“To put it simply, the mounting #ChristIsKing trend betrays our biblical illiteracy and unwillingness to actually obey King Jesus—especially when we’re violating the third commandment to continue the church’s unholy legacy of anti-judaic theological tradition and antisemitic civil practices and culture.”
For all of the swirling circumstances of your life, for all the quagmire of global politics, for all tumult of “hopes deferred” and the daily wrestle against the “cares of this life,” the most important thing about your life and mine is that we—right now, today—remember we have a good Father in a good heaven whose good pleasure is to give us a good Kingdom. And: He will give you glimpses of that goodness here and now, in this age.
Deductively, a social justice-centric hermeneutic leads us to conclude God will always fight for and side with the underdog. He is, to be sure, the “Father to the fatherless” and tireless advocate for the poor and needy, and the One who will defend the defenseless and vindicate all victims. This is just who He is. This is what He does and will do in fullness in the Day of the LORD and reign of King Jesus. The story of David & Goliath confirms this—but not in validation of a social justice liberation theology.
“Deception. Counterfeits. Wars. Near-wars. Geopolitical competitions, military collisions. Clashing crowns. Starving bellies. Failed crops. Pandemics. Raging sicknesses. Unpredictable tectonic shifts. Those are just the ‘beginning of sorrows.’ Then there’s the family betrayal, bloody violations of brotherhood. Offenses will mount, calloused hearts will abound. Disillusionment will ensnare weary hearts with fatigued faith too tired to be saved.” So how, then, are we to survive this present evil age?
Upheaval in the nations in the wake of World War I combined with the Balfour Declaration fuels a Third Aliyah to the Eretz Yisrael. But as Jews begin to reclaim their ancestral land and build the institutions of a modern society, an ancient antagonism begins to resurface with some of their new neighbors, leading to violent pogroms in 1920-21.
