I watched The House of David and thought about how far warfare has developed. We moved beyond sticks and stones, swords and shields. Today, we fight with drones, bombs, and cyber attacks.
We fight with misinformation masked as truth and propaganda dressed up like patriotism. Nations don’t always send soldiers. They often send lies wrapped in funny memes and legislation. In the middle of all war, people suffer, especially the poor, the young, the vulnerable. How many of our modern conflicts are just another example of a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight"?
Revelation 12 illustrates for us a different kind of battlefield. It isn't a military fight, but a moral one. A dragon tries to kill a child before he’s born. It would have been enough, of course, to kill the mother having the child. Evil, though, doesn't just want to kill hope. It wants to make sure it never even has breath. Revelation reminds us that God's people are always caught in the middle of this spiritual war.
So, the question is, How will we fight? We have the same old and newer weapons of war. But aren't we called to fight the good fight, and shouldn't it be fought in a good way? Frankly, I'm an untested, wanna-be pacifist. I used to understand pacifism as un unwillingness to fight. But that's incorrect. Pacifism is a fight against violence, terror and oppression. It just refuses to use the weapons of violence, terror or oppression. Plus, it isn't even about winning, necessarily. It's about prioritizing peace and ending violent cycles of harm.
In Revelation 12, heaven's army defeated the dragon. I read that to say the way of heaven defeated the ancient serpent. Is that not, then, a call to live the way of heaven? Can't we trust the way of heaven to still win today? Consider that the next time you pray "thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Stay blessed...john | 
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