in our cell group we’ve been going through the book of revelation, and most recently, it’s dawned on me that God has completely vanquished evil. by that i mean, through Christ, evil, complete and absolute evil is completely destroyed. at the end of time, only God and his goodness remains. evil is completely vanquished.
and so when i look at the state of mankind today, and i begin to see the complexities in people’s situations. how one person’s sin is the result of another person’s wrongdoing, it begins to dawn on me that salvation, true and absolute salvation, can never come by human reasoning or creation, but by someone, somehow, triumphing over evil. and that hope – the hope of salvation for mankind – the hope of evil being completely and utterly overwhelmed – comes only through Christ.
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sounds like the root of all injustice (personal and social) is sin and the solution to all of this is Christ (very sunday school answer, i know). as Christians, we are called to work with God to fight against evil before the end of time. the challenge then becomes how to determine which “evil” to vanquish first and whether we care enough to play a role.
There is always a root of evil and it can all be traced back to 1 origin point (sounds almost like the theory of evolution in reverse) – when evil entered the world in the beginning. It’s helpful to think of it in terms of authority: we were given divine authority to rule the earth as tenants. Temptation at the fall gave up our authority to the “ruler of this world”, we sold ourselves into slavery for a meal (like Esau and his birthright). Evil reigned as we were “slaves to sin”, cursed and afflicted. Christ redeemed himself as man for mankind by not succumbing to the authority and breaking its rule and being exalted as all authority and wiping away of debts in the year of the Lord’s favour (with completion yet to come). Through Christ, who has now become our curse, we can regain our authority as co-rulers thus being free of the slavery of evil, disarming it and making a mockery. There is only 1 way as only 1 man has reclaimed the authority to redeem – kinsman redeemer .
It all works.