Marching Order - 10

Expect the Glorious Victory

Updated 3/13/11

2Corinthians 2 : 14 - "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him."

With all of the modern armies of the world amassed against us it would appear that the Christian Army doesn't stand a chance. We are, for the most part, caring individuals leading quite lives who are blissfully unaware of the coming storm while the other guys are determined, united, holding positions of power, concentrated in large numbers, ruthless, well armed, tech savvy, well trained, well supplied, well coordinated, ably led, and their battle plans for the conquest of the world are most likely well thought out and have been in motion for at least 100 years. While we have a few guns, they have all of the bullets. We have rocks and they have tanks. We have no air force and they control the skies. That's not fair! Or is it?

Soon, the battle weapon that the Christian Soldier will wield will be the most effective weapon on earth, and that's the weapon of faith. The key here is that nothing is impossible to one who has faith. Matthew 17 : 20 - "He replied, 'Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.'" The antichrist's forces, though mighty, are limited to the box of the physical and natural, and they will be, for the most part, warriors of cold science and reason employing machinery, technology, violence, aggression, deceptions, betrayals, brutality, and lies. However, we are warriors of faith and love, not limited to the box, and the Holy Spirit of Power that we are soon to receive will make us, for the harvest season, very hard to defeat.

I know that this is hard to get your arms around right now because the Power has yet to come, so as you wait for it, read all of the words of Jesus about how we are about to be able to do even greater things then He did. Jesus walked on water, we can walk on water. Jesus healed the sick; we will be able to heal our wounded. With God at our side the fight isn't really fair at all. For a time we will defeat them at every turn and they will neither know how or why. When the battle is joined, be courageous and be filled with hope as God deals with those who oppose Him right before your eyes.

We will be able to reach the lost up to and through out the time when Satan arrives indwelling the antichrist and pretending to be God. However, he will at that time be allowed the power by God, to conquer us and to kill many of us, so we will have only a limited amount of time to win as many lost souls as we can during our harvest window, although people will still be saved by refusing the receive the mark of the beast even after the devil has arrived. Daniel 7 : 21 - 22 - "As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and defeating them, until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom." While the devil himself is waging war against us, some of us will die and some will go into captivity, but if we go into captivity we must remain faithful to Jesus and never take the mark of the beast or worship him in any way. Revelation 13 : 9 - 10 - "He who has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints." We must remain faithful to our God during our testing even if we are taken into the fire. God has chosen who will be refined in the last of the last days, and it is for our benefit if we are allowed to suffer for a little while for the glory of His Name. Isaiah 38 : 17 - "Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back."

Remember, for the Christian death is not the end but a new beginning, and remember that the Father is waiting on the other side to reward with His Love those who He finds faithful and true. An era is coming to an end and a new one is going to begin where Christ is going to live among us as our King, and everything in the old era must be settled before the new era begins. Cling to your trust that God is Good as He settles His Accounts with all of us, because I'm pretty sure that there's going to be some things that He does for our eventual good, in the near future, that we will not all understand until we are on the other side of Glory.