GOD’S KINGDOM GUARANTEES. Why do so many presidential candidates favor socialism? Or, if not using the name of socialism, why do they favor socialistic policies? Because socialism sounds so good, to them and to voters.
This current version of socialism guarantees free higher education for all, employment for all, a base income level for all, security for all, and healthcare for all. Including for all comers who cross borders to gain such guarantees.
God planned to provide all these benefits when He created the earth for us. But we decided to gain them our own way, without God. As a result, we fell into sin, and the whole world fell with us.
But “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
This eternal life includes the entire 1000 years of God’s kingdom on earth. The Millennium will begin when Christ returns to rule the earth with us. He will restore the earth to paradise. All His original benefits will be guaranteed.
“For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:6-9).
The knowledge of the Lord will so fill the earth that all levels of education will cost nothing. Students will have no debts to repay. People will need only to seek God and they will find His ways.
“And many peoples will come and say,
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.’
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isa. 2:3).
Who will end wars?
Furthermore, all violence will end. Peoples and nations will take their disputes to the Lord instead of going to war.
“He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war” (Isa. 2:4).
Openly gay US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says he wants to work toward a world without weapons. He claims to base this vision on the Christian faith. But he does not propose any plan. He just vaguely suggests that “we can take steps that move us closer to that reality.”
The truth is, we cannot have peace where Christ is not Lord. For He alone is the “Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6). And until He comes, Christ Himself said, “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars” (Mt. 24:4).
Utopian socialists envisioned a classless cooperative society in which people held all property in common. Therefore, wars over property would become unnecessary. They considered such a society so attractive that everyone would eventually give up their weapons and property and join. So is this what Buttigieg was thinking of?
See Part Two: God’s Kingdom Guarantees vs Socialist Guarantees, Pt.2
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