The Victorious Christ

To be honest, when the first day I saw this title until the very last message I read, I felt the message was not quite for me. On the one hand, I appreciate Christ has nullified sin, the death and Hades cannot hold Him, and He is victorious over the entire universe. But on the other hand, somehow it bothers me that the victorious Christ will come as the fighting General with His army to fight Antichrist (Rev. 19:11-21).

My question is, "Seriously, I'm not quite sure if I'm qualified to be in the army." My genuine situation is, I thought I could be strong by spending time and enjoying Christ, the Victorious One, but I often find myself "Oh, Lord, I don't what to do in the situation, how to deal with this and that thing, and the worst of all, I don't know what to do with myself."

However, as I was considering this matter, the story of Genesis 32:1-10 came to me. Jacob was quite scared of meeting his brother, Esau on the way back. So after Jacob met the angels of God, he divided his wives, children, and the rest of his possessions into two camps, or "two armies". Eventually, God changed Esau's attitude so there was no harm to Jacob's family and possessions. We can say that the two armies had won the victory.

If we link this case to Song of Songs 6:13 for more details. This verse talks about the dance of two camps. The reason why the two camps are dancing because they're celebrating the victory. In the same verse, we know the reason why the weak ones and feeble ones are victorious as armies. The country girl is no longer a country girl alone but becomes the Shulammite who shares the same life, nature, expression, and function as our Beloved Christ typified by Solomon.

Therefore, the entire picture here is that the victory is not gained by us but Christ. It is the Christ whom we experience and is wrought into us becomes the victory of the battle. In other words, it is not even because we enjoy Christ and become pretty strong and capable of many things that qualify us to be the victorious armies. It is simply the Christ that we love and enjoy and are constituted within us enabling us to cooperate with Him and gain the victory.

So praise the Lord that our first qualification to join the armies is our being weak and feeble. Corresponding to the message in day 6 of week 3 in the morning revivla, we cannot trust ourselves but depend on the redemption, life, light, and building that qualifies our fighting.And all we need is in the Word. Therefore, our military service, or our military training is simply to enjoy the Word, to love Him so that we can be the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function. It is such a Christ that we put on qualifies us to gain the victory with Him!