> However, if we were to bring together all the words of Jesus and the
> apostles dealing with the final purpose of human history, we would
> soon discover that, in spirit, Jesus concerns himself with the
> political and social situation, that his kingdom could not come or
> even be conceived apart from the overthrow of the established order.
> And he thought of this overthrow in essentially violent terms.
>
>
Nevertheless, this does not imply that, as followers of Jesus, we are to
do
deeds of violence. We are not to be bloody revolutionaries but to be
filled
with peace and power as we endure through the entire process, having our
eyes fixed on the final goal of peace. Yet this end state cannot come
without the most shattering of overthrows. Like the whip which Jesus
wielded in the temple at Jerusalem, there is still a whip to be wielded
upon the whole unrighteous nature of humanity—”a day that shall burn like
an oven,” as the prophet Malachi said. And even if the judgment begins in
the household of God, I will rejoice.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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