Posted on 04/16/2022 3:32:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
A recent poll found that a sizeable majority of Americans say the moral lessons of Easter are still “very important” to preserving a strong America for future generations. Unfortunately, some of the loudest voices in American politics disagree. The Democrat Party has drifted so far from the values Americans hold dear that they aren’t just apathetic; they’re actively working to undermine them.
Consider how Democrats treated people of faith during the COVID-19 pandemic. For months, they forced houses of worship to keep their doors closed, threatening them with fines and even jailtime if they dared to gather. When Democrat governors finally did allow churches to reopen, there were severe restrictions. In Las Vegas, more people were allowed to gamble in a casino than go to church. In California, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed harsh restrictions on religious institutions, only to later get caught breaking his own rules so he could schmooze with lobbyists at a ritzy Napa Valley restaurant. Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued orders that discriminated against Orthodox Jews until a conservative majority on the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. And former Virginia Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam openly mused why Americans felt the need to go to church in person in the first place.
Unfortunately, Democrats have only become bolder in their attacks on religious Americans. Joe Biden’s administration has done all they can to slow-walk religious exemptions for the vaccine mandate for U.S. servicemembers. Biden’s lawyers recently went to work weakening the bipartisan Religious Freedom Restoration Act and make sure a group of Navy SEALs don’t obtain a vaccine mandate religious exemption.
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An excerpt from Bill Wylie-Kellermanns classic Seasons of Faith and Conscience (1991).
The sealing of the tomb is, I believe, notoriously misunderstood. I grew up with a Sunday School notion that to seal the tomb was a matter of hefting the big stone and cementing it tight. The seal, in my minds eye, was something like first-century caulkingputtying up the cracks to keep the stink in. Not so. This is a legal seal. Cords would be strung across the rock and anchored at each end with clay. To move the stone would break the seal and indicate tampering.
The event conspicuously echoes the story of Daniel sealed in the den of lions. And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel (Daniel 6:18). As there, this is a legal lock on the tomb doornot air tight, but politically tight. To move the stone and break the seal is a civil crime. The resurrection is against the law.
The seal is also a recurring theme in the book of Revelation. Remember the scroll of history sealed with seven seals? Only One is worthy to break them and look upon or unveil the truth: that One is the Lamb who was slain. The seal is a claim of ownership and authority. Its meaning in Revelation is at least that God in Christ reigns sovereign over all history and in all events.
Caesar, in Pilate, on the other hand, violently disputes the claim. He has set his seal of approval on Jesus death, and now he guarantees it with troops. Secured by security forces. When the seal is broken in the resurrection, it stands among the signs that the power of the powers (death in all its forms) has been broken. The dominion of political authorityespecially inflated, aggressiveand imperial authority has been cut to the heart.
You need to do more fighting than you have been, Ronna.
Start with your uncle.
She needs to meet the real Resurected and Glorified YESHUA.
Yes. I agree.
He is Risen.
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