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- markLv 45 years ago
I'm going to be sure and place my vote then hide away from the tv set so I can ignore the hoopla like I have for the last 2 months. My plans set
- Bamboo tigerLv 55 years ago
My vote as a Christian is for Jesus.No man or woman can solve our problems. Jesus was able with God's spirit to heal the sick, feed the hungry, and raise the dead.
Young's Literal Translation
Acts 2:22
'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;
The miracles that Jesus performed showed what he will do in the future as the King of God's Kingdom. It is that Kingdom which Jesus told us to pray for to come to earth and accomplish God's will here on the earth.
(Matthew 6:10) 10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also on earth.
That Kingdom is a real government and will do away with and replace all human governments, and we are nearing the time that Jehovah has set aside for his son to rule over the earth.
(Daniel 2:44) 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever,
Jesus gave a prophecy about the "end of the world" or "close of this age" in Matthew chapters 24 and 25. He was talking about the end of two worlds, ages, or system of things. One was the Jewish system of worship centered in Jerusalem and the temple, and the other world or system of things that would come to an end is the one that Satan controls. In the tests that Jesus faced in Matthew chapter 4 satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, and Jesus himself called Satan the world.
(John 14:30) 30 I will not speak with you much more, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has no hold on me.
That is why Jesus himself, as well as his disciples, stayed neutral .
(John 15:18, 19) 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
(John 17:14) 14 I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.
It is not the planet earth that will be destroyed, but it is the world of mankind who refuse to submit to the sovereignty of God, just as in the time of Noah when the world of that time was destroyed.
(Matthew 24:37-39) 37 For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 38 For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39 and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
(2 Peter 3:5-7) 5 For they deliberately ignore this fact, that long ago there were heavens and an earth standing firmly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; 6 and that by those means the world of that time suffered destruction when it was flooded with water. 7 But by the same word the heavens and the earth that now exist are reserved for fire and are being kept until the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly people.
Secular history provides ample evidence that the early Christians remained politically neutral and refrained from warfare. Says the book The Beginnings of Christianity: “The founders of Christianity guarded with sedulous care against the development of anything like a disposition to interfere directly with the established political order.” Similarly, the book On the Road to Civilization notes: “Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favor by those who ruled the pagan world. . . . Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman citizens. . . . They would not hold political office.”
Regarding the early Christians and military service, German theologian Peter Meinhold said: “Being a Christian and a soldier was considered irreconcilable.” In his essay “An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War With the Principles of Christianity,” religion writer Jonathan Dymond wrote that for some time after the death of Jesus, His followers “refused to engage in [war]; whatever were the consequences, whether reproach, or imprisonment, or death.” Dymond added: “These facts are indisputable.” Only when “Christianity became corrupted,” said another writer, did Christians become soldiers.