Dio, Giustizia Bibbia e politici: Attenzione!
ATTENZIONE!
This book may be harmful to your current peace of mind. Read at your own risk.
Leggi questo primo!
Questo è un libro incredibilmente dolorosa.
No one should have written it. No one should read it. It should not be necessary. But here it is. God’s heart laid bare for all to critique.
We want justice. We want peace. We want love. We want everything He offers. But do we want Him?
This is the question from the beginning of time. This is the question we were born to answer. Do we want Him?
Questa domanda ci preme come abbiamo di fronte un vuoto di soluzioni; mondo che grida per un'alternativa a tutte le sue precedenti convinzioni e credenze; un mondo schiacciato da tempo, popolazione, povertà, disordini e malattie devastanti; un anelito mondo di sogno, ma con nessuna visione; un desiderio di cambiare mondo, ma senza opzioni; un ribollente mondo con un potenziale di una grande epoca nella storia dell'umanità, ma senza tamburo battuto da seguire.
He is who we are looking for. He is the dream fulfilled, the one who offers us our destiny. But will we allow Him to be Himself? This is an odd question in a generation that is asking that so strongly for themselves. Let us be us! Fair enough, Dio dice:. But first you must let Me be Me.
In questo libro stiamo guardando giustizia politica, uno dei desideri di ogni cuore, the cry of billions and the demand of many nation’s people. We have only one concern and that is “what does God say?” There is only one book for us to turn to in this study, questo è il libro di Dio. In the Bible God does not say what we want Him to say. He does not tell us how to take power and make our nations good and just. He does not tell us how to legislate sin out of our towns and streets. Lui non ci dà una strategia.
Invece, He tells us our story and His purpose. It is an unrelentingly tragic journey through the history of man. We begin with an amazing vision of possibility for God’s human creation. The cosmos is made for our inheritance. We are co-regents with God in dominion. Perfection, regal authority and eternal comradeship with our maker is all ours. It is breathtaking.
Destino di Distruzione
Dalla Genesi capitolo tre invece si tratta di una storia molto diversa. We are in freefall from sin and beginning with fratricide by chapter six we are all the way to human genocide. What is that all about? Nearly ten generations of human destruction ending in a violent global catastrophic flood. Why even read this stuff. What is the point? Where is God in all of this? Perché non basta saltare questo e arrivare a giustizia nel Nuovo Testamento. Perché questa è la storia selezionata di Dio ed Egli vuole che noi comprendiamo. Se vogliamo che la sua benedizione dovremo capire il suo pensiero. Vuoi Lui o la vostra idea di Lui? You have to make a choice
Infine vi è un certo rilievo come Dio chiama un uomo a padre una tribù, una nuova nazione per rivelare Se stesso. But from the first generation of Abraham there is lying and cheating and difficult alternative families. Within four generations we are back to near fratricide of Joseph and genocide of the Shecemites. This is followed by more than 400 years of slavery as God deals with Abraham’s legacy. Where is the joy here?
La Legge
Reprieve comes again in the form of the Law given to Moses to disciple the nearly free nation of Israel. God begins to speak for Himself and gives clear, concise and very specific instruction for how to achieve justice in a community. Five books, 10 commandments and one small nation should be doable. God is with them. They make a covenant with Him. Finally we are moving forward.
We have some good years and some bad years but it all hits the fan again. 2000 years from Joshua to the last Kings of Israel and total destruction of the promised nation. Sure there are highs and lows. Much of what God wanted is achieved even a certain amount of political justice but then it deteriorates into bloody chaos again.
But then there is David. Sì, il nostro miglior leader politico, only a murderer and an adulterer. But he had a heart for God? Sì, che ha fatto. But there is Solomon. Sì, the pinnacle of national history. A man of great wisdom from God in governing but so little wisdom at all in his personal life. The King of Israel’s greatest age and the father of the Kings that will in one generation begin to tear it all apart and take the nation to total destruction. Why read this stuff? Why dwell on this for hundreds of pages? And then we have the Prophets and a few hundred more pages of pain? Surely God wants us to put this awful history behind us and get to Jesus, peace and joy. More than a thousand pages of historic torture for what when we now have the good news of the New Testament.
C'è un punto?
Non vi è punto di Dio! He is telling us who we are, what we were made to be and what we have become. He is telling us what He has had to witness, piangete con, and address in order to bring us back to our destiny. He is telling us the cost, la dolorosa sofferenza incessante di Dio e dell'uomo, di tutta la creazione a causa del cattivo uso della nostra autorità umana, il costo dell'ignoranza, il costo di lostness, the cost of the dream behind giving man authority in the first place. He is telling us everything else has been tried in human history and failed. He is telling us that we want the wrong king, che stiamo cercando per il regno sbagliato e ogni volta che cerca di suscitare l'umanità nella giusta direzione gli neghiamo!
When we reject the Old Testament pain we are rejecting God’s view of humanity and reality. We are saying that we don’t want this God to be God. We don’t want this to be the truth about who we are. We do not what this to be the story. We want Jesus! And Jesus does come.
Vogliamo che Gesù
When Jesus comes his male peer group is slaughtered. When He comes His own people work with a pagan empire to execute Him. He is not the King they want. “But He is resurrected. He ascends!” He does, e lo Spirito viene, the power of God in man to carry out his destiny. "Sì, Questo è l'unico; this is the King we asked for.” The church explodes and sweeps the known world. “Yup, this is the wave we were waiting for.” But then it begins. Persecution from within, credenti coalizzarsi contro i credenti; and from without political domination and persecution from Empirical governments with different agendas. The church struggles to be His church and we continue to argue about what kind of King He actually is, tutto il percorso attraverso i primi tre capitoli della rivelazione.
Se Egli non è venuto a darci il controllo? If He has not come to give us peace and comfort, se Egli non è venuto per fermare il peccato e la violenza, allora qual è il punto? Why are we still here, sulla terra, sofferenza?
Questa è una domanda molto importante e per la risposta si dovrà camminare attraverso ciò che Dio ha camminato attraverso e vedere ciò che ha visto prima di capire che cosa Egli comprende la giustizia, sulla terra e in cielo.
“Many people have compassion for the lost. I have compassion for God.”
Wynn Fontana
