Prophecy Update: War March 21, 2019

To be a student of the Bible is to be a student of war. The word ‘war’ occurs 228 times in the Bible and God describes war for us in a number of ways. The first war described in the Bible is in Genesis 14. All war is a test of wills and spiritual health. Several kings came together to make war on Sodom and Gomorrah and they were victorious. In their victory, they kidnapped Lot who was Abram’s nephew. Gen.14:14-15 tells us, “and when Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive he led out his trained men, born in his house, 318 men and went in pursuit as far as Dan, he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants defeated them and pursued them as far as Hobah which is north of Damascus.”

Abram is the promised one, the first Hebrew who is the father of Israel. He decided to go to war and he was victorious. How did Abram win the war? Did he win because he took precautions to build an army from his house? Did he win because he had trained better fighters then the armies they faced? No, the answer given in vs.18-20 that reveals how to win wars. “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High He blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” He gave him a tenth of all.”

Abram was blessed that God delivered his enemies into his hands. Abram and his men traveled 160 miles to fight this war. From Hebron where he was to Hobah was 160 miles, this was no easy feat. They fought because they believed that God was with them and that they had a duty to their family. Abram fought because he was spiritually healthy. His will was strong because he had convictions. All wars are a test of will and spiritual health. How’s your will? How’s your spiritual health? What about spiritual warfare?

The first war involving spiritual fighting happened in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve fought and lost that spiritual fight because they were weak in the Word of the Lord. Eve could not fight because she changed the Word of God and mishandled what God had said. When Satan attacked Eve and asked her, hath God said? She failed the test. When Satan did this to Jesus (Matthew 4), Jesus quoted scripture to Satan. Jesus knew how to wield the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

When Jesus told us in both Daniel 9 and Matthew 24 that wars and rumors of wars were determined until the end, he meant physical and spiritual wars. We are living in a time when the wars and rumors of wars is speeding up. What used to take years and months to lead to a war now happens in weeks and days. We are making compromises spiritually and willfully that far exceed what happened during WW2!

I am a student of World War 2 and have been recently reviewing some books and articles on war. What has struck me again is that the rules for war never change. The mistakes made in the past are being made again. Years ago I read the ‘Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’ by William Shirer. It was a very frustrating read for me because of all of the mistakes people made which made the war worse than it should have been. Victor Davis Hanson has written some great books on WW2 and recently said in a speech on why World War 2 matters: “What did the allies have in common (USA, Britain, and Soviet Russia), they either had been surprised attacked, or in the case of Britain their ally had been attacked. 65 million people died in this war. Of all the wars that have happened in the last 300 years, together the death toll did not match World War 2. One reason this war took place is because of new ideologies, secular, atheistic, and agnostic. It was a mish mash of bastardized views.”

At this point in his lecture, I was reflecting on the fact that God has sovereign reasons for bringing wars. In this case, WW2 advanced Gods plan for reestablishing the State of Israel as promised in the Scriptures. Dr. Hanson went on to say, “Italy, Japan, and Germany introduced a relativism about good and bad. Germany invaded the Netherlands, Luxemborg, Belgium, and France, nobody believed it was possible and it was not possible in WW1. The Nazis took the entire Western democracies in seven weeks.”

Think of the speed which Hitler took over these nations. Why did these nations have no will to resist Nazi aggression? Dr. Hanson gives this answer: “It was a weird combination of British and French appeasement, Russian collaboration, and American isolationism.” I want you to reflect on the fact that appeasement and isolationism are clear symptoms of spiritual sickness and a weak will. The West, known as Christian West was too anemic spiritually to stand up to evil! When the people of God are ruled by pagans, I call it a pagocracy. The USA and Britain united themselves to a pagocracy in the Soviet Union! I hate seeing the pictures of Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt with Joseph Stalin, ugh!

I read a book published in 1942 by Dr. Louis Bauman and he wrote about this horrible spiritual problem for America. In a chapter called “Any American or British Alliance with Russia is Abnormal.” ‘Russia is still the treacherous enigma of the world chessboard. It can hardly be said that she is our ally and yet Russia is supposed to be fighting the battle with Great Britain and America against the Nazis. But we still cannot evade the conviction that partnership with a Godless brute such as Stalin must in the end be paid for.’ Pg.82

It is always true that if you align yourself with a godless and evil ideology, you will receive discipline from the Lord. The USA has received that discipline and then some. I will get back to that in a second. First, on June 22 1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech called ‘Alliance with Russia.’ In this speech he said, “The Nazi regime is indistinguishable from the worse features of Communism. It is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination. It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty and ferocious aggression. No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I for the last 25 years…..But now I have to declare the decision of His Majesty’s Government and I feel sure it is a decision in which the great Dominions will in due course, concur, for we must speak out now at once without a day’s delay. I have to make the declaration, but can you doubt what our policy will be? We have but one aim…destroy Hitler…any man or state that who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid.” It was at this point that Britain united with the USSR.

Think about it, if the free countries of the West compromised the Word of God in WW2, what do you think it will be like when Anti-Christ rises? When the USA compromised with the USSR, we have been at constant war ever since. God payed us grief and pain with the Korean War, a war we are technically still fighting since it was never resolved. We fought in the Vietnam War, another war against communism and lost. Since WW2 the United States has turned its back on Christianity in our courts, universities, and government! No Godly government would ever rule that abortion is a right or that marriage is not between one man and one woman.

A new book about this problem is by David Horowitz. He argues in his new book “Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America,” that secularists and leftists want to turn the nation into a godless, heathen society where religion has absolutely no role. It’s very bad in the U.S. This war against Christianity is a war of the left, which is the Democratic Party, because Christian values are incompatible with the social justice delusions of the left. Everything about Christianity — the sanctity of the individual, the individual soul, individual accountability and equality — all these things are anathema to the left.”

I lament the compromise in the church. Just like in Nazi Germany where the church compromised with Naziism, so we are compromising with Marxism in the church. The whole movement to bring social justice and accept every immorality in the church is a defection from God. What we need are more Joshua 1:7-8 Christians. Joshua was heading to war and God increased his will and spiritual strength. This is what God said: “Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.”

War is on the doorstep of America. I will cover this next week, but this week you need to stand up and declare that you will meditate on the Word of God. The only way to go to war is to be strong and courageous and meditate on the Word of God. The enemies of the USA hate Christianity and they hate Judaism. They wish to wipe out both in our country. Horowitz went on to say; Now I see it as a central battle. The country is at stake. The left wants a one-party state, you can see that. How can you have a resistance to a dually elected president? It’s sedition. It’s treason, in the normal sense of the word, to obstruct a president. Everything that’s running the Democratic Party today is obstructionism. You can’t have a democracy if you don’t accept the legitimacy of an election. I mean, that is fundamental.
Our enemies see what is happening and they are exploiting this weakness in America. A nation divided against itself cannot stand. It is only a matter of time before we see armed conflict. Several news outlets published articles how civil war is now unavoidable in America. Seven articles about this in the last month alone. Ephesians 6:10f is about spiritual warfare and I think it is very important at this time for Christians in America. Be strong in the Lord today!