modern<\/em> Israel with some kind of reverence,\u00a0 let them pause and \u00a0take stock of that\u00a0 affinity. \u00a0Ought \u00a0Christians to\u00a0 have respect and friendly sentiments toward secular, Godless, modern Israelis?<\/p>\nOr ought Christians to affix their special admiration upon those, like Schlissel, who hearken back to the Law of their heritage, the very Law which we Christians supposedly affirm to be truly from God?\u00a0 Christians (historic, orthodox, biblical), in recognition of the failure of \u00a0Israel (ancient and modern) to acknowledge the Savior of those who have violated the Law, the very Messiah, Jesus, deny that Jews have an understanding of \u00a0the most important of all truth, salvation through the crucifixion of the Messiah Jesus.\u00a0 All modern Jews have this “problem,” as it were.\u00a0 But the other great deficiency of modern Jews is the general rejection of the Law as applicable to modern states – or to themselves.<\/p>\n
This is where the likes of Schlissel are\u00a0 of\u00a0 particular interest.\u00a0 He is noteworthy as a Jew who believes in the Law of God.\u00a0 He holds to the proposition that the modern state of Israel is the continuance of God’s people on the land He had promised to be theirs from antiquity.\u00a0 This Jew, who looks forward to advancing the Kingdom which begins in Israel and extends to all the world, is one who looks hopefully to the Church and its servant priests who like to move and\u00a0 lead.<\/p>\n
How is it that many American Christians maintain a sentimental and real military alliance with a nation that neither loves the Law nor the Gospel?\u00a0\u00a0 We us return our thoughts to Schlissel who certainly loves the Law, if not the Gospel; at least he is one for two and in that he is ahead of most many pagan American politicians who are zero for two.<\/p>\n
Schlissel is worthy of praise.\u00a0 And the least, we must refuse to categorically condemn his deeds.\u00a0 It is not simply his sacrificial devotion to truth and\u00a0 justice which commends him.\u00a0 This was his second mission.\u00a0 Indeed, he had stabbed three people in another sodomy-celebrating parade in Israel in 2005 and had been sentenced therefrom to 12 years.\u00a0 He had been released three days before the 30 July \u2013 what shall we call it? \u2013 \u201ccleansing,\u201d maybe? \u00a0\u00a0His deed, quite easily argued, was one of selfless love for\u00a0 justice with its attendant hate for wickedness.\u00a0\u00a0 One cannot truly love a thing without hating its opposite.\u00a0 Quite simply, if a person loves the Law, he hates Lawlessness.\u00a0 The converse is true.\u00a0 If a person does not truly and thoroughly hate Evil, he does not thoroughly love Good.<\/p>\n
Working through these truths in this fallen world is not always easy.\u00a0 To be sure, the posture of many Christians has become one of lazy, and maybe comfortable, deference to \u201cthe law\u201d \u2013 whatever <\/em>those pagan civil authorities conjure it to be.\u00a0 Such is the peaceful toleration afforded to pagan government by acquiescent Christians, that\u00a0we have countenanced the butchering of innocent human beings for over a generation to the tune of (anybody counting?) 50-plus million<\/strong>.\u00a0 And most recently, in the course of such submission to Lawlessness, we have watched and tolerated the evil buffoons,\u00a0with their\u00a0Supreme Court edicts, as they have blasphemed holy matrimony by elevating sodomy to the same glory of marriage.\u00a0 Yes, they have sanctified sodomites as \u201cman and wife.\u201d<\/p>\nThe doctrinal \u201ctheology proper\u201d ramifications for this blasphemy are pernicious beyond simple sexual perversion. The typological imagery of holy marriage \u2013 the relationship between God and His people \u2013 is doubly assaulted. The elevation of sodomite union to marriage is not only a desecration of that which is holy, it is a direct assault upon the doctrine of God and the doctrine of the church (the salvation of humanity).<\/p>\n
When one considers the simple theological Christian truth regarding the One true God who died for the Church, the Bride of Christ, he cannot help but wonder at the typology of \u201cman and man\u201d in marriage.\u00a0\u00a0 This dyad god, man and man, is not the God of the Christian Faith –\u00a0 the Triune God.\u00a0 Neither member of the dyad gives his life for the Church, descendants of Adam.\u00a0 The dyad has no bride and no children for he lives and dies.\u00a0 There is no Savior God and \u00a0no salvation. \u00a0Indeed, there is no Church.\u00a0 There are no offspring, no sons and daughters of God, no people created in His image.\u00a0 The dyad of this sodomy-based religion is, \u00a0simply, false<\/p>\n
So what about Yishai Schlissel?<\/p>\n
Give him the praise that is due him.\u00a0 And if a Christian is interested in saving his soul, he will have to acknowledge\u00a0in Mr. Schlissel\u00a0a love for the Law which St. Paul himself would have honored (\u201cthey have a zeal for God\u201d- Rom. 10:2).\u00a0\u00a0 Schlissel’s\u00a0sin of omission in failing to bow to Jesus, Messiah\u00a0is a serious matter\u00a0indeed for him to \u00a0answer for on\u00a0 Judgment Day.\u00a0 But he will have a hard time hearing the\u00a0Message from those who have no zeal for Truth and do not\u00a0abominate that which is evil.\u00a0\u00a0Schlissel’s action in support of justice\u00a0in abhorrence of blasphemy is worthy of commendation.<\/p>\n
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