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“ When the civil magistrate becomes a beast ” Among other points made in this sermon, Dr. Morecraft explains that Romans 13 and Revelation 13 are both about civil government and politics. Romans 13 describes the responsibility of the civil magistrate to be a minister of God, to punish the wicked for the protection of the good. In Revelation 13, however, the civil magistrate is described as a monster who's destroying Christians and making it impossible for them to flourish in society. How does the civil magistrate become a beast that persecutes Christians? Christians won't get jobs, and their families won't flourish, if they don't wear the mark of the beast. In Deuteronomy 6:8, God commanded His people to put His law on their hands and foreheads to demonstrate that His law dominates their lives. The point is that in every respect, their lives were to be governed by the law of God. The beast in Revelation 13 says to forget what God said, and instead put his law on their hands and foreheads so that they bear his mark and think in terms of his sovereign authority, otherwise Christians will not get jobs and their families will suffer for it. A civil magistrate becomes a beast when it enforces upon its citizens laws not based upon the law of God.
Joe Morecraft is a preacher of the gospel and a noted lecturer on contemporary political and historical trends in the United States. Joe was born in 1944 and is a native of Madison, West Virginia. Joe Morecraft earned a Bachelor degree in history from King College in Bristol,...
