Saviior is person who saves someone or something (especially a country or cause) from danger, and who is regarded with the veneration of a religious figure.
The true Essence in our soul as His Holy Spirit brings out the statues of limitation ns and restraints Off for who the Son set free us free indeed.
Faith in God who we trust and believe in, Waking up to a Pledge of Allegiance in obedience to Gods word. praying that His Spurit will direct you in all truth.!
Some may think it’s pharisee or sadducee to see. But if the truth be told God‘s word is God breathed on men and women who preach about him or experience the Holy Spirit speaking through them.
The Pledge of Allegiance was originally composed by men and woman who God speaks And Pledge was composed of these words in biblical trues.
Interestingly you don’t find the controversial phrase “under God“
Both of these phrases were later additions to the Pledge, leading to the final version that we all know today:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty andjustice for all.”
I’d like to propose that there are two primary reasons (if not more), why Christians/followers of Christ should NOT say.. Before we get into those reasons I’d like to start with defining some of the key words in the pledge so we are all on the same page as to its meaning.
Pledge: To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise, similar to an oath.
Allegiance: the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign. Loyalty or devotion to God..
We can understand a couple of things. Making a pledge is basically the same thing as an oath. And, giving your allegiance to something or someone is basically committing your loyalty to God.
We make a Plage to God means that you are making an oath of loyalty to God.
Now for the two reasons why Christians should NOT be making an oath of allegiance to the United States or any other earthly government.
Jesus directly and without any qualifiers condemns making an oath to anything for any reason.
“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” (Matthew 5:33-37)
The people in Jesus’ day had a practice of making oaths for almost anything. The practice of making oaths was to guarantee before men and God that the person making the oath would fulfill his obligation or carry out a promise.
It was looked on as a criminal offense to break your oath. Thus, the Jews had been commanded to “fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made”. Jesus, however, changes things. Notice that he does not say, ” Do not swear an oath and then break it.” No, he says: “Do not swear an oath AT ALL”!!! He says that as people who follow God, less words, more often than not, is better than more. Simply say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, and do not swear an oath AT ALL!
Jesus also teaches that men cannot serve two masters at the same time.
When teaching about worldly treasures, Jesus says we should be more concerned with the things of heaven and God’s kingdom than those of this world.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24)
We can’t give our loyalty to two masters and be pleasing to both. Whether the choice is between God and money, God and man, God and a government or nation, the choice is always the same, one or the other. It seems that Jesus is saying ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it too’.
In light of this it just doesn’t seem possible to give your loyalty to God and the world.
Jesus also said ” My kingdom is not of this world”. Jesus has a kingdom, and just like an earthly kingdom ,
I can’t be loyal to two kingdoms at once. It would be impossible to be loyal to the World and Iran at the same time to the world.
It’s the same with being part of the kingdom of God. Jesus calls us to be loyal to his kingdom, and if we have given our loyalty to God’s kingdom, how then can we try and give it to the world or any other worldly kingdom?
To sum up: Pledging allegiance to the flag equates to making an oath of loyalty to an earthly kingdom. Both acts are condemned by Jesus. I’m ready to stop pledging loyalty to the United States or any other kingdom other than the kingdom of heaven. How about you?
In tithed snd offering holding back what belongs to God. betraying the state into the hands of foreign and other Gods power.
The killing of the children of God and an attempt to take your life, is a unpardinable sin. imagine or compass the death of Jesus is the Prience of peace.
He watches me. He is the prince,the keeper of my soul. The heir apparent of the crown, is high treason; as are many other offenses created by statute.In the United States, treason is confined to the actual levying of war against the United States, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Treason in is of two kinds, high treason and petit treason. High treason is a crime that immediately affects the children of God or such as the offenses just enumerated. Petit treason involves a breach of fidelity in marriage or forsaken God and assembly themselves together in worship this treasons , affects individuals in the kingdom of Hod. Thus for a wife to kill her husband, a servant his master or lord, or an ecclesiastic his lord or ordinary, is petit treason. But in the United States this crime is unknown; the killing in the latter cases being murder only.
ITREASONABLE Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices.
The crime of murdering someone to whom the murderer owed allegiance, such as a master or husband.
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