Jesus Christ Does Support Fighting Back–Here's How

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Let's start by talking about uh the two swords of Christ.

[00:00:03]As you know, probably, my last book, uh The Two Swords of Christ. Uh so, the genesis of this book, it's about the concept of Christian just war, but it's also about the two military orders, the Knights of the Temple and the Hospitallers, basically. But, I called it The Two Swords of Christ because both groups, both military orders, and in fact Christians in the medieval era always talked about the doctrine of Christ's two swords, which goes back to Luke. But, in that book, basically, what I'm trying to show you is the reason I wrote that book and I gave it that title is because those Christians were very much actuated by uh the two swords doctrine, which is basically in the book of Luke, the Gospel of Luke, which you're familiar with, the famous story where Christ says to his disciples, "He among you has no sword, go and sell your cloak and buy one." And his uh disciples look around, and then they say, "Behold, Lord, here are two swords." And Jesus says, "That is enough." Now, as we know, that means absolutely nothing today to modern-day Christians. Surely, Jesus wasn't talking about swords, cuz we know uh Jesus was the progenitor of doormat Christianity. Well, we don't know, but I mean, that's how it's presented. That's what everyone seems to think nowadays.

[00:01:16]So, clearly, he wasn't talking about swords. He was making some obtuse spiritual points. Well, for other Christians, centuries worth of them, no, what he was saying is that Christians need two swords. Two swords are enough.

[00:01:32]One to fight physical warfare, physical evil, one to fight spiritual evil, spiritual subversion. That's how it was understood. That's the two swords of Christ you've heard me talking about and titling a book after, 500 page book.

[00:01:48]Okay, the two swords of Christ are meant to fend off something. What? The two swords of Satan. Okay? And before proceeding, because uh this is a very cyclical topic, as you will see. I told you, past and present. You know me, I like continuities that evince themselves throughout the centuries and show us patterns.

[00:02:07]So, I'm going to basically preface this livestream with the following biblical verse, which I've long been fond of. And I'm speaking, of course, of Ecclesiastes 1:9.

[00:02:19]Actually, Ecclesiastes is by far one of my favorite books in the entire Bible.

[00:02:23]But 1:9 reads as follows, and I'm sure you've heard it or heard heard it paraphrased before.

[00:02:30]It goes as follows, quote, "What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again.

[00:02:37]There is nothing new under the sun."

[00:02:40]In other words, everything is cyclical.

[00:02:42]Uh everything takes on new forms and guises, but it's really at essence the same thing. And uh that's exactly what I believe. In many ways, if you want to know, the story of Christianity from the times of Christ till the very present has been, well, caught by that verse about there's nothing new in the sun under the sun, because what was has been and what was will will be again, because there's nothing new under the sun. And I mean specifically in the context of what we're going to talk about, which is Satan's two swords, which have been, from the times of Christ till the present, bloodying Christians everywhere.

[00:03:23]Okay? One sword is physical and overt, and it is the sword that kills. And one sword one sword is spiritual and covert.

[00:03:34]And this is also kills kills the soul.

[00:03:37]Okay? Which, again, most people don't even know what that means anymore, including Christians. Here is the quote by Eusebius of Caesarea. He writes, "Like dazzling lights, the churches were now shining all over the world and to the limits of the human race, faith in our savior and Lord Jesus Christ was at its peak.

[00:03:58]He's talking about the date after 313 following the rise of Constantine, okay?

[00:04:04]Who was his contemporary.

[00:04:06]He continues.

[00:04:08]So, the light was dazzling and things were wonderful and the limits of the human race faith in our savior and Lord Jesus Christ was at its peak. When, quote, the demon who hates the good, sworn enemy of truth and inveterate foe of man's salvation, turned all his weapons against the church. Okay?

[00:04:27]He continues.

[00:04:28]In earlier days, he, this demon, had attacked her, the church, with persecutions from without.

[00:04:36]He's talking about for, you know, about 250 years beginning with Emperor Nero around AD 60-ish and ending with the Emperor Diocletian around AD 311 where persecution of Christians was horrific. So, he's saying, in earlier days, Satan had attacked the church with persecutions from without during that era I gave you.

[00:04:58]He continues. But now that he was debarred from this, following the rise of Constantine, now Christianity is spread, it's protected, it's not allowed to be persecuted. He continues. Now that he was debarred from this, he resorted to unscrupulous impostors as instruments of spiritual corruption and ministers of destruction and employed a new tactics contriving by every possible means that impostors and cheats, by cloaking themselves with the same name as our religion, in other words, people who call themselves Christians, should at one and the same time bring to the abyss of destruction every believer they could entrap and by their own actions and endeavors turn those ignorant of the Christian faith away from the path that leads to the message of salvation.

[00:05:49]Okay?

[00:05:50]Now, think about that very important excerpt because it completely describes the twofold attack that Satan uses against Christians. The two swords. One, external physical persecution, in this case from pagan Roman emperors, and one used for internal spiritual subversion.

[00:06:13]Uh in this case, Eusebius was writing about the heresies, including Arianism, which were rife in his day.

[00:06:19]Okay? And again, what he was writing then, I'm reading it to you because as important as it is, it's actually what's happening today. Hence, like I said, there is nothing new under the sun.

[00:06:31]Here's how Satan's two swords work.

[00:06:33]Wherever possible, Satan possesses his minions to use a physical sword to persecute and slaughter Christians, literally.

[00:06:44]Where that is not possible, he uses a spiritual sword to infiltrate and subvert Christianity so that Christians themselves, now being possessed, choose death for themselves.

[00:06:59]That's it in a nutshell.

[00:07:01]Okay? And that is going to what I just told you is more applicable to our day than have at any point in history. And I will prove that. As seen, the most obvious and paradigmatic example of physical persecution that Eusebius that which was mentioned by Eusebius was pagan Rome's savage persecution of Christians, which was pretty savage, and which, like I said, erupted from the time of the apostles in the first century under Emperor Nero, and sporadically continued till the rise of Constantine the Great, who basically outlawed religious persecution in the fourth century, specifically in beginning with his Edict of Milan, which came out around AD 313. But the physical persecution of Christians did not end there. So Eusebius dies around 339 and 340, and that's all we know about his history because it obviously doesn't continue after he dies, but a new persecutor arises.

[00:07:55]One that if not necessarily surpassing the quality of Rome's atrocities against Christians, not necessarily but maybe, has far surpassed the quantity of the persecution that pagan Rome uh foisted on Christianity. And that persecutor was and remains Islam.

[00:08:17]Okay? Just so you understand why Islam is has so much animus towards Christianity, you need to remember that in many ways it seems to have been a cult or creed that was created precisely to be set against and to devastate the Christian world. Suffice to say, let's look at some core doctrines in Islam.

[00:08:39]All right?

[00:08:40]You have to remember that Islam as a religion actually condemns Christian teaching in its most core and holy scriptures.

[00:08:50]That's pretty rare for a religion.

[00:08:53]Hinduism doesn't do that. Buddhism doesn't do that. Shintoism doesn't do that. Confucianism doesn't do that.

[00:08:59]Paganism doesn't do that. Okay?

[00:09:02]Islam does in its core texts actually condemn Christian teaching.

[00:09:08]Bring back the fire.

[00:09:12]Bring back Bring back the fire in the righteous name.