War In Heaven
As a human being, I struggle with the concept of war. Fellow human beings obliterating other humans to the point of a brutal death. What drives people to war is beyond me to understand.
However, a sobering thought that keeps crashing into my mind is the fact that earth is not the only place war is taking place. It’s not just a human experience and confined to our time and space.
Sure we are all exposed to the Sci-Fi films almost glorifying war between inter galactic races and species. It’s fun to watch – but it does belong to the realm of science fiction.
But what gets to me is the war raging in heaven. You may read this and not believe in the spiritual world and dismiss this as pure fiction. But I believe that the material world you and I exist in is just a fraction of a true reality beyond our ability to understand. To get an insight into this world, click here.
Our world is merely an echo of a reality far greater than we can understand – the ultimate “mini me experience”. In fact, many scientists have concluded that the world we live in is like a holographic image placed within a much greater reality. I don’t find this conclusion surprising as this is in line with a Biblical worldview.
But what gets to me is the fact that in the “greater” reality of the spiritual, there is a war going on. Unlike us mere mortals on earth, the combatants in this spiritual war are eternal and a simple bullet to the head is a mere scratch. Have a read of the following verse…
“Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.” Rev 12:7-8
Don’t let the familiarity of this verse make you miss the point – there is a war in heaven. In the reality that is far greater then what we experience, eternal spiritual beings are at war with each other. Death as we know it is not a reality to these beings – and yet there is a victor and a loser.
Death as we know it is not an option – instead the defeated are thrown out of the heaven and, other Scripture states, they are now in our reality. So my point is this: If the greater reality than the one we experience is in a status of war, who are we to think that we should escape the reality of war on earth?
War. As humans we inherited this reality as a result of what’s going on in heaven. As ugly and putrid it is in our eyes, it is simply a by-product of a reality greater than ours. We have the defeated of heaven in our reality “inspiring” humans to carry on their agenda – rebellion against the will of God.
When Jesus talked about the “end times” – He made specific mention to “wars and rumours of wars” – this is simply the extension of what happened in heaven at some point in eternity (the mind boggles on this point) in our time. We have a defeated enemy hell bent on continuing his agenda against the will of God. But instead of a heavenly battle, it’s us humans who are on centre stage. And this has played out on human history as some of the most horrific wars we can ever imagine.
Below is a video clip with the music to “Sunday Bloody Sunday” by U2 and performed by Pillar showing but a glimpse of this cosmic horror played out in our existence..
But the nail in the coffin, so to speak, about the eternal nature of war is the description of Jesus as He returns to earth. Instead of being the pussy little being the modern church has made Him look to be, have a read of what Scripture actually describes Him doing when He returns..
“Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.” Rev 19:11
He is coming to finish off His adversary once and for all. And how will He accomplish this? By war. Until He does this, you better get used to the concept of war. It will rage until after Jesus puts to death His enemy once and for all.
Only then, will He boldly step up and receive the receive the crown, “The Prince Of Peace” – and war will be no more.
