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Why Star Wars: “The Force Awakens” is a Parable That Supports US Empire

Just about everything in the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, is hard to believe, I mean, at least in terms of consistency. The plot is full of holes, but older Star Wars fans are willing to suspend disbelief for that warm and fuzzy feeling of childhood regression. Myself included. But in our modern day screen culture that is the US, where we sell wars and elections like toothpaste, I suppose suspension of disbelief is a daily occurrence.

People want to believe. The corporate culture produces “just war” narratives to satisfy an insatiable appetite for violence, exactly what Star Wars delivers, except this time, I would argue, it’s been turned upside down in the service of a real empire: The US Empire.

I am not saying that The Force Awakens was intentionally made as an imperial piece of propaganda for US wars, but it’s hard not to make the connections between Disney’s history of racism and xenophobia, the total absence of the Dark Side’s politics (other than ISIS like nihilism), and the way in which the “good guys” are always innocent and being attacked by an evil force that literally hates their freedom. The Dark Side in The Force Awakens is reconstituted as The First Order that explicitly engages in an act of mass terrorism to destroy the Republic, i.e democracy.

On a positive side, the actors playing the parts of Ren, Rey, Finn and Poe were excellent. The toned down use of CGI is a plus, and the landscape shots and the sets of The First Order were impressive. This thing was even shot on 35mm film!

Don’t get me wrong, I love Sci-Fi, but I am far more interested in deeper, radical socio-political-economic narratives you would find in the writings of Iain Banks or Kim Stanley Robinson. Star Wars is a kids movie, but I can’t help but see this new film as cynical in light of our current political climate. It’s reactionary in a way that strengthens current myths in our endless “war on terrorism”.

The Force Awakens (TFA) is weirdly post-post-modernist in that it kind of eschews skepticism, and embraces a kind of hopeful cluelessness. Indeed, the original film was made in the 70’s coming off of a massive cultural and political rebellion. The US just lost it’s first war after an illegal and immoral invasion of Vietnam. Corruption was in your face with Watergate and the Church Committee hearings.

You could easily identify with the rebel message of the original Star Wars as a fight against an unjust system. Stormtroopers were seen as either Hitler’s SS or riot cops bashing student heads, depending on your point of view. Today, 14 years into the Neo-cons endless war against independent states in the Middle East completely recasts the context for any war movie.

Terrorism has replaced communism as the existential threat to the US. It’s a very useful propaganda tool for justifying large military budgets, illegal invasions, illegal assassinations, illegal spying, illegal detentions, and a shredding of the US Constitution. Real war planners don’t really believe terrorism is a threat at all, in terms of an actual challenge to state power.

Non-state actors like Al Qaeda and ISIS don’t kill anywhere near the numbers that their state counterparts do. Industrial state terrorism like that conducted by the US in Iraq and Libya have murdered millions of innocents. And by definition, terrorism is the use of violence against civilians to advance a political cause. That definition applies equally to both retail (non-states) and wholesale (states) terrorists.

In TFA, it’s clear The First Order doesn’t want to take state power, unlike their previous counterparts: Darth Vader and the Emperor. Their goal is total destruction, total domination and total obedience, an existential threat of, literally, the first order. They are terrorists by definition.

With TFA, you can almost see how this warped world we have arrived at in 2015 could remake the original and interpret the Rebels as US soldiers fighting cult-like fascists with no politics other than nihilism (aka ISIS). Interestingly, we learn that the Stormtroopers in this Star Wars are taken as children and indoctrinated with one belief system: obedience. And in a very insightful moment, Captain Phasma asks Finn, “who gave you permission to remove your helmet?” (mask?). These are not-so-subtle references to an ISIS like world: abduction, obedience and anti-individualism. (okay, yes, you can say the same thing about the US military, except its abduction by economics).

The explicit lack of politics of the Dark Side, other than nihilism, makes it even more politically current by what scraps are left on the table. This strikes me as a very Disney thing to do: simple narratives of good vs. evil. If the original Star Wars was subtle political commentary, and I think it clearly was, the new Star Wars is more like political anti-commentary. It says more by what’s left out.

As criticized as the three prequel Star Wars movies were, George Lucas actually explained the political landscape of how the emperor rose to power, and made not so subtle references to the lunacy of the George W. Bush administration. Anakin said, “If you are not with me, then you are my enemy”. Under the guise of being attacked (a false flag attack), the Emperor demanded that the senate hand him full power, alongside a reduction of liberties (i.e. the Patriot Act). Not gonna happen in a Disney/JJ Abrams movie.

And of course, this film is a complete remake of the original ’77 film, repackaged on a foundation of quicksand with no new original ideas, and is a kind of fluff simulacra a la Baudrillard, arguably a reflection of the modern propaganda spun towards current day citizens of empire with the intent to turn the world upside down and portray the aggressors as innocent bystanders of someone else’s evil.

In other words, US citizens are always portrayed as innocent victims in support of truth and justice, and that their government is benevolent and full of good intent. Today, as a case in point, the dominant narrative is that ISIS came out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the US invasion of Iraq, or its policies in the Middle East.

To any clear headed observer, this is a blatant falsehood, but to a student of history, it’s a despicable distortion starting with the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of Mosaddeq in Iran, and the US policy of destabilizing secular Arab states for over six decades, especially those that chose a course independent of the US hegemon. Not to mention support of the Mujahideen and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan ( see this photo of Reagan meeting with the Mujahideen in the White House: http://bit.ly/1OfEjIg ).

So, in a similar fashion, the Rebels in The Force Awakens are always innocent victims responding to an outside Evil of great magnitude. Except today, that great Evil isn’t fascist states hell bent on world domination, they are rogue nihilists Attacking Us For Our Freedoms.

For both the audience of Star Wars and the US public generally, we are both meant to identify with the good side of the Force, but instead of Luke Skywalker as the ultimate savior in the film, we just need to endorse a yearly Pentagon budget of $600 billion to rule the world, with the best of intentions, of course.

So with that—

THE COMPARISONS:

Star Wars: The Force Awakens repackages Episode IV almost entirely:

1 Rey = Luke

2 Finn = Leia

3 Ren = Darth Vader

4 Death Star = Planet Weapon (seriously, again?)

5 Jakku = Tatooine

6 New bar scene = equals old bar scene

7 Obi Wan, the mentor, dies = Han Solo, the mentor, dies

8 Rebels meet before they attack death star = rebels meet before they attack planet weapon (same scene basically)

9 R2D2 carries message = BB-8 carries message (a map that makes NO SENSE at all in this case)

10 Rebels are underfunded = rebels are underfunded (how this is possible is a total mystery since they, um, WON last time!)

And on it goes—

Also—as we look closer:

PLOT LINES TO CONSIDER:

I am supposed to believe Luke just gives up because of guilt over training Ren because he went to the dark side, and self-exiles to some far away place? Seems like a chump move for a guy who was the original hero. Shit, not even Obi Wan acted that cowardly. At least he stayed within earshot of Luke as we was growing up.

So, there is a jigsaw like digital map (why the fuck does it look like a puzzle? seriously?) that someone made to identify Luke’s location, even though Luke doesn’t want to be found, and isn’t training Jedi anymore. So why exactly is Luke such a threat to The First Order? I mean the dude just stuck his tail between his legs and ran. He blames himself for creating this mess, and then runs away from it? What are the filmmakers unintentionally saying about this guy?

And who made the map? Can’t he just email the location, encrypted with PGP, and send the thing on to the rebels? I mean, can’t the Map-maker just tell a couple of comrades where Luke is, or did he die being the sole carrier? How did he royally fuck that mission up? Was it a mission? If so, why was this Map-maker on his own if this was so goddamn important? And how, do tell, does a digital map get split up into perfect puzzle pieces? WTF?

Ok, let’s say that Luke made the map and split it up on purpose with R2D2. What’s the point? Why even make a goddamn map in the first place? Can’t you just let your friends know where you are going? Again, encrypted mass email? WTF?

Ok, what is up with The First Order anyway? I get that they look like the 3rd Reich Nazis, but they act more like a planet-destroying ISIS. And how exactly how did the last rebel alliance royally screw up their victory? I mean, how did these guys get their hands on massive quantities of ships, technology, and weapons so easily? Are we to believe the Republic is that weak, and incapable of, oh i dunno, disarming it’s enemies!?

Are the filmmakers really saying that General Leia and Luke are that truly incompetent not to see the rising Nazis/ISIS in their midsts? Did the Republic invade the Star Wars version of the Middle East and set the groundwork for the rise of The First Order? Where were the anti-fascists?

This isn’t necessarily JJ Abrams problem as much as it is the shallowness of the original idea of the Dark/Light side of the Force. That dichotomy is so ridiculously simple, it doesn’t allow for much in the way of nuance. Star Wars is truly a fundamentalist world. But to Lucas’ credit, he tried to explain the larger political context. Clearly, JJ Abrams and Disney don’t really give a shit about that.

If Ren was trained by Luke, there is NOT a chance in hell that either Rey or Finn could have fought him for more than one second in their lightsaber battle at the end. Not one second, especially given the supreme powers that Ren displayed earlier, like stopping a laser blast mid-air, or pulling a guy across a room using the Force. To be consistent in the Star Wars world, Jedis need training, and there’s now way to believe that Rey, let alone Finn, could have survived that encounter. It was a joke. But, I supposer there is one cop-out for the filmmakers: Luke Skywalker is the WORST teacher ever in the history of the Jedi.

The Star Wars universe have some pretty fucking bad parenting problems if all the kids keep falling over to the dark side. How the fuck did Leia, Solo and Luke fuck that one up so bad? It’s seems pretty clear that Rey and Ren are cousins, that Rey is the daughter of Luke, so why did he abandon her? That coward of a parent just sits sulking on an island hidden somewhere in the Universe, and doesn’t go in search of his daughter? Ok, for the sake of argument, lets say it’s not his daughter, but this guy is a JEDI and Ren’s uncle, and he still leaves his nephew behind? WTF?

Generally speaking, Empires don’t destroy the places they conquer which is precisely why they are EMPIRES!! They conquer land to extract resources as the US did in securing its hegemony in the Middle East. Even ISIS conquers land, steals the oil, and sells it to Turkey! (side note: ISIS sells oil to Bilal Erdogan, the son of Turkey’s president, Recep Erdogan). Why would The First Order destroy the planets they want to conquer? It’s far too nihilistic. Where are the politics of The First Order? Is it really that simple: nihilism? This is the strongest evidence for comparing The First Order to ISIS.

Also, why do they do what they do? Apparently, they aren’t racists (Finn) or misogynists (they have females in leadership roles), but yet they conquer to only destroy? Where does that make sense? The best antagonists are smart ones. These guys are cardboard cutouts. Pretty fucking stupid. At least the old emperor was a senator first who skillfully connived his way into dictatorial power. There is logic to that.

Remember when The First Order destroy the home world of the Republic, are we to believe that they are in the same solar system as the rebels? Because we see the red laser sun-ray gun killing planets from the Rebel’s home world. How the fuck is that possible? i mean it’s been 30 years since the original Star Wars, and a lot has progressed in our Sci Fi worlds, and in particular, our understanding of the distance between stars. I was baffled by this obvious oversight.

Was I the only one concerned with the repeat of Mr FishHead talking about the shields? Another bad rip off. But more importantly, it took them a total of maybe 60 seconds to figure out where to attack the planet weapon. That was pathetic, something that even an 8 year old wouldn’t believe. Just a little too easy, and a little to squeaky clean and fast, based on so many assumptions about a weapon they know nothing about. At least with the Death Star, there were STOLEN PLANS that were studied for a long time to find a weakness. That was believable, this was horrendously not believable.

Wasn’t it just a little too convenient that Solo and Chewy found Finn and Rey at the exact time and place that they did? It’s not impossible in Star Wars world, okay, but it is highly improbable. I was just rolling my eyes at this one. At least write something into the script that makes this encounter just slightly believable. Solo claims to have been tracking the ship, but WTF, for how long? Thirty years?

Ok, how is it that the rebels this time under “General” Leia are so under-equipped? I mean, didn’t they WIN last time? They defeated the Emperor with the help of Darth Vader, and you might think that they have the upper hand in terms of force, no? Somehow the tables got turned once again significantly in favor of the Dark Side. Yes, it is necessary for a plot line, but you got some explaining to do JJ.

I am all for a little suspension of disbelief, especially in a space movie, but this was just too much.

The REAL Star Wars
It is far more astounding than any science-fiction fantasy—and it is absolute reality!

By Gerald Flurry
From the July 2015 Trumpet Print Edition

Most of you have heard about the science-fiction fantasy Star Wars movie series. But did you know that the Bible talks about a real star wars that is more astounding than any fiction? The real star wars have been going on for thousands of years, and whether you realize it or not, they are affecting your life.

The very last of these star wars is building now on Earth, and it will be a thousand times deadlier than any other. Yet it’s going to be the last one, forever.

This is not fantasy. This is reality. It is happening behind the scenes—but it is clearly depicted in your Bible if we do a little digging to see—and its end is imminent.
Stars in the Bible

The Bible uses stars as symbols for angels. Notice, for example, Revelation 1:20: “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches —.” These seven stars represent seven righteous angels.

There are also fallen stars. “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth —” (Revelation 12:3-4).

The Bible shows who this great red dragon is. God created him as an archangel and named him Lucifer (“light-bringer”). But he rebelled against his Creator and led a large faction of angels to actually war against God and literally attempt to overthrow Him (Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28).

What was the result? Long after this war, God sent His Son to Earth, and Christ Himself actually tells us about the decisive moment: “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18). Lucifer became Satan, and his angels became demons.

Notice the rest of Revelation 12:4: “[A]nd the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” Almost immediately after Christ was born, Satan inspired King Herod to kill all children 2 years old and younger in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:13-18).

This is important to understand: These star wars among spirit beings affect physical human beings on Earth! If we misunderstand or disbelieve that fact, we will be deceived, and will end up being victims.

Let’s go back in history to the beginning—the most destructive war among the stars ever, the war that started all of these wars.
The First Star Wars

God originally appointed Lucifer and one third of the angels to rule over Earth. It was God’s testing ground to prepare them to rule the universe. When Lucifer ruled Earth with God’s government, those angels under him were full of joy. It was a wonderful and happy place.

But then he and his angels rebelled. He became God’s bitter adversary. Satan and the demons failed dreadfully and disastrously. They disqualified themselves from ruling over the Earth and the universe.

That great star war between the fallen angels and the righteous angels of God devastated not only the face of the Earth but the planets, the galaxies, the entire universe!
After Satan led one third of the angels to rebel, what did they do to the Earth? “And the earth was [became] without form, and void —.” The Hebrew for “without form and void,” tohu and bohu, conveys chaos, confusion, waste and emptiness. “[A]nd darkness was upon the face of the deep [the destroyed surface of the Earth]. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Genesis 1:2).

Lucifer became bitter, and he filled the Earth with violence! That is what he’s all about: violence and bitterness. God changed Lucifer’s name from “light-bringer” to “the adversary,” or enemy of God—and that’s what he is to this day!

God created the universe. It was structured and beautiful. But what do you see today if you look out at the universe? Destruction, decay and bondage. Why? What happened between the time God created it, perfect, and now? It was destroyed in that same war!

That great star war between the fallen angels and the righteous angels of God devastated not only the face of the Earth but the planets, the galaxies, the entire universe! That is the destructive power of Satan. There was a great war out there, and even though the beings fighting in that war are invisible, you can see how destructive they were to physical things! They can destroy physical things, including physical human beings. They have great power, and the only way to combat that power and overcome it is to have God’s power.

The state of the universe shows you how real and how destructive the true star wars are. We are talking about the real war happening between the stars: the righteous stars and the fallen stars. This is the real star wars!

God recorded this war in many scriptures in your Bible, yet we hear very little about it. People don’t understand and don’t believe in these wars—and their effect on what is happening on Earth right now.
Sons of God Will Rule the Universe

“Because the [creation] itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (Romans 8:21-22). The whole universe is in “the bondage of corruption.” How did that happen? Why is the universe pictured here as groaning in travail and pain? Because of the decay and great devastation in the universe! All those desolate planets have been greatly damaged. God never creates anything unless it is very good (e.g. Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, etc.). That means something went terribly wrong with all these planets; we can see how much damage has been done to them. That is the result of Lucifer and the angels’ rebellion. They have awesome destructive power! Yet few people understand it.

At one time, Lucifer was a covering cherub for God. This powerful being was trained at the headquarters of the universe. But his rebellion led God to eliminate the potential that angels would rule the universe.

When God saw the destruction of the universe, He realized that He could not trust the angels to rule over it. The only one who can rule the universe is God. Only a God being could be trusted with such power. So He set in motion a plan even greater than the angelic plan. He decided to re-create Himself. He renewed the face of the Earth, and then created a new type of being: mankind.

Believe it or not, the truth of your Bible is that God’s magnificent purpose for human beings on Earth is to be fashioned after His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26)—and to actually enter His Family as God beings! That is what God is doing with mankind! That is His magnificent plan! I urge you to request from us a free copy of Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The Incredible Human Potential, which explains this wonderful truth in detail straight from your Bible.

Romans 8 says “children of God” will be the ones to bring liberty and freedom—not just to their personal lives or their families, but to the Earth and the rest of the universe!

Romans 8 plainly tells us that God is preparing human beings to rule over the Earth and the universe. The children of God are going to bring liberty to the entire universe. Why don’t people talk about this more?

Now, if you look at human beings, it is obvious that we are not ready to rule the universe. We have become rebellious, sinful and destructive just like Satan. In fact, Satan and the demons still rule the Earth (2 Corinthians 4:4) and have massive influence over human beings (Ephesians 2:2).
Satan’s Power

If you want to really understand Satan’s power, look at Isaiah 14. “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God —” (Isaiah 14:12-13). “Above the stars” means above all the angels—but he has even greater ambition than that.

Notice: “I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (verses 13-14). Here God records Lucifer’s thoughts as he prepared an attempt to depose God and steal His throne! That was Lucifer’s ambition! It was an insane attempt against the all-powerful Creator, but Satan was so full of self-will, vanity and bitterness, he actually tried it.

“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell [the grave], to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the [one] that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms” (verses 15-16). This power actually shakes kingdoms and makes the Earth tremble! A lot of people on Earth tremble today because of this evil being and his fallen angels. These “stars” exert tremendous influence over men, because men absorb that same rebellious spirit.

The Emphasized Bible refers to Satan in verse 12 as “O, crusher of nations.” The American Standard Version says: “He didst laylow the nations!” The Jerusalem Bible uses the phrase “enslaved the nations.”

Your Bible says Satan and his demonic fallen stars have power over nations and human beings! That is why they cause so many problems and get involved in such wars. They have nothing but bitterness and wrath in their minds because of their rebellion against God. That’s the way it is when angels or humans rebel against God. We enter into a bitterness that’s almost like being addicted to heroin. You just can’t shake it, if you’re not very careful. It is extremely dangerous.

Daniel recorded how Satan even fought to prevent his prophetic book from being recorded in the first place. God had given the prophecy to Gabriel to deliver to Daniel. Gabriel is one of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible. The only others of this highest angelic rank are Michael—and, formerly, Lucifer. As Gabriel was delivering the book to Daniel, Satan the devil attacked.

In Daniel’s prophecy Gabriel is recorded as saying, “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days” (Daniel 10:13). That is Satan the devil; he is mentioned this way because he actually ruled over the world-girdling empire of Persia. Satan is the one that ruled it! Can you believe that? This is what happens in these great world-ruling empires; that’s why they are so evil and why they do such deadly, evil things.

Continuing in verse 13: “[A]nd behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia” (New King James Version). This prince of Persia was fighting against Gabriel, God’s archangel, so it is obviously referring to Satan the devil and his fallen angels. This was a great battle in the star wars of the Bible.

Satan is called the prince of the kingdom of Persia because he gets control of these great world-ruling empires. 2 Corinthians 4:4 calls him “the god of this world.” People worship him and they don’t worship God. Revelation 12:9 says Satan has deceived the whole world!

This is the real star wars! Satan has forceful rule and power over the rulers of the world. He empowers them to cause destruction. And very soon, according to the prophecies of the Bible, he is going to cause the greatest crisis ever on Earth. He is fighting against God. He knows that his time is short! (Revelation 12:12). Why is it short? Because Christ is about to return and kick him off his throne forever, and bring this world peace, joy and happiness that it should have had from the very beginning.
Spiritual Terrorism

Ezekiel 28 also talks about these star wars. “Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty” (verse 12). Here, God talks about the king of Tyrus and Satan the devil almost as one and the same, because Satan rules over kings!

He was “the anointed cherub” (verse 14) who helped God in His Work. But then he started a war! “[T]hou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more” (verse 19). God will put a stop to it, but Satan is a terror to this world! He is a terrorist—the supreme terrorist on Earth—and he rules over all terrorists! How many people understand that? Do you know why our nations can never win the war against terror? Because Satan empowers it. The only way we can overcome or conquer them is to have God’s power, which is far greater than any power Satan has. But we turn away from God today, so we have no spiritual power.

Daniel 8:10-12 talk about these stars: “some of the host and of the stars” were cast to the ground. That is, the very work of the angels of God was cast to the ground because 95 percent of God’s own people rebelled, and they transgressed. They left themselves without God’s power, and Satan just took over God’s Church. He not only takes over nations, he takes over God’s own Church if the people don’t obey Him. That is the kind of power Satan has. Yes, these star wars go on even inside God’s Church! These invisible beings—evil beings and God’s angels—are battling against or with God’s people. How effective those righteous angels are depends on how obedient the people are.
Join the Fight!

Though so few people believe it, this world needs this message. They need the message of God to understand why they are here, what is happening on Earth, and what it all means! People are in confusion and into all kinds of destructive things. But there is a great future ahead of us. We need to understand the real star wars—and what God and those righteous stars are fighting for! It’s about nothing less than our purpose for existing!

Romans 8 says God is preparing “children of God”—human beings—to rule the Earth and the universe. But to reach that stage in His master plan, God is taking several successive steps. Right now, God is not yet trying to make all human beings—or even all who consider themselves Christians—into “children of God”! He has actually chosen only a little flock today to come out of this world.

Are all the problems and disasters you see in our world what God wanted for mankind? No, but we have it because people rebel against God.
That tiny Church that Jesus Christ founded is preparing to marry Him and help Him bring liberty and freedom, joy and happiness to the Earth, and then to the universe.

Those who respond to this calling now, before Christ returns, are merely the firstfruits. God is going to use them as His Bride to rule with Him in the World Tomorrow from His headquarters—and open up salvation to all of mankind. They will have a remarkable, amazing reward for what they do today to get this message out to the world. They will help Christ lead His entire Family to rule over the Earth and then all the universe!

We get to bring liberty, real freedom, to the entire universe! No more suffering! No more star wars! No more pain! What could be more wonderful and exciting than that? The real star wars God has revealed are a campaign to eliminate all wars, all unhappiness, all pain, all suffering, all misery on Earth.

Look around! Are all the problems and disasters you see in our world what God wanted for mankind? No, but we have it because people rebel against God. People need to be taught to obey God and have all of the wonderful blessings He has for all of us!

Now, if you respond today, you get directly involved in those star wars, and you have God and His righteous angels helping you fight the destructive power of Satan and the fallen angels. That is how we prepare to rule with God.

I hope this real star wars becomes vivid in your mind so you can see what it is all about and see God’s master plan. The people of God are fighting in this evil world today, fighting ferociously, to win this battle for God. And we absolutely will win! We cannot lose if we are loyal to God!