There is no region in the world that has not been terrorized by internal uprisings or open wars with other nations, causing humanitarian crises that rip apart the world communities into pieces and wading through torrential tears and blood. The combination of cataclysmic upheavals and man-made terrorisms force “men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken”, Lk.21: 26. The world famous evangelist Billy Graham expressed his exasperation when the twin towers of New York crumbled down to the ground and lamented how the Creator of all things allowed killing of so many hundreds of virtually innocent people. The same is the scenario everywhere around the world of killing simple and humble people by terrorisms, wars, rebellions and sniper attacks, apart from the cataclysmic changes that caused by ecological and economic terrorisms, global warming and climate changes. Just as blaming parents for everything, we try to find fault with God, the alleged manipulator of our destiny. While man is struggling to achieve peace by war, is there any meaning or validity in accusing God for our mischief that is precipitated by our passions for money, sex and power, the catalytic agents for anything and everything? “Take heed, and beware of covetousness”… Lk.12: 15. “For the love of money is the root of all evil…have erred from the faith…. through with many sorrows.” 1. Tim.6: 10. The temperamental capriciousness of man make multitude of frivolous charges against God who created man for worshipping Him, not for making volleys of charges without analyzing our own sins of commissions and omissions.

A Merciless and Cruel God:
The Garden of Eden is the cradle of all our unfaithfulness that brought countless miseries, avarices and anguish for man who was moulded in the image and likeness of the Son Man. God didn’t make evil; the lust of pride that converted archangel Lucifer to be the ringleader of dark forces who are tethered in the nether world gloom, together with other most atrocious ones, are the ones who replaced light with infernal gloom. The absence of light is darkness. Despite God made only light, darkness is a byproduct of Lucifer’s disobedience, for which one cannot bring God to judgement. He can judge the world only because He is Just and Righteous. “Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face” –Ps.89: 14. As parents don’t like their children to suffer, God never likes His creations to be gulped by sufferings of any kind.” “ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of god: for god cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed” –James. 1: 13-14. As a father forgives any wrongdoing of his children and continues helping him, God also forgets our unfaithfulness and showers his mercies in an ongoing formula. “ God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above you are able; but will with temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” 1.Cor.10: 13. Realize the fact that “ all that will live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution. 2. Tim.3: 12. Beware that accusing God is a sin that can lead us to the temptations of multiple spiritual deficiencies.

Wars And Turbulence:
As Jesus is the Prince of peace, any killing is the violation of God’s sixth Commandment. Despite the era before Jesus that permitted the slaughter to sway upon mankind at certain levels due to the wrath of God against the first parents who effaced the commandment given by the Creator, a de-tour from such tendencies found expression by the Redeemer’s sacrifice. In spite of condoning our brutal butchery in war, we cannot be exonerated from our guilt on the moral code of ethics. If nation finds the option of fighting against another nation, it is bound to resolve problems in the light of Jesus’ statement to forgive 7 times 70. As everyone’s fate depends on God’s benevolence, man has no right to annihilate others either in wars or in personal disputes. We may find excuses by identifying God with driving away Lucifer and his accomplices to inferno, but God being the Creator of all angels can take the option of disowning the rebels, whereas we don’t have any right to kill anyone or ourselves because we don’t have the technology of creating anything. Synthesis is not creation. Instead of God killing them His mercy allowed them to be spared till the Last Judgement, whereas man has neither the right to take away his own life nor of his own brother because man has no know-how of creation. Man is designed to be the complementing protector of man, not annihilator.

Yet the history of man started with a war that was initiated by Lucifer who wanted to get dominion from God. Man, however, happened to be meat in between the sandwich of the later war between God and man. The substitute man for the fallen angels also became a victim of the fallen ones, identifying himself with the dark angels. The war between God and the evil one, unfortunately, turned out to be a war of the former against the latter created ones. ‘ An eye for an eye’ and ‘ a tooth for a tooth’ ethics that prevailed in the older system was substituted with ‘ love’ that saturates everything into beauty by the dawn of the New age. “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another. Love one another, as I have loved you; that you also love another”, Jn.13: 34. The infusion of this Heavenly love that kindles everything into celestial ecstasy is the language of the whole created universe. But His another statement makes controversy. “I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it already kindled?…You suppose that I am come to give peace on earth. I tell you, no, but rather division…..For from here on there shall be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three…the father against the son and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother….Lk.12: 49-53. The substitution of war with love is a later version of another fusion.

My goodness, this is a new warfare of the age of peace that dawned by the advent of Christ. The old wars were fought against one tribe against another and one caste against another and one nation against another. The wars that we used to fight against others have turned out against us later like a boomerang, uprooting the family either for replanting or for withering away. This family war that disintegrates the family into fragments gives rise to another war that does havoc within us. This is a war within oneself. Thus there are three types of wars, firstly against others, secondly, within the households and thirdly, against man against his own flesh and mind. The peace that we yearn personally and everywhere else, within and without, can be attained by the victory that we win from the declared war, which takes place in our own self. Apart from natural disharmonies, there is no other problem in the world other than man. Yes, he has been a problem ever since he fell by tasting the forbidden fruit. Even tasting, not even ate, the fruit opened up the whole abyss for the helpless victims of the dilemma of uncertainties.

Peace: Man-made or God-made:
Peace is a byproduct of the inner equilibrium that is harnessed by one’s association with the Infinite. Glory to God and good will towards mankind is the formula for reaching that height. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives…”, Jn.14: 27. Whenever a Divine visitation takes place, the salutation of peace preceded by ‘fear not’ is the usual occurrence. This is the advent message of the angel, “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be all people”, Lk.2: 10. This participation of Heavenly joy, despite it is a gift from above, calls for our sacrifice and sufferings. Both the magi and the shepherds really worked for their inner peace, one group crisscrossing the eastern mountain ranges and deep ravines and rivers, possibly for nearly two years, and the other ones undergoing the sufferings that caused by inclemency of weather and starvation and malnutrition in the open space of nocturnal vigilance and apprehension for the sheep they were tendering. While the whole populations of Jerusalem and the caravan groups from far off places were wasting their time in merriments and agonies of far off traveling, the aforesaid souls were striving for their inner happiness that derived from anxieties and divine dissatisfaction. Inner peace is a piece of threadworks that involves total dedication and sacrifice; it is a Godly gift that is bestowed from the celestial heights.

Continual Battle against the flesh:
The root cause of any war or social upheaval is the result of the unseen warfare between the angels of light and darkness. Our victory or peace of mind depends on the victory that we taste by our personal sufferings or control of our mind and body. This is the paradox that wriggles and stifles us because we try to find peace outside while its root is within us. It is the mind that propels our body and soul to a destination that we anchor for. O wake up the slumbering peace that waits for a trickle within us. The battle against the flesh, the most fatal and dangerous one, that requires a resolute decision, which comes from within to avail of from the weaponries of God. “In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world’, Jn.16: 33. The equanimity of cheerfulness that brings internal peace invites a life of sacrifice, for which Jesus is our role model. The passions of Christ that sublimate the passions of our flesh are the ultimate prescription for one’s peace that can revolutionize the whole world in its process of attaining that peace. Killing our body or the denouncing the earthly pleasure is the panacea for our personal peace that only can work as a catalytic agent for the synthesis of peace in a wider world. Heaven, the seat of peace, has no comfort of earthly flesh that becomes a playground for man who allows the dark forces to dwell within him.

St.Paul laments about the inevitability of the lust of the earthly passions in Romans chs. 7&8. “We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate…..For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is in my flesh…wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?…For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh….; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God, Rom.7: 14-25- 8: 8. “…flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable’, 1.Cor.15.50. Concocting such facts to their roots, he tried to conquer his flesh and blood, and he earned the crown of glory by the victory that he earned by battling against his own flesh. Killing his flesh and stagnating his body made his spirit richer that made him to be exported to Paradise, 2.Cor.12: 2-4. “I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others, I myself will be disqualified’, 1.Cor.9: 26-27. “ Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry”, Col.3: 5.

The Family:
The family that is the basic unit of the church, also for the society, should have the adjustment of deleting the clash of animal magnetism from individuals or spouses that have different genetic traits transmitted from separate family mould. Provided each family member hasn’t become an elect of the Spirit by continually evaporating the animal instincts that divorces us from the spirit of the other world, there will be strike of bestial magnetism that drags each individual away from the family magnetic field, making the family venue as a battle field of good and evil. Polluting the household sanctity, the cradle of our holiness, is the real victory for the devil to shatter the inner fabric of each individual who is supposed to have been the exponent of charity work within and without the family. Hence the destruction of the sanctimonious family is the main footwork that enthralls the evil one to his total victory, particularly the poisoning of the conjugal relationship between the married couples, the authors and builders of the coming generations. God, the carer of the wedlock partners that started in Eden, also looks forward the sanity and serenity that builds a loving relationship between each family members, denoting the base of His presence, so that the future holds viable for the work of His plan. The devil that wages a war in each individual carries forward his mission in the family that makes up a carnal society. Injecting the infernal profligacy of all types into the veins of each regional community, the global arena of the apocalyptic age has thus become a pandemonium for the prince of perdition who can authentically make a claim of this planet from the Author of its creation.

This is the alleged context where Jesus proclaims that He came into the world, not for making peace but war, Lk.12. The protagonists of both parties, God and the Devil, advocate for war that brings peace- so also the rulers of each country - while His enemy sleeplessly sows the seeds of acrimony in his cronies who cringe for individual wars that paves for a world war, which can annihilate the whole mankind that naturally belongs to God. The devil’s quest for instantaneous death, which doesn’t allow people to repentance that makes people to turns to God, is his real weapon. While God demands His creatures to declare war against the flesh, His enemy makes the flesh as a tool to fight against the Creator.

Today’s Dilemma:
Just as Cain and Abel, though of the same pedigree of the first human generation, were diametrically opposite in their approach and attitude, so also the older and the younger brothers of the parables, every family is a mix of individuals of multiple framework that doesn’t go in unison with one another in their social, domestic and spiritual outlook. To live and die for Jesus is a gift that rarely framed by the Spirit of God who works in dedicated individuals only once in a blue moon. It means that the dedication to the ministry of God is only an occasional blessing that is given to certain individuals at certain point of time. Hence the family members of every family differ in the magnitude and frequency of their mental and physical vibrations. The sub-cultural life of the modern era that run by technology and superhuman wealth has shattered the family into fragments of club life, dividing and scattering the life style that goes in tune with the anarchy of the society. The light of modern new life has created multiple irreversible versions of individualism, in accordance with the secular laws of the land that permits each individual to take a life of his own choice.

When Jesus was mentioning about the casting of fire during His second coming warnings, He wished that it be kindled from then onwards. Actually it started to flare up from the agony of His death. The new fire of life that circumvent the worship of the H.Trinity in Truth and Spirit, Jn.4, is Jesus the Truth and the Comforter sent by the Father, can definitely betray each individual of the household because everyone travels in the frequency of his own mental plane. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword….to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother…and a man’s foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me…, and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me”, Mt.10: 34-39: Jn.16: 2. The family that runs by 2 or more governments fuels its own breakdown by internal rebellion and feuding. Such household flames that doesn’t acknowledge and zealously work for the redeeming mission of Jesus certainly make a global conflagration (Pet.2: 3: 7-11) due to the betrayal of the Saviour in His 2nd coming that is when the time is at its wrong side. The church hierarchies themselves have betrayed the Son of Man as in His first coming, and everyone is smart now also in looking after himself at the expense of the church and its institutions. Thus a family fire that flares up a global fire is imminent, believers. The love of Jesus can separate the grain from the chaff, grains from each household.

In social and spiritual levels, the perpetuation of an unending war is a must, either for eternal salvation or for perennial doom. God and His apostles ask the people to declare a war against the lust of the flesh, while the enemy propels his followers to convert the body as a carcass for the demon to prod over. Life is a breathing reality of a spiritual warfare, the battle between good and bad that the body is subjected at every moment of life. Inner war and its victory only can bring the alleged peace both in international and spiritual level. As long as the earth remains as a domain for God and dark angels, a tacit declared war from the garden of Eden has been in the offing; it finds its culmination only when the infernal powers are thrown into the lake of the sulpherous fire, Rev. 19: 20, that lasts for ever in the bottomless pit, Rev.20: 1. Only war can bring peace. Peace is the outcome of a pernicious war, the war that staged in our own conscience that brings the everlasting peace from God. “You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body”, 1.Cor.6: 19-20. “I appeal to you brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect”, Rom.12: 1-2.