IS IT BIBLICAL AND RIGHT TO FIGHT IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN?
(A Case For War)
By Pastor Johnny Lee Clary
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Is It Biblical and Right To Fight If You Are A Christian?
Rev. Johnny Lee Clary is one of the leading advocates for racial unity in the United States and has appeared on countless television and radio shows such as The Billy Graham Radio show, Fox News, Morris Cerullo, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr., Rolanda Watts, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Queen Latifah, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue, A&E Investigative Reports, ABC World News Tonight, Bertrice Berry, The Today Show, A Current Affair, The 700 Club, and Kenneth Copeland's TV show. He has also been a regular guest on TBN's Praise The Lord show and has been featured in America's top newspapers and magazines, including a seven page feature story in Charisma magazine in April 1999, Moody Magazine, Guidepost Magazine (Sept. 1998), Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, as well as appearances on TV programs in Australia, England, Holland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales.
When President Bush, Prime Minister John Howard and Great Britain’s Tony Blair all three declared war on Iraq, and when the great Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel took action against the pathetic Palestinian terrorists, and most recently when Israel finally had enough of Hamas firing rockets into Israel killing innocent Israeli citizens and went into Palestine and kicked Hamas's backside up one street and down the other,the socialist leftist subversives all screamed and hollered and took to the streets in defense of Saddam Hussein in 2003, and in defense of Hamas in 2009.
People screamed out that this war was not right but I knew that right would win, and it has. The United States and her allies have triumphed over and conquered one of the most brutal evil dictatorships in modern day history by defeating that scumbag Hussein and his two maniacal sons, Qusay and Uday, who used to feed people to lions and shoot at children for sport. Our allied forces quickly toppled Saddam’s government bringing freedom to the oppressed people in Iraq.
Israel also shall have total victory over the Palestinian terrorists real soon as they have proven by taking out Hammas leaders in just a few weeks time and severely crippling the military terrorist's forces of Hamas. We still have a long ways to go in the fight against Islamofacists and most certainly have a ways to go before we can see stability in the Middle East but getting rid of Saddam and his regime was a major victory. Yet, when you read the papers today, turn on the news, or listen to the radio all you hear are left wing communist and communist sympathizers ranting about how we should not have gone to war, how war is always evil and those that condone it are always bad and always wrong. Some say we did the right thing; others say we did not.
I thought I would take this opportunity to pose a Biblical answer to the question, “Is it biblical and right to fight if you are a Christian?”
The ones who oppose the war and say we should bring the troops home like that left-wing loudmouth Rosie O’Donnell who with all of her lesbionic fury,screams that this war was unjust because they found no Weapons Of Mass Destruction. Rosie and the left say President Bush and John Howard lied to the public and that Saddam had no Weapons Of Mass Destruction. Well O’Donnell and anyone wo has this opinion can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine because the Weapons Of Mass Destruction were found!
That’s right baby! I wonder why no one is bringing up the fact that Saddam’s first cousin, Deputy Dictator and second in command Ali Hassan al-Majid also known as “Chemical Ali” who got his nickname by supervising chemical attacks upon Kurdish civilians the regime accused of aiding Iranian forces during the last years of the Iran-Iraq war, unleashed poison gas where thousands of Kurds died, including 5,000 in a single cyanide attack on the border town of Halabja in March of 1988? If poison gas that kills thousands upon thousands of people is not considered Weapons Of Mass Destruction then I don’t know what is!
I reflect back to when the war was heating up. Saddam Hussein a man of pure evil, who had destroyed even his own people, and was holding his own country hostage. He had done this before you know. I remember in the Gulf War in 1991, that coward Saddam put little children on the front lines to keep the US forces from blasting him to hell where he belongs. It was called “Operation Desert Shield.” Before Allied forces invaded Iraq in 2003, Saddam was given every opportunity to come clean and comply with the agreement he signed way back in 1991. He refused. There was more then enough evidence to support the fact that Saddam, his two maniacs that he called his sons, and Cousin Chemical were torturing the citizens of Iraq, and also that he was playing host to Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists organizations.
To most of us, it was an easy decision. We have the power to do the right thing. We can rescue people that are held hostage and overthrow a maniacal dictator and make the world a safer place. And, we did so, even though it was an unpopular decision to many, even many whom we rescued who turned their backs on us and began terrorist attacks against our soldiers who are still in Iraq.
Israel also had a decision to make. They could set there and do nothing as the homocidal ricket launchers of Hamas kept killing Israeli citizens, or they could go in and beat the 'allah' out of Islamofacists. Israel did gave them a beating they will never forget.
I am a Christian. I love my Nation of the United States of America. I am proud of both the US Servicemen and Women and the Australian as well as British forces that sacrificed their lives when their countries needed them, to protect us so that we can try to avoid another 9/11 or Bali Bombing. I was so proud that America, Australia and Great Britain told the Unted Nations buzz off and that they didn't need their approval to whip Saddam's butt!
I think of all those who sacrificed much so we can enjoy our freedom today. I must look at others in different countries, without the freedoms we so take for granted, and say, “There but by the grace of God go I.” I am grateful and proud to be an American and a Christian. I also thank God that I am a Christian and not a Radical Muslim Extremist; that I have enough sense to place my faith in a risen Savior by the name of Jesus who is alive, instead of a bunch of rotting stinking bones of a child molester known as Mohammed who is dead in the ground.
I am proud of President George W. Bush, who stood strong for what was right, even when it seemed the entire world, and many of his own countrymen, were against him. He and his leadership stood up to the UN, France, Germany, Russia, and other cowardly nations favoring a strategy of hopeful appeasement, gathered those great heroic nations that would stand with us, like Australia, Great Britain, and Italy and made a commitment to do the “right” thing, instead of the “popular” thing.
Still, in spite of all this there remains those sniveling cowards like Rosie O’Donnell, Sean “Osama” Penn-Laden, George Clooney, Natalie Maine and her Dixie Chickie Poos, the subversive Green Party, and the liberal left all over the world who remain outspoken against the war and America's decision to free people that were held hostage. Some think we shouldn’t fight. They never see a reason to fight. Instead, they march through streets, give speeches in this country and others, wave their banners, and tout a political or leftist-liberal agenda against Israel's war against Hamas or war against the Islamofacists.
So, who is right? From what I have written so far, it is apparent which side I stand on. But, before I decide on a decision as important as this one, I am not so concerned as what another man says, but what God says. So, what does God say about war? In other words, is it biblical and right to fight if you are a Christian?
Wasn’t it Jesus that told his disciples to trade their cloaks for a sword? Luke 22:36Jesus said, “If you do not own a sword sell your cloak and buy one.” Those who opposed this war don’t understand that oftentimes peace only comes through the sword. In Matthew 10:34, Jesus said, “Think not that I come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.” These anti-Christians who oppose the war, or the 'Christian Left' know nothing about what Jesus was all about and certainly do not understand the importance of standing up for what is right.
The only reason Jesus told Peter to put away his sword when he chopped off the Roman soldier's ear was because Peter as interfering with what Jesus had to do at Calvary in order to save mankind, and Jesus had already rebuked Peter for trying to stop Him from going to the cross.
All other times it was required and permissible for Peter, and all other followers of Christ to carry a sword. They didn't have guns back then but I am sure that if they did Jesus would have required His followers to carry a gun instead of a sword, however the sword was the gun of that day and time. Note also that Jesus never once suggested that a soldier or centurion leave the army and even commended the Roman Centurion who asked Him to heel his servant for his great faith which is found in Luke 7!
Note that Peter has spent three years with Jesus and was carrying a sword when the soldiers came to take Jesus away. If it was wrong for Peter to be carrying a sword, don't you silly ninnies that say it is wrong think that Jesus would have told Peter not to carry one long before that night?
Didn’t God lead his people to move to war on nations that were anti-God? Didn’t God himself show victory time after time in war after war? Is not the end times dictated by “wars and rumors of wars"? Many that criticize anything they do not understand, such as war, also criticize the truth of the Bible, God’s Holy Word, because they do not understand it. However, if they only read the Word as if it were a history book, they would discover that throughout the history of mankind that wars and fighting have taken place quite often, and God encouraged and led many of these wars. Since God directed his people to fight in order to stand for righteousness, in order to defeat forces of evil, in order to defend their freedoms, in order to promote God as the only true God, and since God is always holy and always just, this in itself emphasizes that oftentimes it is not only right to fight, but God-ordained.
The Word of God tells husbands to love their wives just as God loved the church in Ephesians 5:25. Christ loved and protected the church. That is why He got the whip out after the moneychangers who tried to defile the temple. If you love someone, you will protect that person. A man would not be a man at all if he refused to protect his wife and kids from a home intruder that broke into his house in the middle of the night. I don’t care if there is a law that says you can’t. I say that the laws of God supercede the laws of man and we must obey God rather then men. That is what John and Peter told the authorities when they were ordered not to preach in the name of Jesus, in Acts 5:29 so it’s biblical. It is your duty to be a man and not a wimp.
John Wayne was a real man. He had a code that he lived by. He said, “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand upon. I don’t do these things to other men and I expect the same respect out of them.” If one respected that code John Wayne was the best friend they could ever hope to meet, but if they violated his code then he would show them real quick that he would fight. He always won too!
Same here. I would like to think that I am one of the nicest guys around but if one makes the mistake of laying their hands on me I will prove to them I believe in fighting. As a former Professional Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, I was tested many times by those who thought wrestling was all “fake.” There was always some guy whether a fellow wrestler trying to make a name for himself or some bum in a barroom somewhere who thought he was better than me and wanted to impress his girlfriend by beating up “Johnny Angel.” I may not look like the toughest man on the planet or be as built as Triple H, John Bradshaw Layfield, or Batista, but let me tell you something Hoss; I have won the majority of fights I have ever been in and at my middle age, I promise you I am not about to start losing now. I say to my enemies, that I hope to try to show the love of Christ at all times, but if you can't respect that and decide to lay a hand upon me then I say “Try Me! I’ll make you famous!”
God often showed his strength when He had His people fight their enemies, and His victory over unrighteousness through war. If you’ve seen “The Passion of Christ” you have seen the “suffering servant” as talked about in Isaiah, where Jesus did nothing to defend himself as he took to the cross the full penalty for the sin of all mankind, then and forever. Jesus didn’t back down or refuse to fight; his death and resurrection WAS his fight over sin, and He won! Jesus gave Satan a butt kickin’ like y’all wouldn’t believe and in doing so gave you and I a way to be saved from eternal damnation through His sacrifice and victory over death and sin. It was a war only Jesus could fight and win and He did. Jesus was no wimp. He endured the most suffering and pain that anyone could possibly imagine in their mind. He faced it, endured it, and conquered it.
Jesus began His ministry with violence and ended it that way too. John 2:13-16, Mark 11:15-18, Luke 19:45-46, and Matthew 21:12 proves He was not afraid to fight. He found the moneychangers in the temple and took a whip and beat them out of it on two separate occasions. Now to hear some of these sissified preachers preach it, they say Jesus overturned a couple of tables and just showed them a whip but would not have used it. Oh Bull! If you believe that then you probably believe that Bill Clinton never had sex with Monica Lewinsky either!
Jesus made a whip and drove them out of the temple. If you look up “to drive out” you will find that it meant that shepherds and cattle watchers used to put a whip to the herds and drive them out of the area they were in. I could not imagine an entire group of men running away just because someone showed them a whip. Only a certified idiot would believe that Jesus just stood there and threw over a table and said, “If you boys don’t stop it I may have to hit you with this!” That would scare no one!
However I can see those buyers and sellers running for their lives with Jesus putting the whip to their sorry hides, which is exactly what He did! If just speaking and threatening would have gotten the job done Jesus would not have wasted his time to go to all the trouble to make a whip, like the Bible says! I would suggest that you pacifist prissy pansies put that in your pipes and smoke it, but I think you are smoking way to much strange stuff already which is probably why you think like you do!
Nothing offends me more then that so-called painting of Jesus that some churches hang up that shows Him with rosy red cheeks and looking all-effeminate with a limp wrist holding and petting a little lamb. I do not know whose savior that is but he is not my savior. My savior is Jesus the toughest hombre you could imagine.
I believe Jesus was a lot like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Ronald Reagan all rolled into one. He worked as a carpenter and those guys were rugged in those days because they built everything. The moneychangers would not have ran from Him when He cleared the temple if He would have looked like some “light in the loafers” fruitcake. There was no way Jesus could have endured the pain He did during His crucifixion had He been a sissy boy. Just go watch Mel Gibson’s “Passion” and you will get a good idea of the kind of pain I am talking about. Jesus not only endured it but he defeated it and overcame every beating they threw at Him. He triumphed over death, which is something a wimp could not do.
So, is it right for a Christian to fight? It doesn’t matter to me what a presidential candidate or politician says. It doesn’t matter to me which group is shouting the loudest, whether it is the Green Party Hippies, Democrats, Jane Fonda, Rosie O'Donnell, or left wing liberal ninnies on the Christian left. What matters to me is what God says!
If I can paraphrase the entirety of the Word of God this way, please allow me.
It is right for a Christian to fight if the cause is righteous.
If we are defending the little good remaining of mankind against the overcoming evil of man, then it is right to fight.
If we are defending those who cannot defend themselves against forces of evil, it is right to fight.You would be less then human and a lower then monkey excrement if you witnessed an old man or an old woman of 80 getting mugged and beaten by some thug and you refused to get involved and fight the creep. If we are defending our precious liberties of equality, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness by a Godly people, then it is right to fight.
If we are siding with holiness, righteousness, and doing the “right thing”, then it is right to fight if necessary.
You should teach your child not to go looking for trouble but to not take anything off of a bully at school either. If you teach your kid that he should not defend himself under any circumstances then you should also expect your kid to give up his lunch money to the bully everyday, be picked on and made fun of by all the other kids in school, and if he does not commit suicide, then look for him to start wearing dresses and enter into a same sex marriage! And if he does it will be your entire fault by not teaching him to be a man instead of how you taught him to be a sissy coward. You will have no one to blame but yourself.
I remember I saw a girl being picked on once by some bullies and they learned real quickly that there are those who are not afraid to fight that will come to the defense of those who cannot defend themselves. When I got done with them, they never did it to her again!
Teach your child to always defend those who cannot defend themselves and that fighting should always be avoided if possible, but sometimes you have to fight when you are a man.
What if the peaceniks would have had their way back in 1941 and kept us out of World War Two? Tojo Yamamoto and the Japanese Imperial Army would have crushed the United States. Hitler would have ruled Germany and probably the world and there would be no Jews left on earth after the murderous Nazi’s got done with them. Those peaceniks, those wimpy fake Christians, and war protesters that oppose war, would probably feel different I am sure, if their own grandparents or parents were being marched off to be brutalized at Buchenwald Concentration Camp by Karl and Ilse Koch who made lampshades out of the skins of Jews she killed, or sent to Auschwitz to have torturous murderous experiments performed on them by Dr. Joseph Mengele, Nazi Death Camp Doctor, or if someone they loved dearly would have been used for target practice or lion food by Saddam’s killer sons, Uday and Qusay.
Ted Kennedy, Rosie O’Donnell and Sean Penn would not believe that war is ever right, even in the case of Hitler, or they would not have opposed the war against Saddam’s Iraq.
If the alternative is to sit idly by and let the anti-God leftists liberals continue to take away from us our freedoms; to continue to murder innocent babies; to continue to promote same sex marriage;to continue to tell us that what God says doesn’t matter and that what man says does matter, then by all means let’s arm ourselves and get up and fight! How much longer shall we sit back and be pacifists when it comes to these freaks that oppose the war between Israel and the terrorists, or the war against Islamofacists all over the world? Anyone who opposes the war Israel is fighting; and anyone who opposed the removal of Saddam Insane from Iraq; and anyone who opposes the war against Radical Islam, is not a Christian but is anti-God, and might as well join Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
God, for the generations of this world, led his people to fight and overcome the evil of their day. Jesus, fought for the eternal salvation of our souls. Both won. If we fight for the religious and civil liberties that are backed by God in his Holy Word (the only truth we will ever know), then we are fighting the good fight, and it is justified. In this case, absolutely, it is right to fight. God fought and won. If we stay focused on God, we will also.
We recognize that there are those out there that would deny us our rights as Americans, Australians, Israelis, Italians, and as Christians. Let’s fight for what is right. Sometimes, this fight involves men and women with guns and weapons. Sometimes, this fight takes place at the polls. Sometimes it takes place in the courtrooms. Sometimes, this fight involves the outspokenness of you and me, touting the burdens that God put in our hearts to defend what is right.
Let’s stand a bit taller as Americans, Australians, Israelis,Italians and Christians in general! Let’s protect our freedoms. Let’s say the “pledge of allegiance” with pride and not leave out the part that says, “One Nation Under God.” Let’s put up the Ten Commandments in the courthouses. Let’s show honor to God by having our children pray in the name of Jesus in each and every public school in America as well as Australia. Let’s clean up the TV and replace CNN with Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly! Let’s sing “God Bless America” or “I Come From The Land Down Under” more loudly. Let’s fight for the unborn babies that cannot defend themselves. Let’s fight for the protection of the beauty of a Godly marriage between a man and a woman. Let’s fight for those downtrodden that are being taken advantage of. Let’s proclaim our religious liberty and pride in our God-given freedoms louder than those who spit on the same of Jesus. Let’s recognize that “it is right to fight when the fight is right.” Don’t be afraid to kick a little butt if it does become nessessary like when someone get out of line! In doing so, you might just straighten him out and set him on the path to righteousness sake!
We, my Christian brothers and sisters, in an evil day when anything anti-God seems popular, must recognize that it is not only “biblical and right to fight for what is right”, but that this is something we are obligated to do. God will bless you for it too! That my friend, is a promise!
"Shall your brethren go to war while you just sit here?" Numbers 32:6
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