For God and Country
For God and Country you say?
I see too many mixed messages of what it means to put one's trust in God as opposed to trusting yourself, your gun, your government and your military power. The world has yet to cease using weapons and war to "bring peace" ( what an abstract and illogical notion ), yet this is the message filling the airwaves of radio and television every day. Those who profess and confess to follow the Prince of Peace also profess and confess to support war, weapons of war and whatever else worthless words waylay them with worry. This is clear evidence of duality, blind hypocrisy and faithlessness in light of the gospel.
You cannot be going in two directions... and God isn't going in two directions... so let us clarify what the Word says about the use of weapons.
Is it a contradiction when Yeshua asked the disciples to sell a cloak to buy a sword? Peter is later rebuked for using a sword after Christ mentioned getting a sword. Was Christ advocating the use of a weapon or was this for something else?
Let us read and see what is happening:
Then Yeshua asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”
“Nothing,” they answered.
He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”
The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”
“That’s enough!” he replied.
- Luke 22:35-38
Two swords for at least 12 people ( Christ and the twelve minus Judas who wasn't present yet ). Two sword yielding men with 10 watching and cheering?
Let us read what happened just a short time later in that same passage of scripture:
While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Yeshua to kiss him, but Yeshua asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”
When Yeshua’s followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
But Yeshua answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.
Then Yehua said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs? Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour—when darkness reigns.”
- Luke 22:47-53
Yeshua / the Prince of Peace / the Messiah / Immanuel ( God with us ) responded to the violent act of one of his disciples with: “No more of this!”
Questions:
Is it possible that Yeshua mentioned the purchase of a sword in order to fulfill the scripture of the Messiah being counted among the transgressors?
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isaiah 53:12
Was Yeshua leading a rebellion?
Is Yeshua Today leading a rebellion?
Are you part of a rebellion or part of the kingdom of God?
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."
- Matthew 5:38-42
Does God’s kingdom stand on human principles and human logic?
Do you stand with love, peace, unity and forgiveness or stand with war, strife, division and indifference?
Look what was depicted in another gospel regarding the incident in the garden:
With that, one of Yeshua’s companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.
“Put your sword back in its place,” Yeshua said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”
- Matthew 26:51-54
It was God's will for Yeshua to die ( and in the manner it happened ). It was God's will for Peter and Paul to die ( and in the manner they did ). It was God's will for Philip to be stoned to death in front of all the religious hierarchy of the Jews ( surely as a testimony to them and to express the faith these men had in God as opposed to the faithlessness of the religious and the religious men being obedient to the Roman empire instead of God and His Word ).
Perhaps it is God's will for you to die in a particular way... but would that be with a gun in one hand and a bible in another hand defending and offending with a political ideology that hijacks the gospel in order to expand an empire built for commercial purposes? Is this the manner Yeshua taught His disciples to further the good news of life after death? Is the gospel about buying and selling things? Is the gospel about fighting over land, fighting over natural resources and pledging allegiance to inanimate objects?
What are Today’s weapons for the believer in Christ?
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- Ephesians 6:10-17
Questions:
Are you fighting against flesh and blood?
Bullets and guns are used as weapons against flesh and blood… but the believer’s battle isn’t against flesh and blood.
Why does a believer ‘believe’ they need a physical weapon?
Is this what the gospel is teaching you or what some twisted religion is teaching you?
Are you living according to the Spirit of love and peace or according to the flesh?
Do you believe the Way and how Yeshua exemplified it by being a servant of all and laying His life down for His friends?
Where and when did any of the disciples of Yeshua use a sword or any other weapon ( for defense, no need to mention offense ) after Yeshua rebuked Peter in the garden prior to being crucified?
Do you realize no other depiction of the use of a weapon ( neither for offense or defense ) is found in scripture or further writings of the faithful?
Do you believe what mainstream pastors preach about supporting empires and supporting warring states who also use God and religion to commit genocide on their neighbors?
Do you believe the propaganda news media and their flavor of Christian religion instead of what your heart tells you after reading scripture?
Are you living according to faith in God or do you live according to what men say and what your fear leads you to do?
Do you use a physical sword or a spiritual sword?
Where is your faith?
Is your faith set upon the weapons of men or the weapons of God?
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
- Hebrews 1:14
Do you truly believe angels are protecting you or do you think your government, your military, your weapons of war and your own logic is going to protect you?
What does it say about trusting in men, in yourself and in the things of the world?
This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD. That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
- Jeremiah 17:5-8
I suggest you to be like a tree planted by the water and not like a faithless person who follows the religions of men.
I suggest you be like Peter and repent from seeing the world through the old way of "eye for an eye" and instead realize what Yeshua has established: a kingdom of peace and love built on righteousness.
I suggest you actually believe and follow the gospel and not the version being peddled from those who do not faithfully follow God's Way but instead run a business of misinformation.
I suggest you be like Christ and not like yourself.
I see too many mixed messages of what it means to put one's trust in God as opposed to trusting yourself, your gun, your government and your military power. The world has yet to cease using weapons and war to "bring peace" ( what an abstract and illogical notion ), yet this is the message filling the airwaves of radio and television every day. Those who profess and confess to follow the Prince of Peace also profess and confess to support war, weapons of war and whatever else worthless words waylay them with worry. This is clear evidence of duality, blind hypocrisy and faithlessness in light of the gospel.
You cannot be going in two directions... and God isn't going in two directions... so let us clarify what the Word says about the use of weapons.
Is it a contradiction when Yeshua asked the disciples to sell a cloak to buy a sword? Peter is later rebuked for using a sword after Christ mentioned getting a sword. Was Christ advocating the use of a weapon or was this for something else?
Let us read and see what is happening:
Then Yeshua asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”
“Nothing,” they answered.
He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”
The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”
“That’s enough!” he replied.
- Luke 22:35-38
Two swords for at least 12 people ( Christ and the twelve minus Judas who wasn't present yet ). Two sword yielding men with 10 watching and cheering?
Let us read what happened just a short time later in that same passage of scripture:
While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Yeshua to kiss him, but Yeshua asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”
When Yeshua’s followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
But Yeshua answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.
Then Yehua said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs? Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour—when darkness reigns.”
- Luke 22:47-53
Yeshua / the Prince of Peace / the Messiah / Immanuel ( God with us ) responded to the violent act of one of his disciples with: “No more of this!”
Questions:
Is it possible that Yeshua mentioned the purchase of a sword in order to fulfill the scripture of the Messiah being counted among the transgressors?
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isaiah 53:12
Was Yeshua leading a rebellion?
Is Yeshua Today leading a rebellion?
Are you part of a rebellion or part of the kingdom of God?
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."
- Matthew 5:38-42
Does God’s kingdom stand on human principles and human logic?
Do you stand with love, peace, unity and forgiveness or stand with war, strife, division and indifference?
Look what was depicted in another gospel regarding the incident in the garden:
With that, one of Yeshua’s companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.
“Put your sword back in its place,” Yeshua said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”
- Matthew 26:51-54
It was God's will for Yeshua to die ( and in the manner it happened ). It was God's will for Peter and Paul to die ( and in the manner they did ). It was God's will for Philip to be stoned to death in front of all the religious hierarchy of the Jews ( surely as a testimony to them and to express the faith these men had in God as opposed to the faithlessness of the religious and the religious men being obedient to the Roman empire instead of God and His Word ).
Perhaps it is God's will for you to die in a particular way... but would that be with a gun in one hand and a bible in another hand defending and offending with a political ideology that hijacks the gospel in order to expand an empire built for commercial purposes? Is this the manner Yeshua taught His disciples to further the good news of life after death? Is the gospel about buying and selling things? Is the gospel about fighting over land, fighting over natural resources and pledging allegiance to inanimate objects?
What are Today’s weapons for the believer in Christ?
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- Ephesians 6:10-17
Questions:
Are you fighting against flesh and blood?
Bullets and guns are used as weapons against flesh and blood… but the believer’s battle isn’t against flesh and blood.
Why does a believer ‘believe’ they need a physical weapon?
Is this what the gospel is teaching you or what some twisted religion is teaching you?
Are you living according to the Spirit of love and peace or according to the flesh?
Do you believe the Way and how Yeshua exemplified it by being a servant of all and laying His life down for His friends?
Where and when did any of the disciples of Yeshua use a sword or any other weapon ( for defense, no need to mention offense ) after Yeshua rebuked Peter in the garden prior to being crucified?
Do you realize no other depiction of the use of a weapon ( neither for offense or defense ) is found in scripture or further writings of the faithful?
Do you believe what mainstream pastors preach about supporting empires and supporting warring states who also use God and religion to commit genocide on their neighbors?
Do you believe the propaganda news media and their flavor of Christian religion instead of what your heart tells you after reading scripture?
Are you living according to faith in God or do you live according to what men say and what your fear leads you to do?
Do you use a physical sword or a spiritual sword?
Where is your faith?
Is your faith set upon the weapons of men or the weapons of God?
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
- Hebrews 1:14
Do you truly believe angels are protecting you or do you think your government, your military, your weapons of war and your own logic is going to protect you?
What does it say about trusting in men, in yourself and in the things of the world?
This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD. That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
- Jeremiah 17:5-8
I suggest you to be like a tree planted by the water and not like a faithless person who follows the religions of men.
I suggest you be like Peter and repent from seeing the world through the old way of "eye for an eye" and instead realize what Yeshua has established: a kingdom of peace and love built on righteousness.
I suggest you actually believe and follow the gospel and not the version being peddled from those who do not faithfully follow God's Way but instead run a business of misinformation.
I suggest you be like Christ and not like yourself.
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