Cause for God's launch button on war

For a government looking at waging war against a threatening evil, it need not wait until it’s been attacked—a pre-emptive strike is wholly acceptable by biblical standards.

“The debate is simply, ‘Are we, as a nation, going to war against a real evil?’ ” explains Jordan. “To secure justice and protect the freedom of a nation; that’s the only legitimate reason for a war. Personal and political aggrandizement is not a motive for war.

“When Solomon talks about ‘a time for peace and a time for war,’ it isn’t that a leader wakes up one morning and decides, ‘Well, it’s time to go over there and knock them dudes out!’

“It’s not the selfish exercise of power for political or personal gain. It’s to oppose evil, and when the enforcement of justice against evil—that has priority over non-violence.

“The only just way to gain real peace is by the defeat of the enemy of justice. The objective of war is the decisive defeat of the enemy, knowing that’s the only way to assure peace. When war’s the only path to gaining true justice, then it has precedence over non-violence.”

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Going back to early Genesis, war first came on the scene shortly after the Flood and God’s establishment of the institution of nationalism into the human race.

As Jordan explains, “Nations didn’t exist in the earth prior to the Flood and that was one of the basic elements, socially and structurally, that allowed the corruption of man to permeate the earth—there were no boundaries to hold in corruption and protect freedom from the corrupting influence of sin.

“Nations first appear in Genesis 9 and 10 and then, in chapter 11, the satanic counterplot of ‘internationalism,’ or ‘globalism,’ first comes into play.

“In chapter 12, God gives up the nations of the earth and calls out Abraham and establishes His own nation in the earth, and in chapter 14, you see the first war break out.

“I mean, He just established the nations in 9 and 10 and by the time you get to 14—only three chapters later—what’s happening?!

“Those nations are at war against each other. They’re not just nations either; they’ve got a league of nations, taking these other nations and making them subject to them. Genesis 14:3 talks about how they were amalgamated together as a kingdom by military force: ‘All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.’

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“Psalm 55, a psalm talking about the Antichrist and representing one of the great examples of peace propaganda in the Bible, says, ‘He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.’

“He had all the propaganda of ‘peace, peace, peace’ until he got the people doing what he wanted and then the enemy came in like a flood. Peace can never be achieved by co-existence; by appeasement.

“Peace propaganda is actually a weapon of warfare designed to defeat and demoralize people so they won’t go to war. It’s trying to take away from individuals the courage of the battle and is designed to put a psychology in the populace’s thinking of, ‘Wouldn’t we all rather have peace than war?’ ”