I won’t try to reproduce our minister’s sermon on Sunday from memory, since I hope to post the audio file or text here in this entry. It takes awhile for the sermon to get to my church’s website.
The reason I am mentioning it today on inauguration day is that when our pastor talked about his view of what the beast in John’s vision represents, I immediately thought about our own government and that we are about to swear into office another emperor type president. While I hold to the orthodox preterist view that the beast represents Nero and the office of Emperor of the Roman Empire, I also say that it is that and a representation of any human government which oversteps its bounds. Our pastor says that the beast is simply representative of all governments that overstep their bounds and arrogate to themselves powers and privileges that are God’s alone. And of course I believe that the government of the USA has overstepped its rightful place long ago, and while they are not currently (as of this entry) as bad as say, Nazi Germany, they do show a frightening trend toward autocracy and tyranny. When the sermon reaches cyber-land, I do encourage everyone to listen to it or read it.
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