The Vindication of Victory 111
Nuclear war is humanity's ultimate suicide: a mad act of self-destruction that would erase civilization, poison the Earth, and betray every generation to come. We must reject it with unbreakable resolve.
The hundred-fifteenth solution is the publishing of this decree. God has decreed the destruction of those who destroy the earth. This is not a threat from an environmental NGO; it is a decree from the throne. Those who design, fund, and authorize weapons capable of destroying the earth fall under this decree. Publish it. Preach it. Place it in front of every nuclear policy maker. The decree is real. Better to repent now than to be reckoned among the destroyers when the wrath comes.Isaiah 54:17 (KJV)
"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD."
Now I must turn the trumpet against those who destroy the Earth. Revelation eleven, verse eighteen, names a category - "them which destroy the Earth" - and the Lord declares that He will judge that category specifically. I am writing in fear of the Lord and in love for the men who are still in time to repent.
The hundred-sixteenth solution is the standing on this promise. Every weapon formed - including every nuclear weapon - shall not prosper. This is the heritage of God's servants. Step into your heritage. Live in the protection that no weapon can pierce. The weapon cannot prosper against you; therefore the weapon cannot prosper at all in the long run, because the long run belongs to those whose heritage this is.
I tell you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that the present hour is not the end of the story, and the praying remnant of God will yet see the silos stand empty.
Apologetic 116
The bomb-builders are accountable in heaven before they are accountable on Earth.
Romans 14:12 - every one of us shall give account of himself to God. The men who designed the warheads, who signed the contracts, who pushed the production lines, who lobbied for the budgets - they will all stand at the judgement seat. The defence of the Earth includes the warning to each one personally that the seat is real.
Witness 116
"We are called to be peacemakers, not peacekeepers."
- Henri Nouwen, Dutch Catholic priest and writer
The peacekeeper waits for the war to end. The peacemaker prevents it. The defence of the Earth requires the active verb.
Solution 117
Remember the Rainbow Covenant
Genesis 9:11 (KJV)
"And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
The hundred-seventeenth solution is the recovery of the rainbow covenant. God committed Himself never again to destroy the earth by flood. He has not committed Himself to allow humansto destroy it by fire. The covenant reveals the heart of God: He is for the preservation of the earth. Every act of preservation aligns with His heart. Every act of nuclear escalation defies it. Look up at the rainbow. Remember the heart of the Father.
Consider Vasili Arkhipov. On the twenty-seventh of October nineteen sixty-two, the Soviet submarine B-fifty-nine was depth-charged by United States destroyers near Cuba. The submarine was armed with a nuclear torpedo. Two of the three officers required to authorise launch agreed to fire. Vasili Arkhipov refused. The world owes its existence to one Russian officer's no.
And I am praying as I write that you will be one more name added to the list of those who refused - refused the silence, refused the despair, refused the bomb.
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