The Strong Case for Christian Non-Resistance
Matthew 5 :38 “You have heard that our fathers were told, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you not to stand up against someone who does you wrong. On the contrary, if someone hits you on the right cheek, let him hit you on the left cheek too! 40 If someone wants to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well! 41 And if a soldier forces you to carry his pack for one mile, carry it for two! 42 When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something from you, lend it to him.
Luke 22:35 ¶ And he said unto them, When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing. 36 Then he said to them, But now he that hath a bag, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath none, let him sell his coat, and buy a sword. 37 For I say unto you, That yet the same which is written, must be performed in me, Even with the wicked was he numbered: for doubtless those things which are written of me, have an end. 38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
Their having two swords was enough that now “with the wicked was he [Jesus] numbered.” That is, in my humble(?) opinion the only deduction possible!
Matthew 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up thy sword into his place: for all that take the sword, shall perish with the sword. 53 Either thinkest thou, that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will give me more than twelve legions of Angels?
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would surely fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate then said unto him, Art thou a King then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King: for this cause am I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth: everyone that is of the truth, heareth my voice.
Notwithstanding:
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. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.
One that occasion I hope to be riding with My Lord the Messiah!
Now in this day, even this perilous day:
2 Corinthians 10:3 Nevertheless, though we walk in the flesh, yet we do not war after the flesh. 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to cast down holds.) 5 Casting down the imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,
Ephesians 6:10 ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the assaults of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, which are in the high places. 13 For this cause take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to resist in the evil day, and having finished all things, stand fast. 14 Stand therefore, and your loins girded about with verity, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. 16 Above all, take the shield of Faith, wherewith ye may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, 17 And take the helmet of Salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray always with all manner prayer and supplication in the spirit: and watch thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints, 19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to publish the secret of the Gospel, 20 Whereof I am the ambassador...
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Genesis 12:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
1 For the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house unto the land that I will show thee.
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
3 I will also bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
When will we understand that God has invested nearly 6000 of His LOVE into humanity and 4000 years ago He chose one man Abraham to be the father of the family through which the Messiah would come.
John 4:22
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
"Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is of the Jews."
Israel the grandson of Abraham fathered Judah, and today the world calls all Israel the Jews. REGRETTABLY, the gentiles have not understood the Jewish people as the "delivery system" of God's divine and Holy Love to THEM, to the gentiles. Many Jews believe that perhaps mostly by intuition, but regrettably do not accede to Jesus as the Messiah. As Sid points out, the message of the gospel of the Messiah Jesus was delivered also to the gentiles via Jews, the apostles 11 plus Matthias and also Paul all Jews! Did God make some divine adjustments to the Jewish people after Jesus went back to heaven? Yes He did. As it says the are now blinded in part. I'm not the expert, but it seems to me He put them in a place that they would have to walk now by faith and not by sight! But whatever the full truth about what happened, God did not make the church a spiritual "gentile only" thing. And He did not completely abandon the Jews to hell. He did fullfill the prophecy of Deuteronomy 28:
58 ¶ If thou wilt not keep and do all the words of the Law (that are written in this book) and fear this glorious and fearful Name, THE LORD THY GOD,
59 Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore diseases and of long durance.
60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, whereof thou wast afraid, and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 And every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this Law, will the Lord heap upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, where ye were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.
63 And as the Lord hath rejoiced over you, to do you good, and to multiply you, so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you, and bring you to naught, and ye shall be rooted out of the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
65 Also among these nations thou shalt find no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: for the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and looking to return till thine eyes fall out, and a sorrowful mind.
66 And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt fear both night and day, and shalt have none assurance of thy life.
Fearfully this is what did happen to the Jewish people. Still and yet they were as God promised "left few in number." And in 1948 right around 3430 years after this was written, God began to lift the curses they had been so long enduring for their own unfaithfulness. It has not been easy for them. But the scary thing for the gentiles, that is for the nations, is that while they could have helped the Jews much at any time in History, and perhaps especially after their brother Jesus saved so many of them, and even more after they themselves and the hand of God restored them to Israel, instead the sad facts show that gentile opposition and harassment, mayhem and murder have been directed at the Jews by pagan satan led gentiles since Balaam responded to Balak's bribery.
After Jesus went back to heaven the unbelieving Jews and the pagan nations persecuted Jewish and gentle believers for the sake of their naming Jesus as their Lord. Later on in the 5th century the roman emperors usurped most of the believers into state churches, and the leaders of the gentile church also began to persecute the Jews. The period from around 200 CE to 1800 CE is a long story of anti-semitism making it's way and dwelling comfortably in the pews and pulpits of the Holy Roman Empire. It is a long convoluted and largely untaught history in the churches, for they were they ones doing these evil things! Now after 1948 the nations have violently attacked her MANY times and maliciously heaped up propaganda against her, and brought her into their government houses to ply back from her the land they gave her mere years before. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and many protestant churches TODAY side with Israel's enemies. Some rich American churches have sold off stock in Jewish owned companies as if those investments were unclean.
These are the treatments Jews got and get from many gentiles who was sent to the Jew first and yet ASLO THE GENTILE ! It is important to "blame" satan the devil for some of this, for he of all sentient beings hates God's plan and people the most. Yet satan could not have harmed a hair on a Jewish head without human cooperation, or am I wrong?
And I think maybe I have gone over the head of some gentile believers who read this, even though I am far from an expert on the subject. The Bible does revealed a scandal, one with two sides: One side shows gentiles: who say they are christians (christlike) who know less about the Bible than most other things (from Hollywood to Washington D.C.) and gentiles who know a ton about the Bible yet are ignorant of Israel's Biblical, prophetic history past present and future! On the other side Jews who are also ignorant of the Bible, and Jews who know a ton about the Old Testament but nothing about their Messiah's Biblical, prophetic history past present and future!
If you are a Gentile Christian you believe God has promised to save you from hell and give you everlasting life in His heaven yes? You count on that promise yes? If not there is nothing left to say on any subject other than salvation. But if you do trust God in Christ to one day receive you into everlasting life, do you understand that it is because when God makes a promise He keeps it? And never ever breaks it? It is the devil that is a liar. He lied to Eve saying essentially God would not let them die for eating the fruit, but when she and Adam ate they died spiritually and eventually bodily. God kept His promise, they ate and He made them die. God cannot break His promises.
The most remarkable promise God ever made to a Jew was the promise He made to the virgin Jewess Mary that she would bear a son and He would be called Jesus. He made the same promise to Joseph, Mary's fiance. As a gentile I am so glad He kept His promise! Because in the Old Testament the prophets spoke of the day the gentiles would come to Him and be saved!
Yet we take this marvel for granted, and know not the myriad marvels that are written about which adorn the story of salvation from day one to May, 8 2013!
In Genesis Ch 12 begins the story of Abraham. God made numerous promises to Abraham, and numerous to Isaac his son, and to Jacob (Israel) his grandson. He made yet other promises to other descendants of Jacob. Not a few. In fact I believe every prophetic word of the Holy Bible is a promise! So the challenge is to YOU dear reader to investigate the promises of God. He made so many to the Jews, and He will keep them all. Notwithstanding the Jews must receive Jesus their Messiah as Lord! Gentiles call them the testaments, a better word is covenants and yet the best word for our understanding is PROMISES! And Scholars say the many many promises found in the Bible compose eight substantial covenants with men.
The scholarship exists. But have you been taught the facts? Or rather have you learned the truth? I am not Mr. Know It All by any means, but I pray and expect to learn something new daily. My prayer is for ignorant and/or arrogant gentiles and Jews to investigate the Bible and the scholarship all the while asking God Himself to be their guide. God is love! INVESTIGATE! He is not your enemy, even if you have become His! The infinite love of God and His promises to you as a gentile are so infinitely full of POTENTIAL if you will believe and receive Jesus. Or if you are a Jew the same is true! God has a 6000 year investment of love in His humankind. And the marvel, wonder and miracle of all marvels, wonders and miracles is that Jesus is the guarantor of that investment. God's investment was never in danger of loss, because His one and only uniquely begotten Son Jesus was willing and able to insure the outcome, the "payoff" WHICH IS HIS INHERITANCE which is all those He saves!
Hebrews 12
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
1 Wherefore, let us also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, cast away everything that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth so fast on: let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is set at the right hand of the throne of God.
Angels have longed to look into these things! These things will never be more significant in our lives than at this moment while we live in mortal flesh! We all who believe must become continually more well aquainted and well versed in the Holy Book of God. Through it we do get to KNOW Him!
Jeremiah 9:23-24
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the strong man glory in his strength, neither the rich man glory in his riches.
24 But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me: for I am the Lord, which show mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
1 Peter 1
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
1 PETER an Apostle of JESUS CHRIST, to the strangers that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father unto sanctification of the Spirit, through obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you.
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance immortal and undefiled, and that withereth not, reserved in heaven for us,
5 Which are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, which is prepared to be showed in the last time.
6 Wherein ye rejoice, though now for a season (if need require) ye are in heaviness, through manifold tentations,
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might be found unto your praise, and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom ye have not seen, and yet love him, in whom now, though ye see him not, yet do you believe, and rejoice with [joy] unspeakable and glorious,
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of the which salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come unto you,
11 Searching when or what time the Spirit which testified before of Christ which was in them, should declare the sufferings that should come unto Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they should minister the things, which are showed unto you by them which have preached unto you the Gospel by the holy Ghost sent down from heaven, the which things the Angels desire to behold.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind: be sober, and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought unto you, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
14 As obedient children, not fashioned yourselves unto the former lusts of your ignorance:
15 But as he which hath called you, is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation,
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.
17 And if ye call him Father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your dwelling here in fear.
18 Knowing that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation, received by the traditions of the fathers,
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb undefiled, and without spot.
20 Which was ordained before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes,
21 Which by his means do believe in God that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to love brotherly without feigning, love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born anew, not of mortal seed, but of immortal, by the word of God, who liveth and endureth forever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth away.
25 But the word of the Lord endureth forever: and this is the word which is preached among you.
Click here to see what inspired: From Boston to Chechnya and back via France and the Age of Enlightenment
Judge Jeanine starts by referencing the Statue of Liberty and the message incribed thereon. I think we might reevaluate the Statue of Liberty as just one more idol, a false god. It is likely to have been the devil inspiration and the french free masons who sent her to us. Certainly the statue could (should?) be seen as an affront to God for the worship it inspires. God in Christ are the Ones we are to worship in Spirit and in Truth. The Statue of Liberty has no relation to God and the church at all. If you ask me, the source of it, a French free mason and sculptor, had to be influenced by the devil who inspires the free mason occult society even to this very day!
The references to "Liberty Enlightening the World" also suggest a connection with the Illuminati. I once thought the free masons just a cult, a weird playboy club, even if George Washington and Bill Clinton were both masons. But things are becoming know about masons and the powers above them that are a bit chilling. Truly the prince and power of the air does lead about the children of disobedience. Satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would bow and worship him. Jesus refused him; other men have not! Though God does superintend all that the devil does, it is true that the devil has some legal authority over those who do not follow God in Christ. And we know that the hierarchy of the Dark Kingdom attends the high places of the world, the seats of human governments being very much high places. Where ever power is found, satan will be found exercising it or coveting it.
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.
Also from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bartholdi
Bartholdi served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and as a liaison officer to General Giuseppe Garibaldi, representing the French government and the Army of the Vosges. In 1875, he joined the Freemasons Lodge Alsace-Lorraine in Paris. In 1871, he made his first trip to the United States, to select the site for the Statue of Liberty, the creation of which would occupy him after 1875.
Above is a photo of Bartholdi and below a picture of "the sign of the Master (mason) of the Second Veil" also known as the "sign of Napoleonic Grandeur." There is some controversy over Napolean (the French would be tyrant) being a Free Mason, but there is none about the sign of the second veil.
