Marching Order # 1

There is a Time for Everything Under Heaven

Updated 2/4/11

I've sometimes wondered why Jesus told His Disciples in Luke 22 : 36 that if they didn't have a sword that they should buy one, but then when they came to arrest Jesus, He immediately tells Peter to put his sword away. Matthew 26 : 52 - "'Put your sword back in it's place,' Jesus said to him, 'for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.'" For years I've believed that this Verse meant that to pick up a weapon and fight meant that you would die a violent death, but now I don't think that's the case. Clearly, not everyone who has gone to war has died a violent death, so maybe what Jesus was saying in this Verse was that anyone who tried that specific night to use a sword to defend Him would not be supported by God in this effort. Jesus was meant to die on the cross for us, and no one was going to stop that. Also the Son of Man is described in Isaiah 9 : 6 as the Prince of Peace, but then in Matthew 10 : 34, Jesus says that He did not come to bring peace but a sword. Then Jesus says in Matthew 5 : 39 - "But I tell you. Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right check, turn the other also", but then later in Matthew 21 He took a whip and drove the money changers from the Temple, and though this is always depicted as Jesus just cracking the whip, I would imagine that He might have had to crack it on a couple of them.

So should we have a sword or should we not have a sword, does Jesus bring peace or war, do we let people slap us around or do we whip them with a whip? The answer is all in the wisdom of the timing. Ecclesiastes 3: (1):(3):(8) - "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven..... A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,....... A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace."

Before you receive the Holy Spirit of Power, although you will want to protect yourself and your family during the times of riots and panic, whenever any authority comes to arrest you for not taking the vaccine, or for not following the Patriot Act, or for anything else that they might want to arrest you for; there's no way to defeat them without God's Help and to resist arrest, at that point, would be like Peter drawing his sword in the garden. The modern day term for such an action would be "suicide by cop", and with the united force of the major armies of the world against you, this would clearly be the time to put the sword down and turn to the Lord and ask for Him for protection, healing, and mercy.