God’s Kingdom Guarantees or Socialist Guarantees, Pt.2 -

God’s Kingdom Guarantees vs Socialist Guarantees GOD’S KINGDOM GUARANTEES OR SOCIALIST GUARANTEES. The battleground states have not finished counting the votes. So no one can call the election over. In fact Republicans have registered alternate Electoral College votes that will count if Trump wins.

But of course Biden is naming cabinet posts. Some may appear to be moderate. But we cannot discount hidden socialist agendas.

For example, Biden’s Health & Human Services pick, Xavier Becerra, has no experience in the public health. But he does have experience in pushing Obamacare and particularly abortion. Democrats consider that moderate as compared to the far more socialist “Medicare for All.”

But let us not forget that a year ago, Nancy Pelosi said improving Obamacare “may lead to Medicare for All”. And Medicare for All leads to a government-controlled socialist health care system. Various Democrats have estimated it to cost up to $52 trillion.

As preposterous as that is, Christ paid a much greater price for our health at the cross. For “by His wounds you are healed” (1 Pet. 2:24).

Healing for the body and the land

By faith we can access that healing now. But when Christ comes, He will bring the recompense of full health to those who are waiting for Him.

“Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

Say to those with anxious heart,

‘Take courage, fear not.

Behold, your God will come with vengeance;

The recompense of God will come,

But He will save you.’

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened

And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Then the lame will leap like a deer,

And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy” (Isa. 35:3-6).

The land will receive healing too, after being scorched and ravaged by plagues and the Antichrist’s wars. God will make the earth green again far better than any Green New Deal could do.

“For waters will break forth in the wilderness

And streams in the Arabah.

The scorched land will become a pool

And the thirsty ground springs of water;

In the haunt of jackals, its resting place,

Grass becomes reeds and rushes” (Isa. 35:6-7).

The land will become fertile and fruitful for all who work on it. In the Millennium, full employment will provide full enjoyment. “Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land” (Lev. 26:5-6).

Moreover, the rich will not exploit the poor, for all will be blessed by the Lord.

“They will build houses and inhabit them… They will not build and another inhabit, they will not plant and another eat… And they will not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they are the offspring of those blessed by the Lord, and their descendants with them” (Isa 65:21-23).

The Lord as their wall of fire

Nor will they need to defend their lands against oppressors or invaders. They will have open gates and open borders.

Accordingly, people will live in a “land of unwalled villages… who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates” (Ezekiel 38:11). Even the city of “Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls” (Zech. 2:4).

But the next verse explains why. “’For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’” No one will dare come against a city full of God’s power and glory. That is, until Satan emerges one last time to make a brief and futile attack (Rev. 20:7-10).

Until Christ comes to rule the earth, He says, “Nation will rise against nation…” That implies one nation rising against a border which the other nation must defend. Jesus says that the end will not come until:

“[t]his gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14).

The gospel of the kingdom vs the gospel of socialism

The gospel of a socialism is a false gospel. Guaranteed higher education, guaranteed employment, guaranteed income, guaranteed Medicare for all, and guaranteed border-crossing rights, are all false guarantees.

Polilticians who promote such things are building their platforms on sinking sand. They will fall, because we live in a fallen world. Wishful thinking will not raise it up again.

Only God can guarantee anything in a fallen world. He guarantees forgiveness to the repentant. Comfort to those who mourn. Righteousness to those who hunger and thirst for it. Mercy to the merciful. Inheritance of the earth to the meek. And the kingdom of God to the persecuted and the poor in spirit.

Jesus said, “In the world You have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). He guarantees that those who receive Him as Lord will overcome the world with Him.