Revolution and Counter-Revolution

"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form... (U.S. Declaration of Independence).

Thus, roughly one-third of the people in the American British Colonies fought for Independence. A revolution ensued. The aggrieved were the people - the colonials. The aggravators were the British Parliament. Their citizenship in the British empire was as second-class citizens. The war was not really about taxes but injustice. The excuse for war was taxation without representation.

Several years later the people of the South took that declaration to heart. The North aggravated the South by treating them with perceived injustice. Again, taxation was the excuse - high tariffs at ports, but the reason was that southerners were treated as second class citizens. In 1862 Lincoln successfully turned the tables on the South by making the war about slavery.

During Reconstruction, another Revolution was fought. The South fought against the military dictatorships imposed by the U.S. Government on the second-class citizens.  After Reconstruction ended in 1877, the freed Negroes fought their own war because they too were second-class citizens. Blacks are still fighting their revolution.

Emeline Parkhurst began the suffrage movement in Great Britain in 1881. It didn't take long for the movement to spread to America. Concurrent with Parkhurst, Susan B. Anthony fought a gender revolution ending in the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Even with success, they are still engaged in a feminist revolution. It too was caused by perceived and real unfairness.

Each of the aggrieved in these revolutions had one thing in common: the government became destructive to the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of those who considered themselves second-class citizens. Of course, many of these people were treated unfairly from the beginning, but when they found no help from the government, they rebelled.

In this century, we find that even those with odd behaviors fight their own revolutions. Hence, the LBGT movement. They just won their war with the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, but not until they took to the streets to fight their revolution. (No, I don't agree with their cause.)

All the aforementioned revolutions were fought by those who were highly principled. We may disagree with them, but they fought for the things in which they believed!  Speaking of the battleground at Gettysburg, Lincoln said, "...we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address).

Revolutions, according to Lincoln, were fought by brave men. Their willingness to struggle has consecrated the battlefield. It is not a dishonor to fight for beliefs for which one is willing to die! Ironically, our citizens never had to pledge to die for the United States. Only those who were willing to fight for the cause were required to fight, notwithstanding the draft system.

There is another war being fought. Most people are engaged in a Spiritual Revolution. They seek independence from what they perceive as unfairness. The War involves two invisible empires: the Kingdom of God and the Empire of the Flesh. Jesus is the King of the righteous empire, and Satan the Prince of the World. At stake in the Revolution is righteousness. The Prince seeks to overthrow Jesus, and as such pretends to God's throne.

The Law of God is the institution in the Kingdom of God, whereas the revolutionaries desire the law of sin. They feel that God is unfair, and seek to do what us right in their own eyes. The Prince is a libertarian, so he says. He offers complete freedom because in his realm, anything goes. There are no restrictions, and all do as they please. They reject any degree of control by an Invisible Being.

Under the guise of libertarianism, the Prince offers nothing more than slavery. He is unrighteous. Everything he does is for his own sake. While his people engage in any sin that their hearts desire, the Prince even plots to kill them. In the Kingdom of God, people have eternal life. That's a promise. In the Kingdom of the Flesh, with poetic justice, the flesh will die, and the spirit punished forever.

Both sides have their soldiers. Like the American Revolution, the Army of God is few. However, only a few are principled enough to fight. Unlike Lincoln's army, few are brave enough to fight. It seems the enemy has infiltrated the Army of God. The Prince has given their flesh comfort and pleasure. Just like Moses's people, God's Army remembers the comfort of the Pharaoh. God's Army is complacent.

On the other hand, the Prince's libertarians fight for the liberty to sin. They are principled because they enjoy their pleasure mightily. On the other hand, God's Army has the liberty to sin, although God discourages it. They look over at the world, and desire the things of the flesh. Many in God's Army mutiny to the other side to enjoy the spoils used by the tyrant to deceive. What they pleasure in will eventually kill them but they care only for this day.

God promises his army victory. They will be persecuted, humiliated, and have only second-class citizenship in the world because they don't follow the Prince. However, God promises is true to His promises. His army is the Church. Some in the Church sit on backseats so they are camouflaged. It's safe there. There is little chance in being hurt as they are hidden from both God and the Prince, or so they think!

The deny emphatically that there is a spiritual war going on in spite of it being declared:

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

God's Army - the Church is in a war whether they have volunteered or not. Some refuse to be engaged in this war because they feel safe. However, they care little about the fate of others. They watch as their children are enlisted in the Prince's Corpse, and say nothing. They watch as Satan's armies take over all God's institutions, and sit idly by. These Christians are cowards. Not realizing that God is on their side, they cower away from the enemy.

Some in God's Army are always in Church. They are there as emissaries for the Prince. They sow dissension, and live the life of the regular army during the week. They know how to pretend to love God but do the will of the Prince. On Sundays they faithfully follow the Law of God but during the week the law of sin. They symbolically crucify their leader - Jesus all week long!

It is the young who fight revolutions. In this war, the Prince has indoctrinated children from birth. Christians in God's Army have allowed the Prince to train their young to fight in the Army of the Flesh. The Prince uses entertainment of all sorts, the media, and the institutions of the world to indoctrinate his youth corpse. When they are about sixteen, the youth fight mightily for the Prince. Why? They know not what they do! They are offered the Princes armor as David was, and take it. In God's Army, we only need God. He supplies the slingshot and the stones which can kill even giants. Our children, in their ignorance, side with the Prince. Pleasure is so much more enjoyable than righteousness. The Prince knows and uses that!

I choose to be on the winning side. It may not be in my lifetime, but I will still fight for the King! Sometimes it looks bleak but my King is Almighty. However, to win the war, His soldiers will be persecuted, but endure to the end. We may be crucified, beheaded, or boiled in oil, but His brave soldiers are willing to die for His will.

Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

I fight for God because Satan can't really destroy me. He is a bad totalitarian without the power to meet out his form of "justice". Those who fight for the Prince will be destroyed in the end. Ironically, the Prince's revolutionaries need not die,  but knowing choose death over life! God names those in the Prince's Army:

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

It is time for the Christians to be brave. It's time to restore the Monarchy! We must return the to the King because His Kingdom is eternal. The King will never be defeated, and the Prince will be bound and thrown into the fiery pit for a thousand years before he is utterly destroyed. I choose the winning side! The King offers an empire to His victors. His Kingdom will be ours, and the meek shall inherit it! It will be a heavenly Kingdom, and standing in its midst will be a Golden City. Within one of it's mansions, the King has prepared a place for me! It's mine for the having. I must only stand firm in the Army of God. He even provides the weapons and armor for the Spiritual War. I need only wear the whole armor and partake of the Sword - the Word.

In the end, those in God's Army shall be saved unlike those in the Kingdom of the World who will perish.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Prince uses weapons of death. His weapon of mass destruction is hatred. On the other hand, all we Christians need do is fight the enemy with love, and we can't even do that! Sitting in our bunker which we refer to as "church", we hunker down and hate not only our leader in the pulpit, but our fellow soldiers. Because, we can't love everyone, we mutiny against our King. He implores us to love each other; even our enemies. As long as we do that, we shall reign with Him in His Kingdom, but many of those in the church can't even do that. They fail to use the weapon provided by the King!

Have some bravery. Fight for the King! Fight a counter-revolution:

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.