"Those That Live By The Sword..."

There is a spiritual principle that unfortunately cuts both ways, in the temperate world. Jesus pronounced it, and Peter nearly practiced it, when he cut off the ear of the High Priest's servant, in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus was arrested. I quoted the first half of it above, "Those that live by the sword shall die by the sword." The Lord was quick to tell Peter to put away his sword for this very reason. He new that he couldn't defeat all of the soldiers by himself, and he would surely be arrested and executed if he were to murder one of the servants. Plus, Jesus knew that He had to allow the arrest to be carried out, in order to fulfill the prophecies about His execution for all of our sins, that we might be forgiven.

Today, we are joyfully told that American Special Forces teams of the Army's Delta Force have moved into Syria, and after a brief firefight have succeeded in killing one of I.S.I.S.'s top commanders. That would normally be cause for celebration, except for the fact that I.S.I.S. is a lawless group of terrorists, and that principle was obviously spoken with reference to those who operate in the realm of lawlessness. Jesus new that Peter had no legal authority to execute anyone, therefore, if he killed anyone he would be either killed on the spot, or convicted of murder, and executed for his "crime", no matter how righteous his intentions. I am reminded of the Mafia tradition of murder-for-murder, as in "an eye for an eye". This is the way lawless people think; they don't "get mad, they just get even". And with the White House Secret Service security recently proven to be run by the descendants of the "Keystone Cops", I have to say that I have grave concerns for the safety of President Obama! Obviously, anyone who has been reading my blog for very long knows that I do not say this out of any great love for our President, my greatest hope for him is that he finishes his term quietly, without doing too much damage to our Constitutional form of government, and melts away into political oblivion, never to be taken seriously about anything, again. The worst thing that could happen would be for him to be assassinated, while in office, and someone like-minded, like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Elizabeth Warren, should receive a "martyr's" sympathy vote from a swooning Democratic party, and we would have to suffer through another four, or even eight years of Obama-like Presidential lunacy! May God save us from that tragedy!