War and Peace

I was out getting gas the other day when I happened upon a bunch of protestors against the Iraq war. I found the situation a little humorous because most of these people probably voted for our current president for his position regarding the war, yet here he has been in office now for a number of months yet the protestors still aren’t satisfied.

I got to thinking about war protests in general. I have always found the anti-war position absurd. When you are confronted by a bully, you aren’t going to get him to leave you alone just by refusing to fight him. There are only two ways to deal with a bully, either surrender to him and give him everything he wants, or defeat him. There is no middle ground where you can have peace with him without doing one or the other.

• It is stupid to expect an irrational enemy (terrorists) to behave rationally (like people who just want to be left alone). We are the sworn enemy of terrorists not because we did anything to justify their hate, but because we simply exist. The evidence is overwhelming. If you think that terrorists want to be at peace with us, you are living in a dream world and need serious psychological help. It is the religious philosophy of all radical extreme muslims, that anyone who does not adopt their religious views must be put to death, and that is exactly what they are doing. We cannot stop that by protesting, we can only stop it by overpowering and restraining them.

• The war with Iraq is a JUST war. The US didn’t invade them without cause. Their government was a brutal regime that abused its people in horrific ways that you do not want to hear about, and in spite of the lies spread by the news media and liberals, we actually DID find weapons of mass destruction. We did NOT invade to take over and occupy indefinitely. We did NOT invade to steal their oil reserves and natural resources. We invaded in order to FREE THE PEOPLE and return the governmental power back to them, and that is exactly what we are doing. How is it considered a good thing for anyone to protest against this?

I have to wonder how many of these protestors also claim to be Christian, since their anti-war position is so un-Christian… But then perhaps they are just ignorant about what the Bible says about war and peace (Ecclesiastes 3:8).

Matthew 10:34 - "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." (NIV)

Luke 12:49-51 - "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division." (NIV)

John 16:33 - "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (NIV)

We must never forget that without Christ there can be no peace, and that the “Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6) is also “Captain of the Hosts of the LORD’s Army” (Joshua 5:14).

Revelation 19:11-16 - I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter."He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. (NIV)

The truth of the matter is we are at war. There is no way around it.

Ephesians 6:12 - 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. (NIV)

So we must ask ourselves a critical question: Is it possible for anyone who is against war in the natural, to fight war in the spiritual? If you think the answer is “yes,” beware… King David fell into the sins of adultery (2 Samuel 11:4) and murder (2 Samuel 11:14,17) because he didn’t go to war when he was supposed to (2 Samuel 11:1).

1 Timothy 1:18 - Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight... (NIV)

1 Timothy 6:12 - Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. (NIV)

2 Timothy 4:7 - I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (NIV)

James :)

Why is Marriage so Important?

Isn’t marriage just a contract between people? What’s the problem with marriage between two men or two women anyway?

The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. (Genesis 2:18-24 NIV)

According to the Bible, marriage is defined as a man being united to his wife, and the two becoming one flesh. Marriage is the oldest human custom that exists, literally tying to our very creation by the hands of God.

To suggest that a man can become one flesh with another man or a woman with another woman is pure insanity. A man is not made out of man’s rib, nor is a woman made out of woman’s rib. The uniting of these forms with their same gender is a natural and spiritual IMPOSSIBILITY. They are incompatible.

In today’s world, perverted men and women are trying to change the rules. They are trying to convince us that same sex uniting is not only possible, it is even normal. They foolishly believe that if they can rewrite the way government defines marriage to include domestic partnerships of same sex couples, that that will somehow change the natural laws of how two people are united.

But what harm is there in that, even if they do? A government re-definition of marriage doesn’t change the true meaning in the eyes of God. It’s only a re-definition for convenience, so that same sex partnerships can share the same tax advantages as a husband and wife. Or is it?


Beware my friends, least you fail to understand how important marriage is before God. We are all familiar with God commanding man in the second chapter of Genesis not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17), and how Adam’s failure to obey this brought death into the world. But what we overlook is that that wasn’t the first commandment God gave to mankind:

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (Genesis 1:28 NIV)

From creation to this very day, the devil has been on a mission to subvert God’s very first commandment in every way that he can, to prevent us from being fruitful and increasing in number. The devil uses an arsenal of sins against our fruitfulness: abortion, abuse, adultery, bestiality, bisexuality, divorce, homosexuality, incest, lust, murder, pedophilia, polygamy, pornography, prostitution, sex outside of marriage, suicide, transgenderism, … the list goes on, weapons of destruction to prevent or destroy Godly marriage relationships, and thus thwart God’s first command.

If we allow our government to change the meaning of marriage without opposition, we give aid to our enemy the devil.


Now is not the time to remain silent my friends. The devil has very limited resources to use against Godly marriage, so he resorts to intimidation and name calling to get us to back down. When a perverted man attacks a beauty pageant contestant for expressing her opinion for Godly marriage, we need to demand that that perverted man be expelled from his pageant judge position. When high courts rule that our initiatives defining marriage by God’s definition are unconstitutional, we need to demand that the perverted judges on those courts be removed from office, and campaign against them. When a petition is circulated to place the Godly definition of marriage into law, we need to sign it and promote it boldly, no matter how much name calling and filth is spewed from the perverted opposition.

Success or failure for the cause of Godly marriage could be determined by our willingness to go door to door. In the last election the state of California proved that the majority of people are for the Godly definition of marriage, but such matters will never make the ballot if we let fear keep us from admitting to our neighbors where we stand so we can ask them to stand with us and sign our petition.

I stand for marriage as it was created and defined by God! Where do you stand?


James :)