This past weekend I spoke at the Kindred of the Kingdom conference of Coach Dave Daubenmire's Salt and Light Brigade,deep in the mountains of East Tennessee. It was a gathering of mostly veteran Christian culture warriors, and while the fellowship was warm and invigorating, the theme was sober and serious.
The BIG War is upon us: the prophesied last days war on humanity, as distinct from cultural skirmishes like the Drag Queen Story Hour abomination and full-sized battles like the political fight to retake the country from the Marxists in 2022. No, this is the BIG war, the war for the whole earth that only Jesus Christ can and will win, on His own timetable. Our focus as Christian activists should thus shift away from the Jesus of the First Advent – the Jesus who came as a helpless baby in a manger to later sacrifice His life on the cross of Calvary – and turn instead toward the Jesus of the Second Advent – the conquering King who comes to judge and make war against the wicked, as described in Revelation 19 and Zechariah 14. Our model for this war should not be the suffering servant, but the avenging King of Kings, who will set all things right. Importantly, vengeance is His, says the Lord, but we will be a part of his "Host of Heaven."
Our place on the prophetic timetable, as measured by current events in historical perspective, is best described in 2 Thessalonians 2: the period of rising lawlessness and apostasy that precedes the unveiling of the Antichrist, and his three and a half year global kingdom of evil. We're not told how long this preliminary phase will last, but we know it is defined by the collapse of civilization into chaos, as described in Romans 1:18-32 and 2 Timothy 3:1-5. These are the times we're in.
In the BIG War, you can't defeat the enemy army, not because it is too powerful but because its (temporary) success is part of God's own timetable. When today's phase of lawlessness finally transitions into the "Beginning of Sorrows" of Matthew 24:5-8 and Revelation 6:1-8, God will grant the Antichrist the power to conquer the world. We cannot stop that event, nor the steps that precede it.
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