Jehovah Is a Warrior — Dean Taylor

You know, I'm trying to make this I was given the assignment. We're trying to make a DVD teaching. Teaching DVD and so I'm covering a little bit more. Things more quotes and things that I usually would if I was just to preach a message on non-resistance so to try to get your gear your mind in the gear of A teaching mode and think of it more of a classroom and if I tend to preach a little here and there well then.

You know, that's just kind of goes with it. But the idea is that I'm covering a lot of a lot of material and today particularly in this session, I'm going to be covering a lot of things and because. And as also when I've tried to put all this into four different Four different sessions, you know, I kept thinking.

Oh, there's so much more I want to talk about and there's still. Some things we're going to talk about tomorrow and some of the question and answers and talk about for instance our involvement with politics.

Different things in history and different questions that come up have already come up like that. And we'll be able to talk about some of those specific things. But as I go through a lot of these things I'm thinking of some of the things that in my own personal journey my wife's journey of things that we really had to struggle with and Talk find our way through and so see those things that I'm bringing out today in particular today I'm going to be talking about the Old Testament or particularly during this session I'm going to be talking about the Old Testament and the name of this session is Yahweh is a warrior and.

Yahweh as Warrior and the Old Testament

So let's get into it here. So as we talk about the Old Testament in this message, I'm going to be mainly detailing these things of the Old Testament and What I hope to do is to clear the smokescreen that often people have Protestant churches evangelical churches just modern American churches have over the Old Testament there's a lot of things that are being said and justified a lot of unbiblical behavior being justified using the Old Testament and The advocates of just war theory and things like that or what they claim there that are in the Old Testament.

My desire is to try to get through some of those things. So I want to cover two main things about the Old Testament today. The first thing that I want to show that I want to show in both that in both the Old and the New Testament.

This concept this is an important concept and understanding the two kingdoms understanding the Kings in the Old Testament. Understanding wars and these different things. There's the one of the things that I want to show in this session.

God Uses Ungodly Nations Without Approving Their Wickedness

Is it in both the Old and New Testament that in addition to using God using his chosen people God also uses ungodly wicked and idolatrous Nations and kings to accomplish his will. So some of the questions that will come up in you if you discuss things.

Well, don't you think America was used for this or America was used for that? Well, yes, I do think America was used for for defending against many things, but I want to look at this principle. It's a very important biblical principle for understanding the Old Testament.

And so I'm going to spend some time on it because I don't you to miss it. The next thing is the Bible reveals that God actually uses these kings and these nations to govern the earth and to accomplish his will.

However, God also demonstrates as we look at this principle. That just because he uses these ungodly kings and nations. He may use our country. He may use different countries and nations. It doesn't mean that he blesses these kings or these nations or that he's pleased with their behavior.

In the second I went to clear away the smoke screen surrounding the Old Testament wars. I want to look honestly at the wars in the Old Testament for what they really are and Doing so I hope to disarm the arrogance of the so-called Christian leaders that attempt to justify their wars using these Old Testament stories this is happening today and as the Environment of war is just now getting you're gonna start getting even more Roared up again.

You're gonna start hearing this rhetoric in the news and from So-called Christian leaders in the media during this section. I want to emphasize the Unchanging character of God and how this element is consistent throughout the Old and New Testament scriptures.

Christians as Sojourners and Citizens of a New Kingdom

So, how do we relate to this world is a question that we need to ask and again in a bit of review. We are sojourners and pilgrims again, I bring out this passage by Peter and if you call on the father Who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work pass this time of your sojourning here in fear.

And so again going through the scriptures The Bible is giving us in a type of people that are to be sojourners not Connected to the nations we live living here not our own little society your own little nation.

We're supposed to be in the world, but not of the world and not of the world to such an extent that we're considered strangers and pilgrims and and those that should be the way that we're considered and One of the things that I think brings us perfectly into harmony of understanding our place with our different laws in different ways.

In with coming into the nations of this world is found in Romans chapter 12 in Romans chapter 13 in Romans chapter 12. We almost have a little bit of a summary of the Sermon on the Mount a little bit of a summary of how we are to respond to this new kingdom this new life this new born-again life and how we're To express this born-again life in today's day and age and in Romans chapter 12 verse 1.

It's particularly good and don't miss this here. It says in Romans chapter 12 verse 1. I beseech you therefore brethren By the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice Holy Acceptable to God which is your reasonable service and do not be conformed to this world.

But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. It's interesting that word World there is talking about in this world again this eon this this it's more than just a a Globe type of thing that's in view here.

It's a whole way of life. It's a whole eon. It's a whole that the nations of how they think and are and their whole system of being. He says do not be conformed to this Conformed way of the world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Interestingly enough that word conformed is The word in Greek that means to be pressed on by outward things. It's the word used like if you were to have a press and you were to put your image of that on that press.

It's to be conformed. Don't let this world Conform you but be transformed and that's the Greek word that we get our word metamorphosis to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, you know, there's a Martin Luther King jr. When he gave a a Discussion when he's when he was in jail and he was writing a letter rebuking the church in this time.

That he condemned the church and he said that the church had no longer. The church is no longer acting like it should be acting. It's turned into a social club. He said in the 1960s and he said that the church is called to be a thermostat.

Not a thermometer you get the difference of what he meant. Thermometer just measures the temperature of whatever it's around us if it's 72 degrees outside and you have a thermometer. It's 72 degrees on the thermometer but a thermostat Sets the temperature and Martin Luther King jr. Is arguing in that letter that we are supposed to be setting the temperature of our society not just copying what our society is.

So it's this kind of concept that we are not to be conformed and get our shape from being pressed from the outside but be Transformed by the way of God and being this new humanity in Christ Jesus. And then he goes on in Romans chapter 12 a little bit down in verse 17.

He's repeating the Jesus Teachings which Paul did frequently and he said repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men if it is possible as much as depends on you live peaceably with all men.

Beloved do not avenge yourself, but rather give place to wrath. For it is written vengeance is mine. I will repay saith the Lord. He didn't just say that God was just gonna forget about all these things and it's all gonna be Just fine in the end.

He's saying that God would revenge these things and and the vengeance is to God. But we are calling is to not to avenge ourselves, but leave that place for God. Therefore if your enemy is hungry feed him if he is thirsty.

Give him a drink for in doing so you will heave coals of fire on his head quoting from the Proverbs there. Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. It's interesting. I I work in a hospital setting and I was talking with one of the persons there who who had a Trip to go to to see the Dalai Lama.

Overcoming Evil With Good Rather Than Karma

The Dalai Lama for those who don't understand. It's a person who claims to be the reincarnated Buddha of today. And he went and paid some money to go see the Dalai Lama and he was you there seeing the Dalai Lama.

He said I'm gonna ask the Dalai Lama a question. I don't know how many thousands he had. He had a picture in his office of him in the Dalai Lama. You know, it's kind of weird, but he was asked a question if you had the chance to kill Hitler.

Would you do it? He asked the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama said well I think you could balance out the karma. Karma means if you do enough bad bad things will happen good good things will happen. It's a pagan Idea that since Hitler had so much bad karma that if you shot him, even though that's bad karma.

It'd make up for good karma and it would end up being a good thing. And he asked me because he knew I had this Non-resistant teachings. What do you think about that? I said, I think it's false. I Said the difference with Jesus is he didn't try to retaliate or try to balance off some kind of karma.

The difference is that he took that pain that suffering and that evil upon himself on the cross and that Concept is do not overcome but by evil but overcome evil with good and that's the difference one of the many differences between Jesus and the Dalai Lama, but so I think it's a profound thing.

The New Testament Mission: Love Enemies and Reject Earthly Weapons

But okay. So if this is gonna be the way it is. So again. Well all these things that we get through the New Testament Writers if we're given our own laws to rule and guide our lives if we have our own King that demand absolute loyalty.

I told you this earlier if We are to refuse to obey laws that contradict the laws of God if we are commanded to love feed warm and care. Even the very enemies of our own nations if we are charged with the impractical marching orders that command us to go into battle defenseless as lambs before wolves or sheep before the slaughter if we are told that our weapons are not to be made of earthly things if We are instructed that that we do not war in the flesh.

If in contrast to the Old Testament marching orders to destroy men's lives We now instead have a new order to save them if we are told that dying is actually gained for us and the cross our Example if we are told that our kingdom is not of this world if in the end We are told that we defeat even the Antichrist but not with bombs and chemical warfare but by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our Testimony and we love not our life until the end if those are to be what New Testament Christianity should look like.

Well then as Falling through Romans chapter 12. How are we to respond to the nations where we live? That's where comes into play Romans chapter 13. Now if you get into a discussion with an evangelical Baptist Protestant or something of that kind about non-resistance.

Any self-respecting Evangelical is going to take you to Romans chapter 13 and for good reasons. Because it's very strong and if you look at some of the Anabaptist arguments that they got into in the martyrs mirror the different Chronicles this was one of the things that the the early Evangelicals and Protestants that that martyred the the Anabaptist early on would challenge them with is Romans chapter 13.

So I want to look at it very carefully. So let's go to Romans chapter 13 and look at this scripture because it's very strong and we need to understand what's being said here so that we can apply this and understand our two kingdoms and understand the Old Testament and How God uses the nations of the earth.

It's a very important biblical principle that you can't miss. All right, Romans chapter 13 puts it very plainly right after he said all that in Romans chapter 12 now He says this let every soul be subject into the higher powers for there is no power but of God.

The powers that be are ordained of God. Whoever therefore resist the power Resist the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works.

But to the evil wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that Which is good and that shall have praise of the same. That's Strong language used against our Anabaptist forefathers in court trials and then he goes on.

For he we're talking about the rulers is the minister of God. To thee for good, but if thou do which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God the revenge er to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Wherefore you must needs be subject not only for wrath but also conscious sake. For this cause pay ye tribute also for they are again God's ministers attending continually upon this very thing. Rendered therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due.

Custom to whom custom fear to him fear and honor and to honor and he finishes this section so. Wow, I mean that's some strong language but the the most incredible thing is if you ponder this passage is is Understanding who specifically when this letter was written who specifically was Paul talking about?

Who? Who was he talking about? He was talking about Nero one of the most wicked people on the face of the earth. The early church all thought he was the Antichrist and this was the fulfillment of the prophecy and yet he was saying that Nero these emperors.

He's writing to a letter in Rome is the minister of God. Paul what are you saying. And in this we have to understand this biblical principle and this when you get this. It's going to make the two kingdoms come alive to you.

And here's the principle the principle is this that God uses ungodly nations to accomplish his will. He's done this in the New Testament. He does it today and he's done it into the Old Testament. So let's open up the Old Testament now and let's look into some of the ways that he did this.

Nebuchadnezzar as God's Servant and God's Judgment on Babylon

The first one that I would like to look at is that particular word minister. The word minister is the word there in Greek diakonos is where we get our word for for deacon it means to be a servant and The word minister so we have an equivalent many times throughout the Old Testament.

I'm gonna give you a labor this point a bit because it's such a contested point. My my concern is to show you that this is the way God has always shown that he uses Ungodly nations to his purpose. Okay, so let's look at this when God wanted to bring judgment against his own people against Judah and Wanted to rebuke them is his own people Judah.

He uses this very language speaking of Nebuchadnezzar. It's found in Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 9 important verse. I would put these scriptures that I am giving you in your margin in Romans chapter 13.

If I were you so that you would have these and you can study through them in Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 9 God is speaking He said behold I will send and take all the families of the north saith the Lord and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon watch my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations round about and will utterly destroy them says his own people and Make them an astonishment and a hissing and a perpetual Desolation.

The question that I asked then is is God pleased with that and in four it four verses down. He's explaining the verse that in when 70 years are accomplished I will take this nation and I will take Nebuchadnezzar and I will make him an astonishment and a hissing and Judge him for his pride and thinking that he was doing these things and that's the principle that we get from that the so if God uses someone to accomplish his will does that mean he's pleased with him four verses down and it shall come to pass when 70 years Are accomplished.

I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation said the Lord for their iniquity. And the land of the Chaldeans and will make it a perpetual desolation. So the principle that I was trying to show is that he uses Nebuchadnezzar Accomplishes his will for him calls him my shep my my servant and then judges him afterwards because of his idolatry a principle of God.

Assyria as the Rod of God's Anger

Alright, let's look at another one. I know even more interesting one found in Isaiah where God causes an ungodly nation the rod of his anger. Here in Isaiah chapter 10 verse 5. Listen to this. This one's really good.

It said Oh Assyrian the rod of mine anger. So he's calling this Pagan kingdom the rod of my anger and the staff in their hand in is mine indignation is using this army of the Syrians. I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath.

Will I give him a charge? To take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. This is God bringing judgment upon his own people and we need to pay attention as America as we look at.

How God other principles that God does that but listen to this? Watch what's going on in the mind of the Assyrians though as God is using him. How be it he meaneth not so in other words? He didn't know what he's doing neither does his heart think so.

But is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. So he's saying I'm gonna use the Assyrians. I'm gonna use them to judge my own people. But guess what? They don't even know what they're doing.

They just think they're attacking countries and I'm using that zeal for my own purpose. That's a principle in the Old Testament that we need to get a hold of. Again, as God used someone does that mean he is pleased with them?

He goes on just like it did in Jeremiah. Isaiah 10 verse 12. Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem. I Will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.

For he hath by the strength. For he saith by the strength of my hands have I done it and by my wisdom. For I am prudent and I have removed the bounds of the people and have robbed their treasures and I put down The inhabitants like a valiant man.

So he says that because of their pride. Because of those types of things he's gonna set and judge them even though he uses them. Okay, I'm belaboring the point, but you've got to get this biblical principle.

Cyrus as God's Shepherd and Anointed King

Cyrus he caused my shepherd and my anointed Cyrus was strategically used if you remember King Cyrus of capturing of Babylon by damning up the Euphrates River and the vocabulary that God uses to Describe Cyrus a pagan King even famous Today even by secular standards.

This is what God said of Cyrus quote who says of Cyrus he is my shepherd and He shall performed all my pleasure saying to Jerusalem. You shall be built and to the temple your fountains shall be laid. He allowed the people to go back and rebuild the temple thus saith the Lord to his anointed To Cyrus whose right hand I have held To subdue nations before him and loose the armor of Kings to open before him the double doors.

So that the gates will not so the gates will not Be shut and so this is principle to Cyrus who he calls his anointed. This is the same word we get Messiah from to Cyrus whose right hand he has held to accomplish God's will he goes on and it says it almost in a poetry way.

Thus saith the Lord your Redeemer and he who's formed you from the womb get this. I Am the Lord who makes all things. Who stretches out the heavens all alone? Who spreads abroad the earth by myself who frustrates the signs of the babblers and drives diviners mad?

Who turns wise men backwards and makes their knowledge foolishness. Who confirms the word of his servant and Performs the counsel of his messengers who says to Jerusalem. You shall be inhabited to the cities of Judah you shall be built and I will raise up her waste places and he and Who says to the deep be dry and I will dry up your rivers.

Who says of Cyrus? He is my shepherd and he shall perform all my pleasure. Saying to Jerusalem you shall be built and to the temple your foundation shall be laid. He is my shepherd. It's an incredible concept and perform all his pleasure.

God Rules the Kingdoms of Men

So in this we've looked at this a little bit early on. So who does God choose to rule the nations of the earth? God has his will on this earth. And what does it say again? But Daniel when Daniel prophesied.

This matter is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the Holy One the angels in the Holy One himself. To the intent he wants us to understand this. That the living may know he wants you to understand that the Most High rule within the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he wills and Set us up over it sets up over it the basest of men the basest of men again.

Hosea puts it in that that rebuking way. I'll repeat this scripture. Oh Israel thou hath destroyed thyself. America thou hast destroyed thyself. But in me is thine help he's saying I will be thy king.

Where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities and by judges of whom thou says give me a king and prince. I gave thee a king in my anger and took him away in my wrath and That's the principle of God.

Showing us how he deals with these Old Testament kings and how he uses them that ultimate example of God. Using somebody but not being pleased even though with them even though he uses them is that example of Jesus before Pilate.

Pilate's Authority and God's Sovereignty

I mean, it's quite a scene. Pilate is gallantly, you know. They're proclaiming Jesus before and he says behold the man and as he as he talks there, you know. He's he's trying to talk to him and trying to talk to Jesus.

And he says to Jesus Why aren't you why aren't you talking to me? Do you realize that I have the authority to either let you go or the authority to let you stay? And if you ever pondered on that passage Pilate's there before Jesus and he said listen I have the authority to either let you go or to let you stay and what's shocking to me.

Is that Jesus didn't say no, you know He Agreed with him in a way but understood that this authority was given to him from his father and says this You could have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above.

It's like he's acknowledging that he has that authority. But yet it was given to him from from God that means that Pilate had that authority to be the one Responsible for killing Jesus. So just because God uses someone to accomplish his will It does not mean that God is pleased with them.

There's the ultimate example and that's the biblical principle. You're gonna have to understand as we look at the Old Testament and look at how God uses nation. So that someone asked today. Well, well Dean Okay, can't you look at this time in history and clearly see that this nation stopped this and this nation did that I say?

Yes, I of course I understand that but I serve a God who has always revealed to us in his scripture that he uses nations in this way and he always has shown throughout all the scriptures that his desire is to have a Covenant people that lives out the way of God in the midst of this people and in particular in his fulfillment.

The Messiah came Jesus Christ who gave us this kingdom and wants us to establish and to be that kingdom on this earth. That's the way it is. Now so being honest with the Old Testament okay, when I started looking at all this stuff on on the Old Testament and all these things on non-resistance and I'd read the conservative books and I was trying to understand there's a picture of me and I was like 21 or something and I was trying as me Tanya took this picture of me trying to dig through these different books trying to understand the Old Testament.

I Began to gather up books by the peace activists and and I said, okay, so I must be a pacifist. That's what I meant. I'm a pacifist then and I read the liberal books and most the liberal books I started to try to understand and When I start to read them about the peace activists in the in the pacifist and stuff I was torn because on the one hand I love their defense of non-resistance and the really there's some the very best writers and they have some great stories, but However, I found a liberal pacifist mixing up the two kingdoms just like the conservative evangelicals did to me the idea such as voting in a pacifist president or Some other political agenda to me seems like nonsense.

It's it's ridiculous. It didn't make sense furthermore, I Felt that most of the liberal writers were just simply ignoring the Old Testament. Trying to turn the scriptures into some sort of universalism or something and it I tried reading the Bible with these glasses I did and and I found some non-resistant actions, you know, you have like Abraham, you know moving his wells and not fighting.

I had you know, Jehoshaphat claiming. He didn't have to fight this battle and you find those little nuggets of non-resistance. But in general I did not find What they were trying to claim the Old Testament was and I even for instance.

They would say, you know, it says thou shalt not kill in the Old Testament. Well, yeah. But the same command that says thou shalt not kill also says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. So I didn't as much as I tried it was the the pacifist liberal books that were usually are out there about Non-resistance brought some confusion to me as I was trying to figure these things out.

The Old Testament Portrays God as a Warrior

So I did not find the Old Testament a pacifist God at all. So as I read through the scriptures quite the contrary I found that the scripture says that God it portrays God as a warrior. It says in Exodus 15 3 the Lord this is where we get the Jehovah.

Yahweh is a man of war. The Lord is his name and this concept of God these passages they challenged me. And I needed to look at those things. So as I looked at those scriptures and I looked at those it it it shook me up.

But I had to understand it and I had to accept those scriptures if I was going to understand the God of the scriptures in Totality, so then I looked at some of the the conservative arguments when I looked at the conservative arguments of the conservative evangelicals.

It made a mess of the two kingdoms. I found that Conservative writers were just about ignoring the teachings of Jesus to do with it. You had to like put it off into some millennium or put it off in some sort of in heaven or something and the teachings Of Jesus became nonsense.

This is where we talked about in our testimony. We'd go through the scriptures and okay. You're looking at the Bible and it scared us that when you looked at the Bible and You said okay if I'm gonna take the words of Jesus, I'm gonna take the Sermon on the Mount.

Let's say or all the teachings of Jesus and I'm gonna create for us a church. That goes out of the way that everything Jesus said to do we're gonna do just the opposite. It'd be a good assignment for you Bible students that are here.

Okay, so. So if everything imagine a church that everything Jesus said you would do just the opposite. So if he had a teaching on divorce from Mary you'd have like I don't know remarriage counseling in churches if you had something on on Lawsuits, you'd have I don't know Christian lawsuit lawyers if you had storing up on laying up laying up on earth.

You'd have financial groups of and so these different things that you have non-resistance. You'd have Christians armies. And so all these things if you went everything that Jesus said and said, okay, I'm gonna create a church.

Completely opposite. I thought well you kind of end up with the modern American Church. And that kind of scared me that we talked about that on their introduction. Okay, but when I started to look at the Old Testament and through the conservatives I said, okay.

They are saying some things about the Old Testament that I need to deal with about the nature of God and the whole thing. You know how you view God changes everything in your life. Everything and so it's very important that your understanding of God is biblical base.

Don't flex God to fit your standard change your standards to fit God of the Bible. And so I said, okay, so I look at the Old Testament and as a generalization. This is a generalization a Conservative evangelicals argued that they are the only one that can honestly claim the Old Testament.

Okay, they say that the pacifists who they call people like us. I don't agree with that term, you know but they cannot claim the Old Testament and still maintain a Consistency with the character of God and the Old Testament scriptures if you were to say to a self-respecting Conservative evangelical that the Bible teaches non-resistance.

They just laugh at you and say well, didn't you ever read the Old Testament? And so that's the argument. And so okay this line of thinking followed by some books and preachers that support Christians in warfare use these Generalizations of what they're saying the Old Testament is to their advantage they do so here's the catch they do so by saying that God has given us a set of principles in the Bible a Set of principles that allow us to discern when the war is okay, and they call this the just war theory.

They kind of generalize the Old Testament. We say this is what was there and this is attractive idea when I started even studying for the debate. And I did in Boston this was common thing. They kind of tried to pretend like there was some sort of unchanging just war concept through the Bible and through the ages and It's attractive idea the thought of having that kind of consistency right up into the New Testament era.

But it's it's just not what you find. The problem is when you go to the Bible in an attempt to find these principles is you soon Discover that they do not exist as a conservatives are saying they do they do not exist as just war theorists say that they do.

They're just not there. What you discover is that the nature of war in the Old Testament is Categorically different than what they are calling just war in any time of human history. Just about any time.

Holy War, Just War, and the Crusades

They're the only ones that I think can really be fair with an Old Testament understanding of of Of warfare is those who went off into the Crusades and those who? massacred the Indians in America and these types of things they did this with a Though wicked arrogance that they were saying that they were hearing directly from God and we all see how many times now is our evangelism thwarted by people bringing up these black spots in our Christian history because of these types of things and we've got to Understand why this is a unbiblical and why it destroys even our events evangelism today.

The only ones that can really be fair the only one that you can even hint to To the the passages and in just war is a Deuteronomy 20 when he talks about if you keep reading there. It's not something you're gonna want to read when you're trying to evangelize college people on campuses somewhere.

The whole idea is a Categorically different Understanding there is no just war in there and here's for instance. Here is what was the speech? This is literally from the strip speech that was taken a right before the first crusade.

They recorded it here is exactly what the Pope was saying when he initiated the very first crusade. He said and I quote on This account I or rather the Lord Beseeched you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank foot soldiers and Knights poor and rich to carry aid Promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends.

I say this to those who are present. It is meant also for those who are absent. Moreover Christ commands it all who die by the way whether by land or by sea or in battle against the pagans shall have Immediate remission of sins this I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

It's said here that after they did that the Knights that were up front and the people the warriors that are up there began To chant and sort of like a charismatic fervor. It is the will of God. It is the will of God.