PAST COLUMN #6

From the West Meadow
By Pastor Wesley Higgins

As I see the so-called “peace” marches (most of the participants seem anything but peaceful) and as I hear people struggling with the thought of going to war, I wonder if we really understand what’s happening. This war against terror is not a struggle for power, or land, or oil–it’s the ongoing struggle against evil.
Please understand: evil cannot be pacified. It can not be appeased, it can not be bribed away, it must not be ignored. There is only one solution to evil, and that is to destroy it!

Every Christian should understand what God does when confronted with evil. “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great...and that every intent of...his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord...was grieved...So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created...for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:5-7) Read your Bible! Where evil is found, God commands its destruction, whether it’s a wayward child who refuses to obey his parents, or a city or nation full of immorality and corruption. Even Jesus Christ, who came to earth the first time not to condemn but to “save the world” (John 12:47), had no tolerance for evil. Whenever He found it, He rebuked it (see Matthew 17:18), and He condemned it for what it was (see Mark 7:20-23).

We are promised in the Book of Revelation that when Christ returns to earth, He will make war against all who are evil. He will utterly destroy every last vestige of evil from the face of the earth (read Revelation 19 through 22). And in the book of the prophet Malachi, evil people are described as “ashes under the soles of (the righteous’) feet”. (Malachi 4:3)

As President Bush has said, our nation has been attacked by evil people. Remember the thousands who were murdered in evil’s vicious attack on September 11, 2001. It was only by the grace of God and the heroic acts of many brave people–like the heroes of Flight 93–that the attackers failed to meet their goal of slaughtering tens of thousands of victims!

Evil, by its very nature, spreads. It can not be contained, it can not be placated, it can not be lived with. No matter where evil is found, whether in a family, in a community, or in a nation, it must be destroyed.

Peace is not the absence of war...true peace is the absence of evil.

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