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Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the
violent
take it by force?
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MESSIANIC JEWISH SCRIPTURAL VIEW ______ Biblical Question:
Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the
violent take it by force?
Our Question:
Dear Pastor Reuben, I have
been reading some of the articles from the Menorah home page that are very
interesting, I have some questions that I would like to ask you, I am a
Christian believer who is beginning to see a missed richness in our generally
accepted faith today in the church. I may
be wrong however, it seems that there are sayings and doctrines that we do
not perhaps fully understand in a modern western society, one I have no idea
about is the 'kingdom of Heaven suffers volience
and the violent take it by force', if you know the explanation to this I
would dearly love to know it. Thanks, Graham Pastor Reuben's Answer:
Shalom Graham, I
understand that the reference to Matt. 11:12 "violence, etc" means
a personal breaking through the opposing multitude, in order to enter in
through the narrow door. Which was in opposition to the many, the Pharisees
and Jews generally, who were seeking to enter in, in their own way, never
doubting success, but who would discover their terrible mistake. When we
remember, that in the Sermon on the Mound, the call was only to 'enter in',
we feel that we have now reached a period, when the access to the 'narrow
door' was obstructed by the enmity of so many, and when it needed
"violence" to break through, and 'take the Kingdom' 'by force'.
Please read this whole section and see then that the Lord will say He knows
not some who got close to 'in' but He knows them not. It is a struggle to
correctly enter not by the wide door, by the narrow door provided by God. Hope this helps your
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