God is for peace.  He cultivates, teaches, gives, loves and rewards peace.  However he is not limited to nonviolence, nor does he limits us to nonviolence. My message should be understood in the context of Romans 12:18
 
 Romans 12:18
 IF IT BE POSSIBLE, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
 
Exodus 15:3
 
The LORD is a MAN OF WAR: the LORD is his name.
 
I thought Jesus was the LORD?
 
Revelation 19:11
 
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge AND MAKE WAR.
 
JESUS BELIEVED IN ARMING YOURSELF!
 
Luke 22:36
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and HE THAT HATH NOT SWORD, let him sell his garment, AND BUY ONE.
 
 
 2 Thessalonians 2:8
 
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and SHALL DESTROY with the brightness of his coming:
 
DOES GOD TEACH MAN TO WAR? DAVID THOUGHT SO.
 
2 Samuel 22:35
 
He TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
 
JEHU WAS NOT A PACIFIST
 
 
2 Kings 9:19
 
Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, WHAT HAST HOU TO DO WITH PEACE? TURN THEE BEHIND ME.
 
2 Kings 9:22
 
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, WHAT PEACE, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
 
ELIJAH AND GOD ARE ON THE SAME PAGE WHEN IT COMES TO WARFARE.
 
2 Kings 1:12
 
And Elijah answered and said unto them, IF I BE A MAN OF GOD, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. AND THE FIRE OF GOD CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, and consumed him and his fifty.
 
 
ELISHA WAS NOT A PACIFIST, AND GOD SEEM TO INDULGE HIS POSITION.
 
2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and CURSED THEM IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. And there came forth TWO SHE BEARS out of the wood, AND TARE forty and two children of them.
 
DAVID WAS A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.
 
1 Samuel 18:7
the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David HIS TEN THOUSANDS.
 
MILITARY CHAPLAINS ARE NOT THE INVENTION OF MAN.

Deuteronomy 1:38
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither:encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

GOD COMMANDED WARFARE (that is not the say all warfare is of God).

Jeremiah 50:21
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: WASTE AND UTTERLY DESTROY after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
 
1 Samuel 15:18
And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and UTTERLY DESTROY the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.