Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

In 1968 after I returned from Vietnam, I was stationed at Fort Hood. There was an anti-war protest at the University of Texas that summer and I marched in that protest. When I returned back to base I was visited by two officers from the Criminal Investigation Division. They had photos of me marching on the drag.

“Did you stay to listen to the speaker at the Capitol?” No.

“Did you know the organizer is a communist?” No

“Why were you protesting?” Because unlike so many of these college students I was there and I saw firsthand the horrors of war and I have the right to voice my objections just like any citizen.

There is much evil in the world. Not all evil is foreign in origin. Some destroy with bombs. Some destroy in much more clandestine ways. You can see wrongs everywhere, because man is everywhere. Are all evil? No. Some are just caught up in frustration, not knowing the truth, and lashing out at unseen enemies.

1 Corinthians 9:25-27 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

As a soldier of the Cross I owe this to the One who died for me.

Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Malachi 2:6a For I am the LORD, I change not;
While God’s nature and motives do not change, His methods do. We were not part of the old ways, but a record of God’s methods of dealing with His creation are well documented. Perhaps because we are so far removed from those methods we do not have a firm grip on the importance, the necessity.
The power prophets wielded enormous power. Look to the scriptures about Elijah and Elisha to see the power of God put in the hands of those men. Who today could be trusted to wield such power?
The leader prophets inspired men into action to serve the will of God. Look to the scripture about Nehemiah and Gideon to see how God used them to shape a nation.
The seeing prophets foretold of thing that have come to past and things that will be done. Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel have words that are rich with hope and meaning. Mysteries abound and we have been given the keys to unlocking them.
Yet the greatest change came at the Cross. The Cross is the great turning point from the old way to the new way. The new thing God does now is in us. We look to the hope of God’s promises that are fulfilled in us. At the same time God’s placed His hope in us that we will be that new thing He does according to Isaiah 43:19.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Let it flow.