The Enemy

A deputy sheriff is shot in the back while putting gas into his cruiser.  The "Black Lives Matter" crowd marches, while chanting, "Pigs in blankets, fry like bacon."  A war is brewing in our country between a segment of the population and our police forces across our nation.  Lines are being drawn and the enemy is clearly defined except the Enemy is not at all who they imagine.

The "Black Lives Matter" extremists, have decided that the police are the enemy because they are "killing young black men daily."  But the truth of the mattter is that less than 0.1% of all arrests ends in a shooting of anyone.  And, caucasions are shot at roughly twice the rate as African Americans.

A young black man is 100 times more likely to be shot by another young black man than a police officer.  The daily taking of black lives is within the black community and the real Enemy is blinding those who are set out to undermine and even kill our country's police officers: "“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts" (Jn 12:40).

This movement found traction in the Ferguson, MO shooting of a young black man named Michael Brown, who was called "A gentle giant."  A young black man gunned down while innocently walking home from a convenience store, begging the officer with hands held up, "Don't shoot, don't shoot!"  Except that the "Gentle Giant" had just robbed that convenience store and forensic evidence clearly proved that not only were his hands not up, he had been trying to wrestle the gun from the officer.

The movement whose standard is "Hands up don't shoot," should be "Pants up don't loot" because their champion was looting a store before being shot by a police officer in self-defense and the crowd burned and looted their own community in protest incited by the Enemy.

There are problem officers in virtually every police force just as there are criminals in virtually every black or white community in the country.  But the enemy of the young black man is not the police officers who daily go into harm's way to keep the peace.  The enemy is not truly the other young black men who are doing 90+% of the shootings: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms"(Eph 6:12).

The truth of the matter is that "Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Pett 5:8).   And he is devouring a large part of an entire nation as he turns one segment of society against another.  Jus' Say'n.