We already have Christians doing this they are called Democrats.
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"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." (KJV)
"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse."
Zechariah 2:8: The Lord warns that anyone who harms His people "touches the apple of His eye."
Agree, bless them with Jesus truth, and righteousness.
Don't curse them to enjoy all the immoralities, baby killing, persecuting Christians, murdering ....
Oh, please stop all that curse. Lord Jesus help them !!!!
There is neither democrat nor republican, ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
That's right.
one is either with Jesus or against Jesus. No middle ground.
No, absolutely not. If you can't see a difference in the parties you are blinded. Just totally untrue, and more so by the day.
It's not right. People bled and died for our right and freedom to vote. There is absolutely a difference between the parties.
We are already beyond that.
Do you see the difference between pontis pilate and jew leaders?
Together they crucified Jesus. Or we should say God used both parties to crucified Jesus.
You have taken the scripture out of context to fit a narrative. There is no free or bond, no male or female, no Jew or Greek. These are designations one may fall under because it is where God has placed them. We are all Adam so where we are as Adam {free, bond, male, female, Greek, or Jew} never changess that we are Adam and God sees us always as what he created us, as Adam and equal.
However, when God calls his servants he gives to each a different amount of talents. That does not change us being equal, all of us his servants. Us being equal does not mean we all have the same purpose or work. Men and women are equal in Christ but us being equal does not mean that God has placed child birth in men. Or that equal in Christ mean that wives are to be the head of the house.
These versus are another lesson on love and how not to be coveteous. To be content that you are equal under God and that he has given you different talents. Which God judges fairly and equal as he judges by your faithfulness to what he has given you and where he has placed you.
Political designations are your world view and that is subject to let your mind be renewed. When God has placed you in America or some other nation. Yet you look at Israel and go on about they need to change. You are a unfaithful servant as God gave you the backyard of your country to work. In our own backyard we have murder of the innocent and sexual perversions. This is our work changing the backyard we are in not anothers.
So if you find fault with someone else's backyard and you subscribe to a wolrdview that allows the same to go on in your own backyard. It is foolish and the biblical application is to to pull the beam out of your own eye before you try and remove the others splinter.
Israel is a prodigal son and they will return and the truth of scripture is plain. Already those who are joint heirs with Christ are like the other brother upset that our father is going to kill the fatted calf and place on them the best robe. Because what was lost is now found.
God informing us we are equal is addressing our love letting us know we are all the same and from other scriptures that we need to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves based upon our worldview or how we judge it according to our mind. As our mind is to be subject to being renewed after who Christ is and his worldview.
So you have taken the scripture out of context. As it is plain that today many scriptures are being read through the prism of the world and it's equity and culture and not God's equality or purpose. Political views are something we designate ourselves as. Which if they allow the same sin in our backyard we find at fault in anothers backyard. Then we are blind fools and hypocrites to not first remove the beam from our own eye.
To also add @ThereRoseaLamb pointed out God's wisdom of what to do. Pray for others as the prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
No, I totally disagree. There is a definite difference between the two parties. Many people working in the conservative party are Christians, and not in name only. We have ministers working in the party. That doesn't make it perfect, but it is not Godless like the Dem socialist party. No, I don't believe that at all. Take a look at patriots celebrating 250 yrs around the country. Conservatives go into the military at much higher rates than Dems. They are not the same parties, at all.
Matthew 16
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Voting is vanity because God says He would give nations kings.
What kind of things happened in the OT when they installed their own king?
How many monarchies fell 300+/- years ago?
Does everybody really believe God?
2 Peter 3
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Jude
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Ecclesiastes 1
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Voting is vanity, yet God ordained it. Did not Israel when the elders met remove a shoe or not remove a shoe or vote or decide on matters? Or in their judical system when someone was accused a trial held and was it not a vote or decision that declared guilt or innocence? Did not Paul use the rights of being a Roman citizen and say I appeal to Caesar? Follow your own convictions but don't feel you can make them others when they can use scripture to establish theirs.
Let your convictions be your own and find peace in the Lord under them. However, also allow others their convictions and to find peace in the Lord under them. We are all members of the same body but the eye is not greater then the hand. Follow your convictions as the member you are but never say we have no need of another member and their purpose they are living out in their convictions before God.
From superficial surface level, yeah, they not the same.
But deep down, the ones that really have power, they usually end up doing the same thing.
More than 95 percent of both sides are financially backed by AIPAC. That's the reason Thomas Massie and that Georgia woman
Greene are gone.
1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
† Peter applies titles once given to Israel directly to believers in Christ.
† The church is described as the holy nation because God's covenant people are now defined by their relationship with Christ rather than by national identity. (Exodus 19:5-6)
† Both believing Jews and believing Gentiles together make up God's chosen people under the New Covenant. (Ephesians 2:11-22)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
† Peter applies titles once given to Israel directly to believers in Christ.
† The church is described as the holy nation because God's covenant people are now defined by their relationship with Christ rather than by national identity. (Exodus 19:5-6)
† Both believing Jews and believing Gentiles together make up God's chosen people under the New Covenant. (Ephesians 2:11-22)
Ephesians 2:14-16
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace; and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility.
† Christ did not preserve two separate covenant peoples. He created one new humanity in Himself.
† The dividing wall between Jew and Gentile ended through the cross, fulfilling God's eternal purpose.
† God's chosen people today are all who are united to Christ through faith, regardless of earthly ancestry. (Colossians 3:11)
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace; and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility.
† Christ did not preserve two separate covenant peoples. He created one new humanity in Himself.
† The dividing wall between Jew and Gentile ended through the cross, fulfilling God's eternal purpose.
† God's chosen people today are all who are united to Christ through faith, regardless of earthly ancestry. (Colossians 3:11)
Peter applies titles once given to Israel directly back to those Israelites who enter into the New Covenant.
1 Peter is written specifically to the attention of a Jewish audience.
Gal 2:7
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
1Pe 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1Pe 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1. The address: “sojourners of the Dispersion” — 1 Peter 1:1
The two key terms are:
- παρεπιδήμοις (parepidēmois) — resident aliens, sojourners
- διασπορᾶς (diasporas) — “Dispersion”
- John 7:35 — “the dispersed among the Greeks”
- James 1:1 — “the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad”
- Deuteronomy 28:25; 30:4 — Israel scattered among the nations
- Psalm 147:2; Isaiah 11:12 — Israel’s dispersed ones
This is his principal proof.
2. Peter calls them the very covenant titles of Israel — 1 Peter 2:9
Peter is not merely using vague religious language. He draws these descriptions directly from passages spoken to Israel:
| 1 Peter 2:9 | Old Testament source | Original referent |
|---|---|---|
| “chosen generation/race” | Isaiah 43:20; 44:1 | Israel |
| “royal priesthood” | Exodus 19:6 | Israel |
| “holy nation” | Exodus 19:6 | Israel |
| “peculiar people” | Exodus 19:5; Deut. 7:6 | Israel |
Peter is reassuring Jewish believers that faith in Yeshua has not severed them from Israel’s covenant identity. They remain the elect remnant within the nation, while unbelieving Israel has stumbled over Messiah, as Peter says in 2:7–8.
That distinction matters:
The contrast can naturally be read as believing Israel versus the unbelieving portion of Israel, not as “the Church replaces Israel.”
3. “Once not a people … now the people of God” — 1 Peter 2:10
This comes from Hosea:
- Hosea 1:9–10 — Lo-ammi, “not my people,” followed by restoration.
- Hosea 2:23 — “I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people.”
In Hosea’s immediate context, the language concerns the estranged and judged people of Israel, especially the northern kingdom, followed by promised restoration. Peter is deliberately applying Hosea’s restoration language to the Jewish remnant who have received Messiah.
This is a powerful point for his argument because Peter joins Exodus 19 and Hosea 1–2—the two major Israel-identification passages—back to back in 1 Peter 2:9–10.
4. Their inherited way of life came “from your fathers” — 1 Peter 1:18
The phrase “handed down from your fathers” strongly fits a Jewish setting: an inherited ancestral religious way of life, now understood as unable to save apart from Messiah.
Peter is not saying Judaism itself was inherently “vain”; rather, a religious life inherited from the fathers that rejects the completed work of Messiah cannot redeem anyone. Peter contrasts it with redemption through:
The lamb imagery also naturally resonates with Passover and Israel’s sacrificial system.
5. The prophets’ promised salvation was directed toward them — 1 Peter 1:10–12
Peter says the Old Testament prophets investigated the salvation that would come “unto you.” This is a direct continuity claim: the prophetic promises belonged to Israel, and Peter writes to Israelites who have now entered their intended Messianic fulfillment.
This coheres with Peter’s language in Acts 3:
Peter’s normal preaching pattern was to identify Jewish believers as heirs of the Abrahamic-prophetic stream fulfilled through Jesus.
6. Peter’s apostolic sphere was the circumcision — Galatians 2:7–9
This is not inside 1 Peter, but it is supporting background:
Paul says Peter had a recognized apostolic ministry toward the circumcision, while Paul was especially entrusted with ministry toward the Gentiles. That does not mean Peter could never write to Gentiles or that Paul could never evangelize Jews. But it fits naturally with the conclusion that Peter’s principal readership in 1 Peter was Jewish believers scattered through Asia Minor.
The text NEVER indicates that the Church replaced Israel, nor does it ever so much as hint that gentiles became Jews.
Or vice versa.
These bogus biblically illiterate assertions are the result of (mostly gentile) agrammatoi and idiōtai, and a woeful disconnect from the necessary OT touchstone passages. That and the sheer arrogance that is birthed from this all too prevalent Christian superiority complex.