It may be more prevelant than you think. 3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. ~ Ex 15:3 Someone said something I disagree with. If you are a human being, then you too have heard someone say something that was just a bit off, I’m…
How much can go for good if it doesn’t go towards war? The Isaiah Wall, across the street from the United Nations Public domain (Click on image to see original) 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into…
Useless speculations don’t make a strategy Image by Special:Contributions/Saul ip, Wikimedia Commons under CCA-SA license I read a really superficial “news” commentary recently. The Washington Post put out a piece of fluff called “How scary is Putin’s Russia compared to the Soviet Union? This chart has some answers“. I am glad…
It seems like an odd thing to me to realize that only the older teenagers even remember 9/11. Those older who are older than I would sometimes ask, “Where were you when you heard that JFK had been shot?” These days, you sometimes hear the question, “Where were you on…
This is the last chapter in the Book of Judges, and it is the end of perhaps the most chilling story of all, which continues from Chapter 19 and Chapter 20. We saw how Benjamin harbored “sons of Belial” and defended their brethren in spite of the evil they perpetrated. …
Chapter 19 certainly had some twists and turns. Speaking for myself, portions of it are a little difficult for me to relate to. Chapter 20 picks up the story after the Levite cut up his dead wife into twelve pieces and shipped a piece to each of the tribes of…
Moving from Chapter 18 to Chapter 19 again represents the beginning of a story given out of time sequence. This story takes three chapters, the rest of the book. This certainly leaves one with a negative view of the book and the period. However, we need to remember that the…
I know, I know. Why do I keep coming back to politics in a series about war? Fair enough question, actually! Because the arguments for not serving in the military and the arguments for not being involved in politics are almost the same! The most obvious difference is that military…
Much of what I’ve already stated in this series is standard COG theology. In a nutshell: Sin entered the human world, and so God cannot deal with human beings as perfect beings. God used and uses wars to teach humanity about going the wrong way. He used Israel to punish…
In Part 10, we saw that Christians will fight in a war. However, it will truly be a “war to end all wars”. That war will be necessary because it will only be by great power and great might that the armies of this world will put down their weapons…