I'm currently reading The Leaders We Deserved by Alvin S. Felzenberg, a book rating U.S. Presidents' terms of office and came across an interesting quote from President Woodrow Wilson, an Evangelical Christian who was so affected by being born in Virginia in 1856 and going through the Civil War as a child that he was a peacenik long before the term came to be. It's ironic that his League of Nations notion which led to the United Nations will someday germinate in the One World Government of the Antichrist, methinks...but, hey, that's just my opinion!
Here's the quote. "In the period when Wilson was still struggling to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, he voiced fears that American entry into the conflict would take a severe toll on civil liberties at home. 'To fight you must be brutal and ruthless,' he told an editor, 'and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into every fiber of our national life...'"
Now, translate that into the every day Battle of the Ages Christians are involved in according to the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:10-20. It would appear to me after 28 years' involvement in the conflict that instead of being brutal towards rulers, powers, principalities, demons, world forces of darkness, spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places, and Satan himself through prayer against such individuals, Christians are much more preoccupied with beating up on each other; which means Satan can relax and laugh at us. This could be why there are so many passages in Scripture calling for unity, mutual "one anothering" for the good, and keeping alert to the fact that our battle is NOT against flesh and blood but against unseen forces that often appear as angels of light! Wake up, people...we're in THE most brutal war EVER!!
Got your armor of light on?
Source: Felzenberg, Alvin S. The Leaders We Deserved. Perseus Books Group, New York, 2008.
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