Lesson 18: Bloody Sacrifice in Victory

Christmas time is here, and now is the time of victory. God’s anointed, The Messiah, the one who will crush the serpent’s head and punish the rebellious watchers and their abominations has come. Christmas is a holiday that transcends the ages, and as we have already explored has the power to halt the Devil’s schemes in their tracks. It wasn’t always the beautiful affair we know today. In fact Christmas was an amalgamation of the Christ Mass and also a holiday that looked much more like Halloween with drunken parties and a form of trick or treating until the 1900s.

Until then, Christmas was a mockery of our savior's name, but when God worked his will the holiday was subverted into a beautiful celebration of the birth of our savior, and thus the crushing of our spiritual enemies. The concentration on family lie in firmly with the original commandement, “Be fruitful and multiply,” (Genesis 1:28) so I want to be clear this should be a joyful time that you enjoy to the fullest thumbing your nose at the Devil and all the Principalities of Darkness the whole time. There is a reason why they hate Christmas so much, and have been attempting to destroy its modern implementation since its conception.

You may wonder about the title of our lesson on Christmass. Bloody Sacrifice in Victory. I promise in future lesson plans to concentrate on less morbid sides of this holiday, but our theme this curriculum demands a closer look at the part of the Christmass story often glossed over. The title of which in most Bibles is direct and without flourish. Herod kills the children.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt

and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Herod Kills the Children

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

“A voice was heard in Ramah,

weeping and loud lamentation,

Rachel weeping for her children;

she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Mathew 2:13-18

This verse haunted me as a child, and I suspect most readers are too caught up with figuring out where the wise men came from or the various prophecies and singing angels to take the time to soak in the revelations from this verse. An entire village and region’s toddler boys slaughtered just like that. A whole generation dead in an attempt to kill Jesus before he was old enough to begin his ministry. A tactic we can see mirrors Pharaoh, and thus the principalities of darkness’, tactics to destroy and suppress the Isrealites in Egypt. We see it in the modern day with the mass destruction of children with abortion in modern day, and if you read less accepted works of origins and validity I don’t have the time, or the patience for the confusion it would cause, a tactic used in mass on humanity before the flood. Whether or not those last apocryphal works can be trusted, we can see the cultic satanic worshipers and such that run much of the world still use the same tactic to deprive God of his warriors and workers before they can grow to maturity, and in some cases even see the light of day.

Can you imagine dear reader? You’ve done nothing, but farm or fish being stalwart in your community. You hear of some strange sages coming to town, and then a few months to a year later soldiers come to your door, drag out your son, and hack him to pieces in front of you. Perhaps this is one of those verses you can only appreciate properly when you’re a father of young children, but the implications freeze my soul.

And here we come to a central theme I hope these lessons are highlighting. Life is not a test. God didn’t design this nightmare to test you. He had a specific plan in mind, a use for you, and his enemies have sabotaged his attempts at every turn even as he slowly pushed events to their utter destruction. I know some of you will find this as an anathema, and are already growling at what you're reading. Still, let’s look at the work.

What test were these little ones supposed to pass? How to die screaming with no knowledge or understanding of what was happening? What test were the parents supposed to pass? How to watch your children die to evil while you sit by powerless because acting would mean the death of your entire family as well as the babe being slaughtered in front of you? If God planned that as a test then he is a psychopath.

God is not a psychopath I hear you say dear reader, and I agree. Thus life is not a test. Life is a messy war where there are unavoidable casualties. God saved Jesus before this massacre, but he didn’t prevent the massacre. The Calvinist would say God planned for the death of these children and they literally existed to be murdered. And the Calvinist is an imbecile. Yes, an imbecile. Like the Churchians he is undeveloped and childlike both in his faith and understanding of the world.

You are here for the actual meat of the word not the milk as I pointed out in the intro to these lessons. (verse) So we will look this reality in the face. We are not toddlers singing “He (God) has the whole world in his hands,” just before we are slaughtered by the designs of the enemy as the little ones of Bethlehem were.

Let’s say I make a written exam for teens who have been given no study material or even false study material on a test about basic physics they could’ve known if they were paying attention to the world around them. Then when inevitably the vast majority of them fail I then kill all of the failures for not passing the test or even not save them from a tiger in the next room because they didn’t pass the test I would be psychopath. A monster in a horror movie coming up with a twisted morality to justify my disgusting behavior that we would be pining to see destroyed in a horrid manner on screen.

So, if God creates a test in the form of life that puts those being tested in such a place that they are almost set up to fail or literally have no chance in passing as they die before they’re old enough to even be tested then he is a psychopath. This is not hard logic, and in fact it is the logic that has been used against the church by the midwits and straight up morons of the atheist world for the last fifty years. If we see the world as a controlled test then every evil that is perpetrated is squarely on God’s head as the one presiding over the test. If a teacher giving finals doesn’t do anything as an active shooter blows away his students, and he had the ability to stop him, we would blame him even more than the shooter.

Evil is expected to be evil so it’s not a surprise when they act thusly, but how can we justify the inaction of God in this instance who punishes so thoroughly when we fail to keep justice in our own nations?

He has told you, O man, what is good;

and what does the LORD require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,[fn]

and to walk humbly with your God?

Destruction of the Wicked

The voice of the LORD cries to the city—

and it is sound wisdom to fear your name:

“Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it![fn]

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,

and the scant measure that is accursed?

Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales

and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Your[fn] rich men are full of violence;

your inhabitants speak lies,

and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,

making you desolate because of your sins.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied,

and there shall be hunger within you;

you shall put away, but not preserve,

and what you preserve I will give to the sword.

You shall sow, but not reap;

you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;

you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.

Micah 6:8-15

The answer is to see life not as a test, but as a war. A war with unavoidable casualties. The fact of war is that no matter how good your commander, or perfect your logistics, men are going to die. In war it is always how many die not if people die, and spiritual warfare is no different. Remember what we read in the Bible. The enemy always has a say in war. God made plans, and the Devil sabotaged them. God counter attacked, and declared the eventual destruction of his enemies through his wayward servants who had been deceived into rebelling.

But I can already hear those crying about the verses calling life a test. Let’s examine the most obvious case with Paul again.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

2 Timothy 4:6-8

I have passed the test Paul says in reference to him performing service to the father, and dying well knowing he was a faithful servant in life. Funny how everyone glosses over the first part of the verse, “I have ran the race,” is life a Race? Am I supposed to compete with others on how fast I get to Heaven? No? Then this verse is a metaphor not literal. He is referring to a part of Life not Life itself. Let alone how they ignore the first sentence, “I have fought the good fight.”

Of course there are tests in life just like a soldier will be tested in war, but the point of the war is to win the war not test the soldier. You might be tested by God to see if you are ready for more responsibility like a soldier taking a driver’s test for a tank. Was the war there to see if the individual soldier had learned enough to drive the tank? Or is the test there to prepare the soldier to go to war with the tank? Tests aren't made for testing sake, unless of course you’re the modern education system, and thus in our testing we should ask what we are being tested for. God’s war with his rebellious watcher sons and their Devil god.

Most of the Bible points to an epic, generational, showdown with evil with casualties on both sides. I don’t say this to terrify you as Paul said (verse) no spirit of fear so do not fear the enemy, but understand his hatred of you and your children. This war as we’ve explored is both one of physical territory and spiritual territory. A war between God and the Devil and all their children. If our God is at war how can we say we serve him, and not be at war by his side? What kind faithless servants would we be to not join the struggle even if we lack strength for the task? When a king goes to war so does his kingdom so start acting like you are in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I have a last argument for this view. It’s not about you, as Vox Day so aptly termed. If life is a test in your mind then you have made life about you. Dear reader, you may be tempted to say it’s your life and thus it should be about you, but that is the trap of the Devil. The temptation to declare yourself god over your own life rather than giving over yourself to the King of Kings and God of gods. Life was given to you, and is not about you. So a test, though president in your own life, is about more than just you.

Why does a military test a soldier on equipment or give extensive training? Is it just for the personal benefit of that soldier? So they have skills to use in their life, better job opportunities perhaps, and more confidence? No, these things are welcomed side effects of the true purpose of training. To make the soldier more useful for the army and the nation that employs that force. The personal benefit of the individual soldier is welcomed, but not the central point. Winning the war is the point. That is why you are tested to see if you are ready to take part in the fight. To see how faithful of a servant you will be, and useful you will be for the Father.

This test can come at any point in your life, and in a way the tests never stop. You could be as young as David at twelve killing lions and bears, or as old as Moses being 80 years old when he was called to confront Pharaoh. You can fail the test, but if you pursue God he will test again. 

I know others reading this will take issue with the concept that we are needed in spiritual warfare at all. I would argue that you only make a tool you intend to use, and God made us with a purpose in mind as tools to be used. Whether or not he “needed” us for that task or chose to use us for it, or we simply made the task easier in some way like a man building a lawnmower instead of ripping up grass by hand is beside the point. The Bible, as seen in our lesson, shows that God uses vessels in his war, and when they fail him and lack faith or even worse choose to follow his enemies his plans are delayed. Not thwarted. Delayed. Just how God would have remade Israel from Moses descendants if the Almighty had chosen to destroy Israel for their worship of the golden calf.

So be ready when your savior calls you to war. Because we all are called to arms, whether pure spiritual war or physical war, eventually.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”

So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Numbers 31:1-5

Question 1: How do you view life? A Test? A War? Or something different on the cosmic scale? Why?

Question 2: How might your prayer life change if you viewed it as a powerful weapon against evil? A pivotal tool that if used properly can thwart the Devil’s actions in your life.

Question 3: Have you ever joined a prayer group that made all their prayers about themselves, and not the Lord’s will and war with his enemies? 

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