On Pentecost, Dr. Francis Nigel Lee comments, “Pentecost sanctified the legitimacy of separate nationality rather than saying this is something we should outgrow… In fact, even in the new earth to come, after the Second Coming of Christ, we are told that the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of the heavenly Jerusalem, and the kings of the earth shall bring the glory and the honor—the cultural treasures—of the nations into it… But nowhere in Scripture are any indications to be found that such peoples should ever be amalgamated into one huge nation.” This is the concept that you seem to be failing to grasp. The idea that 1 Peter 2:9 teaches that all Christians are members of one nation in every sense is not valid. This would mean that verses like Gal. 6:10 would mean that it would be wrong for Christians to live in separate families. It doesn’t, because all Christians are only members of one household in a spiritual, rather than physical sense.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:20:55 +0000
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