Jehoshua is on the throne of David in New Jerusalem and He is the King of a New Israel
Unfortunately, many so called Christians have picked up the battle cry of the social justice movement and misuse verses in the bible to support their involvement in the movement.
These Christian social justice warriors will focus on the history of this country and the atrocities done to the Native Americans and African Americans and demand accountability from the government regarding what took place over a hundred years ago. Admittedly, the social effects of the slaughter of the Native Americans and enslavement of African Americans has had a ripple effect on both of those communities that continue to be seen today. The social justice movement is one that focuses on the past and demands its rights in the present. Part of this movement is one that seeks to get it's fair share of economic reparations from those they consider to be wealthy in society. There is a perception that those who obtained wealth have done it at the expense of less fortunate communities namely so called minority ones. Distant injustices from the past are not the only issues but also recent past injustices, whether true or perceived ones. The social justice warrior Christian seeks to right the wrongs of the past and often joins or assists secular organizations to do so no matter if said organizations promote anti-biblical principles. In this study we will see that getting caught up in the social justice movement is apostasy and that no true Christian will participate in it. Essential to the social justice movement is looking back to the past both distant and recent, however we are warned by the Son of God to do the very opposite of that: Luke 9:62 "And Jehoshua said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Jehoshua says clearly that those who start laboring for the Kingdom and then look back are not fit for the Kingdom meaning they will not inherit it. It's important to remember that Jehoshua said this in the context of a man making the excuse that he needed to bury His Father before he committed to following Him (Jehoshua). This should show us how serious Jehoshua is about demanding full loyalty to Him and His Kingdom gospel. Even something as important as burying one's father was not sufficient an excuse to delay following Jehoshua. This man obviously started on the path of the narrow road of the Kingdom but didn't want to fully commit to it. Therefore Jehoshua said He wasn't fit for the Kingdom. How much more would Jehoshua say this to the Christian social justice warriors who are hyper focused on the past? This passage in Luke applies to them as they traded full loyalty to the Son of God's Kingdom message for a mix of worldly social justice principles and a watered down gospel. An involvement in politics is required in the social justice movements so now the so called SJW Christian has his loyalty divided along three lines. Paul the apostle understood Jehoshua's command to not look back: Phillippians 3:13-15 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Jehoshua.15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. There is no place in the Kingdom of God for looking back, you are either going forward or your not going at all. Paul says it clearly that he forgets those things which are behind i.e. in the past and He is pressing toward the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah. Paul's goal is to endure to the end so that He inherits the crown of the eternal Kingdom of the Son of God. Paul says those who are minded in pressing toward the prize of the Kingdom are perfect. The opposite is obviously true in that those who focus and look back to the past are not perfect. These who look back are not on their way to the Kingdom but rather have taken a detour. Unless they repent and have the mind that Paul has they will not inherit the Kingdom of God. They may solve some of the ills of society here and now but they will have forfeited the Kingdom. The word "press" comes from the Greek word "dioko" (Strongs 1377) and means "to pursue, to follow after, ensue, persecute, given to, press forward." This is an aggressive action of going forward (pressing) towards the Kingdom of God. Paul's saying that he presses towards the high calling of God in Messiah Jehoshua. This means that Paul is actively and constantly pursuing the things of the Kingdom. Jehoshua talked about this as well in the sermon on the mount: Matthew 6:22 "The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" The context of this statement by Jehoshua is in respect to not serving money and instead serving Jehovah God. When Jehoshua says if our eye be single then our whole body will be full of light it is metaphorical for being single minded about the Kingdom of God. We see this 10 and 11 verses later when Jehoshua says: Matthew 6:32-33 32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Jehoshua exhorts us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His (God's) righteousness and then those necessities of food, drink and clothing will be added to us. Jehoshua says it is the Gentiles (unbelievers) who worry about the things of this life but those who are Israel seek the Kingdom of God and have faith that He (God) will provide. What Paul and Jehoshua are both advocating is a single minded determination to live out the Kingdom of God now and to enter into the full consummation of the Kingdom at the second advent of Messiah. Matthew 11:12 "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force." There is no middle road approach to being a Christian nor is Christianity just something good and moral you add to your life. Jehoshua says the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent men take it by force. This is what Paul was describing he does in Phillippians 3 i.e. pressing toward the mark of the high calling of God. The Kingdom suffers violence meaning it is advancing forcefully. Violent men taking the Kingdom by force means they are forcefully laying hold of it. Men and women are taking the Kingdom of heaven by storm. They are seizing it as a precious prize. Eager souls are storming the Kingdom. My brothers and sisters when we enter into the Kingdom through baptism our earnestness for it should be one of violence meaning we let nothing stand in our way and we set aside all previous loyalties. Once we are in the Kingdom we continue seizing it violently following the exhortation of both Jehoshua and Paul the apostle. This means there is no time to take our eyes off the prize and look back otherwise as Jehoshua says we will not be fit for the Kingdom (Luke 9:62). Paul gives another exhortation about being single minded regarding the Kingdom as he gives advice to Timothy: 2 Timothy 2:3-5 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jehoshua Messiah.4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. We have been enlisted in an army and it is the army of God. Jehoshua is our 5 star General and we take our marching orders from Him. He gave us a command in Matthew 28 to preach the gospel to all nations and teach them to observe His commandments and to baptize in His name. Just as no soldier of a secular army would entangle himself in civilian affairs, a soldier of Jehoshua Messiah, even more so, is not to entangle himself in the affairs of this life i.e. the world. Out loyalty is to Him who chose us not some politician or community revolutionary. The only organization we are tied have loyalty to is the Kingdom of Jehoshua Messiah. If we entangle ourselves with the affairs of this life then we will not be pleasing to God. In the armies of a nation would it be acceptable to join other organizations? Absolutely not! How much more then does the army of God require absolute loyalty? Many of these social justice organizations are striving for the things of this world i.e political power and more wealth which are the very things Jehoshua said not to strive for. The Son of God says His Kingdom is not of this world otherwise His servants would fight for it. That's exactly what these social justice movements are doing, which is fighting for the kingdoms of this world. Matthew 6:19-21 19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. We must ask ourselves, do these social justice movements align with the teachings of the Son of God? Absolutely not! One of the main motivations for these movements is to take some of the wealth from the rich and give to the so called poor. This absolutely goes against what the Son of God taught and what the law of His Father Jehovah says. This very principle of the social justice is a violation of one of the Father's 10 commandments: Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s." This is the 10th commandment and it exposes the social justice movements motives as not being according to Jehovah God's law. When we desire what others have no matter how we cloak it covetousness is at the core of it. The excuse that the wealthy have gotten rich through corruption doesn't matter even though many times these are unfounded accusations. No matter how someone got their wealth it does not allow you to break God's law and Jehoshua's teachings by covering even a slice of it. Instead of calling these social justice warriors to repentance from their covetousness many modern Christians are justifying their cause. These so called Christians don't truly love these misguided souls in the social justice movement as Paul the apostle says: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Do you see what Paul said? Those who are covetous are unrighteous and they will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Instead, they will suffer the second death in the Lake of fire. True Christians would have nothing to do with these false movements and instead they would give them the true solution which is the gospel of the Kingdom. Many believers hearken to Jehovah God's pleas for old testament Israel to give justice to the less fortunate such as orphans, widows and foreigners as a justification for their involvement with BLM, however what they don't realize is that Jehovah was commanding this of His covenant people and was not telling them to make sure this was happening with the surrounding nations. Jehovah's command to old testament Israel is still true today but it applies to His new covenant Israel which is the church not secular nations. Surely Jehovah desires earthly governments to do these things but His command for justice is directed at His covenant people as the governments of this world are ultimately under the sway of Satan. The earthly governments are in opposition to Jehovah God and His Messianic King (Psalm 2). Jehovah's justice is not the social justice that the world promotes but rather is rooted in His law. Jehovah's justice does not look like the leftwing liberal version. Sure Jehovah's heart for the poor, orphan, widow and foreigner would appeal to a leftist liberal however His Son's command to go and sin no more lest a worse thing come upon you would be hate speech to the left. The same is true of the right wing conservative but in the reverse. Also, Jehovah's law against Sodomy and Lesbianism would not fit the social justice motif. Jehovah's will that the husband be head over his wife would also not fit the social justice movement. Overall the law of Jehovah stands in stark contrast to the principles of the social justice movement. Luke 12:13-15 13And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.14And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Here is an example of Jehoshua paying no mind to an economic injustice. Actually Jehoshua rebukes the man who is being cheated by his brother. Notice that Jehoshua tells him to beware of covetousness. Jehoshua doesn't seek economic justice for the man but basically tells him to forget about it and that one's life does not consist in his earthly posessions. John 12:5-8 5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. Judas tried to put on a show that he cared for the poor. Here Jehoshua puts precedence in worshipping Him over giving to the poor. We know that we are commanded to be giving but what we see here is Jehoshua rebuking a manipulative intent by Judas, who was virtue signaling, and stating that worshipping Him was priority and that we will always have the poor with us. Jehoshua cared for the poor but He didn't make them the be all end all and actually said blessed are the poor for theirs is the Kingdom of God (Matthew 5:3). Jehoshua was far more concerned with the spiritual state of the poor than their economic situation. The poor are blessed in that they will have the Kingdom of heaven preached to them not because Jehoshua is going to advocate for economic justice for them. To the contrary, Jehoshua promises those who follow them that they will suffer persecution and be hated by all for His namesake. How does this fit in with seeking social and economic justice for people when we as followers of the Son of God are expected to accept and rejoice in persecution and even rejoice when are goods are spoiled (stripped from us)? It doesn't at all!! Hebrews 10:34 "For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." The response of those in Messiah when spoiled of their goods wasn't to protest, loot and riot but rather to rejoice since they knew that their treasure was in heaven. Even when maltreated by authorities the apostolic era Christians rejoiced and praised God: Acts 4:24 "And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Jehovah, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is" After Peter and John were imprisoned for preaching the gospel and then threatened not to do it anymore they went to their brethren reporting the incident. The response of the believers was not to cause civil unrest but rather to praise Jehovah God. Acts 5:41 "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name." This time Peter and the apostles were imprisoned and beaten by the high priest and captain of the temple for the testimony of the Son of God yet they rejoiced and praised God that they were worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jehoshua. Philippians 2:14-15 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Paul says that we as Christians are to do all things without complaining (murmuring) and disputings. This goes in line with the teachings of the Messiah. It is when we follow this command (not complaining) that we are blameless and sons of God. When we practice this we then are in stark contrast to a wicked and perverse generation. It is the wicked who complain when doing things. They are in darkness. Those however, who do all things without complaining, are lights in the midst of this perverse generation. This exhortation to do all things without complaining is completely contrary to the social justice movement which is founded on the idea of disputing and complaining and not being content with what one has in terms of political and financial power. So called Christians who participate or in any way encourage these social justice movements are going against the very teachings of Jehoshua, the new testament and the bible as a whole. The bible says do all things without complaining yet these social justice warriors do nothing but complain about the past and present and lament what they don't have. Christian's shouldn't be encouraging protesting and rioting but rather should be calling these social justice warriors to repentance and teach them to do all things without complaining and disputing. The Lord Jehoshua teaches that we are not to resist an evil person: Matthew 5:39-42 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Jehoshua teaches us to do the very opposite of what the social justice movements promote. The Son of God tells us not to resist those who are evil but rather to turn the other cheek and to go two miles with those who ask us to go one. Jehoshua forbids us to go to the law to seek restitution and to go even farther and give are cloak in addition to our coat. We are to give to those who ask and not turn them away. At His very core Jehoshua is against the mindset of a social justice warrior. Instead of cheerleading protests and riots bible believing Christians should be calling these social justice warriors to repentance and showing them that Jehoshua would want them to be willing to suffer rather than to seek their own justice, vengeance and restitution. True believers in Messiah are hated by the world not loved by them. I believe this is at the root of why many so called Christians don't speak out against these social justice movements that are promoted and approved by the world including the media, athletes and celebrities. Jehoshua tells us this: Matthew 10:22 "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved" We will be hated by all men because we shine the light on their lawless and wicked deeds including those that are rioting and looting. We also will call out and expose the social justice movements for being anti-Christ due to their ungodly principles.
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