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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Witness Lee objected that the prayer that the Lord would smite his enemies is contrary to the NT verse that we are to "love" our enemies and those that persecute us.
Yet the NT also refers to Christ on the cross as defeating sin, Satan, death and the world. These are our enemies.
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You got it brutha. How WL never saw the "spiritual side" of the equation is pretty remarkable, given that he teased pictures of Christ out of every type and figure available. I guess his interpretive template had already pre-determined his understanding, before handling the text.
There
is actually warfare in the NT, right up through the book of Revelation. Only the struggle is not against flesh and blood, nor are the enemies. They are spiritual forces. Obviously. Yet WL couldn't see any types of Christ in the struggles of David, which is amazing, when you consider Jesus surrounded by unclean spirits, religious know-it-alls, and vacillating disciples.
I consider that the only warrior greater than King David was his descendant, Jesus the Nazarene.