quote: sawman
Oh, please Lord, have mercy on those who suffer at the hands of evil men and angels. You hear my cry! Do hasten Lord!
That You did suffer at the hands of those who hate You, Hear my prayer.
It would seem that God’s Mercy would, at sometime need to make the restoration of Justice?
In all things I must beg for His Mercy. For me, and all.
Doesn’t this seem a little strange?
No, it does not. And I’ll tell you why I think this.
Judaism still looks for Messiah. Why?
Because the human Messiah will establish the reign of God on earth,
including the establishment of the justice and the righteousness of God.
The awaited Messiah will be a human being, not a God/Man.
A rabbi once asked a priest, who was his good friend:
“What has changed?” A fair question. What has changed,
radically, since Jesus of Nazareth walked among men?
The 20th century was the most lethal century in all of history.
It was, primarily, Christian nations that waged two world wars.
72 to 80 million dead, in WWII. The concentration camps. The gulags.
Pol Pot’s ‘policies,’ in Cambodia, are estimated to have killed
25% of the Cambodia population. What in the name of God is happening?
How could this be?
And how is it - that a Christian nation, our own, stood back and allowed
the hideousness of partial birth abortion to be legalized?
No, sawman, it’s not at all strange, to yearn for the establishment of
God’s Kingdom and His justice.
Jews, who await a human messiah, are heard to say: “Next year, in Jerusalem.”
Meaning that God may send Messiah, next year. That if each member of Judaism
will do their best to improve the world - and life in it - then God may send Messiah, next year.
So what of Christians? Christians say that He has already come.
That He promised to return, in glory. Looking at the charnal house,
that was the 20th century - for many many millions - is it not fair to
ask the question: “What has changed?”
The more acutely aware one is, of the horrors perpetrated by human beings,
the more one yearns for the establishment of God’s Kingdom and His justice -
tempered by His mercy.
That’s what I think, anyway. And I do not consider this at all strange.
What
is passing ‘strange’ - is how all, who believe in God, have allowed this culture
of death - and culture of the obscene, to become firmly established.
There are then two ways of looking at this. One is
“Maranatha!” 'Come, Lord Jesus!"
The other way is: “Next year - in Jerusalem.”
Both bespeak a yearning for the love and the justice and the righteousness of God
to be established - forever.
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