Winning the War (3)

Unfortunately George and his neocon mates do not get spiritual warfare. They do not understand that when a war breaks out, evil spirits arrive from all over the place. The pervasiveness of emotions like fear, hatred and anger make it easy for these spirits to penetrate deep into human lives. An armour plated Humvee and a Bible on the locker provides no protection for a young soldier who does not understand what is going on. This creates two serious problems for an invading army.

Firstly, even if the physical war is won, the spiritual war continues. The spirits of anger, hatred and death remain on the battlefield after the guns are quiet. These spirits destroy any community that still exists after the ravages of war. This is what is happening in Iraq. It was predicted by Daniel.

The king of the South will be enraged and go forth and fight with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be given into the hand of the former. When the multitude is carried away, his heart will be lifted up, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail (Dan 11:11,12).

Daniel is describing the spiritual forces that will emerge during the war in Iraq. I have explained this more fully in What’s Going On.

Winning the physical war in Iraq is irrelevant to history. The spiritual war will be lost and that will have serious consequences for the entire world.

Secondly, a more serious problem is that, solders in the invading army with no spiritual protection will pick up some of these evil spirits and take them home when their tour of duty is complete. This can change the spiritual tide in their home towns and villages.

The North American continent had a relatively low level of spiritual activity when the first Europeans arrived, but the spiritual landscape of America has been radically re-spiritualised by the wars it won and lost during the last century.

The soldiers who went to Europe in World War 1 picked up and took back the spirit of greed and pride that produced the Great Depression in the 1930s. The GIs who served in Europe and the Pacific duing World War 2 carried back the spirits of anger, rebellion and rejection that produced the cultural revolution of the 1960s. The soldiers who served in Korea and Vietnam brought back the spirit of apathy and complacency that now pervades small town America.

The boys and girls currently serving in Iraq have the worst spiritual protection of any American army ever. They are carrying an host of evil spirits back to America that are so terrible that the Department of Homeland Security would be horrified, if they could see what is happening. I do not know what the consequences will be, but it will not be a victory.

Wake up, Prophets!

Winning the War (2)

I judge the success of any activity by its contribution to the Kingdom of God. The only test for whether an enterprise has been successful is whether it has advanced the Kingdom of God.

Has the won war in Iraq advanced the kingdom of God? Have the American boys and girls who invaded Iraq with their guns and Bibles helped advance the Kingdom of God.

Those who cannot tell the difference between the kingdom of God and the American system will say they have. Those with clear understanding of the Kingdom God will realise that the Kingdom of God has gone backwards in the Middle East.

Thirty years ago, the Middle East was ruled by secular governments. Islam was cultural religion being drowned by modernism and secularism. It was ripe for the gospel, but American military adventures have turned that around. Now Islam is alive, stirred up and militant. More and more nations are ruled by Islamic governments. The Americans have just installed another one in Iraq. Good move, George.

Meanwhile the people planning the next big attack are probably living in America already. They will be getting organised and planning their plans moves. Some members of their team could even be working for the Federal Government.

Winning the War (1)

Winning a war is easy, if you carefully define what winning means.

You can win a war several times, if you keep changing you definition of victory.

George W Bush has managed this well. He announced that the Iraq war was won when the army rangers entered Bagdad. He announced that the war was won again in 2003, when he landed an S3 Viking on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf. I suppose that it felt like a war was won.

The war was won when Saddam Hussein was captured, and again when he was sentenced to death.

The war has been won again with the defeat of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, although it did not exist before the US invasion. It is a bit odd winning a war against your own creation. Actually, Al-Qaeda in Iraq has not been defeated. Most members have just moved to Afghanistan and other countries where the Crusader Invader is more vulnerable.

George W could easily win this war seven or eight times, before his Presidency is all washed up.

John the Jaw and Obama the Llama have got onto the same bandwagon. John the Jaw is going to keep troops in Iraq for a hundred years. If he keeps changing the objective, he will be able to announce the war is won every few years. That could work out to nearly fifty wars being won. Wow.

Obama the lama is going to get stuck into Afghanistan and win a war there. He does not realise that George W won that war a few years ago. But that does not matter, most Americans have forgotten that too. If Obama works his objectives right, he could win the war in Afghanistan several times.

Ralph Nader is looking back to Vietnam. Why not? Get the right spin doctors on the job and set the right objectives, America could win that war again too.