THE BIBLICAL PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL BUT MANDATORY FOR OBSTINATE SINNERS

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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Posted by, Eugene Fernandez, 

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