Democracy, dictatorships, caliphate, empire and the kingdom of GOD ruled by Christ are considered, today. Because the model for divine government is not impersonal and legalistic, believers speak of GOD ruling as a father over his own family, as a king, as the leader within a single household, and as the head upon a body having various members and parts. A fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” using “Rigal T” as his ID (Level 5 with 7,671 points, a member since September 04, 2008) posted the following attack:
Would you support a just and True Christian dictatorship?
Or does representative democracy matter more to you than your faith?
Let's say it would mean the end of abortion and marriage equality, (or whatever else you don't like), and that more people would truly convert to Christianity.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. (1st Chronicles 29: 10-15, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: The American Covenant? (03/03/2015); Keeping Divine Law Impossible? (02/20/2015); Judge Thy Neighbor? (02/15/2015); Ruling With Christ? (02/12/2015); A Kingdom Now and One To Come? (09/05/2014); Comfort? (09/06/2014); Separation of Church and State (07/04/2014); The Point of Wisdom? (07/05/2014)
“Rigal T”, here are a few points Christian believers are encouraged to share with those who risk spiritual confusion by indulging their own carnal imagination and intellect:
(1.) Dictatorships typically appear through an increasing use of techniques that generate instability for civil government and legislative rule. Included are such factors as balkanization, blackmail, bribery, coercion, confiscation, deceit, demagoguery, discrimination, extortion, fraud, gerrymandering, hierarchy, incrimination, intimidation, militarization, nepotism (placing family members in positions of authority and trust), persecution, police riots, propaganda, racism, domestic spying, terror, threats, and mob violence. Finally, the populace is held to be incapable of sound decision-making, too divided and weak to establish a clear majority that has an agenda to benefit and promote prosperity, and is in need of a “strongman” to manage and maintain unified action.
(2.) The caliphate presently proposed among global terrorists seems to envision a state that copies ancient models of empire where culture, ethnicity, national borders, law and tradition all are overridden. As a result, the character and nature of what such radicals propose already is seen as flawed for the modern world. Insisting upon models appropriate to guerrilla warfare and revolutionary insurrection, the most prominent terrorist do not operate by the law of any sovereign nation or state. The caliphate they are committed to has never existed and does not presently exist. By contrast, the kingdom of GOD established through the living ministries of Jesus Christ has continued to develop and expand since well before the death of our savior upon the cross. For believers now citizens of the spiritual kingdom upon the earth, this is a stage in multiple sacred operations (e.g., atonement, forgiveness, resurrection, sanctification) transforming mankind to exist as an eternal companion to divinity.
As always, there is far more to be said, correctly understood, and properly apprehended. (For example, (3.) The framework of unity within the kingdom of GOD derives from a oneness of Spirit, rather than shared political or social goals, philosophies, and traditions. Where believers are born again, they receive a fresh endowment of the same spirit content that resided within Jesus Christ. Inseparable aspects of Deity appear and become perfected as believers continue to meet life challenges upon the earth. Included are faith, holiness, joy, longsuffering, love, wisdom and wrath against sin. By the permanent transformation that will occur at the Advent (we say, Second Coming) of Christ, all believers are to become immortal and incorruptible; and will be enabled to display the most necessary feature for living in respect to divine law (the expressed will of GOD) a new self-will fashioned after that of the full GODhead.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith and spiritual maturity.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
Sunday, February 8, 2015
(02/08/2015) The Cry for Judgment
Today, some points are shared on divine judgment, recent atrocities committed by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Condemnation, outrage and punishment are uppermost on the minds of many. However, the acts as well as the sins of those operating as terrorists are little different from those operating as soldiers. The differences pertain to the acknowledgment of universal law. Those in the armed forces must maintain a peculiar understanding of their own role, their own accountability as well as that for their military units and the nations they defend. As was seen with drug cartels in Mexico that threatened to end lawful government to continue carrying out trafficking, ISIS threatens to destroy existing lawful governments not simply the police, the army, and law enforcement. While their executioners hide beneath a mask, their faces are clearly seen before GOD. A “Yahoo! Answers” fighter using the ID “Man In Search Of An” (Level 6 with 15,968 points, a member since July 07, 2013) posted the following:
So they burned alive a Jordanian pilot in a cage .....Are you enraged and want blood because you are Muslim or christian or human being ?
Update : Reporting an MISOA question doe snot help...cheers!!!
THE GOLDEN ARROW: There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. (Luke 13: 1-9, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Agents of Allah? (01/26/2015); Holy Wars? (11/06/2014); Crimes Christ Crucified For? (11/07/2014); A GOD of War? (03/12/2013); “Authorized Personnel Only” (03/13/2013); Unless You Repent (03/05/2013); The Childhood of Jesus? (03/06/2013)
“Man In Search of An”, here are a few points that permit mature Christian believers to maintain their inner peace in the face of such atrocities:
(1.) Many thought leaders and men of faith around the world feel that the very deed of burning a man alive in a cage cries out for final judgment and absolute destruction of those who have carried it out. Yet, the high crime against all living that, in fact, must come into view is presumption by a group of men who have exalted themselves as agents of GOD having authority to execute the wrath of divinity against sin. Thereby, the Deity has been accused, blasphemed (i.e., his word rejected as false and unrighteous), denied, and misrepresented.
(2.) Christians are instructed through the holy writings to understand that the course of human affairs will increasingly be shrouded in darkness resulting from operations of sin. Sin has not been created by GOD, has no spirit content from the makeup of divinity, yet, sin has direction, effect, and presence. Sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, the Law Giver, and the divine order maintained by sacred law. Sin may dominate human awareness and self-will to the point that sin appears a natural, normal aspect of oneself. Sin can not be eliminated or removed using such finite tools as complaining, emotion, intellect, logic, mathematics, philosophy, and science.
(3.) The prayer to GOD for intercession and justice is always a cry for judgment, for the Deity who revealed himself to Moses, and has appeared upon the earth incarnate as Jesus Christ, assigns meaning, purpose, and value (we say, is a god of Judgment). Judgment is an immutable, permanent and unchanging aspect of divinity as are such sacred content as faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, jealousy, longsuffering, love, mercy, truth, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4.) When Jesus was asked about two shocking tragedies that had recently occurred (the death of 18 persons from a tower falling in Siloam; and a slaughter by the Romans of Galileans as they were offering sacrifice and worshiping) the Savior did not condemn anyone. He pointed out that those who die encountering human circumstances of injustice, misfortune, oppression, persecution and death are not automatically to be seen as greater sinners than others who escaped or got away. Instead, the Lord cautioned them (as well as us today) that, through the operations of GOD to restore the balance destroyed by sin, there is a continuous and ongoing process of divine judgment; and: Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to the measure of your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
So they burned alive a Jordanian pilot in a cage .....Are you enraged and want blood because you are Muslim or christian or human being ?
Update : Reporting an MISOA question doe snot help...cheers!!!
THE GOLDEN ARROW: There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. (Luke 13: 1-9, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Agents of Allah? (01/26/2015); Holy Wars? (11/06/2014); Crimes Christ Crucified For? (11/07/2014); A GOD of War? (03/12/2013); “Authorized Personnel Only” (03/13/2013); Unless You Repent (03/05/2013); The Childhood of Jesus? (03/06/2013)
“Man In Search of An”, here are a few points that permit mature Christian believers to maintain their inner peace in the face of such atrocities:
(1.) Many thought leaders and men of faith around the world feel that the very deed of burning a man alive in a cage cries out for final judgment and absolute destruction of those who have carried it out. Yet, the high crime against all living that, in fact, must come into view is presumption by a group of men who have exalted themselves as agents of GOD having authority to execute the wrath of divinity against sin. Thereby, the Deity has been accused, blasphemed (i.e., his word rejected as false and unrighteous), denied, and misrepresented.
(2.) Christians are instructed through the holy writings to understand that the course of human affairs will increasingly be shrouded in darkness resulting from operations of sin. Sin has not been created by GOD, has no spirit content from the makeup of divinity, yet, sin has direction, effect, and presence. Sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, the Law Giver, and the divine order maintained by sacred law. Sin may dominate human awareness and self-will to the point that sin appears a natural, normal aspect of oneself. Sin can not be eliminated or removed using such finite tools as complaining, emotion, intellect, logic, mathematics, philosophy, and science.
(3.) The prayer to GOD for intercession and justice is always a cry for judgment, for the Deity who revealed himself to Moses, and has appeared upon the earth incarnate as Jesus Christ, assigns meaning, purpose, and value (we say, is a god of Judgment). Judgment is an immutable, permanent and unchanging aspect of divinity as are such sacred content as faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, jealousy, longsuffering, love, mercy, truth, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4.) When Jesus was asked about two shocking tragedies that had recently occurred (the death of 18 persons from a tower falling in Siloam; and a slaughter by the Romans of Galileans as they were offering sacrifice and worshiping) the Savior did not condemn anyone. He pointed out that those who die encountering human circumstances of injustice, misfortune, oppression, persecution and death are not automatically to be seen as greater sinners than others who escaped or got away. Instead, the Lord cautioned them (as well as us today) that, through the operations of GOD to restore the balance destroyed by sin, there is a continuous and ongoing process of divine judgment; and: Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to the measure of your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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