Separation of Church and State?
Excerpts from fellowship about the real Jesus and the role of
Christians in society today:
If you understood that Yashua is the I AM - He not only had the
Canaanites destroyed for their pagan religious practices, He
sent Israel and Judah into captivity for refusing to follow His
biblical religion and as Yashua drove out of "My Father's House"
the moneychangers with a whip in His hand! Certainly that was
met with raised eyebrows and shaking of heads, not to mention
FEAR! Yes, fear religion!
And anybody who is a Christian who dares to deny that Christ
will rule, as necessary with a ROD OF IRON, enforcing
PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, simply is either in denial or
woefully ignorant of the biblical King of Kings and Lord of
Lords who will soon reign on Earth from Jerusalem with TOUGH
LOVE!
You're talking Old Testament.
I'm talking the Law and the Prophets that Yashua upheld
and will enforce when He reigns perfectly from Jerusalem with
TOUGH LOVE, giving different strokes for different folks.
Notice that God hasn't ordered the execution of anyone since
Jesus walked the earth.
Yes, He has, time and again through the Law and the
Prophets that haven't been made null and void by the tender
mercies of our God, the Sermon on the Mount, except for those
who are truly repentant as we can best determine with the help
of God. Why do you think it is written about the ministers of
State: "He bears not the SWORD in vain?" And that such ministers
of state are to enforce the Law of God, serving as the vengeance
of God? Romans 13 shows God has ordered the execution and
other forms of punishment upon lawbreakers since Christ, since
His Word remains true and hasn't changed or been altered to
accommodate fickle men and fleeting societies.
Jesus never told us to establish any form of government on
earth. He clearly taught that His kingdom was not of this earth.
If He wanted a government here now, He would have made one here,
now. We, as disciples, are not called to rule here or even
govern here.
Now you sound like the traditional Wor
ldwide Church of God and those groups who have forsaken
it in droves since the Great Apostasy after the death of Herbert
W. Armstrong, concerning avoiding politics, shirking your
responsibilities, your civic DUTIES, failing to render to Caesar
what is Caesar's and to God what is God's, and by such woeful
neglect and sinful negligence, have forfeited the reigns of
government to the wicked and then cry about how awful things
are! "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men
to do nothing." I submit they're not such good men or they would
do something!
Yashua revealed HIS Kin
gdom of God-Beings, the ruling Kingdom-Family of God
administering the Law of God, is yet future, that's true, of
which He will be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. However,
as the I AM, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He has
established an earthly kingdom called Israel and Judah today,
our family of nations - the Ang
lo-Saxon and white peoples of Northwestern Europe with our
Jewish brethren. And to us, which includes those called
to be Christians now: "REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES MY SERVANT
WITH THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS" (Malachi 4:4).
God calls upon our Israelite family of nations to RESTORE HIS
LAW AND ORDER, and we'll receive blessing to the degree we
love and obey and He will bless our NATIONAL EFFORTS that
reflect national repentance, learning to go by God's Word as
LAW, trusting in His wisdom, rather than leaning to our own
understanding with all our different political parties of men.
We must recognize we are suffering national curses for national
disobedience and repent and avert further national disasters
(Daniel 9:11). God will draw near to us as we draw near to Him.
God's Kingdom on Earth has always been through the physical
descendants of Jacob-Israel, and we're to be a TYPE of the
future Kingdom of God-Beings that will reign over us as we reign
over other nations.
We are called to be Christ on earth. To show others by our
example, who He is. Would Jesus have advocated war? How about
slaughter?
Yes, we are called to reflect Christ on Earth, and our NATION is
called to reflect GOD on Earth, as a "Light to all nations," a
MODEL NATION for others to follow, seeing our sound
mindedness and wisdom, peace and prosperity from following God's
heavenly law here on Earth.
Christ would certainly advocate war, if and whenever necessary,
without hesitation, as revealed in the Law and the
Prophets, the Law of Moses that our peoples and professing
Christians have forgotten to our confusion and shame! Onw
ard Christian Soldiers!
This is where groups like the KKK confuse the heck out of
me. They obviously don't know Christ. If they did, they'd know
that He'd never treat another human the way they do.
I don't know a single member of the KKK and from personal
experience know how a group's beliefs can be misrepresented by
hysterical mobs. If the KKK is biblical on this or that, I
support them on this or that. Where they're not biblical, I
would say so and not offer support but call upon them to change.
The racist NAACP obviously doesn't know Christ or they
wouldn't judge everything falsely by the color of someone's skin
rather than the content of character (while ignoring national
issues that are biblically based on ethnicity), and they
wouldn't hold people down and under and back so they can keep
their self-important positions they've prostituted themselves
for at the expense of their own people whom they've sold down
the river, listening to the siren calls of the race hucksters
like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both of whom should
move to Africa and lead the way and create
opportunities for others to follow. I would support them
expressing such creativity in action instead of always cursing
the real or imagined darkness rather than lighting a candle.
So many people claim to be followers of Jesus, then turn
right around and go against His teachings. Jesus taught us to
turn the cheek, love our enemy, bring peace and love to the sick
and hurting. Deliver others of demons and heal the sick. I see
none of this in our government body and I see very, very little
of this in the corporate church body.
God
's one government has two branches. Jesus was talking to
individuals (Sermon the Mount) and He was talking to the NATION
(10 Commandments/Law of Moses) when He revealed how we are to
live. So many people claim to be followers of Jesus, then turn
right around and go against His teachings. He said to exp
el sworn enemies from our Land; to execute various
criminals and cleanse the Land, to wage war, if and whenever
necessary, and not to show the mercy of fools to nations or
individuals who hate our guts and would slit our throats their
first opportunity.
Yashua said to be "wise as serpents and innocent as doves." He
was referring to an ATTITUDE, a willingness to go the extra
mile, out of our way, but not indefinitely! If we take all of
Yashua's teaching on any given subject, rather than twist His
teachings into some hippy pacifism, you'll see there's a time
and a place, which is why He could act so violent and knock over
tables and chairs and drive both men and animals from the Temple
with a WHIP IN HIS HAND!
Certainly doesn't fit the traditional false image, does it? His
harsh words against the religious leaders of His day certainly
weren't smooth and pleasant to listen to, especially if you were
on the receiving end of His verbal attacks! And when He reigns,
He will rule with a ROD OF IRON and rebuke some nations, punish
others and even destroy some.
Folks would do well to not try to tell the REAL JESUS
about His teachings or to remember His Sermon on the Mount!
Jesus will perfectly exercise the Law of Moses tempered by
the Sermon on the Mount, as divine wisdom calls for, and
we're called to whatever extent we're offered in this life to do
the same, whether it's in the home, office, pulpit or political
position. That's why our kings, our rulers, are commanded by God
to read and study His Word daily that it may be the LAW OF THE
LAND, and they can be humbled by realizing they're merely human
instruments of God's grace, God's rod and staff.