Marty's blood cried for mercy - but about revenge over the executioners! This stands and is referred from the New Testament - not the Old Testament!
"How
long will you wait, holy and true Lord, before you judge and punish those who
dwell on the earth, because they have shed our blood?"
Those who
persecute Christians, may be allowed this for a while. Then shouts martyrs of
retaliation back from God's side, then the toy over for good for executioners.
While for God's true children, then they go into their master's joy and
celebration. The contrasts are big, both in this and the next life. Thinking of
Lazarus and the rich man who got her in this life, but in the coming life, it
was Lazarus who was everything and more than that!
Image of
Lazarus was a poor man who was cast for the rich port, which was full of sores,
desiring to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs
came and licked his sores. But in the world was the exact opposite!
We as
believers here in the West who have not experienced hundreds of years what it
really costs to follow the Lord, do not understand perfectly what others have
gone through and are going through. Therefore, many times our understanding of
defects, errors and sometimes seductive and misleading. But if we go to
Scripture and history, we will probably understand this far better. Taking a
few words from my commentaries from Revelation:
My
commentaries Revelation 6. 9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the
testimony they had.
Here we see
that something can governments and others to do. Killing innocent and
defenseless Christians. Christianity Persecution and Jewish Persecution will
flare up like never before and especially many believers will be killed. Jews
will largely be spared.
Jews
have already gone through so much that God will keep his hand over them and
they will be spared much of it for them is a time of trouble unparalleled.
Jeremiah
30 7 Yes, great is this day,
its
just does not exist.
There
will be a time of trouble for Jacob,
but he
shall be rescued out of it.
Zechariah
12 8 that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Those among
them who stumble, the day will be like David, and David will be like God, like
the angel of Yahweh before them.
10
They cried with a loud voice, "How long will you wait, holy and true Lord,
before you judge and punish those who dwell on the earth, because they have
shed our blood?"
Here are
martyrs impatient. But everything has its time and even evil must ripen for
judgment and punishment. God is fair and patience over all his creation, even
the wicked.
11 When did
each of them a white robe, and they were asked to keep quiet yet a little
while, until their fellow servants and brothers were full, those who were to be
killed as they themselves.
As a
consolation they receive a white robe that speaks of that they get a banishment
that they are saved even though they were not in the Rapture. God is gracious,
allowing even dull and indifferent Christians be saved and born again when they
wake up!
18. 21 Then
took a mighty angel up a stone, big as a millstone, threw it into the sea,
saying, "So shall Babylon the great city, with one thrust down and never
be more.
When
the verdict is as extensive as it is not only Babylon who are affected. But the
whole structure of society that are affected and turned upside down. Antichrist
and the False Prophet will take control of everything. Mass media, radio, TV,
internet and everything else. Will issue its own regulations for church and
society, which no longer are allowed to defend such abnormal sins as
homosexuality and lesbian couples relationship. Everything will be turned on
its head when Satan basically looking at religion, even the apostate as a brake
against his real and deepest intentions. That he is to be honored and have all
the attention and power. Satan also "moral" then sin get man away
from what he really wants, worshiped by man. This I here can be written can be
misunderstood, but Satan wants all the attention, it is more important than
anything for him. When an already covenanted with him by taking the most
expensive brand. Is time for sin "exhausted", he wants attention.
Honor and worship.
Antichrist
will have all the attention on himself, the "help" he gets out of the
false prophet.
22
Harp Players and singers, flute players and trumpeters - in you they will never
more be heard. Craftsmen of all kinds - in you they will never be found. The
mill which hums - in you will never more be heard.
All
the cultural and otherwise being put in cosiness and is widely accepted there
is no room for the Anti Christian kingdom. Then it really only two things;
politics and his religion. This is to accomplish his purposes. Where the False
Prophet takes care of the religious but antichrist political.
23 The
lamp is lit - in you will never more shine. The voices of brides and grooms -
in you they will never more be heard. For your merchants were the princes of
the earth, and with thy sorcery were nations deceived.
Even in past
all false Christianity and empty religion as it has found voices of people who
have known God the Father and the Son. And who forwarded it on. It is never so
- not least in past Christianity - that there are no voices of brides and
grooms. Yet the majority was so overwhelmingly negative and sinful in Babylon
that the verdict of inevitable.
24 In this
city was found blood of prophets and saints, indeed, of all those who have been
slain on the earth. "
Then comes
the cardinal question in the end, who is the great harlot and ugliness on
Earth?
All
Abominations are all false religions who confess Jesus. But the whore should
have several characteristics. One of them was that she has persecuted
Christians and empty murdered them. This pursuing to thwart the Lord's
witnesses have indeed all churches and denominations done at times. From
Lutherans, frelsarmeen, Methodists, free friends, Pentecostals, charismatics
and everyone else. Therefore, it is correct to say that all Christians who do
not join when Jesus is part of the great harlot. To bind her only up to a
denomination becomes too parochial!
But
there are still a church rather than someone else who also sees himself as the
mother church that has killed and persecuted born and baptized believers more
than any other. It is the Catholic Church, "of all those who have been
slain on the earth." But to say that it is only the Catholic church as the
great harlot becomes too parochial. It comes to be true against Jesus and God's
word, even unto the end to be saved, preserved and saved! It is estimated that
the Catholic church has killed somewhere between 50-100 million people who
believed in Christ and was baptized believers. Other churches have banned and
neglected the true believers, it also invoked the Lord's wrath and judgment!
Luke
21. 19 In your patience possess ye your souls!
(end of
quote).
"How
long will you wait, holy and true Lord, before you judge and punish those who
dwell on the earth, because they have shed our blood?"
This was the
martyr questions and prayer, not grace, but punishment and revenge on those who
had been so ugly, cruel and barbaric to them!
I have
always taught and lived by the Sermon where not revenge, but to show the other
cheek!
But here we
encounter the opposite, what is right? And how will we live and what to
recommend?
Regardless
of how we practice our faith, what opportunities we have and we want revenge or
mercy. So will all wicked scoffers and those who oppose us with the message we
preach about Jesus and God's word. They will be held accountable, and few left
for their deeds and how they treated us as believers. No release here away!
It's human
plumb even die, then dom!
From my
commentaries Hebrews 9. 27 Likewise certain as it is appointed unto men once to
die and after this the judgment,
It is a fact
that every human being must admit, death obtains concerned before or since. But
then there is a judgment if one does not accept Jesus and be saved and born
again!
28 so also
Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many, and since he is the
second time to appear, not to bear sin, but to save those who eagerly await
him.
Jesus took
away sin by the sacrifice of Calvary and after the resurrection he carried the
blood within its Father in Heaven and where did and he found eternal redemption
and salvation for us all. Just as surely, he came into the world it is that he
will come back in two departments.
1) but to
save those who eagerly await him.
2.) 2 Thes.
1. 7 you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from
heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and those who do not obey our Lord Jesus Christ; 9 who shall be
punished with everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory
of his power, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints and to
be admired by all the believers - for thought because our testimony to you.
(end of
quote).
Final
Comment:
The same God
that we find in the Old Testament, is what we find in the New Testament. There
are of course some differences when Israel stood in a special position. And
whoever is entrusted much, get a the greater responsibility. We read in the New
Testament that the Lord's witnesses and martyrs Roman on punishment:
"How
long will you wait, holy and true Lord, before you judge and punish those who
dwell on the earth, because they have shed our blood?"
This is the
same as we find in the Old Testament. It is not strange that so many believers
react on a preaching where one encounters martyrs who cry trial and punishment
etc.
While an
even don a dug that this is many times the vertical and part one that the
Lord's messenger on reckoned with, that the religious hate us and the world
understands us! The whole world is really at times against the believers and
takes care rights that they have not, and are allowed to have.
Joh.e. 16. 2
They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, there comes a time when whoever
kills you will think that he doeth God service.
Give up? I
would rather die than remain silent about this!
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