That's a good scripture. I see that "sell your cloak and buy a sword" quote a lot - and I have used it as justification to the gun grabbers who misquote the Bible all the time. But looking at the context of that actual scripture - when did the folks He said that to ever use their swords - or even end up having them? I'm not saying they didn't have them - there's just no follow up to it later on in Acts or anywhere else. So what was the point of Christ telling them that? Was He referencing the future chaos of 70 A.D. sacking of Jerusalem? I don't know, but there never was any God/Scripturally sanctioned "Christian Soldiers" or army. I get the feeling that having a weapon would be only for the use of defending our families - never for an offensive "take down the bad guys". As I read it: we're just going to walk away from it all (or "run": for the ones sleeping in the back of the class).Jamescm wrote: ↑November 4th, 2022, 8:05 am No matter how hopeless, even a rat will lash out when cornered. Even if voting is rigged so hopelessly that my vote truly doesn't make a difference, I'll still consecrate the time and effort to go do so.
Remember Man of Steel? When Colonel Hardy crashed and that woman from Krypton approached him, he unloaded every shot he had-on what was almost evil superwoman. When he ran out of ammunition, he pulled a knife. He's one of my favorite characters in cinema for that one, single scene. It doesn't matter that it's hopeless, it matters that you do what you can. We're all Col. Hardy right now, staring the hardly-secret-anymore combinations of the modern Gadiantons in the face as they approach us.
As for physically fighting? Jesus said to have a sword, and to sell my coat to afford one if necessary. He didn't say go swing it without direction, but I'll sure have it. And fleeing Babylon? When the Lord says to flee today and gives us a place to actually flee to, I'll flee.
If you know of some prophecy or scripture that shows when and how we're going to be called up into some kind of God's Army in the Last Days, please do share. I think Brigham Young is spot on: eventually, we'll cease trading with them, cease taking part in their cesspool / swamp elections, cease fighting for their war machine - we'll leave their wicked society and build our own. We have to, or we won't survive the coming cleansing. some of us are just being told to quit playing the stupid game a little earlier than others. You do you, though.
And I don't think the Lord is going to "give us a place to actually flee to" - I think we are going to have to make it ourselves. He's already designated the location (or locations, if you buy the modern twist on it), just not the timing.