Hello Everyone
My name is Rasine Ugbaka
Today is the 1st day of May, 2021
Below are lessons from today's study tittled: What does the Bible say about serving in the military.
What's the military?🤷🤷
Its a sum of armed forces of any nation (either democratic or monarchic) aimed at protecting lives and properties of its citizens, as well as its borders.
Some people hold wrong perceptions of the military like:
- It being an organization of killers and murders so, Christians shouldn't serve in the military because they can't avoid killing.
🤣🤣🤣This is rather foolish and a sign of short-sightedness.
2 Peter 1:9 says this about such people But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
From the foregoing, he that lacketh wisdom is blind and shortsighted (in bro Eli's voice).
2 Peter 1:8 admonishes us thus For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
people who see the military as made only to kill need to know that the opposite is the case as the military is to protect lives and property.
But, if a military personnel has to kill to protect lives, that shouldn't be a crime, a military is a caretaker.
Remember our previous lesson on killing, only God really kills. Human hands cannot kill, but can only make and handle gadgets to protect lives.
Luke 3:14 is very educative the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. The verse instructs not to kill, or provoke violence but to protect lives, property and the society if there are harmful persons around.
NOTE:
The military are trained to sharp shoot instead of kill.
Every living creature has the right to defend it's as.Self defense is an inborn right of every living creature.
From the foregoing, it's clear that the Bible doesn't prohibit anybody from being a soldier
Watch my comments in the video below 👇
Thanks for reading.🙏🤝