Zealot Assassins and The War is Coming

     I thought that I had already posted this week, but someone informed me that was not true. So here is the post that was supposed to come out yesterday. My apologies. I am still in the process of moving over from my old blog. With the start of "The War", this month, I will be posting all of my weekly posts here.

     Recently I finished reading the book Zealot by Reza Aslan. This book does have it's faults and shortcomings; the author is not that creditable. The setting of the time period to which Jesus arrives does reinforce what I have learned from my time in Israel. The painting that Reza shows of Jesus as a zealot is something that I disagree with, but the historical Jesus is someone that we never can really know because there are very few references to him. The idea of assassins on a mission for G-d was something that stayed with me after I finished the book.

     We often picture the armor of God as that of a Roman soldier, a common image to the people of Jesus day. They were an unstoppable force. And likewise that is what the Church became as it spread across the globe. Today Christianity can be found in almost every country. There is a problem with our tactic as a roman army though, today we have sent conquests to everywhere possible using the unstoppable force.

     We need to become Assassins. Christianity must stealthily infiltrate and change the hearts of individuals using the same tools we where given by G-d, now just in a different form. It is much more difficult for Christianity to have the massive conversions we saw in the old days. Today we are called to infiltrate; the government, schools, our workplaces, the lives of those around us and change the world one person at a time. Missionaries go to counties where they must be secretive; countries where they could be killed for their faith. This is not a new idea, Christianity has always called for it's followers to live every second for G-d. The idea that the armor has taken a new form shows that the message of the Bible cannot be stopped.

     The world appears to have taken on the tactics of the roman legions in the sense that Christianity is being singled out and attacked from many sides. The world is locking the shields of it's control together in order to block our efforts to spread God's redemption. The only problem with their defense is they are too late, we are already inside. Christianity must exploit the weak points created and get more "assassins" into positions of influence and power because the Church was not called to simply live on this world. It was formed to reclaim a world stolen from it's creator.

    Also I would like to just add that my short video series the war will be starting up this month. The videos follow the same theme as the book I wrote for NANO this summer.

Intro: The Bible is a story about G-d and his redemption plan for his people. This plan we see in the Bible through the eyes of humans like ourselves, but what did the plan look like to the angels and demons? What caused "The War" and how does mankind get involved? How are we fighting it and most importantly what is the outcome? The idea of these videos is to pull back and look at the story of the Bible in the context of G-d's infinite time and space. To see the events of the Bible and maybe, time permitting, years after. I have yet to cap the series so we shall see just how far and long it will go.