Acts 5:40, “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.”
The modern nation of Israel has earned a negative reputation for themselves since 1948, by terrorizing and bombing the people in Palestine again and again. To add insult to injury, for decades Israel has bene openly hostile toward Christians who preach the Gospel. There is actually a law on the books presently that forbids, upon penalty of arrest and imprisonment, for anyone caught teaching the Gospel from the Holy Bible to children and younger teenagers in Israel. Now some leaders in Israel want to include a ban on teaching the Gospel to adults. ...
Proposed legislation would outlaw talk about Jesus in Israel
Israel Introduces Bill to Outlaw Teaching The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Sentence Violators to Prison
It cannot be denied that there is a prevailing hatred among Jews against Bible Christianity and Jesus Christ. President Netanyahu has since tried to downplay the new proposed law, but the fact that some leaders would even suggest and put forth such a law is alarming. Our Scripture text verse tells us that the apostles were physically assaulted by the magistrates, beaten and ordered not to preach the Gospel anymore. ...
Acts 5:40, “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”
I love that! Even after being threatened by the judicial council not to preach in the name of Jesus, they defiantly went and did it anyway!!! That which is not just is not law. Tyranny is rarely seen except by those who are oppressed by it. It was unjust and horrible what the leaders of Jerusalem did to the apostles. The Pharisees and Chief Priests on the council persecuted the apostles just for preaching the truth of the Gospel. Evidently not much has changed in 2,000 years, considering that Israel's leaders today still want to arrest and imprison Christians for sharing the truth of the Gospel. There's nothing new under the sun. ...
Ecclesiastes 1:9-12, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.”
There is nothing new in the world today as far as human nature. Wicked people have been mixing law with grace since Cain tried to impress God with the works of his hands as a farmer. God rejected Cain's works! Still today we see this sore evil at every turn, ungodly men adding works to God's saving grace. It is disturbing indeed, that Israel's rulers in 2023 would pass such a tyrannical unjust law, forcing its citizens to adhere to only one belief system, on penalty of prosecution. That is tyranny, not freedom in any sense of the word.
When President Harry Truman had the paperwork sitting on his desk in front of him in 1948, to make Israel officially a nation again, he initially rejected the proposal. President Truman rejected the proposal because it specified that Israel would be a Theocracy. Mr. Truman took his pen and scratched out the word Theocracy, and instead wrote the word Democracy. The new nation of Israel was to be free for all people to worship according to their own beliefs, and not a country where the Jews could shove their Judaism down its citizen's throats by force. Even God Himself refuses to force Himself on people. 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”
Jesus warned in the Scriptures that the time WILL COME when the wicked will murder Christians, thinking they are doing God's will. John 16:2, “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” Already, pastors in Canada have been prosecuted and imprisoned for preaching the Bible truth against the sin of homosexuality. This trend will continue, silencing and demonizing the saints , while parading and empowering the wicked.
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