The Church Militant, The Church Triumphant, and the Armor of God

Ellen White wrote of a future state of the church in which its members are all clad in this armor – the armor of Christ's righteousness. She wrote, "Clad in the armor of Christ's righteousness, the church is to enter upon her final conflict. 'Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners' (Song of Solomon 6:10), she is to go forth into all the world, conquering and to conquer." Ellen White, Prophets and Kings, p. 725.23 We want to be members of the church triumphant, the conquering church, and the way to do that is to array ourselves in the armor to fight against our true enemy – Satan and his angels. But before the church is in its triumphant stage, Ellen calls it the church militant - the church co-mingled with wheat and tares. Obviously, this is the stage the church is in at the moment, not only because the church has members that harbor sin in their hearts, but because it is a church that is fighting against itself - against its own members, with seemingly no means of truly settling any of our disagreements. Join us as we go through each piece of God's armor delineated in Ephesian 6 so you can be prepared to be part of His army in the church's triumphant stage. For more study: "God Gives Us the Armor He Uses Too!" https://youtu.be/JCoVw4-g4IQ?feature=shared "Love Walkers," https://youtu.be/IqV4XRPkJGI?feature=shared "Bodies in the Beyond: The Faith with a Physicalist Future," https://youtu.be/GpsBcWhVztM?feature=shared "A Palpable Paradise: Scripture Without a Spirit World," https://youtu.be/aL10U4Yt9ok?feature=shared "What is Truth? (1 of 2)," https://youtu.be/WNU5xzHIAzU?si=7OSQASO2DzGZ57Am "What is Truth? (2 of 2)," https://youtu.be/AeDNYW-wvqw?si=x3B54qZgG3B8DHer Sabbath School Q3 2023: Ephesians - Week 13, "Waging Peace"  A Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the Sabbath School lesson.  www.bdsda.com