The Warrior Spirit & Art Of War Bound Within The Bible’s Deuteronomy 7

What good is a warrior without the weapon of discernment within his arsenal? What good is warrior without the ability to identify his adversary and his adversary’s threat unto him and his people? There is great reason why liberals are generally not considered warriors in the classic or even honorable sense of the term and even greater reason why a warrior ought adhere to virtues greater than himself. Likewise, the same goes for a nation.

What good is a soldier who serves first himself? Perhaps when engaged in battle his safety becomes first priority. He turns and runs. His comrade is left to face an overwhelming enemy alone. The comrade falls. The enemy pursues the self-serving soldier whose back is turned a running alone for the safety of his home far away. Halfway there to his safe haven falls the self-serving soldier by the hand of the enemy he left his fallen comrade to fight. And by the time the self-serving soldier receives his last breath, the family that awaits him is slain by that very same enemy that he and his comrade succumbed to.

The oath of enlistment is like that of your oath to Christ. You are stronger in serving that far greater than yourself. As for the fight, it remains the same, always based purely upon principalities, good versus evil. The logic is exact. And the strategy and its purpose is well documented.

Among the many verses my eyes traversed several nights ago was that found in Deuteronomy 7. After reviewing a Twitter post from local Apple Valley, California resident @WesCarver, who frequently delivers words of wisdom born of the Bible, I was reminded of a recent study in the Word, whereby I continually landed upon versus in support of the warrior spirit and a warrior’s strategy.

This Bible verse is for warriors, soldiers, Marines, sailors, leaders, presidents, liberals, conservatives and for all men of all nations. The enemy ought fear the Good Warrior for his divine deliverance and warrior serve something far greater than himself and moreover his country. For his countrymen and even his country my fail even by its own virtuous standards but the LORD remains always and forever true.

Therefore, albeit a warrior or a nation, to be tightly bound as a formidable force, I reference perhaps one of the greatest verses in the Bible.

Deuteronomy 7

¹When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

²And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

³Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

⁴For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

⁵But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

⁶For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

⁷The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

⁸But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

¹⁰And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

¹¹Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

¹³And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

¹⁴Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

¹⁵And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

¹⁶And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

¹⁷If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

¹⁸Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

¹⁹The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

²⁰Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

²¹Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

²²And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

²³But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

²⁴And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

²⁵The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

²⁶Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

REVOLUTION: What The Bible Says About Civil Disobedience

A righteous warrior is an eagle with his eye upon the unjust. He is a hunter whose eyes are locked upon his prey with focus so intent that it pierces the very existence of his enemy like a sword. His enemy has lived a thousand deaths long before action is initiated. His heart emanates compassion for the oppressed. De Oppresso Liber is the purpose by which his heart pumps great vigor in the midst of overwhelming adversaries.

I am fashioned from my life experience. Although severely daunting at times and even in the depths of a destitute spirit, I have always adhered, to the best of my abilities, that these trials were nothing more than a field training exercise, preparation for a moment in history far greater myself, preparation for a purpose far greater than I myself can fathom.

Prior to any engagement, one must submit himself to that which is greatest, which is right. For the self is indeed the greatest cause for failure, the enemy its greatest benefactor.

With that, I have long considered the dynamics of obedience and even disobedience. And in this case, I speak with particular focus on the act of civil obedience and likewise civil war. I have performed much study on the subject and taken a great many notes. And even still, I have taken in and given great consideration to the principles therein. I have taken great moments to apply these principles to great moments in history and foreseen moments of the future.

So, without delving into the notes that are scattered throughout my life study, I will simply layout a few links to consider in your quest for civil war or unwavering submission to the unjust oppressor.

RELATED READING

• http://www.fbbc.com/messages/kohl_political_science_civildisobedience.htm
• http://www.christinyou.net/pages/civildisobed.html
• http://www.searchingtogether.org/articles/davidson/manifesto.htm
• http://www.openbible.info/topics/civil_disobedience
• http://biblearchive.com/blog/2009/human/christians-immigration-and-the-law/
• http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/newman/newman10.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVnRzn4rjbY
• http://biblearchive.com/blog/2009/church/reasons-for-civil-disobedience/
• http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
• http://home.myfairpoint.net/vzeo1z2a/AreWe.htm