Saturday, January 14, 2006
Rumors Of War
Matt 24:3-9 - And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"With Victor David Hanson proclaiming military action against Iran inevitable and John Mark Reynolds wondering why there isn't more buzz about it I could not help but think of that passage.Says Hanson:
And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many. And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of My name.
The fourth scenario is as increasingly dreaded as it is apparently inevitable ? a U.S. air strike. Most hope that it can be delayed, since its one virtue ? the elimination of the Iranian nuclear threat ? must ipso facto outweigh the multifaceted disadvantages.I am not afraid of war, but I am highly nervous about this one, not from a military standpoint, but from a political one. It is fraught with so much context.
This is, in my opinion, the biggest single call to prayer on a geo-politcal scale we face today. Join me please.
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