Thursday, May 25, 2023

No Classless Society During Millennium

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28 BSB)

Some people claim that this verse supports the Woke Left's genderless agenda. Actually this is not true. This verse affirms that race, class and gender exist.

Galatians 3:28 affirms that race exist, but it is not a hindrance to salvation.
Galatians 3:28 affirms that class exist, but it is not a hindrance to salvation.
Galatians 3:28 affirms that gender exist, but it is not a hindrance to salvation.

During the coming millennium, race, class and gender will still exist. I am very sure that male and female will still exist in the coming millennium. The nations (other than the Israelites) will still exist as distinct races during the millennium.

Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. (Zechariah 14:16 BSB)

As for classes, I can see at least three distinct classes. Jesus as God and King, Priest and Prophet, will be in a class of His own. Then we have another class, which will be the saints who will be resurrected with spiritual bodies at the last trumpet and ruling with King Jesus during the millennium. The final class will be the normal people who survived the great tribulation with their natural bodies to populate the millennium kingdom.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. (1 Corinthians 15:44 BSB)

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Nationalism Fascism Nazism

Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise. (Ecclesiastes 7:10 NLT)

Let say there is a country called Z. Z used to have a glorious past but now is in humbler times. Z is very upset that now the world order is set by country A. All the countries from B to Z have to follow A. Z felt that all the countries ought to follow Z, like those good old days when Z was a glorious country. So Z stir up hatred for A among its citizens and also those who do not live in country Z but are from the same tribe, race or culture as Z.

Should a Christian who is from the tribe, race, culture or country Z follow what the government of Z and hate A?

Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? (Psalm 139:21 ESV)

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20 ESV)

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

True Food and Drink

I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
At that, the Jews argued among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
So Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day, because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your ancestors ate - and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."
(John 6:48-58 CSB)

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take and eat it; this is my body." Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them and said, "Drink from it, all of you. For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. But I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." (Matthew 26:26-29 CSB)

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. (1 Corinthians 11:23-26 CSB)

Monday, May 22, 2023

No Discrimination

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28 BSB)

We should not discriminate people indiscriminately. It is a right thing to do. Christians do not discriminate people based only on race, class and gender (Galatians 3:28). All can be Christians. But the Bible also says that only those who believe in Christ have eternal life ((John 14:6).

The woke left progressives do not discriminate people based on race, class, gender and religion. They reduce discrimination even further than Christians by non-discrimination of religion. The woke left progressives do not just stop at non-discrimination. They wanted to obliterate race, class, gender and religion. They want to create a raceless, classless, genderless atheist society.

We should not go beyond God's word. We should include what God includes and exclude those He excludes.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6 ESV)

Sunday, May 21, 2023

God Justifies The Ungodly

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself? (Job 40:8 BSB)

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29 BSB)

Men always want to justify themselves. But it is better to let God justify us.

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification. (Romans 4:25 BSB)

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. (Romans 8:33 BSB)

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The Piety of the Persecutors

As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. (Daniel 2:34 ESV)

Originally, the Romans persecuted Christians out of their belief that Christianity was a "superstition" or "atheism". Actually, Christianity is a dangerous religion. Roman beliefs, religion and culture were involved in an existential struggle with Christianity. If Christianity win, the Roman gods and Roman culture will die. Christianity did win and Rome and its gods died.

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The Roman Empire was generally quite tolerant in its treatment of other religions. The imperial policy was generally one of incorporation - the local gods of a newly conquered area were simply added to the Roman pantheon and often given Roman names. Even the Jews, with their one god, were generally tolerated. So why the persecution of Christians?

In order to understand the Roman distrust of Christianity, one must understand the Roman view of religion. For the Romans, religion was first and foremost a social activity that promoted unity and loyalty to the state - a religious attitude the Romans called pietas, or piety. Cicero wrote that if piety in the Roman sense were to disappear, social unity and justice would perish along with it.

The early Roman writers viewed Christianity not as another kind of piety, but as a "superstition." Pliny, a Roman governor writing circa 110 AD, called Christianity a "superstition taken to extravagant lengths." Similarly, the Roman historian Tacitus called it "a deadly superstition," and the historian Suetonius called Christians "a class of persons given to a new and mischievous superstition."
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Robert L. Wilkin, "The Piety of the Persecutors" Christian History, Issue 27 (Vol. XI, No. 3), p. 18

Now Christianity is involved in existential struggle with China. If Christianity wins, China and the Chinese culture and beliefs as we know it will cease to exist. Like the Romans, the Chinese are aware of this and they are trying very hard to stamp out Christianity.

In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever. (Daniel 2:44 BSB)