"Grand strategy must always remember that peace follows war. " —B. H. Liddell Hart
The good go to war in order to accomplish peace. The reason there must be war for now is because evil refuses to be peaceful. Evil will not stop coming at good.
God placed enmity between evil and good. The only difference between good and evil is often that evil never forgets this enmity whereas good sometimes thinks its goodness can be accomplished apart from being at war with evil or that being above the warfare is what qualifies it as good.
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
He shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise His heel.
Evil is against good, so good must be against evil. If it isn't, it is itself evil. There is only fighting against evil or being evil.
Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other
The flesh and the Spirit cannot play nicely together. They are against each other, actively. They aren't just opposites like up and down, but against each other as two opposing forces trying to impose upon the other. To attempt a peace treaty with evil is to have lost to evil. Evil takes enmity seriously. Evil will never stop fighting. Good fights because of the evil with an ultimate goal of peace. Evil fights against good and has no peace, no rest, for the wicked in the end.
The good fights for now in order to not fight later. Goodness must have peace as a strategic end, but not a mean.
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