Unfortunately we are often hard-pressed nowadays to tell friend from foe by external appearances. While God looks on the heart, and we cannot, our Christian religion should affect our standards of dress and behaviour.  Scripture and history tell us this is so. Our women have often lost the concepts of modesty, submission and discretion in their behaviour. Our young folk pierce and tattoo their bodies as the pagans do, in the name of being all things to all men (at least that’s often the excuse). And most importantly we men embrace a feminised view of masculinity, promulgated by our pagan educators and abandon our patriarchal roles as heads of households; defenders, leaders and servants of our families.

I write this sitting in a car parked on the side of the road in the mountains of New Zealand above the Canterbury plains.  It’s raining and misty; visibility is low. Climbing these mountains in this weather would be unpleasant, hard and demoralising. There are many valleys that disorientate and could lead you in wrong directions. Mount Zion is also high and the climb is hard. Our climbing must be done as individuals but also as institutions; families, churches and nations. It must be done multi-generationally, raising our children to start where we left off, with each generation seeing further and with greater clarity.

Teaching the doctrine of creation is critical to advancing the kingdom of God. But it’s just a start in recapturing our role as Christian soldiers, advancing onward to take captive every thought. And with what weapon do we fight?  The word of God, sharper than any two-edged sword. The antithesis of creation is not evolution, but the occult practice of questioning the word of God. “Did God really say……?” The main battle field therefore is within the household of God, the body of Christ. There are traitors among us, and as long as we tolerate these traitors as our leaders, we will continue to face judgement and bring that judgement upon our nation.