Focus on the Kingdom | COPY Sunday Church Bible study 1/14/24 A Time to Kill! @FocusontheKingdom | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
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Re: RF Beliefs
"Christians ought never to take up arms and kill their enemies and fellow believers in other nations (Matthew 26:52; John 15:19; 18:36; 1 Peter 2:9-11; 1 Chronicles 22:8)."
NT scriptures rebuke lethal violence now:
Luke 9:54-55;
Matthew 26:52
Hays, Moral Vision of the NT, pp 321-24:
Jesus “does not commend the disciple who takes up the sword to defend him against unjust arrest, rather ordering a prophetic word of judgment, against all who take the sword, he commands that the sword be put away.”
At the 2nd coming “there will be blood.”
Jesus has been sharpening his sword for 2,000 years now!
NT parables for and at times ordering lethal violence then, i.e., at the parousia: Mat 7.15-19; cp, Ps 21:9, “thrown in furnace, burned in fire”; Matt 21:33-41; cp. Luke 20.9-16; Matt 22.1-10; 24:42-51; cp. Luke 12.46; Matt 25:31-46; Luke 19:12-27; Rev 14.20.
MEANWHILE…1Cor 4.5a
So do not keep passing judgment before the time — until the lord comes.
Rev 13:10, NIV
“If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.
[some MSS Rev 13:10 adds the phrase:
“if anyone will kill with the sword, it is necessary for him to be killed with the sword." Cp. Jesus in Matt 26:52, warning against any attempt on the part of the church to resort to lethal self defense.]
Steadfast endurance in prayer and refuse idolatry, I.e., money, family, government, etc.
The Greek, usually somewhat limply rendered "patient endurance"...is in fact closer to "absolute intransigence," "unbending determination," "an iron will," the capacity to endure persecution, torture, and death without yielding one's faith."
One of the fundamental attributes of nonviolent resistance.
The Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon the “power to sustain blows” or the “power to endure.”
Barclay writes, "It is an intolerable paradox to defend the gospel of the love of God by using the violence of man."
Yarbro Collins' article The Political Perspective of the Revelation to John in the JBL, [Jun., 1977, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Jun., 1977)] succintly summarizes the highest Christian virture.
“The readers are not to take up arms in active resistance, not even in the final battle. Rather they are to endure persecution including death and to hope for ultimate salvation (12; 2:10; 13:10).”
END: Christian violence is always reserved for the day of the lord Jesus, at his parousia!
christenemylove.com
Re: RF Beliefs
"Christians ought never to take up arms and kill their enemies and fellow believers in other nations (Matthew 26:52; John 15:19; 18:36; 1 Peter 2:9-11; 1 Chronicles 22:8)."
NT scriptures rebuke lethal violence now:
Luke 9:54-55;
Matthew 26:52
Hays, Moral Vision of the NT, pp 321-24:
Jesus “does not commend the disciple who takes up the sword to defend him against unjust arrest, rather ordering a prophetic word of judgment, against all who take the sword, he commands that the sword be put away.”
At the 2nd coming “there will be blood.”
Jesus has been sharpening his sword for 2,000 years now!
NT parables for and at times ordering lethal violence then, i.e., at the parousia: Mat 7.15-19; cp, Ps 21:9, “thrown in furnace, burned in fire”; Matt 21:33-41; cp. Luke 20.9-16; Matt 22.1-10; 24:42-51; cp. Luke 12.46; Matt 25:31-46; Luke 19:12-27; Rev 14.20.
MEANWHILE…1Cor 4.5a
So do not keep passing judgment before the time — until the lord comes.
Rev 13:10, NIV
“If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.
[some MSS Rev 13:10 adds the phrase:
“if anyone will kill with the sword, it is necessary for him to be killed with the sword." Cp. Jesus in Matt 26:52, warning against any attempt on the part of the church to resort to lethal self defense.]
Steadfast endurance in prayer and refuse idolatry, I.e., money, family, government, etc.
The Greek, usually somewhat limply rendered "patient endurance"...is in fact closer to "absolute intransigence," "unbending determination," "an iron will," the capacity to endure persecution, torture, and death without yielding one's faith."
One of the fundamental attributes of nonviolent resistance.
The Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon the “power to sustain blows” or the “power to endure.”
Barclay writes, "It is an intolerable paradox to defend the gospel of the love of God by using the violence of man."
Yarbro Collins' article The Political Perspective of the Revelation to John in the JBL, [Jun., 1977, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Jun., 1977)] succintly summarizes the highest Christian virture.
“The readers are not to take up arms in active resistance, not even in the final battle. Rather they are to endure persecution including death and to hope for ultimate salvation (12; 2:10; 13:10).”
END: Christian violence is always reserved for the day of the lord Jesus, at his parousia!
