"Any true follower of Jesus knows that borders are abolished in the Kingdom of God . . ."
Letter to the Editor, The Eagle [Bryan-College Station, Texas] (Aug. 19, 2023)
"And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God . . . and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates . . . . And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it . . . . And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie . . ."
Revelation 21: 10-27.
If the apostle whom Jesus loved is to be trusted, borders are in fact not abolished in the Kingdom of God. St. John in fact tells us that God's kingdom is ringed by a mighty wall and secured by mighty gates. And within that wall, behind those gates, the saints retain their national identity and erstwhile magistrates retain the honor and glory of their secular office. If the correspondent to my local newspaper would momentarily set aside his saccharine sanctimony, and turn to the first page of his Bible, he would discover that God created the world with borders, and that when He had ordered the formless mass of tohu and bohu with borders, God declared that his very far from borderless creation was good.
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