnation for with every good action comes sin because sin is ever present within us causing us to fall short of that perfect moral standard set before us (Rom. 3:23) but because God is not willing that any should be subject to everlasting torment (2 Pet. 3:9) He lovingly sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins; (Jn. 3:16) the sinless God come in the flesh (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) to die for sinful man and by His shed blood, the demanded penalty was made, and by His resurrection from the dead, we are made justified by that sacrifice made on our behalf (Rom. 4:25) so that any calling upon the name of the Lord for salvation will be saved. (Rom. 10:13)
For when we call upon the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, placing our trust in His redemptive work on our behalf, believing that He rose again from the dead, we will be saved from what would otherwise be an everlasting torment and with that redemption, a new Spirit enters into us and it is by this Spirit that Christ makes His dwelling within us and with this Spirit comes a desire to serve only the things of Heaven and to give honor and glory to God in all things, no living to please ourselves but our Maker instead, no longer taking pleasure in those things evil and displeasing in the sight of our Lord, but only seeking to do what is right in His eyes.
For we are called upon to walk in truth, godliness, righteousness, moral uprightness, to self-discipline, and self-sacrifice, to love the Lord God who made us and redeemed us from our sins above all else and to fear Him above all things and all earthly powers, and next to love one another as Christ loves us; no longer living in the sins and evil by which the soul is damned, nor adhering to lies and falsehoods which have led and still lead multitudes into destruction and everlasting darkness, no longer harboring prejudices against one another since we are all made by a God who both redeems and judges without prejudice or partiality, not living in the fear of man or any earthly power which will be subject to judgment, but only in the fear of God who is able to cast both body and soul into Hell (Mt. 10:28) and who is able to give rewards that exceed any sacrifice required of us for the sake of the Kingdom that is to come, (Mk. 10:30) no longer pursuing worldly riches which we will not take with us when we die nor temporal pleasures which will one day pass away with this present world, but instead looking forward to the joys of Heaven and setting our sites on building up for ourselves those treasures in Heaven which will be everlasting and trusting that our every need will be met by the Lord God who made us and meets the needs of all His creations, (Mt. 6:25-32) no longer living a life for self, but a life that is heavenly minded and with purpose which is doing the respective part allotted to each and every one of us to the advancing of His Kingdom through the preaching of His salvation along with exposing and reproving every work of darkness where any be found, not relying on our own understanding or trusting in our own in our own strength and abilities, but only in the God who is the source of all wisdom and is the provider of the power, gifts, resources, and talents needed to carry out His will and purposes, and doing all things in the name of Christ alone and in no other name.
But I fear that there will be those who will rush headlong into the battle, trusting in their own power rather than the power of the God to whom all victory belongs, not having taken the time to humbly examine themselves before Him to ensure that they are in His favor, nor taking the time to seek His guidance, but instead placing their faith in faulty counsel, fighting not in the name above all names, but in the name of those standard bearers who are subject to errors of their own and who can be cut down in an instant, not considering that the standard bearers who are raised up are but vessels and servants of God Almighty whom He raises up for our deliverance and edification.
They also fail to adequately comprehend the true nature of the conflict which is not carnal but spiritual; the carnal manifestations of the conflict being the end result of what takes place in the spiritual. The spiritual warfare is a war for the minds, hearts, and souls of men that has been waged ever since the fall of man. It is a a warfare that has been going on in the unseen realms throughout the ages and a warfare in which each person must eventually take a side.
It is a war that is not against flesh and blood, but “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12) whose preferred methods are those of subtlety and the waging of their warfare by tempting men into evil, leading them away from the truth of God by causing them to embrace various falsehoods of which there are many, rendering they who would be profitable for the cause of the heavenly Kingdom useless, sowing discord among those who would otherwise be unified, and intimidating and carrying out various persecutions against them who would faithfully serve and obey the risen Savior.
It is these unseen wicked forces who routinely exalt themselves against Almighty God and for which they face eventual everlasting punishment and against which they have fought and continue to fight to this very day by attempting to prevent the prophecies and promises that God has given from coming true, by hardening the hearts of men against the message of salvation in Christ, by issuing numerous cleverly devised challenges against the credibility and authority of scripture, by infiltrating and corrupting those institutions and establishments designed to draw men to a saving faith in Christ Jesus, to advance the cause of the Gospel and the coming Kingdom, and to bring edification to all people, and to form and maintain a peaceful, ordered, and prosperous society, by demoralizing godly and principled people, and by suppressing and silencing the truth of God in their wickedness so as to lead hold as many souls captive as they can.
It
is through their guile that the first man and woman were led into disobedience
against their Maker (Gen. 3) at which time sin entered into them and from
thence was passed onto all of mankind causing a separation between man and God
and subjugating all men to death and endangering them to eternal torment in
Hell as is the demanded penalty for all sin and evil, but not only was man to
the destructive and tragic consequences of sin, but the taint and corrupting
power of sin also spread to all of creation, thereby placing it under a curse
which is why all things created are subject to death, decay, hardship, pain,
and constant struggle and turmoil (Rom. 8:19-22) because the sin of the first
man, Adam, handed, to a certain extent, dominion of the earth over to these
dark spiritual forces (Mt. 4:9-10, Lk. 4:6-8)
thus enabling them to claim lordship over the kingdoms and nations of the
world, and is the reason why the one who heads them is called the prince of
this world (Jn. 12:31, 14:30, 16:11) and its god. (2 Cor. 4:4)
But the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, has made certain their final defeat (Rev. 20:10) and has given us assurance that these dark angels will be cast out this world (Jn. 12:31) thus liberating it from their evil rule because our Lord and Savior is God over all things and gives power to whom He will and takes away power from whom He will and raises up some while bringing down others and just as His redemptive work cleanses us of all sin and transforms us into the new person who lives only to serve Christ, so even our bodies presently subject to death and decay will one day be liberated from the bondage of corruption and will no longer face death or decay nor be vessels for the corrupted condition of sin to dwell in but will instead be changed from that which is corruptible to that which is incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) and finally creation itself will be liberated from the curse that presently afflicts it when this present world will be replaced with a new and better world wherein there is no sin, nor death, nor any curse, or anything to cause suffering, pain, sorrow, or grief and in which evil will not be allowed to dwell and in which God will make His dwelling among men as has always been His desire since the beginning. (Rev. 21-22)
That final victory belongs to they who have submitted themselves to the God of redemption to whom all victory belongs and therefore, we who are in Christ ought to live as victors and not as those destined for defeat, even when the odds against us appear overwhelming and are overpowering for we serve a God who is able to enable us to overcome any and all odds according to His will.
Scripture
references:
1. Genesis 1
2. John 1:3
3. Romans 5:12
4. Romans 6:23
5. Romans 3:23
7. John 3:16
8. 2 Corinthians 5:21
9. Hebrews 4:15
10. Romans 4:25
11. Romans 10:13
12. Matthew 10:28
13. Mark 10:30
14. Matthew 6:25-32
15. Ephesians 6:12
16. Genesis 3
17. Matthew 4:9-10
18. Luke 4:6-8
19. John 12:31
20. John 14:30
21. John 16:11
22. 2 Corinthians 4:4
23. Revelation 20:10
24. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55
25. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
26. Revelation 21-22
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