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- 0:03Speaker 1: From Genesis to Revelation. War runs through the pages of
- 0:07Speaker 1: the Bible like a river of blood and judgment. But
- 0:14Speaker 1: is it the work of men or a decree of
- 0:16Speaker 1: the most High, who truly orders the raising of swords?
- 0:25Speaker 1: And why the God of peace is also the lord
- 0:32Speaker 1: of armies? And today you will find out what the
- 0:43Speaker 1: Bible really says about wars. Everything starts long before the
- 1:04Speaker 1: first spear is thrown. In the heavens, where everything was harmony,
- 1:10Speaker 1: there was rebellion. Lucifer, the most beautiful of the angels,
- 1:15Speaker 1: desired the Creator's throne. An invisible war tore the skies. Miguel,
- 1:29Speaker 1: the Archangel of Justice, fought against the dragon, and it
- 1:34Speaker 1: was cast to earth. Thus, the Book of Revelation reveals
- 1:38Speaker 1: to us it was not man who started the war,
- 1:42Speaker 1: It was pride on earth. The blood soon stained the ground.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Two brothers born of the same womb. Abel offered the
- 1:56Speaker 1: best to the Lord. Consumed by jealousy, could not bear
- 2:02Speaker 1: the rejection. The field became a grave, a stone, a blow,
- 2:08Speaker 1: the first death, the first war, a heart that did
- 2:12Speaker 1: not accept correction. God did not ignore the cry of
- 2:18Speaker 1: the blood that was shed. He heard it, He responded,
- 2:23Speaker 1: and the evil grew like a plague, like an army
- 2:27Speaker 1: of shadows. Men built cities, kingdoms, weapons, The descendants of
- 2:34Speaker 1: Cain built fortresses. Powerful men emerged. The earth was filled
- 2:44Speaker 1: with violence. There was no more justice. The weak were crushed,
- 2:49Speaker 1: women were taken as trophies. That strong made their own law.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Then the Creator descended, not with human armies, but with
- 2:58Speaker 1: the waters of heaven, the abyss. The flood was a
- 3:02Speaker 1: war of God against the corruption of the flesh. Noah's
- 3:07Speaker 1: ark was not to salvation. It was a new beginning.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Yet the survivors still carried within them the seed of war.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Shortly after, the men came together, not to praise, but
- 3:23Speaker 1: to challenge. Let's build a tower that touches the sky,
- 3:27Speaker 1: they said in Babel. One language, one people, but one pride.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And the Lord descended once more, not with swords, but
- 3:42Speaker 1: with confusion. The language was divided. Nations were born, and
- 3:47Speaker 1: with them rivalry. From then on, wars stopped being personal
- 3:52Speaker 1: and became collective, peoples against peoples, tribes against tribes. And
- 4:00Speaker 1: in the midst of this scenario, a man emerges, Abraham.
- 4:04Speaker 1: God calls him to a land he did not know,
- 4:07Speaker 1: and in this new world war was already waiting Lot,
- 4:12Speaker 1: his nephew is captured by invading kings, and Abraham, with
- 4:17Speaker 1: his armed servants, goes to war, the first battle recorded
- 4:21Speaker 1: in the Bible, between kingdoms, between coalitions, and upon winning,
- 4:28Speaker 1: he does not take the glory for himself, but offers
- 4:31Speaker 1: tithes to the priest Melchizedek, acknowledging that the victory came
- 4:36Speaker 1: from above. As the centuries passed, war did not just persist.
- 4:49Speaker 1: It became a tool of divine purpose. But not every
- 4:53Speaker 1: sword was holy, nor was all blood just. God was
- 5:00Speaker 1: watching and intervening in the midst of increasing violence. He
- 5:05Speaker 1: began to form a people, a people for himself, a
- 5:09Speaker 1: people who would also know war slavery. In Egypt, the
- 5:13Speaker 1: cry of the Israelites, the outstretched arm of God plagues
- 5:24Speaker 1: red sea, a drowned army. The God of liberation was
- 5:29Speaker 1: also the god who toppled horses and horsemen in the
- 5:32Speaker 1: midst of the waters. The war once again was not
- 5:36Speaker 1: just the work of men. It was the response of
- 5:40Speaker 1: a God who fights for his children in the desert.
- 5:45Speaker 1: The people of Israel learned to fight against amelekh, against giants,
- 5:51Speaker 1: against wicked nations. God did not command retreat, but to
- 5:56Speaker 1: march forward. The one who was fire by night and
- 6:00Speaker 1: cloud by day was also the banner in battles. But
- 6:06Speaker 1: why would a god of love allow war? Why not
- 6:10Speaker 1: eliminate evil with words, with peace, with silence. The answer
- 6:15Speaker 1: is not simple, because the Bible does not romanticize war,
- 6:19Speaker 1: but neither does it hide it. It reveals that there
- 6:23Speaker 1: are wars that a judgment, others discipline, some liberation, and
- 6:29Speaker 1: many a consequence of the hardness of human hearts. War
- 6:35Speaker 1: is the mirror of sin, but it can also be
- 6:39Speaker 1: the stage for God's actions. As Israel marched towards the
- 6:47Speaker 1: Promised Land, the wars were no longer just defensive. They
- 6:51Speaker 1: became conquests. Jericho fell Ai was defeated, the Canaanites were overcome,
- 6:59Speaker 1: And in each there was an order, an instruction, an
- 7:03Speaker 1: invisible presence that made the impossible happen. God, who presented
- 7:09Speaker 1: himself as I Am, was now called Lord of Hosts,
- 7:14Speaker 1: and it is with this name that he will lead
- 7:17Speaker 1: the wars that are to come. The title Lord of
- 7:25Speaker 1: the Armies was not symbolic. He marched with his people,
- 7:30Speaker 1: he went ahead, fought. It was more than a name.
- 7:34Speaker 1: It was a real presence. When Israel crossed the Jordan,
- 7:39Speaker 1: God didn't just watch. He acted. In Jericho, the walls
- 7:44Speaker 1: fell without a sword. It wasn't tactics, it wasn't military strength.
- 7:49Speaker 1: It was obedience. It was faith. It was the power
- 7:52Speaker 1: of a God who wins with the sound of trumpets
- 7:56Speaker 1: and footsteps of priests. In every battle, the people learned
- 8:02Speaker 1: victory did not come from the sword, but from the alliance.
- 8:06Speaker 1: When they obeyed, they triumphed. When they trusted in their
- 8:10Speaker 1: own strength, they fell. That's how it was in Eye
- 8:16Speaker 1: when disobedience cost lives, and so it would be for generations.
- 8:24Speaker 1: With Joshua, the successor of Moses, Israel became a conquering nation.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Cities were destroyed, kingdoms fell. But behind every conquest there
- 8:37Speaker 1: was judgment. The peoples of Canaan were not innocent. They
- 8:43Speaker 1: practiced blood rituals, burned their children to strange gods, and
- 8:48Speaker 1: filled the land with injustice. The sword of Israel was
- 8:53Speaker 1: the judgment of God, but it was not a war
- 8:58Speaker 1: for glory. God forbade Israel from multiplying horses, gold, or power.
- 9:05Speaker 1: He wanted a dependent people, not imperialists, a people who
- 9:10Speaker 1: would fight when he commanded and rest when he said,
- 9:16Speaker 1: it became evident during the Judge's wars, Samson was not
- 9:20Speaker 1: a general, he was a tool. Gideon won with three
- 9:26Speaker 1: hundred men and torches. Deborah prophesied, led an army without
- 9:32Speaker 1: having better weapons. The people fought when oppressed and only
- 9:37Speaker 1: won when they repented. The pattern was clear. Without God
- 9:42Speaker 1: defeat with him victory. Then came the king. Saul, the
- 9:49Speaker 1: first monarch, was supposed to lead with justice, but he disobeyed.
- 9:53Speaker 1: He spared the enemy that God commanded to destroy. The
- 9:57Speaker 1: war for Saul became a game of interests. Therefore, God
- 10:01Speaker 1: rejected him, and there came another, a young shepherd, an
- 10:07Speaker 1: unlikely warrior. David the Giant Slayer, was the most celebrated
- 10:12Speaker 1: warrior of biblical history, not because he defeated thousands, but
- 10:17Speaker 1: because he trusted in the Lord. His victories were not
- 10:24Speaker 1: in his sword, but in his worship. He prayed before
- 10:28Speaker 1: going to war. He asked, should I go? Lord? And
- 10:33Speaker 1: he only moved forward with the divine answer. His psalms
- 10:40Speaker 1: are not just songs, they are war prayers. Even if
- 10:45Speaker 1: an army surrounded me, I would not fear. You prepare
- 10:49Speaker 1: a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
- 10:53Speaker 1: David understood God was shield, fortress, rock. But David also
- 11:04Speaker 1: knew the weight of war. His hands were covered in blood.
- 11:11Speaker 1: He wanted to build the temple. God said, no, you
- 11:16Speaker 1: are a man of war. Even the most just wars
- 11:20Speaker 1: take a toll. The blood spilled cries out, and not
- 11:24Speaker 1: even the man after God's own heart was exempt from this.
- 11:32Speaker 1: With Solomon came peace, but a peace built on the
- 11:36Speaker 1: ruins of his father's battles. A strong kingdom, but one
- 11:42Speaker 1: that would gradually turn away from the God of war
- 11:45Speaker 1: and peace. The nation would begin to trust in Egypt's horses,
- 11:50Speaker 1: political alliances, and wealth, and forget the Lord of hosts,
- 11:56Speaker 1: and so the kingdoms would be divided Israel in the Norse,
- 12:00Speaker 1: Judah in the South, and internal wars would begin, brothers
- 12:04Speaker 1: against brothers, and then invaders from outside Syria Babylon. God,
- 12:12Speaker 1: who used to fight for them, was now allowing them
- 12:15Speaker 1: to be defeated. Why because the people had exchanged the
- 12:21Speaker 1: covenant for idols. They had prostituted themselves spiritually. The prophets shouted, warned, cried,
- 12:29Speaker 1: but were not heard. And then God used the empires
- 12:38Speaker 1: as his hammer. Their wars were now the punishment, the
- 12:42Speaker 1: lord of armies became the lord of discipline. But even
- 12:48Speaker 1: in judgment there was purpose. God did not desire total destruction.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Every battle, every invasion, every exile was also a chance
- 12:59Speaker 1: for return, a call to repentance. Every sword raised against
- 13:06Speaker 1: Israel was also a mirror revealing who they had become. Thus,
- 13:12Speaker 1: war in the Bible is not chaotic. It is conducted, allowed,
- 13:17Speaker 1: sometimes commanded, but never without reason, never without justice, never
- 13:23Speaker 1: without purpose. And even in the pages of destruction, there
- 13:31Speaker 1: emerges the promise of something new, a time when the
- 13:34Speaker 1: people would no longer learn war, when swords would be
- 13:38Speaker 1: turned into plows, a time of peace, but which had
- 13:43Speaker 1: not yet arrived, because before the ultimate peace, there would
- 13:47Speaker 1: still be more wars, wars that would reveal the heart
- 13:52Speaker 1: of God and the heart of men, wars that would
- 13:56Speaker 1: not only be between kingdoms, but between Heaven and earth.
- 14:04Speaker 1: And it is at this point that the prophets become central,
- 14:08Speaker 1: because they not only speak of the present, they announced
- 14:11Speaker 1: the future. And often this future burns in fire and iron.
- 14:24Speaker 1: The fire and iron that the prophets spoke of were
- 14:27Speaker 1: not empty metaphors. They saw felt were consumed by visions
- 14:33Speaker 1: of ruin and glory. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. All of them
- 14:39Speaker 1: raised their voices in times of war, but their words
- 14:43Speaker 1: pointed to something greater. They were not just witnesses. They
- 14:48Speaker 1: were messengers of the eternal amidst the chaos, and what
- 14:53Speaker 1: they said was clear. Each war that Israel faced was
- 14:57Speaker 1: not only between human armies, but between loyalty and rebellion.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Jeremiah wept for Jerusalem, its silent streets, its cracked walls,
- 15:09Speaker 1: its plundered temple. He warned, kings, cautioned, priests, pleaded with
- 15:14Speaker 1: the people, turned to the Lord, but nobody listened to him.
- 15:20Speaker 1: And then came Babylon. The Holy city was trampled by foreigners,
- 15:24Speaker 1: the temple burned down, and the people were taken as slaves.
- 15:28Speaker 1: For many, it was the end, but for the prophets
- 15:32Speaker 1: it was just the beginning. Even in exile, God spoke
- 15:38Speaker 1: through dreams, visions, and signs. Ezekiel saw wheels within wheels,
- 15:46Speaker 1: beings with eyes all around, and the glory of the
- 15:50Speaker 1: Lord leaving the temple. It was war, a spiritual, invisible,
- 15:56Speaker 1: but devastating war, and in the middle of it a promise,
- 16:04Speaker 1: I will give you a new heart and will put
- 16:07Speaker 1: my spirit within you. The war was a sentence, but
- 16:12Speaker 1: it was also redemption. Isaiah saw further. He saw a messiah,
- 16:22Speaker 1: a descendant of David, a righteous king, but also a
- 16:26Speaker 1: suffering servant, someone who would not crush by force, but
- 16:30Speaker 1: would win through justice. He prophesied that one day nation
- 16:34Speaker 1: would not lift up sword against nation, and no one
- 16:38Speaker 1: would learn war any more. It was the herald of
- 16:42Speaker 1: a new era. But before that time arrived, the world
- 16:46Speaker 1: would still witness more wars. Alexander Rome wars between empires
- 16:52Speaker 1: and kings. And in the midst of this scenario, a
- 16:55Speaker 1: voice emerges in the desert, John the Baptist, and then
- 17:04Speaker 1: shortly after a man from Nazareth, a carpenter, a teacher,
- 17:08Speaker 1: a prophet, a king. Jesus did not come with a sword,
- 17:13Speaker 1: did not gather armies, did not preach military revolution. But
- 17:18Speaker 1: his words cut deeper than any blade. He said, love
- 17:24Speaker 1: your enemies. Blessed are the peacemakers. Those who live by
- 17:31Speaker 1: the sword will die by the sword. Many expected a
- 17:35Speaker 1: warrior Messiah. He came as a lamb, but that does
- 17:40Speaker 1: not mean he ignored wars. On the contrary, he prophesied,
- 17:45Speaker 1: times of conflict, you will hear of wars and rumors
- 17:50Speaker 1: of wars. Nation will rise against nation. He did not
- 17:57Speaker 1: deny the chaos, but reveal that it would precede something greater,
- 18:02Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. Even in his imprisonment, even before
- 18:07Speaker 1: the cross, Jesus did not cry out for armed liberation.
- 18:12Speaker 1: His strength was different, his battle was different. He faced sin, death,
- 18:17Speaker 1: hell and won with silence, with blood, with a cross.
- 18:22Speaker 1: It was the deepest war in history, and the battlefield
- 18:27Speaker 1: was the human heart. After his resurrection, his disciples did
- 18:37Speaker 1: not take up arms, but their words shook empires. They
- 18:44Speaker 1: were persecuted, imprisoned, killed, but they never retaliated with violence,
- 18:50Speaker 1: because now the war was spiritual. Our struggle is not
- 18:54Speaker 1: against flesh or blood, but against principalities and powers. Paul
- 18:59Speaker 1: would rute. The early Church lived in a world of wars,
- 19:08Speaker 1: but preached peace, a peace that came from within, a
- 19:12Speaker 1: peace that was not the absence of external conflicts, but
- 19:16Speaker 1: reconciliation with God. They were not indifferent to swords, but
- 19:21Speaker 1: knew that the greatest victory was over inner evil. And
- 19:26Speaker 1: yet the Bible does not ignore the final conflict. The
- 19:31Speaker 1: Book of Revelation reveals that at the end of times,
- 19:34Speaker 1: war will return not just between nations, but between good
- 19:40Speaker 1: and evil, between the lamb and the beast, between heaven
- 19:45Speaker 1: and earth. And in this war, the Messiah will no
- 19:52Speaker 1: longer come as a lamb, but as a lion, his
- 19:56Speaker 1: eyes like flames on his thigh, written King of kings,
- 20:01Speaker 1: lord of lords, mounted on a white horse, with a
- 20:04Speaker 1: heavenly army. He will judge, he will wage war and win.
- 20:12Speaker 1: This image does not contradict the Gospel. It completes it.
- 20:16Speaker 1: The same Jesus who cried over Jerusalem is the one
- 20:19Speaker 1: who will judge the nations, because true love also confronts,
- 20:25Speaker 1: because divine justice demands reparation. Thus the prophets announced both
- 20:33Speaker 1: destruction and restoration, both judgment and hope. And amidst swords,
- 20:40Speaker 1: flames and tears, they pointed to a throne and to
- 20:43Speaker 1: a king, a king who had come not just to
- 20:47Speaker 1: end wars, but to reign eternally. And it is for
- 20:58Speaker 1: this end that the whole store moves towards. But before
- 21:02Speaker 1: the end comes, one last battlefield will be revealed, a
- 21:07Speaker 1: judgment of final confrontation and a definitive victory, where no
- 21:13Speaker 1: sword will be raised again. The final battle, the last war,
- 21:23Speaker 1: not between nations for territories, nor for riches, but between
- 21:27Speaker 1: good and evil, between truth and lies, between the kingdom
- 21:32Speaker 1: of God and the kingdoms of the world. This is
- 21:36Speaker 1: what the Apocalypse reveals. John exiled on Patmos, saw things
- 21:45Speaker 1: that human eyes could not comprehend. Heaven's opening, trumpets, sounding angels,
- 21:52Speaker 1: marching dragons, beasts, earthquakes, stars falling. It was the foreboding
- 21:58Speaker 1: of the final battle, and in the center of everything
- 22:05Speaker 1: the lamb. But now with eyes of fire and a
- 22:09Speaker 1: voice like many waters, the glorified Christ does not come
- 22:14Speaker 1: to be crucified again. He comes to rule, and before
- 22:18Speaker 1: peace reigns, he wages war, not with tanks nor with
- 22:23Speaker 1: human armies, but with the word of his mouth, a
- 22:27Speaker 1: sharp sword that comes from his lips, a perfect justice,
- 22:31Speaker 1: an inevitable judgment. Armageddon is not a legend. It is
- 22:39Speaker 1: the final battlefield where kings of the earth and spiritual
- 22:43Speaker 1: forces rise against the Creator. But they do not prevail,
- 22:48Speaker 1: for the one who comes is faithful and true. Their
- 22:55Speaker 1: armies are dressed in white linen, they do not wield
- 22:59Speaker 1: earthly well happens, for victory comes from above. And then,
- 23:04Speaker 1: after the fall of the Beast, the false prophet and
- 23:08Speaker 1: the ancient dragon. A new era begins, a thousand years
- 23:14Speaker 1: of peace, an era where Satan is imprisoned, where justice flourishes,
- 23:19Speaker 1: where nations no longer learn war because the Prince of
- 23:23Speaker 1: Peace rules with a scepter of justice. But even after that,
- 23:28Speaker 1: there is a final uprising, a final rebellion, Gog and
- 23:34Speaker 1: Magog peoples who will still choose to resist, And once
- 23:38Speaker 1: again the sky intervenes, Fire descends, evil is consumed, and
- 23:44Speaker 1: finally death is cast into the lake of fire. Judgment arrives,
- 23:49Speaker 1: and with it the end of wars forever. John then
- 23:56Speaker 1: sees something extraordinary, a new heaven, a new Earth. The
- 24:01Speaker 1: old ones is gone, the sea goes away, and a
- 24:05Speaker 1: holy city descends from the heavens, the new Jerusalem. It
- 24:10Speaker 1: has no army, no defensive walls, no locked gates, because
- 24:15Speaker 1: there will be no more enemies, no more war. Tears
- 24:19Speaker 1: will be wiped away, pain will cease. There will be
- 24:22Speaker 1: no more death, no mourning, no weeping, because the old
- 24:26Speaker 1: has passed away. The city needs no sun or moon,
- 24:32Speaker 1: for God's glory illuminates it. The lamb is its lamp.
- 24:37Speaker 1: The kings of the Earth will bring their glory there,
- 24:40Speaker 1: but there will be no more war to defend it.
- 24:49Speaker 1: This is the final destiny revealed by the scriptures, and
- 24:52Speaker 1: it is clear the war in God's plan has an
- 24:56Speaker 1: end date. It has a verdict because justice will no
- 25:00Speaker 1: no longer be a pursuit, there will be a constant presence,
- 25:04Speaker 1: and peace will not be just an ideal, It will
- 25:08Speaker 1: be the eternal environment. But until that day, humanity still
- 25:13Speaker 1: walks among conflicts, still faces battles, many external, others internal,
- 25:20Speaker 1: because the deepest war is not the one fought with weapons,
- 25:24Speaker 1: but the one that takes place within the human heart.
- 25:28Speaker 1: And this not even the end of the world can
- 25:31Speaker 1: fight for us. The Bible never glorified war, It only
- 25:35Speaker 1: revealed it with truth, with pain, with purpose. Sometimes it
- 25:40Speaker 1: was an instrument of judgment, other times a means of liberation,
- 25:46Speaker 1: and many times a direct consequence of man's fall. She
- 25:54Speaker 1: shows that war is real, but it is not eternal.
- 25:59Speaker 1: God did not create the world to be a battlefield.
- 26:03Speaker 1: He created it to be a garden, to be a home,
- 26:11Speaker 1: but sin turned Eden into a war zone. Since then
- 26:16Speaker 1: the story of redemption has also been the story of reconquest.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Each promise is like a flag raised over enemy territory,
- 26:29Speaker 1: and this reconquest is not done by force, but by blood,
- 26:34Speaker 1: by the blood of the lamb, by the sacrifice of
- 26:37Speaker 1: the one who won without killing, who triumphed by dying,
- 26:41Speaker 1: and who will reign eternally as the Prince of peace.
- 26:49Speaker 1: Today we live among promises, among still sharp swords and
- 26:54Speaker 1: prophecies yet to be fulfilled. But the Bible leaves no doubt.
- 26:59Speaker 1: The end of the war is decreed not by human treaties,
- 27:03Speaker 1: but by the decree of the King of kings. He
- 27:07Speaker 1: is not indifferent, he is waiting for the exact time.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Your word is a shield for those who trust in it,
- 27:17Speaker 1: Your righteousness is a wall against oppression, and your love
- 27:23Speaker 1: is the weapon that disarms hearts. He will come and
- 27:27Speaker 1: will not delay. And when he comes, every knee will bow,
- 27:32Speaker 1: and every tongue will confess. There will be no more
- 27:40Speaker 1: war cries, no marching soldiers, no burning towers, no trenches,
- 27:45Speaker 1: no borders. There will only be one name above all names,
- 27:52Speaker 1: and a song of peace will fill the skies, because
- 27:56Speaker 1: the time of the sword will have passed, and the
- 27:59Speaker 1: Kingdom of Peace will have begun, never to end.