It’s all about phony soldiers or calling them that. It could be the biggest tempest in the biggest teapot ever—the torrid verbal clash over Rush Limbaugh’s remark referring to fake war heroes or impugning all dissenters, depending on whom you believe. In every war, there will be turncoats, those who go AWOL and veterans who bloat their heroics.
Believers are exhorted to “fight the good fight of faith, laying hold on eternal life,” as Paul declared in I Timothy 6:12. Paul paid for this fight with his life saying, prior to his execution, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: and the victor’s crown awaits me” (2 Tim. 4:7 – paraphrased). For years, soldiers of the cross have laid down their lives, overcoming in the Satanic battle through Christ’s blood and their true testimony, loving not their lives to the death (Revelation 12:11). Phony mortal soldiering is sad, but shrinking from spiritual warfare is worse. So let us join ranks, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith” (I John 5:4).
David Virkler
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