Soldiers For Christ In The War Of the Ages

Common Sense Commentary:  "No man that warreth entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 1Tim.2:4.

Spiritually speaking, HISTORY is HIS STORY, good against evil and God against Devil, but physically speaking, History is primarily a story of WAR .... War in heaven between Lucifer (Satan) and Jehovah God, was the original war and seed of all other wars in human HISTORY.  That first war  was inflamed by the same emotions as those wars which followed on earth.  It erupted in Lucifer's unfaithful, treasonist heart and mind.  It was his PRIDE, JEALOUSY, SELFISHNESS, GREED AND FANTACY OF POWER AND RECOGNITION,  above that of God's, which drove him in alienating one third of the angels and trying to dethrone and dispose of God. You may say, "How foolish".  Yes, but men are still being used of Lucifer to that same end and it still leads to wars between men and nations. Even NOW, the entire world is a match strike from explosion into war. There have been wars between earthly kingdoms of men, civil wars within nations, tribal wars, and religious wars.   Wars have established empires and torn down empires... throughout the history of man.

There is no spot on earth more holy than the Holy Land, where Jesus walked, but no spot on earth more plagued by unholy wars and surrounded by unholy religion, than the Holy Land.  More massed armies have marched and fought over this territory than any other anywhere. The great World Kindoms of the past, ending with the Roman Empire, have trampled and soaked this soil with blood for centuries.  This last, Rome, was ruling  that entire part of the world when Jesus was born right in the path of Rome's military machine.  Military terms were so common in the Holy Land, that they became part of the language.  the Apostle, who was first known as Saul of Tarsus, before he was converted, was Jewish but a Roman citizen.  He was extremely well educated, quite wealthy, was a Judaic fanatic who had immediate access to the High Priest (Acts 9:1).  Later, as a Christian himself, and an Apostle of Christ, Paul was used of God to establish many churches, win many souls to Christ and to write half the books of the New Testament.   In those epistles, he very often used Roman Military terms to emphacise a military aspect of being a faithful Christian.  Examples of Paul's Military centric concept of being a disciple of Christ follow: 

"I see another law in my members (body) WARRING  aagainst the law of my mind, and bringing me into CAPTIVITY  to the law of sin in my members (flesh)." Rom.7:23.

"The WEAPONS  of our WARFARE  are not carnal, but mighty through God to the PULLING DOWN OF STRONG HOLDS  (fortresses)."  2Cor.10:4.

"This CHARGE (orders) I commit unto thee, son Timothy..., that thou ... mightest WAR a good WARFARE."  1Tim.1:18.

"FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT  of faith, LAY HOLD ON (capture) eternal life, whereunto thou art also CALLED (commissioned)."  1Tim.6:12.

"For we WRESTLE (routine combat training in Roman army) not against flesh and blood but against  PRINCIPALITIES (governments) against  POWERS (authority) against the RULERS of the darkness of this world, against SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES." Eph.6:11:18.


"...Endure hardness as a good SOLDIER... No man that warreth entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath CHOSEN  him to be a SOLDIER." 2Tim.2:3-4.

Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb?
And shall I fear to own His cause, Or blush to speak His name?

Are there no foes for me to face? Must I not stem the flood?
is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God?

Sure I must fight, if I would reign; Increase my courage, Lord;
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported by Thy word.

Pass it on. RB