Aug 29, 2018

Was Jesus Or His Apostles Among The Majority Voters

No, Christians were a minority in Bible days, and still are.

If a poll had been taken, back then, of "Most Popular Persons", would Jesus or an Apostles have won it?

If such a poll were taken today, among  Democrats, would Jesus receive as many votes as Hillary Clinton or Barrack  Obama?   Judging by the other polls I read, that would not happen. And if the Apostle Paul were included, the positive response would be even less than this Pope's. But if a poll were taken among Republicans today, between Jesus and President Trump, I can tell you Trump would not get more than 5% of the votes. I know a lot of Republicans.

Popularity has never been one of the accomplishments of God's Prophets, Christ's Apostles, or true Christians at any time in all of history. That tells me that popularity, with the majority, is not a Christian attribute, and should not be. In fact, considering God's Roll Call of the faithful in Hebrews 11, none of whom had popular approval during their times, it is made clear that majority popularity among the true people of God has to be a spiritual liability and contradiction. Popularity is never once mentioned in the Bible as a Christian asset, attribute or spiritual gift of a believer in Jesus Christ.

"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be a servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10.     Our calling is to please God not men. But that is just one side of the  Christian calling coin. Jesus pointed out the other side of the issue in John 15:18 where he told his disciples ...    "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."  

Therefore, considering the best known and popular pseudo preachers on the religious scene today, most of whom also have television networks, jet planes and mansions, the message seems clear. Most are not on God's list of today's "Expounders Of Truth", "Preacher's Of Rightness", and certainly not equal with "Biblical Prophets and Apostles".  Religion may be popular, but true Christianity will never win any popularity contests in this sin-full world.  In church, yes, and probably in some cities, but nationally and world-wide .... no.  Notice I underlined that fact in the verse above.    "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son..."   but the majority of that same world does not love Him, believe in Him or serve Him.   

If our calling is to please God, witness Jesus to the lost world, and preach/teach the full council of God, we will not and cannot please the world and will never be in the majority until Christ's 1000 year Millennial kingdom. At the end of which the devil is loosed, again deceives the nations, raises an evil army, and attacks Christ and the faithful. That will be the shortest war in history as those nations are destroyed by God. That is the conclusion of the seventh dispensation, when the second resurrection, of the lost dead, and great white throne of God's judgment of them takes place. That last rebellion against God, led by Satan, with a massive army of human beings   (Rev.20)     is the final chapter of the human race and completes the seven dispensations of its existence on earth. Free will, self willed humans will have failed in the dispensation of Innocence, in Eden, four others recorded in the Old Testament, then the church age of enlightenment and finally the Millennial Kingdom with Christ sitting on the throne in their very presence. After that final judgment, for the rest of eternity, Christian's, then as the Bride of Christ, will be a 100% majority.

In the mean time, to preserve our rights, in America, to carry out God's Great Commission, witness to the lost, be faithful stewards, freely worship our God in or out of our churches, and sing His praises above a whisper, we true Christians, as a minority, must ALL participate in preserving the freedoms of our U.S. Constitution which our Christian forefathers, with their blood, established as U.S. Law, as God led them.    
PRAY, SPEAK UP, VOTE.


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