Interesting question
isn't it? What prompted the question is
that the local Congregational Church has that on their sign. It raised a couple of questions for me. First what are they revolting against? Second, is it proper for the church to be
doing that?
Here is the
Scripture selection for today.
Matthew 16:5-12(NKJV)
Now when His
disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
Then Jesus said to
them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees.”
And they reasoned
among themselves, saying, “It is
because we have taken no bread.”
But Jesus, being
aware of it, said to them, “O
you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have
brought no bread?
Do you not yet
understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many
baskets you took up?
Nor the seven loaves
of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?
How is it you do not
understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and Sadducees.”
Then they understood that He did
not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees
and Sadducees.
The Congregational
Church in Kalamazoo is quite a Liberal congregation. So it is my belief that their sign is calling
for Revolutionaries against what they consider to be unjust government
policies.
On the other hand,
maybe they are actually following Jesus' example and they are calling for
revolution against the "Pharisees and Sadducees" of the church
today. But since they are part of the
"Pharisees and Sadducees" of today's Christianity, in other words the
official power structure of the church, I would find it odd that they would be
fomenting a revolution against themselves.
Because of that I think the first choice is more likely.
So on to the second
question. Is it proper? There are some who would say they are
following in the steps of Jesus by doing so.
I would beg to differ. Jesus'
revolution was against the power structure of the church. Jesus on more than one occasion, when asked
about dealing with governments said very specifically that we are to obey our
leaders because God put them over us.
Give unto Caesar and all of that.
So it seems to me
that raising revolutionaries against the government might not fall within the
boundaries that Jesus had in mind. But I
could be wrong. Only time will tell. At judgment day even though we are saved we
still have to answer for our works or lack of works. It is at that time we will find out if they
were right or wrong.
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