Seeing Jesus, Being Jesus

With the coming of the Son of Man the world changed. There’s a new charter. A new divine edict. Ever since Jesus re-founded the world at the cross and called humanity to organize itself around an axis of love expressed in mercy and forgiveness, a new moral law has been established in the cosmos that will not allow nations to forever oppose God’s will. As the Hebrew prophets first revealed long ago, God possesses a deep bias for the underclass and will judge nations accordingly. The death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus has given the world a new ultimate reality—love for God expressed as love for neighbor and even enemy. Any other agenda is idolatry. Babylon is still with us, but Babylon is always falling. The new gravity of grace will not allow the modern Babylons to stand for long. The kind of entitlement the Pharaohs and Caesars were able to claim for their empires has now been shamed by Christ and cannot endure for long. Greatness, and even security, is not found in wealth and might, but in compassion and mercy. Jesus now calls the nations to be great in serving the least. Nations who resist this call are headed toward their own destruction.