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December 24-25, 2006
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Jesus.
Yes, the Padgett message is true, that we Celestial
Angels cannot control the appearance of wars. And yet, in God's
Plan, we work that the good prevail in war.
I know you find this subject very confusing. You feel Hitler had
to be stopped, and he was. But then there was the Allied saturation
bombing of Dresden and other German cities.
In war, violence is done. Now, you also know, as you channeled previously, that mortals
cannot accurately determine the way God perceives acts of violence and killing in war, and that is because mortals
don't know the inner world of the motives, the intentions.
So now, you are wondering, if God determines the morality
by one's motives, isn't it logical to conclude that
violence done with good intentions is good?
This would seem to justify, for example, the Inquisitors
of the Spanish Inquisition, who tortured people in
excruciating ways because, as they mistakenly thought,
they were saving their souls. It could also justify the
Nazi death camps, if Nazis felt they were doing a service
to humanity.
I know this is a very difficult subject to discuss, and I
commend you for your desire to channel it.
Most Americans have felt that World War II was a "good"
war, and many Americans continue to feel that Vietnam was
a "bad" war. But as I have implied, war simply consists of
leaders making decisions, which their military then
carries out.
You have been passionate about the fact that your country dropped
napalm on innocent people in Vietnam, and yet you read that the
American writer John Steinbeck, whose judgment and opinion you respect,
was equally passionate that American servicemen in Vietnam, including
his own son, did acts of kindness and benevolence to the Vietnamese
people.
The Padgett message explains clearly that in matters of war, we
do not judge. You can see why from the above paragraph - American
soldiers both did acts of goodness, and also acts of cruelty and
violence.
Now let me elaborate on what I said in the first
paragraph, that "we work that the good prevail in war."
In order to comprehend what I have said, you need to take
into account what you already know - that God's Plan is
coming into fulfillment for humanity. But how can God
influence a country to win a war if we Angels ourselves
don't even judge?
Well, the answer is that He knows which military powers to
use for furthering His intentions.
A good example from Jewish history is the career of the
Persian monarch Cyrus the Great, who made it possible for
the Israelites to return to the Holy Land after the
Babylonian Captivity.
Now you are wondering, if God used Cyrus, that means that
He condoned the killing of Cyrus' enemies in battle. But
that is an incorrect assumption.
No, God is all good. The key concept to grasp is that He
can, and does, use evil for His own purposes. As Franklin
Roosevelt said in your recent channeling, God raises up
empires and then brings them down. The Hebrew prophets
perceived this very clearly.
There is a plan and a guiding principle moving History,
even though this is not easily discernible. And in this
plan, certain leaders come to power, each one with a
free-will agenda that has often led to war.
But God is not apathetic or neutral - He has always worked to end
the scourge of war. But, of course, it has not worked because every
generation has its own warlike leaders.
You consider yourself to be for peace and against war. You
have a vision of a time in History when war will be no
more. This vision was given you by God.
As you turn from your vision to look around you, the
vision seems hopelessly naive and just plain wrong. And
yet you also know that the vast majority of the people on
the Earth yearn for peace.
(December 25, 2006, continued)
To return to the topic at hand, and to summarize, God is
all good, and He uses evil for His own beneficent
purposes. I gave the example of the Persian monarch Cyrus,
who brought the Israelites back to the Holy Land.
Another example of how God uses evil is the life of Joseph, who
was left for dead in a pit, sold into slavery, and then thrown into
prison, only to rise to the top of Egyptian society, and then save
his own family from starvation.
So, to conclude, in matters of war, God is always actively
working to have the good win. This doesn't always occur,
since war is based on human beings' free-will choices.
But, as you have accurately perceived, History is reaching
its culmination, and war itself is coming increasingly
into question.
For example, the more a few Americans advocate increasing
troop levels in Iraq, the more the country will continue
to react against the whole, what you would call, "mess."
And thus gradually, war itself will be questioned. At that
point, political leadership will accurately reflect the
anti-war, pro-peace position of the American people
themselves, and the transformation from selfishness,
greed, and domination to love and peace will begin.
And, let me repeat, this will happen because of the will
of the American people, who are already disgusted with the
Iraq quagmire.
And through the whole process, with all its horrors and
uncertainties, God is there, to nurture and bind up the
broken-hearted. He will prevail, and peace will come to
the Earth.
I will eventually channel another message about war and peace, but this will give
you food for thought for now.
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