Re: Behold, I am coming soon!

Bruderhof wrote:

> Yet the light of hope does ****ne among these m***** through the
> gospel, which reveals the love of God to the world. This hope is
> itself a world- shaking power of God which we experience in
> Christianity in a general way; even the unbelievers take part in that
> hope although they are not aware of it. It is by this power of hope
> coming through the gospel that the triumph of darkness is prevented;
> it no longer makes any headway. Wherever the gospel comes, death is
> pierced through by the hope of life. Yet the hearts of men are not
> free for God nor have they power for the victory over sin; thus,
> things in the world seem to go just as they always have gone. 
> 

The new (a new creation) is found only in secret, among the believers. 
These we can call the forerunners of the kingdom of God, in whom God’s 
righteousness already has a beginning. It is their calling to be faithful 
unto death, to fight for the earth as being the property of God until the 
Son of Man comes in the glory of his Father. It is only then that the
power 
of God in Jesus Christ will come to the peoples and to all the m***** of 
mankind. Then will become possible that of which Christianity and the 
gospel are incapable in these times, namely, a judgment.

-- 
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com