About 30 years ago while my wife and I were overseas missionaries and preparing to come to the U.S. on furlough and itinerate (travel to churches preaching to raise support), I sought God for a message for the church. God gave me a message I simply titled Holy War.
The crux of the message is that there has always been and will always be a Holy War. A mistake many people make is thinking that Holy War was specific to a time, region or faiths. This is a mistake that leads to failure. Without going into a long teaching on the true meaning of Holy, let me just say that it is about understanding the total supremacy and unique nature of God, and the things of God, that are not open to compromise or dilution. To make it a battle exclusively between Islam and Christianity or Christianity, Islam and Judaism misses the mark. Holy War was, and often is, between a true biblical faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus, and a counterfeit religion. It is the difference in "professing a form of godliness but denying the power, thereof," and a true faith in the power and authority of God and His people in the world.
In my original essay on Holy War, I said there are 3 prime enemies of God and His people today. Those are Islam, Secular Humanism, and a "New Age" syncretism. That has not changed. These are still the enemies of God and His people. Before we can combat the onslaught we must first recognize these exist and are in fact our enemy. We can try and make friends and hopefully win over our enemies, but we must NEVER compromise the essentials of the faith to accomplish this.
This brings me to 2017 and how this relates to what is going on with the anti-Trump movement. If you look at who the opposition is and why, you will find that it is either Islamists, Secular Humanist atheists, and syncretists. For those who do not know the term syncretism, it is the merging or ideas and giving equal value to any and all faiths. These are people that believe the foundational teachings and beliefs of Judeo-Christian thought are not something exclusive, and worth defending. These three entities have teamed up to bring an all out assault against President Donald Trump. Enemies within and without the Jewish and Christian ranks are bringing all manner of attack against anything Trump, while most orthodox evangelicals and Jews support and defend him. Many of those within those ranks fail to understand what Jesus said,: "he who is not against us is for us." Luke 9:50. Donald Trump has shown he is for us.
This is a really tough fight and I believe a fight which will determine whether America,Western Civilization and the world is saved or allowed to slide to its destruction.
Having said all of this, as this is a Holy War, a spiritual war, we cannot fight it by carnal means. I believe that those entities I spoke of are driven by spiritual powers that they cannot even see. We, therefore, must fight with spiritual weapons.
In that same prayer time in which God gave me this message, I believe He also gave me the prescription or battle plan for defeating these "forces of darkness."
I urge you to read and study the passages I am about to share with you and to share these with any and every, like minded, believer you know. Disclaimer: If you are not a believer in the full authority of God and scripture, please stop reading and leave this site now. I will not spend time arguing with you in this space. I can see you on FaceBook for that.
Please read 2 Chronicles 20:1-29, as here lies the key. The people of Judah were facing three enemies, just as we are. These three Moabites, Ammonites and Meunites surrounded the people of Judah with larger numbers and more force than the people of Judah could win over. Jehoshaphat knowing they had no earthly way of defeating these enemies, called for a fast. The people fasted and then, on behalf of the nation, Jehoshaphat cried out to God and confessed their powerlessness. The most important words of his prayer were as follows: "We have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you." This is very important to understand. First of all, the victory of Donald Trump was not, in my opinion, due nearly as much to anything he did, although he worked very hard, as it was to God responding to the prayers of the saints. We must now maintain that same humility and dependence on God to save and preserve our nation as we are under attack.
So, to get to it, we need to do as God directed Jehoshaphat. God directed him to go after the enemy with the army, BUT he was to set worshipers to lead them. Not only did he direct him to set worshipers in front of the army, he told him what they were to sing. God directed the worshipers to sing: "Give thanks unto the Lord for He is good AND His mercy is everlasting." What happened; you may ask? As the army marched to war and approached the enemy, they came upon encampments of thousands of dead enemy fighters. What happened? The enemy had turned on itself and the three destroyed one another.
I am convinced that the same will happen today as God's people seek Him and recite this same praise/prayer. Oh give thanks unto the Lord for He is good and His mercy is everlasting. These three enemies, I believe will be exposed and turn on themselves.
In closing, I leave you with one question though. Do you believe or better said how much do you believe?
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