Bruderhof wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
Even so, the Socialist movement is like a fiery sign from heaven warning
of the coming judgment. And if Christian society is faced with a
judgment, rather than becoming proud, let it consider well what truth
there is in that which mounts the attack.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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