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The Vatican rejects the MAGA movement

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    “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, ​whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’.” Pope Leo on Palm Sunday, Vatican City   How Christians should pity the nations! Though guilty and culpable, they are also miserable and helpless . We should hate their sins and oppose their acts of injustice, but let us also be like Jesus, who “ was moved with compassion on them , because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd ” (Matt. 9:36). Let us who are saved by grace remember that we were once just as the lost are now: dead in sin, driven along by satanic lies and selfish ambition , damned under God’s wrath, and distant from the Savior and any hope of salvation (Eph. 2:1–3, 12).   Let us pour out our fervent prayers for God to send them gospel preachers and open ...
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The land of promise finds its realization in Jesus: not in types and shadows

See, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are to be signs and portents in Israel, sent by the LORD of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion. Isa. 8:18  In the Pauline writing two basic typological patterns appear—Adamic or Creation typology and Covenant typology. Each is related to a particular aspect of God’s redemptive purpose in Christ,(These two ideas may be present in Rom. 1:3f, where Christ is described as  descended from David and  Son of God . and, over all, they unite to form one interrelated whole. Thus, becoming a Christian is spoken of as a  new birth  (Exodus typology) and  a new creation  (Adamic typology); sometimes (e.g. Rom. 6:3) both ideas are apparently joined in the figure of resurrection.    Two principles are fundamental to Paul’s understanding of the OT. First, he reads the Scripture from the viewpoint of the ‘End-time’ in which  OT history and prophecy have become realized and fulfilled in Christ . The OT ...
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Then what about the law: What then was the purpose of the law?

An account of the genealogy of  Jesus the Messiah , the son of David, the  son of Abraham . (Gen 12:3; 22:18; Ps 132:11; Isa 11:1; Lk 1:32; Jn 7:42; Acts 2:30; 13:23; Rom 1:3; Gal 3:16) Matt. 1:1  I will  bless those who bless  you , and the one who curses  you   I will  curse, and  in you  all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”, ( Gen 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 27:29; Ex 23:22; Num 24:9; Acts 3:25; Gal 3:8) Gen. 12:3  And the king will answer them, ‘Truly  I tell  you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,  you did it to me .’ Matt. 25:40  Inevitably, this leads to an inevitable question: “What, then, was the purpose of the law?” (Gal.3:19). The answer is complex, and, judging by what he says elsewhere (e.g. Rom 7), Paul makes no attempt to give a complete answer in Galatians 3. But intrinsic to its significance is its function in preparation for the coming of Christ “ ...
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This generation will not pass away: Before All these things take place.

  devils of delusion Israel acted corruptly against him. They are not his children. That is their fault.  They are a twisted and crooked generation . Deut.32:5 ...So the LORD said: I will hide my face from them, until I see what  their final condition  will be, because they are a twisted generation, children who cannot be trusted. Deut.32:20 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed cf. Dt. 28:15; because thou hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:  And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, (cf. Isa. 8:18.) and  upon thy seed for ever . Dt. 28:45–46. KJV  The text of 1 Enoch (late 3rd–2nd century B.C.) sketches a loose timeline of “seven weeks” over the course of which the “chosen righteous” will endure and receive from God “sevenfold teaching concerning his whole creation” (93:10; cf. Dan. ...
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