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Friday, September 4 2009
The history of humanity has been little more than the relatively strong conquering the less strong (strength is relative - an army of 1,000 against an army of 100 has the same 10 to 1 "superiority" as an army of 1,000,000 against an army of 100,000). Empires were, and are, based on the principle that bigger is always "right," regardless of how evil (in outcome, if not original intent) they may actually be. From the perspective of Bible History, the cycle of rise and inevitable fall was endlessly repeated by the Assyrians (see Ancient Empires - Assyria), the Babylonians (see Ancient Empires - Babylon), the Persians (see Ancient Empires - Persia), the Greeks (see Ancient Empires - Greece) and the Romans (see Ancient Empires - Rome).
"In all these things we are more than conquerors"
The true Gospel is about the coming Kingdom of God. From the day of Christ's return (see When Will You Be Judged? and Could Christ Return Tonight?), all human political systems will be eliminated, either by their surrender or annihilation (see the Fact Finder question below) and replaced with the rule of the Messiah. The difference between Christ's coming to rule, and man's arrogant and destructive invasion and misrule of other nations, is that Christ's "invasion" will bring true freedom and everlasting peace - something that hypocritical humans are not capable of doing. God's changed-to-spirit people will thereafter however be more than mere human conquerers; they will be actual family of the only nation on earth. There will be nothing "foreign" to invade.
"8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:28-39 KJV)
Fact Finder: How is the entire world going to change when Christ returns (see also Why Two Comings Of The Christ?)?
See Christ the Conqueror For Peace and The Coming World Dictator
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This Day In History, September 4
476: Romulus Augustulus, 16, the last Roman emperor, was deposed. The date is considered by some historians as the "fall" of the Roman empire (it wasn't). See Ancient Empires - Rome and The "Holy" Roman Empire
925: The coronation of Athelstan, the first king to rule over all of England.
1189: King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) of England was crowned in Westminster.
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson discovered a large, heavily wooded, nearly unpopulated island on the east coast of North America. Today, it is known as Manhattan.
1781: In southern California, Spanish settlers named their small (population 44) new settlement Los Angeles.
1783: The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
1820: Czar Nicholas of Russia claimed all territory from Alaska to Oregon, closing all Alaskan waters to foreigners. Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867. The territory became the 49th U.S. state in 1959.
1886: Apache chief Geronimo surrendered to U.S. troops in Arizona, ending the last major American Indian war. Geronimo later converted to (nominal) Christianity and became a prosperous farmer.
1888: George Eastman patented the first roll-film camera with the name Kodak.
1957: Ford started selling the Edsel, a medium-priced luxury car named after Henry Ford's son. The car proved to be so unpopular that it was discontinued 2 years later, in 1959.
1976: The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
