A great read about American Christians
http://www.geocities.com/biblestudying/america.html
The above link is to an excellent article about how the USA is NOT in a special covenant with God like Israel.
The above link is to an excellent article about how the USA is NOT in a special covenant with God like Israel.
November 14th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Brandon,
You have a wonderful inspiring site here. I come often and read and am so blessed!
But it just dawn on me that I’ve never left a reply before. After reading the above article though, I just have to thank you for providing this link.
While I thoroughly enjoyed the entire article, I want to share here just a few of the comments of the author - biblical truths that every true Christian needs to wake up to:
But most importantly at all, American Christians should remember that this nation has no Covenant with God and we, as Christians, have no spiritual citizenship other than our spiritual citizenship in Israel. Anything else is a wishful delusion.
However, those who reject the notions we have presented here should be careful. To mistake American Patriotism as synonymous with Christianity is to reject the teaching of the New Testament and to drastically twist the Old Testament. In the New Covenant described in the book of Hebrews, God did NOT replace Jews with Gentiles. According to Romans 11, through Christ, we Gentiles were simply added to the Jewish tree. In the New Covenant, God did not replace Israel with America. America, as great as it has been and as blessed as Christians have been to live in this country, is just another secular institution. It is not a nation in covenant with God.
We are American citizens, and as such we should be good citizens as the Bible tells us. But we are no longer cut off from the commonwealth of Israel. Spiritually, we are no longer foreigners from Israel but if we look back to America, our natural homeland, we will have the opportunity “to return to it,” so to speak. Let us instead put our faith not in a Christian America but in the returning Christ. Let us look, not to this country, but for a better country, a heavenly kingdom that will one day be here on earth as well as in Heaven (Matthew 6:10, Revelation 11:15).
Your sister in Christ,
Shirley