The wars and rumors of wars around the globe impress a significant burden upon my thoughts. This burden drives me to pray for the world and the people who make up the nations of the world daily. With my wife having graduated graduate school from a school of Global Leadership, both of us doing our under graduate at Christ for the Nations Institute, I having worked for Christ for the Nations Institute, I having to communicate to teams on several different continents everyday, both of us having international relationships as some of our closest friends, and both of us having traveled the globe extensively for business, ministry, education and leisure our discussion, prayer, dreams, and visions of global matters is a norm in our daily life. We feel that making a difference in the world is a responsibility our family is called to.
We live in a day and era where we need to plan our plane routes, look at territories we will fly over, and consider the borders that we need to cross with wisdom. A few weeks ago when I was in the middle east and flying over the nation of Iran, I was thinking and praying about United States' nuclear deal with Iran and other matters the United States is engaged in this area of the world. Those that are regular globetrotters understand what is being communicated in this blog concerning wisdom in travel. One of the greatest and most famous leaders in the history of the world is my Lord Jesus Christ. He was and still is the greatest teacher that ever lived. He told his disciples to be wise as a serpent but harmless as a dove as He was sending them out on their travels.
Like a coin that is circular, with it’s head down, and tail up a serpent sleeps coiled up with its tail over its head. This is so that when the predator sneaks up on the serpent while it is asleep it thinks it is getting the tail. The predator get’s a surprise as it discovers the head. Jesus used the wisdom of a serpent to talk to the disciples about protection. In the Old Testament God gives the promise that He will make His people the head and not the tail. It was highly likely that imagery of a coin was what the people who heard that promise had in mind.
The New Testament was written in the Greek language. As I read the scriptures in Greek, think about the Greek culture, Greek mythology, and my travels to Greece I am reminded of the Medusa and the last three letters of her name USA. Medusa was the goddess of protection with a head made of serpents. It is possible that the people of that culture related the wisdom or strategy of serpents to protection due to Medusa being the goddess protection with serpents to represent her mind.
The New Testament was written in the Greek language. As I read the scriptures in Greek, think about the Greek culture, Greek mythology, and my travels to Greece I am reminded of the Medusa and the last three letters of her name USA. Medusa was the goddess of protection with a head made of serpents. It is possible that the people of that culture related the wisdom or strategy of serpents to protection due to Medusa being the goddess protection with serpents to represent her mind.
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In the book of Matthew 13:38 it calls the world a “field”. The nations of the world have positioned their militaries and soldiers strategically across the field of the globe with wisdom for protection reasons. The world is a field that is full of soldiers. The world is Soldier Field.
Growing up around the Chicago area in the Land of Lincoln or the state of Illinois, I naturally was a Chicago Bear’s fan. Mike Dicka, Dick Butkus, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, and other NFL greats were part of my childhood fan base. I remember attending NFL games at Soldier Field very clearly today. The last game I attended at Solider Field was between the Bears and the Vikings. In football one of the key players is the quarterback. I played linebacker in high school. Playing linebacker and captain of the defense, the one player you and our defense team were always trying to sack was the quarterback. Not only were you blitzing the quarterback to sack him, more importantly your goal was to gain possession of the football. You were trained not to kiss tail, kiss butt, but hit like Butkus.
In the United States the quarterback or the president has access to what the Secret Service calls the “nuclear football” or the “atomic football”. The football is with the president or the quarterback at all times. The nuclear football is the device used to launch nuclear war. You can read more about the nuclear football at the link below or watch the documentary clip from the Discovery Channel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
The person who plays quarterback is the Head of State or the coin icon on the head of the quarter, they call the shots from the headquarters. The president plays the head and the back as the quarterback or the tail at the same time. I am reminded of a time about 4 years ago when I was thinking and writing about this on my iPhone for the first time and a text message came through from a friend in another city several hundred miles away. At the very moment I was writing about how the President of the United States a quarterback of the world a text message came through on my cell phone from this friend. That text message said, “Is the quarterback that plays for SMU named McDermott related to you?" My response was something along the lines of "No, I didn't know there was a quarterback named McDermott that played for anyone but I was just writing about quarterbacks on my phone at the time you text me". The chances of winning the lottery are probably better then the chances I would get that text at the very second. There is no word in scripture for coincidence. That is what I call a divine “coin incident.”
That divine coin incident means to me that the world is a Soldier Field and that when America elects a quarterback every 4 years we need to make sure we elect a quarterback or president that is trustworthy enough to carry the football. When a football is snapped the football is put into play. The quarterback for America needs to be someone that will only snap on our enemies and give them eternal naps or lay them in their death bed when there is no other option and it is absolutely necessary. Every snap naps or will cause a great deal of death to a people group in order to protect another people group. There are some people who will run for office that do not have the temperate to be the president because under pressure they snap on everyone and everything to easily. There will be others run for office that will not have the capability within themselves to protect the nation by snapping either. America needs to elect the right person.
Recently our quarterback, the president and our team in the United States of America reached a nuclear deal with Iran. To most people of the world watching the headlines this is an unclear nuclear deal. One word that nuclear dealings should never be is unclear. Some politicians and those who know all the details of the deal say this is a good deal and others say it is a bad deal. It may be unclear to some however one thing is clear. The one thing that is clear, not unclear, but nuclear, is that Iran wants the ball and they will negotiate any deal they can to get it. They will strategize for decades and even centuries to gain possession of a nuclear football. Iran is working towards saying". I ran with the nuclear football."It is teams goal, to gain possession of the ball.
It is clear that in the 21st century that a nation cannot hold significant power without possession of the ball. You can’t score without it. Without it you are always playing defense. There comes a time when you get tired of playing defense and you are ready to play offense. Some teams believe that the best defensive is a powerful offense. Iran wants to play offense and the United States might have just given them the ball.
For those who read this blog and think that these matters are to serious to relate to a game understand that those who are engaged in the real game at the highest level are the ones that related it to a football first.
Recently our quarterback, the president and our team in the United States of America reached a nuclear deal with Iran. To most people of the world watching the headlines this is an unclear nuclear deal. One word that nuclear dealings should never be is unclear. Some politicians and those who know all the details of the deal say this is a good deal and others say it is a bad deal. It may be unclear to some however one thing is clear. The one thing that is clear, not unclear, but nuclear, is that Iran wants the ball and they will negotiate any deal they can to get it. They will strategize for decades and even centuries to gain possession of a nuclear football. Iran is working towards saying". I ran with the nuclear football."It is teams goal, to gain possession of the ball.
It is clear that in the 21st century that a nation cannot hold significant power without possession of the ball. You can’t score without it. Without it you are always playing defense. There comes a time when you get tired of playing defense and you are ready to play offense. Some teams believe that the best defensive is a powerful offense. Iran wants to play offense and the United States might have just given them the ball.
For those who read this blog and think that these matters are to serious to relate to a game understand that those who are engaged in the real game at the highest level are the ones that related it to a football first.
