Mar | 07 | Blood & Gore. Those Two Old Presidential Running Mates

Key Word:- FEAR

Title:- Blood & Gore. Those Two Old Presidential Running Mates

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'


In the late evening of February 13th 1945, Lothar Metzger was covered with wet blankets by his mother as they fled their burning home for more adequate shelter. Thousands of tons of incendiary bombs filled with early versions of Napalm, had superheated the air to over 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, sucking oxygen out of the lungs of miserably frightened people huddled in their urine soaked shelters beneath the shaking ground. Above their praying heads, the fantastic fire was sucking in the screaming and desperately fleeing, broken and bleeding refugees, back into the fiery red and raging inferno, where the fierceness of the fire, ate them all alive. Later, after the metallic deluge, up top, in the hot grey morning, the smell of petroleum and human ‘pork cracklin’ filled the air and lingered around the burnt and broken, shrunken and naked corpses of what a few hours before, were mothers, brothers and singing sisters.

The Bombing of Dresden, its reasons and repercussions, are just one example of how ‘Total Warfare’ once purposefully and justifiably executed, is later, brought into serious dispute. Even Churchill, who himself had once been a wholehearted supporter of operation 'Thunderclap', made comments to the British Chiefs of Staff saying that “the destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing.”

It would appear that not only the scarred and the scared, but the humane and the sane, must examine the subject of ‘Total Warfare’ in the context of fried flesh, melted eyes, dismembered children, burning hair, poisoned earth, and the horror and support of ongoing and monstrous fetal abnormality.

Yes, when ‘Total War’ in the 21st Century shall give birth to horrors for generations to come, it ceases to be a subject to be examined from afar by the Ivory-towered theologian and the aged hairy historian, but must be vivisected and viewed and undeniably understood by us common folk, as those who stare with fear into the presently locked confines of the caged and all consuming nuclear cannibalism of the horrible Hannibal Lecter of modern total warfare. For at present, he is fumbling with the Middle Eastern key which he now possesses, in attempt to unleash himself and his hunger upon a scared and watching crowd! Only when we partake of this full frontal fear, will we then be armed and ready to take a good look at the monster of ‘Total War.’

Are you frightened yet? I hope so, for that is the way we must approach the plain reading of today’s text. This text leads us to but one conclusion and that is, that God Himself engages in ‘Total Warfare.’ He is a God who undeniably and frighteningly calls nations to account.

‘Bomber’ Harris, that now much maligned implementer of the United Kingdoms former War Cabinet policies, relating to the massive area bombing campaigns in the ‘Total War’ of WW11, is remarked as saying “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a dozen other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”

“They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.” What a terrifying statement! Never the less we too must be careful to recognize the vengeful and judging God of ‘Total Warfare’, so righteously, so clearly and frighteningly portrayed in the Scriptures. We too need to tread carefully in sowing the wind, lest we follow in the footsteps of other nations and empires before us and reap the whirlwind of the most righteous God, bent on vengeance and treading down the clouds, on a most terrible rampage!

Our actions have elected ‘Blood and Gore’ as President and Vice President of our nation. They may very soon to take up their office.

Listen: - Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. Psalm 2:12

Pray: Lord, let us not be deceived, for surely we know that Your judgments are for a time prepared and their delay and the sunshine of this day, does not dismiss their soon arrival. O Lord have mercy upon us, in Jesus name we pray, amen.