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Is God in FAVOR of wars_ What the Bible REALLY Says About Wars · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: From Genesis to Revelation. War runs through the pages of
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  the Bible like a river of blood and judgment. But
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  is it the work of men or a decree of
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  the most High, who truly orders the raising of swords?
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  And why the God of peace is also the lord
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  of armies? And today you will find out what the
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  Bible really says about wars. Everything starts long before the
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  first spear is thrown. In the heavens, where everything was harmony,
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  there was rebellion. Lucifer, the most beautiful of the angels,
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  desired the Creator's throne. An invisible war tore the skies. Miguel,
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  the Archangel of Justice, fought against the dragon, and it
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  was cast to earth. Thus, the Book of Revelation reveals
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  to us it was not man who started the war,
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  It was pride on earth. The blood soon stained the ground.
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  Two brothers born of the same womb. Abel offered the
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  best to the Lord. Consumed by jealousy, could not bear
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  the rejection. The field became a grave, a stone, a blow,
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  the first death, the first war, a heart that did
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  not accept correction. God did not ignore the cry of
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  the blood that was shed. He heard it, He responded,
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  and the evil grew like a plague, like an army
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  of shadows. Men built cities, kingdoms, weapons, The descendants of
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  Cain built fortresses. Powerful men emerged. The earth was filled
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  with violence. There was no more justice. The weak were crushed,
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  women were taken as trophies. That strong made their own law.
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  Then the Creator descended, not with human armies, but with
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  the waters of heaven, the abyss. The flood was a
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  war of God against the corruption of the flesh. Noah's
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  ark was not to salvation. It was a new beginning.
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  Yet the survivors still carried within them the seed of war.
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  Shortly after, the men came together, not to praise, but
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  to challenge. Let's build a tower that touches the sky,
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  they said in Babel. One language, one people, but one pride.
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  And the Lord descended once more, not with swords, but
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  with confusion. The language was divided. Nations were born, and
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  with them rivalry. From then on, wars stopped being personal
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  and became collective, peoples against peoples, tribes against tribes. And
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  in the midst of this scenario, a man emerges, Abraham.
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  God calls him to a land he did not know,
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  and in this new world war was already waiting Lot,
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  his nephew is captured by invading kings, and Abraham, with
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  his armed servants, goes to war, the first battle recorded
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  in the Bible, between kingdoms, between coalitions, and upon winning,
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  he does not take the glory for himself, but offers
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  tithes to the priest Melchizedek, acknowledging that the victory came
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  from above. As the centuries passed, war did not just persist.
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  It became a tool of divine purpose. But not every
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  sword was holy, nor was all blood just. God was
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  watching and intervening in the midst of increasing violence. He
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  began to form a people, a people for himself, a
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  people who would also know war slavery. In Egypt, the
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  cry of the Israelites, the outstretched arm of God plagues
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  red sea, a drowned army. The God of liberation was
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  also the god who toppled horses and horsemen in the
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  midst of the waters. The war once again was not
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  just the work of men. It was the response of
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  a God who fights for his children in the desert.
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  The people of Israel learned to fight against amelekh, against giants,
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  against wicked nations. God did not command retreat, but to
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  march forward. The one who was fire by night and
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  cloud by day was also the banner in battles. But
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  why would a god of love allow war? Why not
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  eliminate evil with words, with peace, with silence. The answer
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  is not simple, because the Bible does not romanticize war,
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  but neither does it hide it. It reveals that there
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  are wars that a judgment, others discipline, some liberation, and
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  many a consequence of the hardness of human hearts. War
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  is the mirror of sin, but it can also be
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  the stage for God's actions. As Israel marched towards the
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  Promised Land, the wars were no longer just defensive. They
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  became conquests. Jericho fell Ai was defeated, the Canaanites were overcome,
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  And in each there was an order, an instruction, an
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  invisible presence that made the impossible happen. God, who presented
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  himself as I Am, was now called Lord of Hosts,
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  and it is with this name that he will lead
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  the wars that are to come. The title Lord of
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  the Armies was not symbolic. He marched with his people,
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  he went ahead, fought. It was more than a name.
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  It was a real presence. When Israel crossed the Jordan,
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  God didn't just watch. He acted. In Jericho, the walls
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  fell without a sword. It wasn't tactics, it wasn't military strength.
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  It was obedience. It was faith. It was the power
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  of a God who wins with the sound of trumpets
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  and footsteps of priests. In every battle, the people learned
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  victory did not come from the sword, but from the alliance.
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  When they obeyed, they triumphed. When they trusted in their
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  own strength, they fell. That's how it was in Eye
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  when disobedience cost lives, and so it would be for generations.
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  With Joshua, the successor of Moses, Israel became a conquering nation.
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  Cities were destroyed, kingdoms fell. But behind every conquest there
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  was judgment. The peoples of Canaan were not innocent. They
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  practiced blood rituals, burned their children to strange gods, and
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  filled the land with injustice. The sword of Israel was
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  the judgment of God, but it was not a war
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  for glory. God forbade Israel from multiplying horses, gold, or power.
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  He wanted a dependent people, not imperialists, a people who
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  would fight when he commanded and rest when he said,
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  it became evident during the Judge's wars, Samson was not
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  a general, he was a tool. Gideon won with three
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  hundred men and torches. Deborah prophesied, led an army without
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  having better weapons. The people fought when oppressed and only
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  won when they repented. The pattern was clear. Without God
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  defeat with him victory. Then came the king. Saul, the
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  first monarch, was supposed to lead with justice, but he disobeyed.
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  He spared the enemy that God commanded to destroy. The
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  war for Saul became a game of interests. Therefore, God
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  rejected him, and there came another, a young shepherd, an
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  unlikely warrior. David the Giant Slayer, was the most celebrated
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  warrior of biblical history, not because he defeated thousands, but
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  because he trusted in the Lord. His victories were not
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  in his sword, but in his worship. He prayed before
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  going to war. He asked, should I go? Lord? And
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  he only moved forward with the divine answer. His psalms
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  are not just songs, they are war prayers. Even if
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  an army surrounded me, I would not fear. You prepare
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  a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
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  David understood God was shield, fortress, rock. But David also
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  knew the weight of war. His hands were covered in blood.
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  He wanted to build the temple. God said, no, you
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  are a man of war. Even the most just wars
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  take a toll. The blood spilled cries out, and not
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  even the man after God's own heart was exempt from this.
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  With Solomon came peace, but a peace built on the
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  ruins of his father's battles. A strong kingdom, but one
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  that would gradually turn away from the God of war
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  and peace. The nation would begin to trust in Egypt's horses,
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  political alliances, and wealth, and forget the Lord of hosts,
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  and so the kingdoms would be divided Israel in the Norse,
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  Judah in the South, and internal wars would begin, brothers
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  against brothers, and then invaders from outside Syria Babylon. God,
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  who used to fight for them, was now allowing them
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  to be defeated. Why because the people had exchanged the
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  covenant for idols. They had prostituted themselves spiritually. The prophets shouted, warned, cried,
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  but were not heard. And then God used the empires
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  as his hammer. Their wars were now the punishment, the
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  lord of armies became the lord of discipline. But even
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  in judgment there was purpose. God did not desire total destruction.
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  Every battle, every invasion, every exile was also a chance
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  for return, a call to repentance. Every sword raised against
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  Israel was also a mirror revealing who they had become. Thus,
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  war in the Bible is not chaotic. It is conducted, allowed,
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  sometimes commanded, but never without reason, never without justice, never
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  without purpose. And even in the pages of destruction, there
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  emerges the promise of something new, a time when the
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  people would no longer learn war, when swords would be
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  turned into plows, a time of peace, but which had
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  not yet arrived, because before the ultimate peace, there would
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  still be more wars, wars that would reveal the heart
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  of God and the heart of men, wars that would
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  not only be between kingdoms, but between Heaven and earth.
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  And it is at this point that the prophets become central,
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  because they not only speak of the present, they announced
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  the future. And often this future burns in fire and iron.
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  The fire and iron that the prophets spoke of were
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  not empty metaphors. They saw felt were consumed by visions
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  of ruin and glory. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. All of them
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  raised their voices in times of war, but their words
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  pointed to something greater. They were not just witnesses. They
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  were messengers of the eternal amidst the chaos, and what
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  they said was clear. Each war that Israel faced was
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  not only between human armies, but between loyalty and rebellion.
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  Jeremiah wept for Jerusalem, its silent streets, its cracked walls,
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  its plundered temple. He warned, kings, cautioned, priests, pleaded with
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  the people, turned to the Lord, but nobody listened to him.
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  And then came Babylon. The Holy city was trampled by foreigners,
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  the temple burned down, and the people were taken as slaves.
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  For many, it was the end, but for the prophets
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  it was just the beginning. Even in exile, God spoke
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  through dreams, visions, and signs. Ezekiel saw wheels within wheels,
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  beings with eyes all around, and the glory of the
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  Lord leaving the temple. It was war, a spiritual, invisible,
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  but devastating war, and in the middle of it a promise,
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  I will give you a new heart and will put
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  my spirit within you. The war was a sentence, but
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  it was also redemption. Isaiah saw further. He saw a messiah,
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  a descendant of David, a righteous king, but also a
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  suffering servant, someone who would not crush by force, but
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  would win through justice. He prophesied that one day nation
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  would not lift up sword against nation, and no one
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  would learn war any more. It was the herald of
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  a new era. But before that time arrived, the world
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  would still witness more wars. Alexander Rome wars between empires
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  and kings. And in the midst of this scenario, a
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  voice emerges in the desert, John the Baptist, and then
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  shortly after a man from Nazareth, a carpenter, a teacher,
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  a prophet, a king. Jesus did not come with a sword,
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  did not gather armies, did not preach military revolution. But
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  his words cut deeper than any blade. He said, love
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  your enemies. Blessed are the peacemakers. Those who live by
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  the sword will die by the sword. Many expected a
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  warrior Messiah. He came as a lamb, but that does
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  not mean he ignored wars. On the contrary, he prophesied,
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  times of conflict, you will hear of wars and rumors
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  of wars. Nation will rise against nation. He did not
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  deny the chaos, but reveal that it would precede something greater,
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  the Kingdom of God. Even in his imprisonment, even before
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  the cross, Jesus did not cry out for armed liberation.
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  His strength was different, his battle was different. He faced sin, death,
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  hell and won with silence, with blood, with a cross.
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  It was the deepest war in history, and the battlefield
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  was the human heart. After his resurrection, his disciples did
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  not take up arms, but their words shook empires. They
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  were persecuted, imprisoned, killed, but they never retaliated with violence,
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  because now the war was spiritual. Our struggle is not
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  against flesh or blood, but against principalities and powers. Paul
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  would rute. The early Church lived in a world of wars,
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  but preached peace, a peace that came from within, a
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  peace that was not the absence of external conflicts, but
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  reconciliation with God. They were not indifferent to swords, but
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  knew that the greatest victory was over inner evil. And
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  yet the Bible does not ignore the final conflict. The
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  Book of Revelation reveals that at the end of times,
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  war will return not just between nations, but between good
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  and evil, between the lamb and the beast, between heaven
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  and earth. And in this war, the Messiah will no
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  longer come as a lamb, but as a lion, his
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  eyes like flames on his thigh, written King of kings,
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  lord of lords, mounted on a white horse, with a
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  heavenly army. He will judge, he will wage war and win.
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  This image does not contradict the Gospel. It completes it.
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  The same Jesus who cried over Jerusalem is the one
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  who will judge the nations, because true love also confronts,
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  because divine justice demands reparation. Thus the prophets announced both
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  destruction and restoration, both judgment and hope. And amidst swords,
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  flames and tears, they pointed to a throne and to
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  a king, a king who had come not just to
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  end wars, but to reign eternally. And it is for
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  this end that the whole store moves towards. But before
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  the end comes, one last battlefield will be revealed, a
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  judgment of final confrontation and a definitive victory, where no
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  sword will be raised again. The final battle, the last war,
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  not between nations for territories, nor for riches, but between
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  good and evil, between truth and lies, between the kingdom
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  of God and the kingdoms of the world. This is
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  what the Apocalypse reveals. John exiled on Patmos, saw things
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  that human eyes could not comprehend. Heaven's opening, trumpets, sounding angels,
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  marching dragons, beasts, earthquakes, stars falling. It was the foreboding
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  of the final battle, and in the center of everything
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  the lamb. But now with eyes of fire and a
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  voice like many waters, the glorified Christ does not come
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  to be crucified again. He comes to rule, and before
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  peace reigns, he wages war, not with tanks nor with
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  human armies, but with the word of his mouth, a
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  sharp sword that comes from his lips, a perfect justice,
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  an inevitable judgment. Armageddon is not a legend. It is
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  the final battlefield where kings of the earth and spiritual
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  forces rise against the Creator. But they do not prevail,
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  for the one who comes is faithful and true. Their
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  armies are dressed in white linen, they do not wield
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  earthly well happens, for victory comes from above. And then,
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  after the fall of the Beast, the false prophet and
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  the ancient dragon. A new era begins, a thousand years
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  of peace, an era where Satan is imprisoned, where justice flourishes,
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  where nations no longer learn war because the Prince of
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  Peace rules with a scepter of justice. But even after that,
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  there is a final uprising, a final rebellion, Gog and
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  Magog peoples who will still choose to resist, And once
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  again the sky intervenes, Fire descends, evil is consumed, and
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  finally death is cast into the lake of fire. Judgment arrives,
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  and with it the end of wars forever. John then
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  sees something extraordinary, a new heaven, a new Earth. The
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  old ones is gone, the sea goes away, and a
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  holy city descends from the heavens, the new Jerusalem. It
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  has no army, no defensive walls, no locked gates, because
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  there will be no more enemies, no more war. Tears
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  will be wiped away, pain will cease. There will be
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  no more death, no mourning, no weeping, because the old
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  has passed away. The city needs no sun or moon,
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  for God's glory illuminates it. The lamb is its lamp.
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  The kings of the Earth will bring their glory there,
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  but there will be no more war to defend it.
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  This is the final destiny revealed by the scriptures, and
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  it is clear the war in God's plan has an
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  end date. It has a verdict because justice will no
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  no longer be a pursuit, there will be a constant presence,
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  and peace will not be just an ideal, It will
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  be the eternal environment. But until that day, humanity still
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  walks among conflicts, still faces battles, many external, others internal,
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  because the deepest war is not the one fought with weapons,
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  but the one that takes place within the human heart.
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  And this not even the end of the world can
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  fight for us. The Bible never glorified war, It only
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  revealed it with truth, with pain, with purpose. Sometimes it
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  was an instrument of judgment, other times a means of liberation,
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  and many times a direct consequence of man's fall. She
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  shows that war is real, but it is not eternal.
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  God did not create the world to be a battlefield.
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  He created it to be a garden, to be a home,
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  but sin turned Eden into a war zone. Since then
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  the story of redemption has also been the story of reconquest.
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  Each promise is like a flag raised over enemy territory,
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  and this reconquest is not done by force, but by blood,
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  by the blood of the lamb, by the sacrifice of
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  the one who won without killing, who triumphed by dying,
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  and who will reign eternally as the Prince of peace.
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  Today we live among promises, among still sharp swords and
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  prophecies yet to be fulfilled. But the Bible leaves no doubt.
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  The end of the war is decreed not by human treaties,
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  but by the decree of the King of kings. He
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  is not indifferent, he is waiting for the exact time.
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  Your word is a shield for those who trust in it,
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  Your righteousness is a wall against oppression, and your love
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  is the weapon that disarms hearts. He will come and
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  will not delay. And when he comes, every knee will bow,
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  and every tongue will confess. There will be no more
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  war cries, no marching soldiers, no burning towers, no trenches,
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  no borders. There will only be one name above all names,
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  and a song of peace will fill the skies, because
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  the time of the sword will have passed, and the
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  Kingdom of Peace will have begun, never to end.