Between the events of 9/11 and 10/7 I have had great ignition of anger for those who would cause harm to the innocent in the name of a god and a human ideology. It confounds me the evil and atrocities which can be carried out on the very young and old who hold no threat to these cowards of evil. I have come to realize some evils must be eradicated before their disease can worm its way into the fabric of the societies they wish to destroy. Make no mistake, they desire to destroy and kill!
What got me thinking is when a dear friend I respect reminded me we needed to pray for their salvation. OK, I have been praying for God to work against the desires of evil men and to cause them to lay down their weapons and come to peace. I have even thought bigger than that; asking for God to work only what He can achieve by making the resolve of this conflict between Hamas and the desire to wipe out the Israel nation in only way He can and to make it big so the IDF and any political party cannot take privilege to bringing about the peace in the region. I am totally convinced God already knows what is going to happen because he is the Ancient of Days; after all, He is ever-present, as he was and is always to the end aware of what will happen and is all-knowing to have the power to bring about exactly what is best and just for every individual currently, will be and has been living on this planet. Let’s be real, if our Creator did not have these qualities what would be the security and faith in believing in a God who was anything less? This stands to reason then those who desire to hate, destroy and kill are truly destined to be removed to a hell as a consequence for their actions. After all isn’t that what the Word of God says?
Which brings me back to the initial question. Yes, I do pray for those who are desiring to kill those who stand for freedoms to worship, live without fear, and work to support their families. How far do we take this inaction on our part and follow God’s action in dealing with the evil in this world? Again, I have to go back to my foundation and refer to the Bible in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. If we look in history evil was delt with through destruction, captivity, and in some cases restoration on both the part of those who stood against Israel and Israel herself. However, this always came about as a result of a choice of action against other peoples or against the Creator himself. I use the term peoples because WE ARE OF THE SAME RACE only different nationalities based on where we live. We can ALL find our lineage from the first human ADAM and there is no mistaking it! Even in the New Testiment we still find consequences for actions. We are still free to choose for or against but make no mistake there still is a consequence.
So, the conflict of who is right and who is wrong still remains. Who is the bully here? The problem is who you are talking to and who is living in the arms of fear. I think we try to make it political so we can have a seen enemy and leave the blame to humans. The truth is deeper than political. Then, some come to blame on religion and in the name of a god for an excuse to commit great atrocities against factions and groups of peoples we disagree with. Again, we miss the deeper driving motivation for caring out these evils against humanity. It really comes down to our world view; theology of our thinking; the values we base our motivations and actions on. There are only two choices when it comes to this foundation. Are we basing our foundations on what man thinks and how the world is understood according to man’s wisdom or are we basing our foundations on what our Creator instructs and how He has set up the foundations for this world? How could it be that simple? Think of it this way, foundations which are based on man’s interpretation of how the world works is explained according to man’s understanding and how he has set up the governing standard or plumbline. The only problem is this standard is ever changing if you rely on man’s thinking. Depending on the current mood of society will dictate what is deemed acceptable. Then it is deemed acceptable according to what the desires of the society (man) at that current time. History of the last 100 years has only to show you this standard is everchanging. You can also go back to the religions which have started from human interpretations and the making of their own so-called books of foundations; all of which are based on human thought who have given their own theology based on a work to earn based salvation. All these leaders have been buried six feet in the ground. I give examples of Hinduism, Shinto, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Jehovah Witness, Later Day Saints. NOT ONE of them has been able to say they have beaten death. So, what was once deemed not acceptable is now acceptable; what was acceptable is now not acceptable depending on my current mood, thinking, and understanding.
If you look at what the standard or plumbline according to the Creator, I doubt you find a change there. This is because God does not change. Again, He is the Ancient of Days, He is consistent through out history and can be trusted to be consistent in the future because He has proven himself trustworthy because of His history. The clear foundation of the original manuscripts of the Bible does not change over thousands of years; within the Bible are decrees it must not be added or deleted from; and the standing alone on its own without contradiction from the first page to the last is the foundation which can only be trusted. My trip to Israel has made this clear to me. Take a shovel in one hand and a Bible in the other and they will prove each other EVERY TIME. There is no mistaking it!
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| 2022 Jerusalem evening |
So, I go again back to my question of dealing with this evil. If we are to truly love and pray for our enemies, how can we justify the war and killing. Again, I am going back to my experiences of having Muslim friends in my history; our trip to Egypt; and my own searching to understand why they have their understanding and why they have come to be this mindset. This again comes back to where your foundations are. Are you trusting in a man created thought process and foundation or are you trusting in the Creator given foundation? If you trust in a man’s, you will be deceived in twisting the truth to meet your desires and greed. You will come to expect other humans are only created to meet your human needs and to make your pleasures a reality. You will twist the explanation of killing and stealing to meet your need for power and approval. The value of life will be consequential to achieving your end goal. This is what we are seeing in the evil within Hamas, Isis, Hasibullah, al-Qaida, and the Muslim Brotherhood. These ideologies are using in the name of god to promote their drive to conquer and destroy any thought outside of their own. How to win over these peoples? Yes, praying can be done and I think God is working within these countries ruled by these ideologies. However, I do not think God also allows us to sit with our hands under our legs and disregard the actions from these groups. We are called to defend against evil and to stop the destruction of the poor, weak, and young. This is the reason we need to defend the woman and children within these countries. However, evil has chosen to use the same as their shields and sympathy for giving excuse to their actions. Don’t be deceived by what is happening in the current days. We must not forget the plight of these people last year and years ago. The same ruling ideologies are gleaning off of the poor and killing their own people to meet their own greed for pleasure, power, and greed. It is just now; they are crying wolf as they are being found out and called to account for their actions.
This should drive us to pray for those who are being succumbed to the actions of these men in power and the consequences of the acts of 10/7/23. I do pray for the innocent and those found in the middle. However, we must not be deceived into thinking to allowing rats to continue to thrive in the dark and not live with the infestation of the consequences when the infestation becomes septic and spills over into the surrounding peoples and into the light. For this reason, we must act, and we must get rid of the rats to avoid the septic conditions of the people who are living with the rats and those whom the rats want to destroy. This is the only reality for the killing I can resolve with. As sad as I am, I know MY GOD is just and he will only judge those with his trustworthy love and mercy. Kill’em all and let God sort’em out is the only solace I have when God will know His own.
So yes, we should pray for all those who are having to live in all the wars on this little planet of ours. We pray for God to thwart the evil desires of men and to bring a close to the wars in such a way there will only be one explanation to the end, IT WAS A GOD THING!
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| 2023 Remembrance Table Israel |
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