Those in non-creating speech see only a short duration, linear, uniformitarian (no new creation, everything stays the same all the time…) /”natural” emotional perimeter to be defended or enforced and their warfare is then a temporary strain on what they see as their own limited resources against an alien mind. That the mind that is alien to them is Jesus Christ bothers them not. They see at best warfare as a temporary inconvenience and certainly a thing to last within the span of their own lives. Quite literally the warfare they fight dies with them.
Psalm 146:1-10 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul. As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being. Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish. Blessed is he who hath the *God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever; Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners; Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous; Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. Jehovah will reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Hallelujah!
Those in Jesus Christ, because we are free from lies and death, yet are still in corrupt flesh, know that the war is already won, yet still on-going and will last beyond our time in this corrupt flesh minus the coming of Jesus Christ; the victory is ours in Jesus Christ and we will live beyond even the future in which this corrupt flesh will die and forever as living beyond all warfare. We are already eternal and living eternal life now.
2Corinthianis 4:7-13 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us: every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up; persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body; for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh; so that death works in us, but life in you. And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; *we* also believe, therefore also we speak;
Rev 21:4-8 And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away. And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me , Write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me son. But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners , and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
Now the warfare is on-going and raging all around us. The time we have spent in Jesus Christ for the most part has been spent in accusation by free willers/liars/deceived persons that we are not this or that, that we have failed to “do” the falsely idealized portions of their free will which they serve as everything from patriotism to false Christianity and a supposed conglomerate of religions wherein Jesus Christ is placed side by side with other “Names”. They have grown used to hearing of heroes of old who supposedly used their free will to gain for themselves and others “freedoms” that are in truth crimes perpetuated against us to this hour or were brothers in Christ through whom God wrought truth and justice and have been falsely spoken of by Satan to further his own lies.
It is a scary thing for him for Satan to see that we don fight for what he calls victory and that we do not have free will. To Satan that means we can’t “recognize victory” –we literally in Satan’s eyes “don’t know when to stop” in that there is no battle that is “over” until Jesus Christ reigns in Jerusalem. His “education” of the supposed finer points of warfare wherein we were supposed to be deceived that his victory was ours and that he has supposedly successfully deceived us that his lies of what warfare is are truth have been fruitless.
For those who fight literally “to break the will of the enemy to fight”, they fight a vain war that consumes their lives for no profit to anyone and is in every way a wasteful brutality. Our enemy doesn’t have free will either –he can’t stop; it isn’t that he “won’t” stop.
Consider:
Numbers 16:44-50 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Get you up from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces. And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put fire thereon from off the altar, and lay on incense, and carry it quickly to the assembly, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah: the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses had said, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and behold, the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides them that had died because of the matter of Korah. And Aaron returned to Moses to the entrance of the tent of meeting; and the plague was stayed.
The warfare against us is the plague and to fight the lie in all its forms is the blood of Jesus Christ as incense before God that stops the plague. The plague cannot stop on its own. It doesn’t have free will. It was sent by Jehovah to destroy those to whom it was sent to destroy. The blood of Christ has covered us and the plague cannot cross us to get to those whom God has given us to defend.
Therefore we do not fight “for victory” as a emotional punctuation or stoppage or relief from the supposed dearth of rest: in Jesus Christ all we do is rest as He has already wrought our works for us. We do not seek to return to a supposed emotional farm that we have left untended or emotional marketplace we left unexplored while Jehovah fights through us. We know very well what living in a tent as lifestyle is because we are pilgrim warriors.
Isaiah 26:12 Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
Lam 3:21-24 –This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope. It is of Jehovah’s loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not; they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Prophets are not called to take up a lamentation on the king of Tyre because the king of Tyre will last forever. What will last beyond his rage speaks his demise in the way Jehovah ordains beyond what a former covering cherub ever understood:
Ezekiel 28:11-19 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, who sealest up the measure of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, thou wast in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of thy tambours and of thy pipes was in thee: in the day that thou wast created were they prepared. Thou wast the anointed covering cherub, and I had set thee so : thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou didst walk up and down in the midst of stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee. By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast thee as profane from the mountain of God, and have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee. By the multitude of thine iniquities, by the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries: and I have brought forth a fire out of the midst of thee–it hath consumed thee; and I have brought thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the peoples shall be amazed at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.
Our standard lifestyle on this earth is the grinding into powder of the lie.
Matthew 10:34 Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
Daniel 2:43-45 And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of the heavens set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the sovereignty thereof shall not be left to another people: it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, but itself shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, –the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. And the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
If part of that grinding the lie to powder is to deceive the lie and all within it they have “won” according to their word, what is that to us and how does that disturb our rest in Christ Jesus? They must tell themselves lies to see themselves as having any worth because they have never known Jesus Christ.
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A reminder from the past of what was plainly known and understood. Do not worry if it seems they understood much and yet have gone; the same river and Word feeds you now as feed them then and now and they depend upon what God Says through you:
Ephesians 3:10-12 .. in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God, according to the purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.
Daniel saw the stone. Click on the blue icon: mp3 format brings up a Quicktime frame. Site (Library of Congress) provides links to download whatever player is necessary to hear the particular files. Click on the link “information on audio playback” to be taken to a page that has appropriate links)
Lyrics remain the copyright of the scribes to whom they were given: ( the song is an old recording and some of the lyrics are hard to understand over the static / technical-apparatus noise..)
Oh Daniel saw the stone that was hewed out the mountain
Daniel saw the stone that came rolling through Babylon
Daniel saw the stone that was hewed out the mountain
Coming down to redeem a mighty world
[repeat above 4 lines]
Well, meet me, Jesus, meet me
Meet me in the middle of the air
‘Cause now if these wings should fail me
Lord, I want to hitch on another pair
Oh Jesus was the stone that was hewed out the mountain
Jesus was the stone that came rolling through Babylon
Jesus was the stone that was hewed out the mountain
Coming down to redeem a mighty world
[repeat above 4 lines]
Oh, well the tree it was bending
Up in the heavenly land
Well, my God spoke unto the Holy Ghost
He said, “Come on and let’s make man”
I’m looking for the stone that was hewed out the mountain
I’m looking for the stone that came rolling through Babylon
I’m looking for the stone that was hewed out the mountain
Coming down to redeem a mighty world
[repeat above 4 lines]
Well, now, early in the morning the trumpet’s gonna sound
The dead and Christ is gonna rise
Well, if you ain’t got good religion
Lord, then ( in) hell you’ll open your eyes
I found that stone that was hewed out the mountain
I found the stone that came rolling through Babylon
I found the stone that was hewed out the mountain
Coming down to redeem a mighty world
[repeat above 4 lines]
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the song on the file seems to include the verse:
“My brother’s in the stone that went
rollin’ through Babylon
my mother’s in the stone that went
rollin’ through Babylon..
my sister’s in the stone that went
rollin’ through Babylon..
that’s rollin’ through Babylon today..” etc
It certainly is true.
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Ephesians 3:14-21 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named, in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man; that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love, in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height; and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God. But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us, to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all generations of the age of ages. Amen).
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen