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WHEN the RIGHT Becomes Wrong
Is the Church
Israel ? No. Is the Church to bring in an earthly kingdom ? No.
Can morality be enforced ? No.
Does government dictate morality and dogma? Yes it does ; but it
does this against the will of God.
The Bible clearly teaches the separation of Church and State. God
provided the Aaronic line for priesthood and He prepared the
Judaic line for governance. The two tribes were, are and always
will be ...separate.
God gave the governance to Moses, the priesthood to Aaron.
2
Chronicles 26:18 tells how King Uzziah contracted
leprosy when he usurped religious authority unto himself, even
though he was king.
In 1 Samuel 13, Saul lost the kingdom of
Israel when he usurped Samuel's religious authority. Over and
over again, the Scriptures make clear that religion and
governance do not mix.
Did God want a State-Religion? No.
In the following paragraphs we will show how aligning with the
political right-- or with any political agenda--
is the "doctrine of Jezebel", strictly forbidden by
God.
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed
the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous
wolves enter in among you, not sparing the
flock.
Also of your own selves
shall men arise, speaking perverse things,
to draw away disciples after them.
Therefore WATCH !
Acts 20:28-31
10 Scriptural Reasons to REJECT Kingdom theology (EXCELLENT !! )
by Tricia Tillin
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/tract2.html
easier to read if printed out
The Christian and Politics
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/politics.html
The Christian and Politics [ Despatches ]
http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Mini/minidespatchAug152001.htm
RECONSTRUCTIONISTS.....governance
in the name of God, while usurping Him
Man
has always wanted to legislate with the force of God. That is
sacrilege.
"yeah the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."
John 16:2
Dave Hunt: Revival or Apostasy ? from the Berean Call
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/oct97tbc.htm
DANGEROUS
LIAISON
Are the American faiths seeking political power? An Unholy
Alliance?
We believe so. There is a religious-political-corporation mix of
500 members who have a political agenda and meet in secret. They
are called
"The Council for National Policy" (CNP)
http://watch.pair.com/cnpdbase.html
http://www.ifas.org/cnp/
Let
us pray for these people that their eyes be opened to the Truth.
Is this Mystery Babylon of Revelation
17?
Prophetic Viewpoints: Postmillennial problems
Will the Church Convert the World? by Dr. David Reagan
http://www.lamblion.com/prophecy/viewpoints/Views-04.php
"They
went out from us, but they were not of us;
for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued
with us:
but they went out,
that they might be made manifest that they were not all of
us." 1 John 2:19
Are these people endorsing
government mixed with religion? ...as long as it's THEIR
belief system? Isn't that Machiavellian?
Shouldn't all Christians ABHOR the collusion of State and Faith,
regardless ?
Are we people of principle, or pragmatism??
"Be ye separate"...... 2 Corinthians 6:17
"Come out of her My people"....... Rev. 18:4
Reconstructionists / Dominion Theology / theonomy /
reconstructionism
Chalcedon Foundation / Rushdoony / Gary North
Do reconstructionists read the
Bible? Do they take it seriously?
Reconstructionists do not believe in Jesus' 1,000 year Millennial
Kingdom. They feel they do not need Jesus' government.
They feel that they can do it themselves through the
Old Testament Law (theonomy) arbitrarily
applied. Woe. Woe. Woe.
"Vengeance is Mine. I will repay, saith the Lord"
Romans 12:19
Reconstructionists have been called "messianic
socialists"....political-religious activists. Would this not
be the whore of Rev. 17 ???
Dangerous stuff....... Please see Matthew
Chapter 10
Here is what Reconstructionists believe:
(scroll to their beliefs...doctrines)
www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cor/notes_on.htm
Here is what Dominion Theology is all
about.
www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cor/dominion.htm
Wait till you read this one....
Coalition on Revival (COR) Mountain View, California
COR's goals
do not exclude violence in accomplishing them. At a 1989 COR
conference, one well known evangelist suggested that Christians
should pray that God would kill all of those leaders who are
opposing Dominion Theology. Then later in the week, another
well known pastor from the Dallas area suggested that God is
purging his church and purifying it for a great revival, and that
believers need to be willing to use violence if necessary in
order to help bring in the kingdom. This violence message is
really scary. The call to be willing to use violence to bring the
kingdom can't be more clear--even if that violence is directed
against Christian brothers and sisters. "
www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cor/general.htm
MATTHEW 23
Our Lord was turned over to the civil authorities to be put to
death in the cruelest form, by the religious right.
This is the same religious right that Our Lord condemned as
hypocritical in Matthew 23.
Pilate knew exactly why the religious right had turned Jesus over
to him to be crucified. It was because of envy. The religious
right had a kingdom here on earth that certainly didn't need a
dying Savior.
Jesus is the real thing...a real and true King of a real and true
kingdom. This threatens all earthly man-made kingdoms, including
the political-religious kingdom..... which is actually a system
of control over the people. The religious right didn't want or
need Jesus back then, and today the religious right wants no
contender to their throne.
Look at the scenario today in 2001. Today we are on the verge of
Jesus Christ's earthly return to
establish
His kingdom here on earth in a few
short years.
The political-religious right wants to bring in their own
dogmatic-kingdom. They want power and control. They falsify the
Scriptures in order to make a place for themselves. They deceive
the flock by telling them that a great revival of reformation is
coming here to America...."take America back" they
claim, as if God has any more patience with our chicanery.
"Do exploits" for the kingdom they say, meaning
political-exploits, and not the spiritual ones Daniel was talking
about in Daniel 11.
They speak of changing the world (peace, peace) when utter
destruction and judgement is soon to befall us, as men wax worse
and worse. 2 Timothy
3.
America is ripe for judgement...long overdue for judgement. And
where are our "watchmen" when we need them? They're
crying...."connect with the government, everything is OK, a
new day is dawning. Righteousness is returning. "
This is in clear opposition to Daniel 9 which says Christ alone
will bring in Righteousness.Daniel 9:24. His righteousness has no
political strings attached.
How very much the religious right , in Laodicean compromise with
politics, needs our prayers. They are asleep. Isaiah
56:10
LETTERS TO THE CHURCHES
In two of the last letters of Christ to His Church , He refers to
the persecution of His followers by those "who say they are
Jews, but are not". He says this to the martyred Smyrna
Church (Rev. 2:9) and also
to the Messianic Philadelphian Church of Rev. 3:9.
Because Reconstructionists believe in forcing the Old Testament
Mosaic Law (theonomy) upon all peoples, and because they hold no
Jewish membership, then most likely they are the group referred
to in the above mentioned passages.
Reconstruction theonomy...."who say they are Jews, but are
not" Rev. 2:9 and 3:9
www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm
What is "blood lust?" ?
"I'm
always surprised by the vehemence of feeling (among death penalty
defenders)," she said. "It's kind of a blood lust - an
Old Testament thing."
http://webadv.chron.com/i/insidestory/editorial/solemn.html
Because Reconstructionists usurp the
promises of Israel to themselves, (Replacement Theology) that
makes them basically anti-Semitic. They perceive Israel as having
lost those promises.
Yet Romans
9--11 state the opposite.... that Israel
has not lost her promises or inheritance. When Our Lord returns,
He will establish His throne of David in Jerusalem, Israel. One
cannot read the Book of Revelations without noting the obvious
fact that
the Jewish people were and always will be, the Chosen people.
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/kt2.html
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/kt3.html
The following Scripture verses
disprove Dominion theology:
www.abbottloop.org/alconweb/bib_stdy/dominion.htm
Are our ministers teaching "revival"?...that we are to
do "great exploits" in the political kingdom? That is
perverting Scripture. God's kingdom is not of this world. His
messianic reign will not begin until we see Jesus of Nazareth
split the Mt. of Olives in two. (Zechariah
14). All our exploits are
spiritual...not political.
No REVIVAL in the Last Days....Tozer
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/tozer.html
The only true Gospel of the Last days will be given by the JEWISH
144,000.
See Rev.
Chapter Seven.
There will be a REMNANT....not a revival.
Here are some more good articles that explain well the coming
Control through Religion:
Restoration (reconstruction) and New Age philosophy (Good read)
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/restore2.html
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/restore3.html
Antonimists.....means "against
the law". Reconstructionists who want to prosecute everyone
according to the Mosaic Law (theonomy), are actually against the
Law themselves.
For if one offends in one part of the Law, he is guilty of
breaking the law. We all have sinned (1 John 1) and fallen
short. The Law condemns us all. Galatians 3
and 4.
If the self-righteous Reconstructionists condemn others due to
the Law, then they must also condemn themselves, for all offend.
Since they do not condemn themselves, they are against the
law...antonimists. Therefore Reconstructionists do NOT obey the
Law themselves.
In the name of the law, they are lawless.
http://www.swrb.ab.ca/newslett/actualnls/AntinomR.htm
"the
letter (of the law) killeth, but the spirit giveth life" 2
Corinthians 3:6
WHAT ABOUT THE MOSAIC LAW ?
The Mosaic Law was given as a foundation for society. Since
morality was being taught for the first time, strict consequences
had to be laid down so that respect for the law would be
sufficient to deter immorality.
A FAIR HEARING.....SENTENCES COMMUTED
The Law was never
applied arbitrarily. Moses and the 70 judges (Sanhedrin) had to
weigh each case and judge the penalty. They could commute the
sentence based on the testimony of two witnesses. Wisdom and
discernment had to enter into each deliberation.There were no
automatic stonings or killings. There were no delusions of
grandeur for passing death sentences onto others .There were no
obsessions for power. (unless one was bribed)
MERCY ENTERS IN....CITIES OF REFUGE
During the time of Samuel and the Judges, a circuit-court was
established in order to hear trials fairly. Cities of refuge,
that were established under the Mosaic Law, were being sought for
mercy. One had to leave one's familar surroundings, because of
"blood lust". Again justice was not arbitrary. It was
tempered with Cities of Refuge...habitations of mercy.
PROPHETS SPEAK OF A REGENERATED HEART....FORGIVENESS
By the time of the prophets, God's message was that He preferred
rehabilitation more
than retribution.
Isaiah:
"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made white as
snow". Isaiah 1:18.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 3 "Return, thou backsliding...for I am
merciful"
Have true contrition "Break up the fallow ground"
...wash thine heart from wickedness"Jer. 4..
."if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doing"
Jer.7;
"return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your
ways and your doings good" Jer.11; "they shall return
unto Me with their whole heart" Jer. 24;
"I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel. ...(no
more Mosaic Law)
"I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in
their hearts
(conscience touched by the spirit of the law, by the Holy Spirit)
"I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no
more Jer 31:31--34
Ezekiel:
Ezekiel 36:26,27 " A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you.....
and I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My
statutes"
Ezekiel
Chapter 3:18-21
and Ezekiel
Chapter 18:19-32
and Ezekiel
Chapter 33:1-20
speak of amending one's ways...of the past being forgiven.
For those who remain hardened and unregenerate, they will die.
HARD-HEARTED.....WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
The Sin against the Holy Ghost
To become hardened in sin with no repentance, remorse or
conscience is to sin against the Holy Ghost. The conscience has
become unreachable. One can no longer respond to the still small
voice within....the voice of the Holy Spirit, the conscience.
When one sins against the Holy Ghost, by being unconscionable,
that one is to have no pardon.
When our juries sentence people to death in a fair trial, are
they sentencing them out of vengeance and retribution, or to make
an example ? Or are they sentencing them because the convicted
person shows no signs of responding to correctional measures? Are
they non-rehabilitatable ? If they evidence no willingness to
change, the death penalty is justified.
If there is no hope for a changed lifestyle---as evidenced by
reliable witnesses--then the death penalty applies. Why would one
continue living, if one is unreachable by even his own conscience
? But that is the only time the death penalty applies.
The death penalty is not meted out by the severity of the crime,
but by the attitude and behavior of the convicted person. Moses,
David and Paul the Apostle were all guilty of murder. David was
especially devious in this sin. Yet all were forgiven by God,
because all of them wanted and preferred a life of righteousness
in communion with the Living God. They were totally rehabilitated
and went on to live lives of commendation.This was under
"theonomy"...Old Testament Law.
FORGIVENESS IS AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT
Forgiveness, mercy and rehabilitation run all through out the Old
Testament.
Even Adam and Eve who committed the Original Sin (and thereby all
of humanity fell under the curse) were forgiven their
transgression and began a life of rehabilitation.
Cain, who not only killed Abel, but the thousands of offspring
from his line (a veritable genocide) was forgiven and told to
start over again in a different place. Why in a different place ?
Because God was willing to give Cain a second chance, based on
the fact that Cain could still respond to the heavenly voice. Man
does not like to give man a second chance. Man is prone to
"blood lust", unless he himself listens to the voice of
reason and of the Holy Ghost. Cain could no longer stay among his
acquaintances.
We do not know what ever became of Cain. If he continued to live
a life of sin, it would eventually catch up with him and he would
die in his sins.
"sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." John
5:14
THE NEW TESTAMENT
Just as the Old Testament does not put forth an arbitrary justice
of an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth, or a life for a
life...so also the New Testament does not put forth unconditional
love and forgiveness.
We are meant to be discerning: "Bring forth therefore fruits
of repentance."
Luke 3:8
The law of forgiveness applied to those , having fallen, who went
on to have the law of God written in their hearts...who became
willfully obedient to the voice of God within. Forgiveness
applies to those who amend their ways by the grace of God.
To forgive the faults of others when no true contrition and
change takes place is to beg the offense to be repeated again.
When Our Lord said we are to forgive 70 x 7 (Matthew 18:22), He
was referring to cases of genuine repentance....not to a
carte-blanche of repetitious injuries.
Our Lord was also referring here to judical-clemency, since 70 is
the number of the Sanhedrin judges. Judges, lawyers, jurors,
governors etc. were to take into consideration the genuine
repentance of the offender. That's 70 x 7.
The New Testament never
teaches unconditional love. Nothing in
life is without conditions.
Try remaining in your dwelling place without paying the rent (or
taxes). You can't. That's the condition.
Try getting paid at work without working. You can't. That's the
condition.
Try eating without buying groceries. You can't. That's the
condition.
Try having a friendship without being friendly. You can't. That's
the condition.
Try having a marriage without respect. You can't . That's the
condition.
Try having a relationship with God when you don't really care.
You can't.
That's the condition.
He cared. He proved it 2000 years ago.
Now it's up to each one of us to prove it really mattered.
NOT WILL POWER......WILLINGNESS
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord:
I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their
hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a
people."
Hebrews 8:10--13
All who seek Godliness will find Godliness, justice, truth, mercy
and the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
" For Christ is the end of the law." Romans 10:4
In conclusion: the
concept of applying arbitrary theonomy is wrong...all wrong. It
is to falsify the teachings of the Old Testament and to present
God as cold and arbitrary...looking for any chance to kill off
His creation.
The opposite is true: God is not willing that ANY should perish,
but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
The
Lure of Reconstructionists Theology
http://ifca.org/voice/00Jul-Aug/wagner2.htm
Global Church (very enlightening article) by Ed Tarkowski
www.ncinter.net/~ejt/founda2.htm
The radical right
http://www.lol.shareworld.com/Zmag/articles/feb95diamond.htm
Bible and Dominion theology....."Kingdom Now" (why wait
?)
"If not now, when ?
"If not us, who"??? (egotistical)
www.biblicist.org/bible/dominion.htm
GATEKEEPERS...another name for KINGDOM NOW
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/gatekeepers.html
Postmillennialism: showing God how much we don't need Him
We can save this world ourselves, thank you.
www.datasync.com/crownrights/fbs/escht75.htm
Unholy Hands on the Bible
http://watch.pair.com/unholy.html
Supreme Court poised for hard turn to the Right Jan. 8-2001
State rights being overruled by Federal Court
The outcome of the disabilities case from
Alabama, which renews the bitter dispute within the court over
states' rights, will affect the job rights of at least 5 million
state employees nationwide.
Since 1995, the court, in a series of 5-4 decisions,
has shielded states from federal laws, including some civil
rights laws, and has said that states are protected by their
``sovereign immunity.'' The four liberal-leaning justices -- John
Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen
Breyer -- have strongly dissented in each instance and have
contended that the conservatives have invented doctrine that is
not found in the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/nat_docs/002840.htm
Evangelism vs. evangelization
http://www.banner.org.uk/globalism/WCM1.html
http://www.banner.org.uk/globalism/WCM4.html
The Jewish people too have a group who believe solely in the
Mosaic Law
( the 613 laws).
They are called "Judaizers". The Book of
Galatians
warns us against legalism.
When you combine the erroneous philosophy of Reconstructionist
with that of Judaizers you get the exact same radicalism of the
militant Islamics and their Sharia Law.
Who is the main target of all these
groups?
Bible-believing
Christians applying the whole law found in the person of Jesus
Christ.
Romans 10:4 "for Christ (Jesus) is the end of the law "
Here are some of the New Testament laws of Jesus Christ:
John 8: 11...."Go and sin no more (rehabilitation rather
than vengeance)
John 18:20..."nothing in secret"...no closed-door
policy makers (CNP)
John 18:36.."My kingdom is not of this world"...don't
mix politics with religion
Luke 19:45,46 "And He went into the temple, and began to
cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought"
saying unto them,"My house is the house of prayer: but ye
have made it a den of theives"........mixing marketing and
corporations with religion
My kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36
Martin Niemoeller
http://www.watch.pair.com/Council.for.National.Policy.html
Reconstructionism
http://home.sprynet.com/~eastwood01/y2k.htm
Reconstructionists (restoration) kingdom/dominion theology
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/tract2.html
Will these people wake up one day in league with the antichrist?
Political ambition tempts all persons..... Matthew 4
Religious Right and financiers
http://www.cephasministry.com/cnp3.html
hobnobbing with the rich and famous
See James 2
Preparing for Deception
http://www.apocalypsesoon.org/xfile-5.html
The American Religious Right and Israel
"are doing some troubling things
which lead me to believe that they too will turn on Israel soon,
leading the conservative right and Christian right into an
Anti-Israeli stance."
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2001/chrissa421.htm
American Religious Right becoming anti-Semitic ??
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43350-2001Apr20.html
Mainline Churches sign declaration against Israel
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2001/markr428-1.htm
Politics (guised as religion)
King Abdullah and the religious elites meet......April 20, 2001
Meeting hosted by Benny Hinn
Is this the first step toward embracing Sharia Law ?
All Arab-Moslems believe "infidels" (non-Moslems)
should be put to death....Koran
http://www.charismanews.com/news.cgi?a=563&t=search.html
For more information just put "Council for National
Policy" into the search engines.
Why
W. Bush is the man for the Conservative Right
But it wasn't business interests that
silenced the right last week. It was politics. Having persuaded
themselves in South Carolina that Bush was one of their own and
having invested so much in him, conservatives, after eight years
in the wilderness, have embraced
a see-no-evil strategy that all but precludes criticism of the
Oval Office.
http://www.tnr.com/043001/kaplan043001.html
Do "faith-based" programs
mix Church and State?
Didn't our Constitution (1st Amendment) forbid such collusion ?
Is this Mystery Babylon???.......
John 12:
3--6
Government-Policy implemented through belief systems?
The Tyranny of the "SHOULD" ?
Please see "Separation of Church and State
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sep.htm
Babylon........".Come out of her My people" Rev. 18:4
"Be ye separate" 2 Corinthians 6:17
www.nlag.net/Sermons/Transcripts/mjserknowchrist.htm
Reclaiming America...just plain political activism
http://www.ocregister.com/local/god00418cci2.shtml
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/politics.html
mixing
religion and politics
"the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind
exceedingly fine"
http://jove.prohosting.com/~dathde/poetry/gregspicks/themillsofthegods.htm
LINKS
http://www.banner.org.uk/res/gloryappx2.html
An UnHoly Alliance: Christianity and the New World Order....Feb
26-2002
http://www.rense.com/general20/unholy.htm
Judaizers (legalism)....See ACTS 15
http://www.haydid.org/acts15.htm
The Law leads us to Christ; we are saved by grace (faith);
"works" keeps us abiding
http://www.southwoodsbc.org/sermons/gal3d.htm
Legalism: self-saving through works; telling others what to do
http://www.pbc.org/dp/stedman/misc/legal.html
Mystery Babylon
http://members.aol.com/joe4jesus/unity.htm
End Time Scenario
http://members.aol.com/joe4jesus/scenario.htm
We Will Never Reform the World
http://members.aol.com/joe4jesus/action.htm
Revival or REMNANT ??
http://members.aol.com/joe4jesus/apost.htm
Replacement Theology
http://adat.org/ad05002.htm
Replacement Theology and Jesus' reign
http://www.biblicist.org/bible/replace.htm
Replacement Theology and restoration
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/replacement.html
Replacement Theology Apostasy
http://www.ncinter.net/~ejt/founda2.htm
Dominion Theology
http://www.biblicist.org/bible/dominion.htm
Apologetics Resources
http://christianbest.com/xian_apo.html
POST Millennialism (Reconstructionists)
Replacement Theology: Church replaces Jesus Christ
Arthur PINK refutes Reconstructionism (Post-millennialism)
http://ccel.org/p/pink/return/return28.htm
http://ccel.org/p/pink/
When the Church becomes more important than Christ
http://www.endtimesnetwork.com/ant_chp8e.html#chp8e-12
http://www.endtimesnetwork.com/ant_chp8e.html
Ego trips:" you can change the world"......"be a
world-changer"
"you can change those around you"
Jesus came to have us change one thing and one thing ONLY: our
own heart (Jer. 17:9)
Charles Finney : Winning the World for Christ
pragmatism and post millennialism
http://www.twincityfellowship.com/cic/articles/issue53.htm
Post millennialism in American History
http://www.reformedreader.org/amerpost.htm
Mixing State with
Religious Enforcement
BEWARE
OF FALSE PROPHETS :
TWO DISTINCT ENTITIES:
Civil Law and Religious Law are not the same....
Religious-elitism....heresy....false teaching...false prophets...
"Because we believe
that the state is an inherently religious institution, and
because we believe that a Christian state should enforce the law
of God appropriate to the civil sphere"
quote from
Andrew Sandlin.
MOSES AND AARON:
God separated civil law from religious law in the Old Testament.
Moses was the Law-giver (civil). He and the 70 elders judged
civil matters.
See the Book of
Exodus.
Aaron and the Levitical priesthood had their own separate set of
rules for the congregation. See the Book of
Leviticus.
God ordained two men for two different distinct purposes.
They were not to "network" and combine their purposes.
SAUL AND SAMUEL the PROPHET
Whenever a king tried to mix the religious with the civil, it was
severely punished.
Saul "played the fool" and died in disgrace. It was
Saul who tried to usurp Samuel's role.See 1 Samuel
13: 8--14.
also 1 Samuel
15.
But God preferred obedience...obedience to the two distinct and
separate set of laws in society....civil and religious.
UZZIAH and the PRIESTHOOD
King Uzziah tried to usurp the priestly role and died a leper.
See 2
Chronicles 26:16--21.
All throughout the Old Testament, the king was a civil ruler only
; the prophets and the priests spoke in behalf of God's revealed
word.(not their own philosophies)
That was all B.C. What about during the time of the earthly-life
of Jesus?
ROME...33 A.D.
Pilate, the civil governor, told the religious-elitist crowd that
they had their own law, and thus should judge accordingly.
Pilate recognized the truth that Jesus' case was not at all a
civil matter.
But with enough propaganda (false heretical teaching) the masses
were manipulated
to believe that Jesus and Caesar were contending for an earthly
throne.
Jesus Himself vehemently denied this when He emphatically stated:
"MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD" John 18: 36
FOR ALL TIME
When Jesus returns at His second coming, there will still be a
separation of civil law and religious law. This is evidenced in Zechariah
Chapter 3
and Chapter 4.
Zerubbabel heads the civil law, and Joshua heads the religious
congregation.
So there never has been--- or ever will be---- the legal mixing
of civil and religious law.
When you read the false teachings of: Andrew Sandlin, Gary North,
Rousas Rushdoony,
David Chilton, Greg Bahnsen and the Chalcedon Foundation you will
see how duplicitous are their writings.
They will tell you how invalid the criticisms of them are, while
at the same time espousing the very application of that criticism
leveled against them.
Devious word-smiths.....
Jesus said "Take heed that no man deceive you." Matthew
24:4
Make no mistake about it. These men seek a religious kingdom on
earth. A kingdom backed by political and governmental
consequences. They believe in (and I quote)
"a world-conquering Christianity"
World Conquest
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/worldcnq.htm by George Grant
If a movement starts with "RE"...watch out !
This repeats again the error in history of the "Divine Right
of Kings", the Renaissance,
the Holy Roman Empire etc. etc. etc.
Man has always wanted to legislate with the force of God. That is
sacrilege.
Our American politics is tainted with these beliefs.
President John Kennedy wanted to turn public-servants (government
officials)
into the publically-served:
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can
do for your country".
Ronald Reagan and the Republican revolution didn't want to wait
for Jesus' Kingdom:
"If not us, who ?
If not now, when?" --Ronald Reagan
These are subtle hints that man has it in his power to change the
world. Unfortunately the best plans laid by man end in death.
"There is a way which seemth right unto a man, but the end
therof are the ways of death" Proverbs
14:12
and Proverbs
16:25.
Is
Reconstructionist heresy invading American politics ?
Do we want the "Religious Roundtable " running America
??
http://www.pir.org/gw/rrt.txt
Where is their website ? If they have one, why hasn't it been
linked in a recent news article ?
http://www.watch.pair.com/cnp.html
"the dangerous liaison between religion and political
power"
The
Council for National Policy (CNP)
http://watch.pair.com/cnpdbase.html
Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars, and to God the
things that are Gods.
Let's get religion out of politics.
No more Reconstructionism.
Banner
News
http://www.banner.org.uk/news.html
example: Call to Renewal
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Callrenu.html
Babylon........".Come out of her My people" Rev. 18:4
"Be ye separate" 2 Corinthians 6:17
What do Theonomy and Sharia Law have in common ??
not justice....but vengeance
"Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
Romans 12:19
Richard Mellon
Scaife: Funding Father of the RIGHT
also financial supporter to WND
http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/L-clintonrightwingconspiracy.html
The Wrong Right
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0701/chapman.html
CNP--Council
for National Policy
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/elites.html
RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=234
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cor/notes_on.htm
KINGDOM
NOW---mixing Church and State
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~lgthscac/kingdomnow.htm
DOMINION THEOLOGY
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre3.html
Commentary,
this editor::
Some
people are looking for Jesus to return to earth and for Jesus to
establish His kingdom of righteousness upon the earth.
Others use the return of Jesus Christ as a call to save the world
before He comes
(which renders Jesus useless, and makes "hero-saviors"
out of the mis-guided.)
These mis-guided utopians want to bring in their own kingdom and
play starring-roles.
Theirs is a social-political-governmental "gospel"
which is antichrist, [disguised as for-Christ ] and
it is anti-Biblical. [ laced with twisted scripture ]
Please see 2 Corinthians 11:4 and 13--15 ; and Galatians 1: 6-9
"If he preacheth another Jesus,
whom we have not preached,
or if ye receive another spirit, which
ye have not received,
or another Gospel, which ye have not
accpted....such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no
marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also
be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works. "
"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called
you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel;
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and
would pervert the gospel of Christ.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached
unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again,
If any man preach any other gospel unto
you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."
power-hungry utopians...
postmillennialist - one
who believes that biblical prophecies of the peaceful reign of
Christ on earth, including the millennium of Revelation 20:1-6,
refer to a future time of revival, when Christianity
will dominate the world for a time before the
physical return of Christ.
http://faith.propadeutic.com/authors/churchsociety.html#glossary
Religion
bonding with government, rather than with Jesus.
Salvation: www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Blueletter Bible www.blueletterbible.org