The war & battles Jesus fights today are for the hearts of His beloved. The wars & battles for the Jews before Christ were for the Nation. So it’s an internal war, since the hear of man is inside. This doesn’t mean that we don’t “take it to the streets”, we just take it there in a different manor. We defensively work to protect ourselves from social contagions & all forms of ideologies that aim to steal, kill & destroy. We offensively, & this I believe is the most important, ‘seek first the Kingdom of God’ so that all the realities of the God will remain True on this earth. We become so clearly defined in our reasons as to our hope that following Jesus is the true “cool” & appropriate way to live. We love so ridiculously that there’s little confusion about our offering of rebuke to others is anything but love. Rebuke isn’t judgement, rebuke is love expressed in uncomfortable conversations that MUST happen when Godly love is present.
When social contagions & ideologies go to far isn’t blood shed & lives lost. (Think gender “affirming” care & abortion, the lynchings of the ku klux klan & riots by blm & antifa).
There is a war going on, & always has been, for the heart of man by the Son of Man. Don’t be mistaken. We loose each battle when there is no war cry or the war cry volume goes low. If this wasn’t the case Paul would have written about flowers & cotton candy instead of the Armor of God. Jesus was always at odds & socially at war with the Pharisees & spoke about the Luke warm. Every justified & rationalized sin is a battle lost in the human heart.
Dr. Beck, I am a sixty-six year old man in therapy for my work-related vicarious trauma who is also currently halfway through your book "The Slavery of Death." I just noticed on the back cover of your book that you write this blog and so I've subscribed, not for pay, mind you. You'll have to earn that, but I suspect that you soon will. It's nice to make your virtual acquaintance out here in cyberspace, and I see that I've picked a hell of spot to do that! Anyway, I wrote something kind of similar to this the other day that I'd like to share with you and your readers, if you will be so kind as to permit my link to it. I can't decide if I went too far in my apocalyptic post . . . or not far enough. What do you think? https://themjkxn.substack.com/p/christ-is-risen?r=1qts0e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR3Dky33rRRcXHSVh4IgjELBrzN09PkxVSe7MYENV4jiSOTeyWQBVQMUaTQ
And if you watched your own child’s fingers cut off while the other child’s foot was sliced off - you would quote Scripture? These kids bled to death while butchers ate lunch .
ATROCITIES worse than Hitler’s SS .
Yes . Ultimately, Jesus will blast them away . Yes, tragically innocent Palestinians are suffering too .
It’s all HORRIBLE . Jesus hates war.
This Is DEMONIC.
If Hamas bursts upon America in a whirlwind of blood 🩸 what will YOU do ?
"Because when you look at the world today, where terrorists and nation states use lethal violence to accomplish political ends, where children lay dead on the streets, you start to appreciate the sanity and safety of singing 'the Lord--and not us--will engulf them in his wrath, and fire will devour them.' "
Would that the masses of self-styled "evangelicals" would understand this. They are intent upon--even vicious about--using the sword and claiming that they have the constitutional right to do so. The carry "purity code" disgust and scapegoating to their worst extremes.
We do love to hold on to the concept of justice, but given how easily humans can be turned into brutal animals, and what science is telling us about how little determination we do have, it seems like a fairytale, albeit it makes life a bit easier.
The war & battles Jesus fights today are for the hearts of His beloved. The wars & battles for the Jews before Christ were for the Nation. So it’s an internal war, since the hear of man is inside. This doesn’t mean that we don’t “take it to the streets”, we just take it there in a different manor. We defensively work to protect ourselves from social contagions & all forms of ideologies that aim to steal, kill & destroy. We offensively, & this I believe is the most important, ‘seek first the Kingdom of God’ so that all the realities of the God will remain True on this earth. We become so clearly defined in our reasons as to our hope that following Jesus is the true “cool” & appropriate way to live. We love so ridiculously that there’s little confusion about our offering of rebuke to others is anything but love. Rebuke isn’t judgement, rebuke is love expressed in uncomfortable conversations that MUST happen when Godly love is present.
When social contagions & ideologies go to far isn’t blood shed & lives lost. (Think gender “affirming” care & abortion, the lynchings of the ku klux klan & riots by blm & antifa).
There is a war going on, & always has been, for the heart of man by the Son of Man. Don’t be mistaken. We loose each battle when there is no war cry or the war cry volume goes low. If this wasn’t the case Paul would have written about flowers & cotton candy instead of the Armor of God. Jesus was always at odds & socially at war with the Pharisees & spoke about the Luke warm. Every justified & rationalized sin is a battle lost in the human heart.
Dr. Beck, I am a sixty-six year old man in therapy for my work-related vicarious trauma who is also currently halfway through your book "The Slavery of Death." I just noticed on the back cover of your book that you write this blog and so I've subscribed, not for pay, mind you. You'll have to earn that, but I suspect that you soon will. It's nice to make your virtual acquaintance out here in cyberspace, and I see that I've picked a hell of spot to do that! Anyway, I wrote something kind of similar to this the other day that I'd like to share with you and your readers, if you will be so kind as to permit my link to it. I can't decide if I went too far in my apocalyptic post . . . or not far enough. What do you think? https://themjkxn.substack.com/p/christ-is-risen?r=1qts0e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR3Dky33rRRcXHSVh4IgjELBrzN09PkxVSe7MYENV4jiSOTeyWQBVQMUaTQ
And if you watched your own child’s fingers cut off while the other child’s foot was sliced off - you would quote Scripture? These kids bled to death while butchers ate lunch .
ATROCITIES worse than Hitler’s SS .
Yes . Ultimately, Jesus will blast them away . Yes, tragically innocent Palestinians are suffering too .
It’s all HORRIBLE . Jesus hates war.
This Is DEMONIC.
If Hamas bursts upon America in a whirlwind of blood 🩸 what will YOU do ?
"Because when you look at the world today, where terrorists and nation states use lethal violence to accomplish political ends, where children lay dead on the streets, you start to appreciate the sanity and safety of singing 'the Lord--and not us--will engulf them in his wrath, and fire will devour them.' "
Would that the masses of self-styled "evangelicals" would understand this. They are intent upon--even vicious about--using the sword and claiming that they have the constitutional right to do so. The carry "purity code" disgust and scapegoating to their worst extremes.
We do love to hold on to the concept of justice, but given how easily humans can be turned into brutal animals, and what science is telling us about how little determination we do have, it seems like a fairytale, albeit it makes life a bit easier.