Imagine today you are a special forces soldier invited to your final briefing before active duty. Today, you are being sent on patrol through Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled territory. You know there are snipers, landmines, remote-controlled IEDs, as well as RPGs, 50 caliber machine gun nests, and thousands of terrorists, and all in the scorching desert heat.
The CO has already made this patrol hundreds of times, and HE is the only one who has ever made it back unscathed by the enemy. At the briefing, HIS personally written field manual for battlefield survival will be explained, plus the key elements of the body armor will be shown, explained, and fitted. Also, the ONLY weapon for the offense will be demonstrated, and ammunition will be issued.
Wow, wouldn’t every one of us being deployed be in the front row? We’d all be taking notes, staying after asking questions, helping each other as fellow soldiers getting geared up, and working together for our mutual survival. Yet today, most of the Special Forces (that’s us as believers), deployed by the Lord (that’s the Great Commission),
into the harsh and deadly territory of Satan, the master terrorist (the god of this world): are riding around like they are on vacation,
like sitting ducks, riding in the open seats atop a double-decker tour bus, driving through enemy territory.
No daily preparation (pray without ceasing),
No body armor (take up the full armor of God),
No attendance at the briefings (assembling of yourselves together),
No ammunition (but by every Word of God), and
No weapons (the sword of the Spirit) in sight.
The daily casualties are horrific as you can imagine,
Many wounded soldiers are strewn along the road,
Most have flaming darts smoldering in their unprotected lives,
Most are incapacitated and no longer on their mission.
Only a few seem to be at the briefings, reading and following the manual and following the Commanding Officer each day.
That is what Jesus found on His visit to His Special Forces bases (the 7 churches in Rev. 1-3).
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