Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses
unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Most of Old Testament history is about
a specific place in the world: Israel, a specific people: Jews, and
one city: Jerusalem. Now for the first time in Biblical history this
focus, led by the Spirit of God, was radically changing.
The earthly government of God would be
moved from a central government with a single location to a
worldwide mission without any boundaries or capital. It was mobile
and led directly by Jesus through His Holy Spirit.
Jesus' ministry moved from a nation
with borders to no borders. His government on earth remains border-less today. His ministry moved from a specific race
of people who depended heavily on their lineage, to every race
regardless of their heredity. There is now no racial identity to the
Government of Christ, and no multi-generational structure or dynasty.
And its language is every language, God’s truth in every language…
wow...
Throughout history since this radical
change there have been multiple regular attempts to centralize the
government of Christ or place its identity on a particular nation,
government, party, or system. When radical nationalism creeps into
the vocabulary and thinking of professing Christians it is always a
corruption. Those who use the identity of Christ's government to
attempt to heal the ills of their national government will always
find they have only deepened the corruption by producing a poisonous
hybrid. Christ's earthly government will remain free... no borders,
no earthly capital, no single language, no exclusive race, and no
dynastic structure.
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