For so long weapons of war were designed to inflict damage directly to individuals with swords, spears, and projectiles that would wound a single opponent at a time. With the development of explosives, however, there has been an expanse of impact to mass destruction from smaller grenades to nuclear bombs that destroy anything within their range of devastation. As this has developed militarily, it reflects a similar strategy in the spiritual realm. While individual divisions of strife and condemnation can be harmful on a small scale, there is a larger spirit of offense and judgment that threatens to overwhelm large groups within its proximity. This spirit is one that is threatening to destabilize our great nation which was founded on unity under God. Instilling an embrace of entitlement and offense has caused a spread of destructive dissent that will destroy and condemn what was once a free and forgiving society.
As expressed in Jesus' prayer of John 17 for unity, we have received in His sacrificed life an opportunity to wreak havoc on the evil scheme of unforgiveness that is the world’s harmful trend. In each heart that is made new in Him is the installation of a weapon that will affect much more than just those in close proximity. Rather than participating in fault finding and its impending condemnation to separation, the mercy we’ve received in the embrace of the Father transforms us into weapons of His grace that spread an attraction to Him wherever we go. It’s in this transformation to seeing people joined with God rather than undeserving of Him that truly knowing Him can have a wide impact. It’s against this Weapon of Mass Deliverance that the gates of hell will be rendered inept and ineffective. The new creation we become is one with a mission in His body of widespread “God’s-goodness” proclamation. His glory will cover the earth through those who are one with Him in mercy, forgiveness, and love.
2 Corinthians 5:16-19 (HCSB)
16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.
18 Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
Colossians 1:19-23 (NKJV)
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—
23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.