THE BIBLICAL PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IS NOT A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE,
IT IS MANDATORY FOR ALL OBSTINATE SINNERS
INTRODUCTION
The LORD JESUS SAID, “For truly I say to you, until heaven
and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law
until all is accomplished ”(Matt.5:18).
“But we know that the
Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that Law is not made
for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the
ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers
and mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and
liars and perjurers, and whatever is contrary to sound teaching” (1Tim. 1:8-9).
The punishment of death for all
unrepentant sinners will be for ever, without end (Rev.
21:8) “ But for the cowardly, and unbelieving and abominable and murderers, and
immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be
in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE
In the Old
Testament not God the Father, neither God the Holy Spirit render judgment, with
punishment of death, He is
the
LORD
JESUS CHRIST. Among the Trinity, He alone is the personal appearing God;
the one who directly speak to His chosen people of Israel, and to His servants
the prophets (Gen.17:1;18:1; Is.44:24;45:12;Jer.1:4-5; Ezek.6:1; Dan.
Chapter 12; Hos.1:1).
In the New Testament, the LORD
JESUS revealed for our understanding, “Not that anyone has seen the Father,
except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father” (Jn.6:46).And the
Father who sent Me, He testified of Me, you have neither heard His voice at
any time nor seen His form”(Jn.5:37).
Therefore it is a comprehensive given knowledge of the LORD JESUS that He is
the exclusive person among the three of them; who speaks for whatever words the
Father want Him to tell to all the angels in heaven; and all created human kind
here on earth (Jn.
12:49-50) and the one who render judgment for all guilty of sin
and wickedness (Jn.5:22).
God the Father gave commandment to the LORD JESUS what to say
and what to speak, the reason He explained, why He does not speak
on His own initiative (Jn.12:49-50) “For I did not speak on my own initiative, but the Father Himself
who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I
know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, just
as the Father has told Me.”
THE LORD JESUS RENDERED PUNISMENT OF
DEATH FOR ALL THE SINFUL WICKED PEOPLE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, BUT HE PRESERVED
THE FAMILY OF NOAH.
“Now the earth was corrupt in the sight
of God and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh
had corrupted their way upon the earth”. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh
has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and
behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth”(Gen.6:11-13). .NASB
“The foolish shall not stand in thy sight; thou
hatest all workers of iniquity”(Psalms 5:5).KJV
It was a rendered judgment of
death for all the wicked people in those days; by devastating flood, but with loving grace of preservation for the family of Noah,
because of their commitment of unwavering obedience to the LORD JESUS. With animals in the ark which they constructed by the
command of the LORD, they were safely preserved. The water prevailed upon the
earth one hundred and fifty days (Gen.7:24).
THE NON CONFORMIST TO THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IS THE
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION THAT HAD PERNICIOUSLY PERSECUTED AND FEROCIOUSLY PUT
TO DEATH MANY FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS OF THE LORD JESUS
The Roman Catholic
church erroneously condemned the LORD’S punishment
of death “as a heinous crime of murder.” They don’t rightly discern the
explicit difference of murder with magnitude of contrast to the punishment of
death. His mandated punishment of death for wicked people had been executed by
Him in many ways. He can utilized sword (Deut.32:41-42); famine; and pestilence
for His execution of righteous judgment, even of death (2 Chron.20:9) for all
defiant and adamant people, those who obstinately commit sin
against Him without any sincere repentance.
We can find by research from published books; and internet, the
indubitably recorded documents of events of the “Roman Catholic church Inquisition” approximately from
1200 years to the early years of 19th century, against many
accused as heretics, those who renounced their being Catholic, when they had
been enlightened by the infallible teachings of the LORD JESUS. The true heretics are those who
turned away from following the infallible teachings of JESUS (1Tim.4:1-2) and had chosen
erroneous teaching not conformed to the teachings of the LORD. Not those who were brutally
persecuted to death by the church of Rome were heretics; they were miserably
victims of atrocities, and suppression of their freewill.
Alberto Rivera was a former priest in
Rome; he became born again follower of the LORD JESUS; Spanish in his nationality, who without
fear exposed the brutality of leaders of the Roman Catholic Church by their “Inquisition.” The other one, - Charles Chiniquy, a
French, and 50 years former priest in Rome, at the Vatican, the same with
Alberto, he became enthusiastic follower of the LORD JESUS. “These two had disclosed “many tyrannically
murdered people by burning at the stake perpetrated by high ranking leaders of
the Roman Catholic church, because their victims renounced their allegiance to
them”. They had
published their testimonies that many were brutally tortured within many years
that passed, when they perniciously utilized “Inquisition.”Their Inquisition
was murderous intention against those people who departed away from their
church. They were deprived of freewill to choose and believe that which is certainly true, with regards to the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Their "Inquisition" was harsh investigation for those who turn away from their church; that resulted in unlawful killing of their victims by burning at the stake. It is not the same with the Biblical Law of Punishment of Death (Gen. 7:23; 19:24-26; Ex.32:26-28; Num. 16: 23-25; Rev.21:8).It was a murderous false indictment against those who departed from their church. Now the Roman Catholic church persistently equated punishment of death with murder, which in the recorded history in the past centuries were perpetrated by them; when their savage crackdown with murderous persecutions by their "Inquisition" that happened within many centuries against many dissenting Catholics during the dark years of their infliction of horrendous persecution to them that had known knowledge of the truth from the LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Certainly it is a condemnable sin to the LORD JESUS; their diabolic persecution to
those who learned more that all the truth is in JESUS in those days, (Eph.4:21). The LORD JESUS Himself revealed it in the book of (Revelation chapter
18:24) perpetrated
by the “ Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Of The Abominations Of The Earth”(Rev.17:5). The Apostle John saw
these revelation of the LORD JESUS “that the woman drunk with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of JESUS. When I saw her, I wonderd greatly.(Rev.17:6).
The LORD JESUS explained well that Babylon is the great and strong city
that will be utterly destroyed in His prophecy in His book of Revelation,
(Rev.18:10). The original text of the New Testament Bible in Geek word i.e. Babylon “denote - as a type of
tyranny.” Figuratively, it is “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH”(Rev.
17:5). This Babylon “became the
dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit” (Rev.18:2). It was December 24,2016, a
statement of pope Francis within his message which was published in a Tagalog
tabloid Newspaper said, “that some of the priest in Rome were pushed by the
devil- itinulak na ng demonyo.”
THE REMARKABLE IMPORTANCE OF HUMILITY
AND SINCERE REPENTANCE
“Should
evil come upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will
stand before this house and before You (for your name is in this house) and cry to You in our distress, and You will
hear and deliver us” (2Chron.20:9).
The LORD will hear just the earnest plea of those who sincerely
repent and stop committing sin (Jonah 3:1-10;Luke 23:42-43).
God the Father gave all the judgment to the LORD JESUS in the
entire realm of the Old and New Testament and in the great white throne of
judgment (Jn.5:22; Rev.20:11).
When He righteously
rendered punishment of death for all perpetual sinners; for those without
willingness to humbly repent, and without determination to stop doing sin,
there is no consideration of the LORD for
them to establish human rights; It is because He loved righteousness, and hated
iniquity (Heb.1:9). There is no Biblical consideration for the world’s advocacy
of human rights for perpetual and adamant sinners. Advocator of human rights
never can be the right intervening judge whenever any person has been put to
death by the implemented Law for any doer of crime.
The LORD JESUS said, “I
tell you no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish”(Luke 13:3).
When the LORD’S
wrath was kindled against the people of Israel, to those who sinned by their
worshiped to the golden calf image, He told Moses that He will destroy them,
Moses earnestly plead to the LORD for His mercy to them (Ex.32:11-14). So
the LORD restrained His rendering of destruction
for the guilty for a while.
But when Moses saw the
wickedness of those who had committed sin against the LORD JESUS, with intense anger to all those who
participated in their idolatrous worship to the golden calf; he suddenly threw
the stone tablets of the ten Commandments to the golden calf and destroyed it “ by fire and ground
it to powder, and scattered it to the surface of the water and made the sons of
Israel drink it.” (Ex.32.19-20). Then he commanded those who were for
the LORD, to come to him, and all the sons of
Levi gathered together to him. “He said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel,
every man of you put his sword upon his thigh and go back and fort from gate to
gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and
every man his neighbor.”So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about
three thousand men of the people fell that day”(Ex. 32:26-28). It is the punishment of death
rendered to them by the LORD JESUS through the sword. Can the Roman
Catholic church equated it as “Extra Judicial Killing ? The will of the LORD
JESUS can never be questionable.
DEATH
PENALTY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
The LORD JESUS Himself had willingly accepted death
penalty, even He is holy and without any blemish of sin. He compassionately,
and painstakingly received the punishment of death; in behalf of all sinners in
the entire world he had created. Because He is the great Redeemer and the one
and only SALVATION of all (Titus 2:14; Acts 4:12; Heb.5:9). Two
condemned thieves were with Him; when the execution of death penalty was
rendered to the three of them, by being nailed on the wooden cross which was
the device for capital punishment in those days. The original New Testament
written Holy Scriptures was written in Greek words, and the word “stauros” is
cross in English; with literal and figurative meaning. In the literal sense the
wooden cross denote - as a device for capital punishment of criminals; in the figurative
sense, it is the painstaking sacrifice of the LORD JESUS
by His accomplished redemption of all sinners (Jn.19:17) bound to perish in
hell and lake of fire (Col. 1:20; Titus 2:14, Heb.10:10). In the truthfulness
of the gospel, the one who carried the wooden cross was Simon of Cyrene. “ As they were coming out,
they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear
His cross”(Matt.27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:2 ). Not the LORD JESUS
CRIST.
The
most important consideration that all the people in the world must
comprehensively understand, is the great sacrifice of the LORD JESUS; that He offered His own body and His
own blood, without any blemish of sin, that died by death punishment ( Is. 53:5; Luke 23:46) for all our sins. He did accepted that certainly legal
punishment of death, though He is magnificently Holy. The legality of
punishment of death clearly revealed that it is for condemned sinners like the
two condemned thieves; and all of us that had sinned (Rom.3:23), But all of us must gratefully, and lovingly
acknowledge the great redemption that the LORD JESUS had accomplished by Himself and took that punishment of death;
as His sacrificial redemptive great love and concern for all of us. He did it
once for all (Heb.10:10), that by His required sincere repentance; by departing
away from all sinfulness; and by irrevocable submission to His will, we may not
be condemned to the eternal punishment of second death in the lake that burns
with fire and brimstone (Rev.21:8).
One of the thief that was crucified for death
penalty, had humbly repented by his acknowledgement of guilt; with sincere
repentance, and earnest longing to be with the LORD JESUS in His kingdom, the
LORD mercifully and lovingly told him-“ Truly I
say to you today, you shall be with Me in Paradise”(Luke 23:43).
The
Roman Catholic insist that death penalty is a manner of killing or murderous
cruel punishment. Therefore if that is their erroneous understanding of death
penalty which they frequently equated with murder, the LORD
JESUS did not died by punishment
of death but murdered? If He was just murdered, no redemption for all
sinners was accomplished by Him, because never in all real sense that murder is
legal. It is mandated in the Ten “Commandments that thou shall not
murder”(Ex.20:13). Moreover, the punishment of death or death penalty is a
legal process whereas the LORD JESUS had
willfully accepted to be the recipient of that verdict for all sinners in the
world.
Now
the pernicious and tyrannical implemented “Inquisition”
that was recorded in many documentary published books; with records of
atrocities; whereas many had been victims in many years that passed. It can
never be justified judgment of the church of Rome as extermination of their
falsely accused people in their church as heretics that they burned at the
stake alive, in the presence of numerous crowd. Many diabolic torture
perpetrated by them were disclosed by the two former priest in Rome, Alberto
Rivera of Spain, and Charles Chiniquy of France.
In
this present generation the Roman Catholic church leaders sternly refused
conformity to the implementation of death penalty. They always insist that it
is against human rights; so they want to defend sin and wickedness to prevail
against righteousness which the LORD JESUS
want to be the indestructible integrity of all. It is best for all created
human kind in this world, and for all Roman Catholics to have sincere
repentance, so that by following the LORD JESUS
to have faith, hope, and irrevocable love for Him, our spirit soul and body be
kept blameless at His second coming (1 Thess. 5:23).
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