All God Is

"When the world wanted a war, He hung on a cross."

GOD IS NOT violent. We want a war, a smackdown, a victorious clash of swords. There’s a version of Ephesians 6:13 I’ve particularly liked which pictures us triumphant on the battlefield. But God has shown me who He is. He is peace. And now, that translation is incredibly wrong.

Israel in the day of the Gospels looked for the Messiah on a horse to conquer Rome. He came as the Lamb and died as sacrifice. They didn’t know Him.

We, today, in this modern age, are looking for the Messiah, riding a white horse in triumphant victory over Satan, who we’ve allowed freedom to kill, steal, and destroy in our incorrect theology. But Jesus died as the Father and rose in Resurrection having destroyed, rendered useless, the devil. Hebrews 2:14.

We’ve erected the demonic on worldwide stages, as powers in the heavens, as speaking in our ears, not realizing they are the works of the devil destroyed in 1 John 3:8. That word “destroyed” means “dissolved.” Though they do exist, nothing is the same about them since Jesus rose from death. Nothing.

The possession in the Gospels, pictured on every other page, is meant to draw a comparison with the freedom we are now living in. God will not allow the works of Satan to be who they’d become. We picture them as fearful images with special abilities, and all of that is false. We picture ourselves armed in battle armor, head to toe, the tip of our sword coated in devil blood, when all of our words, shouted at beings, at people, make us more like them and less like God.

He is peace. He is not violent. I will repeat this so that it sinks in. He doesn’t want us to fight anymore. The battle sword, the armor, are of the Spirit, and though, yes, it is drawn from the armor of a Roman soldier, it isn’t necessary to make a big deal of that. The point is, all we are now, in Jesus (the meaning of the phrase “in Christ”), is peace.

The work of righteousness is peace. The effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever (Isaiah 32:17). There are no ifs, ands, or buts to this. The devil is condemned, judged, NOT ACTIVE. What we see against us is false. God’s judgment of anyone, as we’ve pictured it, is false. When the world wanted a war, He hung on a cross. And they mocked Him and rejoiced in it.

They were wrong.

We are wrong. Jesus asks us to take His hand. He is the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6. He asks us to be peacemakers. Matthew 5:9. Who speak the Gospel of Peace, given to the earth as good will toward men, when Jesus was born. Luke 2:14.

The ending of all that God does is peace. He is not fear. 2 Timothy 1:7. He is not evil. James 1:13. He is good and doeth good. Psalm 119:68. And because He forever is, was, and is to come, one day there will be ultimate peace, no more sorrow, no more death. Revelation 21:4. This is the end He has decreed. All violence pictured of John’s Revelation and misunderstood of Matthew 24, is the work of sin. All who are His children are surrounded by Him, and He is NOT violent.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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