Warping the Bible's Teaching Regarding Women and War

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2026/03/08/on-biblical-warrior-women/

Muehlenberg never disappoints. If there's a way to twist Scripture, he seems bent on finding it - and The Aquila Report just loves to keep re-posting his material.

As he glories in the killing of Iranian leaders and calls on Christians to rejoice and sing in celebration, he distorts what is happening in Judges.

The point is not to celebrate warrior women but rather it's a cause to lament. It's judgment. It's because men like Barak were weak and as such when men fail to fulfill their calling, the women step in. Some seem to think this is okay, such as in a situation where there are no men leaders in the church. It's not. Isaiah reminds us of this when he declares it judgment to have women and children ruling over them - increasingly the norm in Western culture and sadly in much of the Church.

The Old Testament episodes reveal the spiritual downgrade during the time of the judges and in terms of warfare - Muehlenberg displays a lack of understanding when it comes to redemptive-history. The Judges episodes are not analogous to the US and Israel killing Iranians or murdering the people of Gaza. The US is not the covenant nation - nor is Zionist Israel for that matter. The Holy Covenant Nation is the Church, the nation that turns the other cheek and does not employ carnal weapons, the same Church that dismisses worldly entanglements and sets aside temporal judgment leaving it and all vengeance to God. In other words Muehlenberg doesn't know what he's talking about.

Christians should not celebrate these wars or participate in them and contrary to the demonic Pete Hegseth - there is no warrior ethos for Christians. We fight spiritual battles and glorify God in suffering and bearing witness. Hegseth promotes his sundry errors because he doesn't understand the gospel message and sadly his denomination celebrates his ignorance and the glorification of sin when they ought to excommunicate him.

Muehlenberg (and Hegseth no doubt) would call me 'woke' - a meaningless term used by fools but in reality (perhaps without realizing it) he's promoting feminism and as such is double the fool.

Note how Muehlenberg dances around the Jael example - he can't really condone it in terms of present application but rather than understand it properly, he skirts around the issue and instead chooses to score some political points and take jabs at Christians who don't share his Right-wing views.

His quotes from people like Webb are terrible and betray a real ignorance of not just these episodes but Scripture in general. This has nothing to do with mavericks and respectability. Ironically this kind of ignorance and twisted commentary is also a form a judgment - just as was Deborah's leadership. But in Deborah's case the battles were redemptive and covenantal. Muehlenberg's championing of Anglo-American Empire (and pseudo-Christendom) is not and thus once again we are reminded of the reality that pseudo-Christianity is far more dangerous and harmful than anti-Christianity.