I have just given you over a page of differing Scripture that all supports the idea that God
1.) Created Israel to be a Nation
2.) Intended to bless the Nations as Nations through Israel's (Messiah)
3.) Intends the Nations to exist into the New Jerusalem as Identifiable Nations
This communicates to us that some form of Nationalism is the Biblical model for the organization of social orders.
But, the modern Church is screaming at the top of its lungs about the evils of Nationalism.
From a News Report this week,
A group formed by Christian leaders, Christians Against Christian Nationalism's, is warning against the rise of "Christian nationalism,"
"As Christians, we are bound to Christ, not by citizenship, but by faith. Whether we worship at a church, mosque, synagogue, or temple, America has no second-class faiths. All are equal under the U.S. Constitution."
Most of the signers here come from the Liberal constellation.
Another Liberal Denomination we are all familiar with said something very familiar to the above when they stated this last June,
"Baptism gives us a sign and seal of our new, central, Christian identity. We are no longer united by common citizenship, language, ancestry or ethnicity, as Kinists would claim. We are united to Christ in whom we are united with one another, across all other bounds of identity or ethnicity. In this, "we reflect the covenant love of God."
You see what is happening here is that who we are by way of Creation (Male or female, Yellow or Red, European or Chinese, Young or old) is being pitted against who we are by way of Redemption so that Grace is destroying nature. |
