The Fifth Columnists

PERHAPS you don’t know what fifth columnists are. It goes all the way back to when the Spanish army would invade a nation and they would march the soldiers in four columns.

The soldiers would march in four columns and do a frontal assault on whatever nation or city they were going to attack. The nation being attacked felt pretty secure, because they could see the four columns coming. But what they didn’t know about were the fifth columnists.

The fifth columnists had moved into the city a year beforehand as covert operatives. They had become doctors and lawyers, politicians and businesspeople, and they infiltrated the land that would be attacked a year later. In other words, they were saboteurs. What they did was to set things up for the army invasions.

When the four columns marched, the fifth columnists would have already caused havoc on the inside. The four columns could do what they needed to do, because there were subversives internally. God expects every Christian who is functioning in a secular, non-Christian society, business, or school to be a fifth columnist. He expects you to be part of His army that works behind enemy lines.

He wants you to represent the interests of heaven in the locality of earth where He has placed you. Fifth columnists don’t become part of the culture, they just function at the level they need to in order to bring about the bigger plan of the nation that they are a part of.