Thursday, April 20, 2017

I agree with this. And yet we are to submit to all the words of the Bible. The truth is that there is nothing that happens on this earth that will not be fundamentally a part of the judgement in eternity. And we are also taught that our position in the kingdom of God is dependent upon what transpires in this life. You find in the Revelation that the Lamb of God is on His throne. The name Lamb of God is that which connects the temporal with the eternal. Because the Lamb of God is the Lord of Redemption.
Now we see Christ who is the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. Who is in heaven with His humanity. He has the scars that speak of the price He paid in order to purchase a people for Himself. In Revelation the Lamb is the one who judges the earth in response to the suffering of the saints. We find that the purchased price of redemption is for this suffering. The prayer of the saints in heaven is "How long until you avenge the blood of your people?" The price of the suffering is valued according to the saints suffering. The connection of the temporal to the eternal is God justifying the people and events in time by His just punishment. But the rewards to His elect for their suffering is measure according to Christ suffering. So the Lamb of God makes Gods absolute judgements at all the times on this earth rise up to the eternal justice of God in the curse.
What frees us from our personal complaints and desire to avenge our adversaries? There is no time where we are able to remove these offenses from our memory. God has made it so that each one of us are a little government. He is able to deal with the sovereign rule of each man that he has created. God has loved us enough to make us free to choose. He has not created robots. The evidence of our respect is according to the full freedom to choose for ourselves.God is not threatened with that freedom. Because God had to come as a Man and obtained the full free exercise of our choices in completing the work of Christ making all the choices as God designed the perfect man.
So God has given us the ability to rise up to a level of freedom by not being prevented from the highest expression of our governing abilities. This is why when we are wronged or we are prevented from doing good we become angry. If we did not react with righteous indignation then we would enjoy violence. But God will not allow us to be right in our personal anger. Rather God who has written the history of righteous indignation has expressed it in His pronouncing curses on all destruction. In pronouncing these curses He has swallowed up our reaction to injustice. He has spoken His eternal judgements that are in the future to be brought back into our time. In these spoke curses we find comfort and hope of the future where we will be vindicated. He swallows up our anger in His eternal judgments.

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