Friday, March 5, 2010

The War is Not Over!

Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces [telling the officials] to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

Esther 3:13

In our legal system there is a difference in murder and pre-meditated murder. Pre-meditated means it was planned, deliberate and thought-out. It was no crime of passion. Organized terrorism in the world today is totally planned. Some bombings are in the works for years before the plan is executed.

Is Satan’s work in this world a series of passionate outbursts against God and God’s children or is he an organized terrorist willing to wait years for the right moment to do you in! When I lived in Indonesia many years ago, a man named Harun told me this: “You Americans are really not very smart. When you get mad at someone, you get mad at them right to their face. You can get killed doing that. But we (Indonesians) are smart. If we get mad at someone we will be nice to their face but when they turn around we will stab them in the back!”

Satan spends much time being nice to your face. He appears to be no threat at all. But then when you drop your guard or turn away so you cannot see what he is doing he lands his damaging blow!

There is a modern day terrorist parallel with spiritual warfare that is significant. Many today are saying there is no war today with terrorists. They say there are simply “man-made disasters” perpetrated by criminals. Such a perspective opens many doors for the terrorists. And Satan gains a significant advantage in your life if you don’t believe that he is at war and wants to use whatever means possible to destroy you!

Here is a news flash! God does not want to send you to Hell! He desires that you should spend eternity with Him in Heaven! He has given you the right to choose between the two.

How foolish is the soldier who believes the war is over when it is still raging!

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