The word the Lord has been most impressing on me these 10 days since the Las Vegas shooting (Oct. 1, 2017) is the "military love of God." There has been and forever seems to remain a disjoinder in the human heart and mind between the love of God and the military character of God. Such disjoinder blinds the church as well.


It is the idea that if it is military, it can't be of love. If it is violent, it can't be of love. If it involves fighting and contention, it can't be of love. The Lord is opening to me however the reality of the fundamentally military nature of his love as "Lord of Hosts," which maintains an objective dispassionate character, and how that a concept of love based only in a sense of compassion is unable to cope with this reality. 

The Lord is saying that if we don't grow to get this, we are not going to make it through the martial conditions coming, with blood running and body parts everywhere in the streets. For in time of civil war and international chaos such as is now knocking on the door, acts of love are not primarily demonstrated through compassion. (Heresy, yes, I know.) They are demonstrated through acts of selfless sacrifice on the behalf of others under contorted pressure that doesn't leave one time to think, much less feel anything.

Divine military love saturates scripture, but we are blind to it. Yet the definition of love given by Jesus in John 15 is a military one. And the very cross executed at the heart of our faith was the expression of military love. It wasn't a "valentine's affair." It simply had to be done. And so it was. And there in the military execution of Christ, was the love of God expressed for us.

Acts of judgment upon some in order to save others are military acts of love. Mercy through judgment is a demonstration of the military love of God. Military love is the love that creates offense and braves rejection for doing so in order to save others. This character of love is what drives the restorative Spirit of Elijah and of all true prophets. It is the love that moves Phinehas to throw a javelin through some to stop a plague on many. "I will give people for your life," says the Lord. That's sovereign military love.

This love saturates the vision of Revelation. That entire book until the last bridal chapters is a book of military love, executing rebuke on churches and impartial dispassionate judgment upon the world so as to rescue the few, all under unspeakable emergency conditions. It is what the Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah display. The focus is not on those who are destroyed. The focus of this love is on those who are saved in mercy as a result of the destruction of others. As Peter said, Noah was saved through the Flood. That was the love of God. The righteous are scarcely saved.

Military love acts in judgment on some to save somebody, anybody somewhere from the final stop of hell and the lake of fire, from which there is no further redemption. "Unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish." 

Expect to hear more on this as the Lord enables and releases. It will be offensive. And you will have to determine whether "ye also will go away." But I'm telling you, heavenly trumpets are now blowing, releases on angelic hold orders are being given, and you just have absolutely no idea what's coming. And in the end, this is the only kind of word that is going to save..."Fear God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has come."

Can you see the true love yet.....?


Chris Anderson

New Meadow Neck, Rhode Island

First Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship

http://www.firstloveministry.org