Several COG splinter cults advocate that their members will ultimately be drawing swords to fight along side Jesus when he returns to earth at some point in the future They seem to be giddy with delight at the prospect of killing apostates and sinners. Most of these groups tend to be miniscule and have no power whatsoever. However, it's just takes one lunatic from one of these groups to start an international incident, i.e., Dennis Rohan and the burning of the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. One would hope that COGers would not be that stupid, but stupidity seems to reign supreme in many of the aberrant groups.
Apostle Malm writes:
5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
There will come a time when God’s servants WILL fight. The time is not yet and in this time we need to learn to submit to the authority of this worlds powers. The ultimate authority of that of the father and the father has allowed Satan to rule this wrld unitl a new government is qualified to replace him.
We must learn under this harsh task master so that we can become good rulers knowing right from wrong in the coming Kingdom of God. By experiencing the harsh ways, we shall understand the consequence and the evil of those ways.
For now, we must let God use these evils to temper and train us as a master potter creates a new thing of beauty. In short God is using the trials of this time to teach and prepare us; to knock off our own rough edges, and to create a bride fit to share the Kingdom of God!
Quite simply we lack the power and the authority for this world is not our own. On the day that Christ comes with ten thousands of his saints, they WILL fight, by in righteousness at the direct command of Jesus Christ.
