Air Superiority…

Posted by Alexis Wallace on March 10, 2011 under Why | Be the First to Comment

Job 25:2 (KJV): Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places (the heights of heaven).

Air superiority is a necessity in any battle here on earth because the upper atmosphere controls all that is underneath it.

This principle truth had relevance long before Bildad the Shuhite ‘s dialogue with Job. The “heights of heaven” is the location of the Lord’s success in spiritual warfare against Satan (Rev. 12: 7 – 8). The heavens are also a powerful witness to Bildad’s forefather Abraham (through Keturah). G-d used them as a celestial screen to showcase His covenant to Abraham; to be the father of many nations (Gen 17:4).

Genesis 22: 17: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

The heavens are a showcase for divine promise and for battle.

Libya is now a prime example of this; as the international community, as represented through the 28 countries of NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization), seriously consider enforcing a “no -fly zone” over his country to stop him from bombing his fellow countrymen; who are calling for him to step down from his dictatorial leadership.

Colonel Gaddafi has been in power longer than most of the protestors on the streets of Libya have been alive. Since September 1st, 1969 he seized control of that nation in a bloodless coup d’état against King Idris while he was in Turkey for medical treatment.

Now, 42 years later, it is a mystery to Gaddafi to see all of this sudden international outrage over his leadership considering how many international organizations and prominent, wealthy people have profited from his wealth. The main company that the Gaddafi family has used to have such a global impact has been through the $70 billion Libyan Investment Authority.

Proverbs 17:23: A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Gaddafi’s character and misdeeds have been no global secret, since taking power in the 70’s he turned his nation into a safe haven for anti-Western and anti-Jewish radicals, allegedly personally financing and arming many radical and terrorist groups. In 1972, Gaddafi created the Islamic Legion as a tool to unify and Arabize the African region.

Gaddafi has a long list of terrorist and tyrannical friends; including brutal Ugandan President and General Idid Amin, who he gave refuge to after Amin had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his own citizens before fleeing to the protection of Libya. In gratitude, Amin even married Gaddafi’s daughter while there.

One of the things that Gaddafi was best known for was allegedly being behind the bombing of Pan American World Airways flight 103, over Lockerbie Scotland. Two hundred and seventy passengers and innocent victims on the ground were killed in this strike.

Just recently as a result of the current uprising in Libya and the exodus of many of Gaddafi’s leaders, the former Justice Secretary of that nation, Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil, in an interview with a Sweedish newspaper, claimed to have evidence that Gaddafi personally ordered Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi (an alleged Libyan secret operative) to carry out the bombing.

In 2001, Megrahi was convicted of the bombing. But, in August of 2009, following “doctors reports” that Megrahi had terminal prostate cancer, and was expected to only have three months left to live he was released. He is still alive to this day in Tripoli, Libya.

Many people see a powerful money and oil trail behind the release of Megrahi that leads to governmental quarters in Scotland. In response to growing outrage over this, in a Sunday Times article dated August 30th , 2009, British Minister for Justice Jack W. Straw wrote to his Scotland counterpart, “I had previously accepted the importance of the al-Megrahi issue to Scotland and said I would try to get an exclusion for him on the face of the agreement. I have not been able to secure an explicit exclusion.

“The wider negotiations with the Libyans are reaching a critical stage and, in view of the overwhelming interests for the UK, I have agreed that in this instance the [PTA] should be in the standard form and not mention any individual,” Minister Straw wrote.

Flash forward now to the present day; as the fighting intensifies in Libya with most nations taking the right stand to strongly condemn the Colonel’s use of force against innocent civilians. Mixed within that chorus of condemnation are also the voices of many people that perverted justice because of rich gifts and oil.

Oil reserves in Libya are the largest in Africa and the 9th largest in the world. As the current chaos in that nation sends the very speculative market of finance into a frenzied tail spin, the big focus of the day with regards to the implementation of justice is in securing the airspace over that nation.

Whether or not Gaddafi retains his power or Libya become fractured with warring factions grabbing control of her oil fields, we must learn to take our eyes of the present and look up, with hope to the Or-Boker Mimarom (Our Dayspring from on High):

Psalm 19:1: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork.”

There is a different dimension of warfare that must be waged in the Heavenlies since “air superiority” is a necessity for any battle here on earth. Friends, I believe that we are about to experience the skies and the Heavenlies used as a very unique theater for something even more fascinating than this present crisis in the Middle East.

Shalom aleichem,

Pastor S. Alexis Wallace