(Editor's note: This is not to be confused with Islamic Jihad!)
MOUNTAIN STREAMS
The Holy War was first published May, 1975.
1992, Mountain Streams, Postfach 241, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland. Vol.1, No. 8, Nov. 1992
--An open letter to all those who truly wish to change the World!
By Father David
We are all in a holy war together! We are fighting together for our faith, truth and freedom! We are determined that the poor of the World shall be fed, clothed, housed and enabled to labour in freedom, peace, health and happiness together to obtain their needs. We have pledged ourselves to lay down our lives in love for our brothers and sisters around the World. We have dedicated our all that all may be free to live lives of happiness together in cooperation and Godly socialism, from each according to his ability and unto each according to his need. (See 2Corinthians 8:14; Acts 4:35; 11:29.)
Freedom from want, freedom from bondage, freedom from pain, freedom from evil and freedom from fear--these are amongst our united goals! Mankind cannot be happy when hungry much of the time, enslaved by oppression, tyranny and exploitation, robbed by the rich, suffering the pains and pangs of hunger, malnutrition, disease, ill health, overwork, evil abuse, the tortures of war and constant conflict, and nightmares of perpetual fearful insecurity.
We believe that all of these evils are caused by men's lack of love for God and each other, and their defiance of His laws of Love and faith and peace and harmony with Him, each other and His whole creation. These laws are the basic beliefs of every true faith and true believer in God and His Love.
Apart from knowing what we are fighting for and against, we must also know how we must fight! Ours is not a mere war of weapons and armies and bodies of men. This is not a mere fleshly war pitting man against man, nation against nation, race against race, rich against poor, socialism against capitalism. This is not a war between political and economic systems, societies and cultures, religions and faiths. This is not a war of mere hate and bitterness, killing and slaughter, revenge and vindictiveness, torture, dying and death! This is not a war for the mere bodies and possessions and lands and pride of Man!
Such carnal wars of Man have seldom ever settled anything or solved the basic problems of Mankind. They have usually only resulted in more suffering, more agony, more pain, more hunger, more slavery, more bitterness, more vengeance, more fighting, more torture, more privation, more destruction, more waste, more misery, more poverty and more death! Most of Man's selfish evil wars end in a mere change of masters and an exchange of slaves, a vicious never-ending cycle of evils, ending with fewer and fewer richer and richer rich and more and more poor, and all of them miserably unhappy with their life of death and fear together!
Ours is a war of the spirit, in faith and love, to win the minds and hearts and spirits and to save the souls as well as the bodies of men! Ours is a war to free men from the evils of the spirit and mind and heart which cause them to be selfish and unloving and vicious and cruel and unkind to each other. Man's inhumanity to Man is caused by his lack of understanding of how to be happy, because of his lack of the knowledge of the Love and faith and power of God and loving laws of God designed for our eternal happiness.
Ours is a war to free men's minds and hearts and spirits from the bondage of evil and the soul-slavery of the Devil which bring all these miseries upon us! We are in a war of the worlds!--A war between good and evil, God and the Devil, goodness and wickedness, flesh and spirit, angels and devils, love and hate, life and death, joy and misery! Ours is a war of the universe between the good spirits of Heaven and the evil spirits of Hell, which are contending for our souls as well as our bodies, not only on this Earth but also in the World of the Spirit.
Therefore we must not only defend our human rights, but we must fight the much greater warfare of the spirit with the far more powerful weapons of faith, love and compassion, as well as words and deeds of kindness! We must free men from fear with faith; we must free them from hatred with love; we must free them from sorrow with joy; we must free them from war with peace; we must free them from poverty with plenty; and we must free them from death with eternal Heavenly happiness!
The pen is mightier than the sword! Ours is a war of words and ideas to thrill men's minds with faith and hope! We wish to fill their hearts with love and peace and joy to set their spirits free, as well as perform deeds of love and kindness to free their bodies from pain! We must therefore wage a war of words against the ideas of evil, a war of faith against fear, a war of hope against doubt. We must inspire men to believe in God and His Love and His plan for the glorious future of Man in the Kingdom of God on Earth, run by the righteous, in which there shall soon be no more sorrow nor crying nor pain nor death, but all shall be light and health and happiness and peace and plenty for everyone!
We must teach them the loving, life-giving Words of God Himself through His holy prophets in His holy Book, the Bible, that they might have His life and Love and happiness forever! Mighty empires of the sword have come and gone, but His Words of love and life go on forever and continue to give joy and peace and love and life and hope to billions for generations! The Alexanders and Caesars and Genghis Khans and Napoleons and Hitlers have come and gone, but the words and ideas and religion of the prophets of God live on forever!
They know no boundaries, no nation, no race nor empire and are not bound by time nor space, nor limited by Man nor war nor force of arms! They embrace all Mankind and unite their minds and hearts and spirits in faith and love of God and each other for the good of all!
The philosophers, teachers, prophets and men of God seldom ruled empires, but they won worlds of men with their words, faith and ideas which captured hearts, minds and spirits and set them forever free! The followers of God are numbered in the billions for millenniums, and God's eternal Kingdom of His Words of life and love has conquered the realms of men's eternal spirits, far greater and longer lasting than Man's mere worldly empires of the sword!
We cannot force men to be good. We cannot legislate righteousness! We must persuade their minds, win their hearts, inspire their spirits and save their souls so that they will willingly want to do good and not evil! To truly win the love of a woman, she must be wooed, not forced. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." You cannot change the world of Man without changing his mind, and you cannot change his mind unless you change his heart, and you cannot change his heart without the inspiration of God's Spirit to save his soul and not only his body.
We must work to save all of Man, not merely his body and his environment! He will never be happy with a heavy heart, a troubled mind, a discouraged spirit and an unsaved soul! We must work to save the whole man, not just part of him. We must work to save the whole World, not just part of it. We must work to save them for eternity, not just for this present time!
Only the power and life and light and Love and Words of God can do this! We must get His Words to all men by every means available throughout the Earth. We must convey His ideas, hopes, faith, Love and plans for His creations to the eyes and minds and thoughts of all men everywhere, that all hearts may be changed and all spirits inspired and all souls saved, as well as bodies, to live and love together forever!
We must have a World vision of universal Salvation of all Mankind, not just our own nation! We must not confine ourselves solely to the mere petty matters of the moment and cares of this life and environment only, or of only one people or one nation or one race or one culture or one religion or one ideology or one political view or one economic system of East or West or North or South.
The Salvation of Man must be for all if it is for any, and must include everyone if all are to be happy. Though the ninety-and-nine sheep were in the fold, the Shepherd was not content until the last lost one was found and rescued. Their number was not complete and they could not have been completely happy as long as there was still one unhappy, one still astray!
We must search for and find all of His lost sheep, and give them His loving Words of life, faith and duty to both God and Man. We must bring them all into His fold that they may be of one fold with one Shepherd forever! Hallelujah! (See Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7; John 10:1-16.)
We must tell all, even though all will not listen nor respond nor be saved. We owe the Message of God and His life of love to every man, but especially to them that will believe and receive it. God only fills the hungry souls, but the rich and those who think they are already full and do not need Him or change, He sends empty away! (See Luke 1:53.)
Waste no time arguing with those who do not want to see; there are none so blind as those who refuse to look! Feed the hungry, give sight to those who long for light, and love the unloved now.
If God be for us, no man can stand against us, however great their power or numbers! Have faith in God! If God be for us, who can be against us? If you do good, who is he that will stop you? None can withstand the power of God nor His forces of Heaven, if He be on your side and you on His, doing that which is right! Hallelujah! (See Romans 8:31.)
We are in a fight to the finish, and the victory is ours, praise be to God! We may lose a few battles, but we're winning the war, and the World will soon be ours for God and His Kingdom! Never give up! Be not discouraged, but be of good faith and of good cheer, for God is with you and you cannot fail! We are bound to win, for God is with us, and we fight a holy, right and just war of faith and love for God and others, and love never fails, for God is Love!
Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but His Words shall never pass away! They are settled forever in Heaven, and none can deny or defy them forever!--So use them and spread them and His Love through the mouths and deeds of the faithful, and by every means at your command, to give people light and hope and life and love and peace and plenty and contentment with Heavenly happiness forever!
You are no fool to give a life you cannot keep for a love you will never lose!
If you have not already received Jesus' Love & Salvation, and the power of the Holy Spirit so that you can join in this holy war for the souls and hearts of men, just pray this simple prayer:
Dear Jesus, I ask You to change me.--To forgive me for all my sins and to come into my heart and give me Your free gift of Eternal Life. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit and empower me to share Your Love and Salvation with others. In Your name I pray. Amen.
Copyright (c) 1998 The Family