We wake this week to a new reality. It’s one we have prayed and longed for. Though painful, this historic moment carries with it a deep spiritual clarity.
Last week, darkness was challenged. Not by hatred, but by the strength to say ... enough. We won’t let the darkness rule over our lives any longer.
For decades, the Islamic Iranian regime has waged war. Not only on Israel, not only on America, but on the very foundations of Western civilization that we hold sacred.
On the parliament floor and every platform they occupied, this regime called Israel “the little Satan” and America “the great Satan.” And they meant it — because what they hate, what they have always tried to destroy, is not just a people or a place; it is the light of Judeo-Christian values — the belief that human life is sacred, that freedom is holy, and that God created every person in His image.
These are the values that hold up everything we cherish: justice, compassion, dignity, and truth. These are the values that extremists fear most.
But evil doesn’t just live in Tehran. And it doesn’t only move through its proxies. It seeps. It erodes. It creeps into silence and comfort and compromise — into institutions, and headlines, and families.
This is spiritual warfare. And if we don’t call it that, we risk forgetting what we are truly fighting — not only missiles and regimes, but the slow and deadly unraveling of the moral and spiritual foundation that holds back darkness. The corrosion of truth. The turning of right into wrong, and wrong into virtue.
And when we allow it to flourish — when we grow tired, or afraid to confront it, or unwilling to name it, we risk losing everything.
This is the deeper battle. This is what we are standing against — not only to protect land, but to protect light.
Scripture teaches us how to live in such a world: “Turn from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it” (Psalm 34:14). It is not enough to hope for peace. We must turn from evil, actively, with moral courage. Only then can we do good.
We are Rodef Shalom, pursuers of peace. But there are moments when pursuing peace means standing up with everything we have against the forces that destroy it.
This is one of those moments.
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