You Can't Kill Wickedness With A Bullet

 Perhaps this should have been entitled, "you can't kill wickedness with a bullet ALONE." ;) My random bible passage on this Sabbath was from Joshua, where the Israelites kick everyone's ass in Canaan and they finally have peace. So, clearly, war was necessary if they were going to inherit the land as G-d had promised. But the Israelites were, for the moment, a united people led by G-d when this happened.

No doubt fighting is sometimes useful and necessary, but if you don't uproot the causes of having to go to that unpleasant extreme you have achieved little. Imagine if in WWII America had a significant minority of Nazis. Well, beating the Nazis in Germany would amount to little if we had a growing cancer in our own country. Beating Germany wouldn't finish the fight in that case.

And we DO have a cancer in this country. The cancer of godlessness and secularism and the deification of the State. And we may have to fight that one day, too.

But at present, for the moment, this is a time for spiritual warfare. Both within ourselves and outside ourselves. The wheat is being separated from the chaff at this moment. Be prepared, rededicate yourselves. Be very careful that you are not parted with the chaff at this critical moment.

There is a movement in this State of Texas for a referendum on secession. I don't oppose that, I probably would vote in favor of it, but what do people really think that is going to accomplish even if Texas is able to secede? Texas is home to two moderately-sized cities and three giant cities. The same forces that made New York and Los Angeles wicked cities, will make Dallas and Houston and San Antonio and El Paso the same over time. Austin is already a mini- Los Angeles in terms of its moral decay. Just as the battle against evil will not be solved with bullets alone, it won't be solved with ballots alone either. Texas, left to its own devices, will inevitably shift in the same direction as California.

And you hear more radical conservatives all the time say, it may come to a little 1776 style revolutionary war to restore America. Unless people are spiritually prepared, such an attitude will inevitably lead to destruction. What are we restoring America TO? Status Quo Ante say 1950? Or 1800 (in some ways that would be more appropriate in terms of upholding State's rights - they were already long eroded by 1950.)

IF WE GO BACK TO THE SAME AMERICA, WE WILL EVENTUALLY GET THE SAME RESULTS.

The seeds of 2020,  were sown in 1776.

While the generation of the Founders may indeed have been more religious than is the norm today, they liked their license and libertinism. The freedom to get down with their funky selves was highly valued by the Founders. Franklin was notorious on two continents. Jefferson banged his slaves. Washington threw wild and extravagant parties. For the most part, deeply devout they were not.

Such license will inevitably lead to moral slavery and moral decay. If the America we are defending is merely the America of "do your own thing," that America is doomed anyway.

Now I am as full of patriotism and warm feelings for America as the next guy, maybe more than most. But America is not my G-d. G-d is my G-d.

If we do not found our revolution on the teachings of the G-d of Sinai, the G-d of Abraham, we will inevitably fail. Even if we win today, it will only be to repeat the same war tomorrow. If we have to fight a war with the commies, if we make it a political war we will lose. I believe G-d will not fight alongside us.

We must fight for G-d first. Not second.

Not "Country and G-d." JUST G-D.

And if we imagine that Americans as they now are, are prepared to be holy warriors for G-d, I think we would be sorely mistaken. The average American, including the average weekend soldier, is spiritually weak. I think we'll have to see way more tribulation before a people will rise up who are prepared to be warriors in the mold of Joshua. Much as I hate to say it, the wicked will triumph for a long time before the furnace of adversity finally molds such men. America is being judged. We are going to have to endure a lot of judgement before a remnant is ready to retake this land.

The proper focus at this moment, is us and those around us. Our spiritual dedication. Our spiritual purity. The fierceness of the fire within us, not the fire of liberty but the fire of service to Almighty G-d.

G-d and Americaolatry cannot coexist. The latter must be discarded, the former embraced. Not political war, not culture war, but holy war. Holy War is an unpopular concept even among conservatives, but it is precisely what is involved. This is not merely a political disagreement we are having in America right now. This is a spiritual war.

And unless you acknowledge it and fight it as a spiritual war, get yourself right with G-d, put the focus where it belongs, our tribulations will be long and terrible.