"In fact, we must not only be able to fight effectively in the face of disorder, we should seek to generate disorder and use it as a weapon against our opponent."
Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Out of disorder and chaos, God brought order. He took the formless, void and dark and brought form, fulfillment and light.
1 Corinthians 14:33 (CSB)
God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
Where God goes, order follows Him.
Sin desires to unorder God's order. In doing so, it proposes an alternate ordering of things. It does not come straight through the front door and call its disorder what it is. Instead, it presents it as another brand of order. You cannot sell disorder, but you can if you brand it a new and improved way of ordering things.
It is into this "order" we ought to inject "disorder."
Disorder is the order of things without God. It is also the state of things immersed and influenced by sin. The human element of war ensures not only its continued existence until sin is eradicated, but also the state of its essence as long as it is being conducted. It is not just that sin creates conflict, but that it influences the way conflicts take place.
Sin attempts to disorder God's order and call it "order." Godly warfare seeks to undo this brand of "order" which comes in the form of righteous arson. Burning that kind of tower down is a victory for order since it topples and disorders chaos.
One might argue this is just wordsmithing in order to excuse disorderly conduct. But a simple thought experiment reveals that this is not just doing the same thing in a different direction.
If the system of this world were to succeed in "ordering" everything according to its designs, it would have us regressing all the way back to a formless, empty void. A process ironically they would "progress." No up or down, no boy or girl, no man or beast, no good or evil, just one level, bland, lifeless playing field where no one plays.
When the system of God succeeds in imposing it's will and purpose upon the current "order" of things, the resulting order is vibrant, diversified, defined, full of purpose and full of life. A process many, ironically, would call "regression."
In other words, godliness weaponizes disorder in order to produce order whereas ungodliness utilizes disorder to produce more of the same. It's end goal is the disorder it employs whereas godliness deconstructs the "order" of chaos like chemo destroys the structural integrity of cancerous cells in order to ultimately produce health and well-being. You know, that kind of order. Cancer marches in a predictable fashion laying waste to where it walks, but that kind of order is disorderly by nature.
To put a flesh on this skeleton, let me submit one final analogy.
If Hitler were to have attained victory, Europe would simply be Germany. But when the United States, France and England attained victory, Europe remained the diversified whole of independent countries retaining their local borders and bounty unique to their history, culture and contributions to the world.
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