My soul's in Christ's hands, don't worry about wars or rumors of wars, but "be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance."
1 Peter 1
Actually the real reason, as Jesus said himself, was that his temple was supposed to be, "A house of prayer". Killing communists because they're taking over a country which had no problem killing children in their mother's womb is kinda different.
You’re wrong. Why did Paul, who wrote much of the New Testament, saw Jesus personally, and perform many miracles, willingly suffer so much at the hands of Jews and gentiles alike? Surely it was not because they were stronger than Christ, but because it glorified Christ for Paul to be merciful towards them in the same way God was to him.
The world loves violence, and bloodshed. The nation’s roar and harm each other as they always have, but God’s kingdom stands firm. Jesus is still at the right hand of God, and it is better for a Christian of little faith to be put to death for Jesus, whom the communists boast against, than for him to fight them. Even pagans can kill communists, but who can kill the faith that comes from God? That man or woman who died at their hands will live forever, but the communists who never repented will be forever dead, and suffering.
Likewise, it makes no sense for a follower of Christ to fight violence with violence, because a true follower of Christ has mercy as God gave mercy to him. Not a spirit of wrath, but of grace. Not a spirit of boasting, but humility. For the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
“I’m an atheist”
Which explains why you took the above verses out of context. Why didn’t Paul or Peter reign down fire on their enemies? Why does the father say, “Precious are the deaths of the saints in the eyes of the LORD”?
Because, his kingdom is not of this world, or the world would have been taken over. Instead, the saints now suffer, and increase in faith for the kingdom which is to come, and will come as the books of revelation, Isaiah, and Malachi foretell. Christians who suffer patiently for the coming grace show the faith the LORD has given them. And they pray for those who persecute them.
The LORD simply allows those who persecute them to either turn from their sin in repentance to Jesus, or perish. Why should people who were sinners and are now saved wish for the destruction of their former brothers who now suffer in their same evil?
the solution to these things has always been to stop sinning and learn about Jesus, but of course zealots would rather murder than forgive, and destroy rather than create. Thus, you’d go and make a catastrophe by harming Jews to keep Americans from sinning😒
As it says in Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Destroy the idols to humble the idolaters, it’s always been that simple.