A Time To Fight And A Time To Surrender
What the Holy Spirit desires all people to accept is the
truth of God, and that message is about when we as individuals and or a nation should
FIGHT, and when we as individuals or as a nation should SURRENDER. And this is a very important question because
it could determine the fate of your own life or the life of your family or the
life of YOUR WHOLE NATION. And as this
war between Ukraine and Russia continues, this is also the question. But it is no question in the mind of
Zelenskyy of course. It’s no question
for those who are Ukrainians, obviously they desire to defend their
homeland. But if you are a CHRISTIAN, if
you are wanting to follow JESUS CHRIST, you do want to do the best thing FOR YOUR
OWN SOUL, your own family, despite what the government says, despite what the
political leaders say. So, what is the
right thing to do? When is the time to
pick up weapons and defend your family, and when is the time to surrender? Because after all, when you are killed, you
will stand before God and He will either say; “Welcome into my Kingdom…” Or “Away from Me you who commit
iniquity…” It will not matter if you
were patriotic. The only thing that will
matter is if you were right with your creator.
You need to be thinking BEYOND PATRIOTISM, beyond the countries of this
world. You need to be thinking about the
Kingdom of God. Of course nation will
come against nation, kings will come against kings, we know that this is all
prophesied. And people are going to
fight to the death. We will let the
world do what the world is going to do and make their decisions, but the word
to the WISE is this; HEAR THE HOLY SPIRIT, learn what the HOLY SPIRIT said to
men of old. HEAR HIS VOICE TODAY! Because if you don’t hear Him and you fight
to the death, you may lose your own country, you may lose your own family, you
may lose your OWN SOUL. And in the
afterlife you will have no hope. You
will not inherit eternal life for being patriotic. SO, the word to the wise is; LEARN TO HEAR
THE LIVING GOD YOUR CREATOR. You are
hear for a purpose and you need to
figure out what that purpose is.
You need to know when to fight and when to surrender. You need to know WHAT to fight. We know that the battle is not with physical
bodies or the principalities of this world (flesh) But with the principalities
of darkness and we need to know how to fight spiritually.
I want to
bring to everyone’s memory what happened in the past, this was about 600 BC
during the time of Jeremiah, and the Chaldeans which came in to take over, they
were part of Babylon, and they came in to take over Israel. And God warned the Prophet Jeremiah to speak
to the king Zedekiah. No one wanted to
hear this message. Because the message
wasn’t to be a valiant king, it wasn’t to defend their nation, but THIS was the
message that came from God: (Jeremiah 38:17-18) “Then Jeremiah said to
Zedekiah, “Thus says the LOR, the God of hosts, the God if Israel: “If you surely SURRENDER to the king of
Babylon’s princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned
with fire, and you and your house shall live.
But if you do not surrender to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this
city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they shall burn it with
fire, and you shall not escape from their hand…”
As we
know Zedekiah did not want to be a salve.
The Word of the Lord came to Zedekiah through the Prophet Jeremiah, and
Jeremiah warned him, if you surrender you will live, but if you try to fight
you will die. Now of course he
prophesied over the king that Zedekiah himself would not die, but that he would
die in peace, in the sense that he would be a slave until his death, but that
he would not physically be beheaded (or killed in the capture). But he was warned that if his nation fought
that they would die, and this is exactly what happened. Zedekiah basically says he doesn’t want to be
a salve, he will never stand down but he will stand up and he wanted to be a
war hero, he wanted people to see him as bold, as courageous, he never would be
a slave, he would never let his people go into captivity. But Jeremiah tells him in more or less words
that they are slaves already, they are slaves to SIN, and because Zedekiah does
not want to hear the words of the Living God, but wants to live according to
his pride and defend his family, what ends up happening is they all put to
death, the Chaldeans come in, they take over, they make them their slaves, they
imprison them, they are prisoners of war, and all of them die.
So, the
question here is, when is the time to stand up and fight, because there ARE
times to stand up and fight, fight for our country, fight for our family… and
there are other times when we are called to surrender. What is the Word of God to us? We are in big trouble if we cannot hear His
WORD! The word to Jeremiah to speak to
Zedekiah was not to be triumphant, it was not to stand and fight, in fact it
was the opposite, it was to surrender.
And because he did NOT do that, he lost the war. They were invaded and they were destroyed as
a nation.
The answer to this question depends
on where your nation is with GOD. Is your nation or your family unit, or you
personally, for that matter right with God?
Are you living HOLY? Is evil out
of your life? Are the children of your
family clean and pure before GOD? Because if you are and then the LORD calls
you to stand up for what is RIGHT and to FIGHT, then HE WILL BE WITH YOU. But if the Living God is NOT with your army,
your soldiers, and if He has prophesied against you because THERE IS SIN IN
YOUR CAMP, then no matter how much you try to fight for FREEDOM, you will lose
the battel, you will lose the WAR, and everything will be lost including your
own family, your own wives, your own children and your own soul.
We Know that after Jeremiah
prophesied that even the wives and children were captured and the prophecy was
this; (Jer. 38:23) “So they shall
surrender all your wives and children to the Chaldeans. You shall not escape from their hand, but
shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned
with fire.” We know that even the wives
and the children did not escape. These
things will repeat again and again in history.
Men always want to be valiant; they always want to stand up, all of us
want to stand up and protect our families, that is human nature. But the question is; WHAT DOES THE LIVING GOD
SAY? ARE WE HEARING HIM? AND DO WE KNOW
WHAT TO DO? If we listen to Him we will
surely live, but if we reject Him for bravery, the arm of the FLESH, for what
people think, then we shall surely be put do death, just like all the old kings
and all the old nations were. History
just repeats itself over and over and over again. Who are we listening to? Do we hear the Word of the LORD? Can we really hear Jesus Christ? Do we KNOW how to hear Him? Or have we been bamboozled by the word, by
what strong men look like in the flesh?
Hearing God starts with being able
to see Him in everything, hear Him in everything. Do you hear God by being able to see Him in
nature, being able to see Him work though your own children, seeing Him work
through the trials and the tribulations that you see in your own life? Are you able to overcome when you see these things
happening? And do you lean to hear His
voice so that you can move forward in your faith with little steps? Or do you continue to fall in the small
things in your own life, fall to sin, fall to the lusts of the flesh, fall to
greed, fall to anger, fall to drugs and alcohol, fall to pornography, fall to
all these parasites that come up in your own life? If you can’t defeat the things that come up
in your own life then you can’t defeat the enemy that will come against your
family, and if your family is broken down then your town is broken down. If your town and your city is broken down
then your NATION is broken down and you will not just lost the small battles,
but you will lose the war.
I fear God more than losing my own
family or my own life and because of this I listen to the WORD OF GOD
first! It doesn’t matter if people think
that we are valiant, strong, bold, courageous, it doesn’t matter how we appear
in the eyes of the world. WHAT MATTERS
IS IF WE CAN HEAR THE LIVING GOD, IF WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US. SUPERNATURALLY IS HE PROVIDING FOR US. Do we hear HIM? Because if we don’t we are in very grave
danger of losing our nation, losing our soul, losing our family. No one will escape.
Can you see Him working in your
life? Do you hear the Word of GOD, are
you hearing HIS VOICE? If you can’t, you
have absolutory no direction or hope.
You will be killed; your family will be killed and all will be lost.
