It is the idea that if it is military, it
can't be of love. If it is violent, it can't
be of love. If it involves fighting and
contention, it can't be of love. The Lord is
opening to me however the reality of the
fundamentally military nature of his love as
"Lord of Hosts," which maintains an objective
dispassionate character, and how that
a concept of love based only in a sense of
compassion is unable to cope with this
reality.
The Lord is saying that if we don't grow to
get this, we are not going to make it through
the martial conditions coming, with blood
running and body parts everywhere in the
streets. For in time of civil war and
international chaos such as is now knocking on
the door, acts of love are not primarily
demonstrated through compassion. (Heresy, yes,
I know.) They are demonstrated through acts of
selfless sacrifice on the behalf of others
under contorted pressure that doesn't leave
one time to think, much less feel anything.
Divine military love saturates scripture, but
we are blind to it. Yet the definition of love
given by Jesus in John 15 is a military one.
And the very cross executed at the heart of
our faith was the expression of military love.
It wasn't a "valentine's affair." It simply had
to be done. And so it was. And there in
the military execution of Christ, was the love
of God expressed for us.
Acts of judgment upon some in order to save
others are military acts of love. Mercy
through judgment is a demonstration of
the military love of God. Military love
is the love that creates offense and braves
rejection for doing so in order to save
others. This character of love is what
drives the restorative Spirit of Elijah and of
all true prophets. It is the love that moves
Phinehas to throw a javelin through some to
stop a plague on many. "I will give people
for your life," says the Lord.
That's sovereign military love.
This
love saturates the vision of Revelation. That
entire book until the last bridal chapters is
a book of military love, executing rebuke on
churches and impartial dispassionate judgment
upon the world so as to rescue the few, all
under unspeakable emergency conditions. It is
what the Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah display.
The focus is not on those who are destroyed.
The focus of this love is on those who are
saved in mercy as a result of the
destruction of others. As Peter said,
Noah was saved through the Flood. That was the
love of God. The righteous are scarcely saved.
Military
love acts in judgment on some to save somebody,
anybody somewhere from the final
stop of hell and the lake of fire, from which
there is no further redemption. "Unless you
repent, you shall all likewise perish."
Expect to hear more on this as the Lord
enables and releases. It will be
offensive. And you will have to
determine whether "ye also will go away." But I'm telling you, heavenly trumpets are
now blowing, releases on angelic hold orders
are being given, and you just have absolutely
no idea what's coming. And in the end, this is
the only kind of word that is going to
save..."Fear God and give Him glory, for
the hour of His judgment has come."
Can
you see the true love yet.....?
