Go Ahead, Destroy the Earth

“We give thanks to you, Lord God All-Powerful,
the one who is and the one who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
And the nations were angry,
and your wrath has come,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets
and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name,
the small and the great,
and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Revelation 11:17-18 (LEB)

In the first few months of 2026 we have experienced events on the world stage that I have not seen in my life time. There is a war of aggression where one side warns if you do “this” we’ll do “that”, seemingly the goal being to destroy everything in Western Asia and to cripple the world economy. There is a country bombing civilians claiming to be “eliminating terrorists”, the sitting president of the United States is writing genocidal rantings laced with profanity on social media while simultaneously in a war of words with the pope. Meanwhile, the pope is striving to unite Christianity and Islam, while the Vice President of the United States lectures the pope, an Augustinian priest, on Augustinian theology.

One cannot untangle politics from religion now because religion is central to many conflicts in the world. Three major religions dominate the political landscape: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The issue arises from the fact that much of the extremism attributed to these faiths is not representative of the religions themselves. For instance, the country of Israel does not embody Judaism, and the actions of the U.S. do not reflect Christianity. What about Islam? Can we believe what we are told? We witnessed the head chopper versions of ISIS and al Qaeda, but the west does not seem to have trouble embracing the new leader of Syria, who is formerly linked to al Qaeda. There is growing evidence that these “terrorist” groups were actually empowered by the CIA and Moussed to take advantage of the differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Most westerners are ignorant of these differences.

I do have sympathy with people who believe that religion is the cause of much of the problems in the world. No one can argue about this because we are living it today. Christianity has been weaponized in the United States with leaders having prayers at the pentagon invoking God to destroy their enemies as if their cause is similar to the righteous King David. Using lines from a movie as a prayer to the living God is a mockery.

President Trump has been elevated to a messiah type figure. I recently saw a quote from his “spiritual” advisor, Paula White, saying that going against President Trump was akin to going against God.

The good news is we can read the Bible for ourselves and realize that all of the religious theater is “fake news”. One cannot justify genocide by simply labeling people groups as “bad” because they have a different belief system, form of government etc. The real problem is not all of these so-called “bad” people groups, but powerful individuals, even principalities, as the apostle Paul referred to them, attempting to control the entire world through religion, along with many willing “religious” people ready to be accomplices.

1 John 3:4–10 (LEB): ⁴ Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ⁶ Everyone who resides in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him. ⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous. ⁸ The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Everyone who is fathered by God does not practice sin, because his seed resides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

Someone who wants to erase civilizations and those who cheer this on do not love their brother, nor are they practicing righteousness. Those who enjoy bombing innocent people have a serious problem, especially when they do it while invoking the Creator of the universe. Those who hate people due to their religion are monsters. The pope is right to reach out to Muslims in peace because we all have to share this world together. It is not a game of who can kill whom first. That template is from the evil ones. We are currently living amongst psychopaths.

Luke 6:35–36 (LEB): ³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!

The Bible is clear what happens to the people doing all the killing and destruction. First from the Prophet Isaiah:

Isaiah 2:17–22 (LEB): ¹⁷ And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. ¹⁸ And the idols shall pass away entirely, ¹⁹ and they will enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the ground from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth. ²⁰ On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats— ²¹ to enter into the crevices of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. ²² Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils, for by what is it esteemed?

This has not happened yet and the prophecy is repeated in Revelation:

Revelation 6:12–17 (LEB): ¹² And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood, ¹³ and the stars of heaven fell to the earth like a fig tree throws down its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. ¹⁴ And the sky was split apart like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved from their place. ¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the most important people, and the military leaders, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷ because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

What will happen to all of these people destroying the earth and killing its innocent inhabitants? It is not looking good for them. This is why Jesus said that the meek will inherit the earth. “Blessed are the peace makers”. So even if one does not like the pope’s theology, he is doing the right thing. In the end, we see what will become of the warmongers and liars.

Revelation 21:5–8 (LEB): ⁵ And the one seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new!” And he said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.” ⁶ And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water from the spring of the water of life freely. ⁷ The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son. ⁸ But as for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

There is an evangelical Christian group, along with many government officials in the United States and Israel that promote this idea that the wars against Lebanon, Iran and the Palestinians are some how as righteous as wars that King David was involved in. This is worth a separate post, but briefly, they are living in a space void of the Messiah Yeshua. Moses told us that he would come and we must listen to him. Peter quoted Moses from Deuteronomy 18 in the book of Acts.

Acts 3:22–23 (LEB): ²² Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you. ²³ And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.’

God will punish the shedding of innocent blood. The innocent blood of all people groups will call out to the Father.

Genesis 4:10–11 (LEB): ¹⁰ And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. ¹¹ So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.

In conclusion, one should indeed be cautious of religious fanatics within governments that advocate for the elimination of individuals from different religions and cultures. This should not cause us to turn our backs on the Creator and the Messiah, Yeshua. We must be focused to ensure that we are following the teachings of Yeshua. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!