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Duncan Cary Palmer duncan@sdbitcoiners.com 2 months ago

Hey, Friend, Thanks for asking.🙏😄 I'd be interested in hearing why you think "Jesus refutes" something all Scripture and Jesus himself affirms?🤔 What I DO see Jesus gently and repeatedly refuting is the erroneous, popular "How and When" expectations rampant at that time. His Kingdom is presently, actively destroying and replacing satan's fiefdoms globally; just not in the way everyone expected, nor as rapidly as everyone would like... Sadly, many of those same expectations persist in the churches and theological traditions of the present day... Jesus taught that the path to the Kingdom is slow, non-obvious, and incremental, like yeast permeating a lump of dough. He told us that it does NOT come about by the worldly, coercive political means used by Gentile (i.e. national [Greek: ethnos]) "benefactors" who love to "Lord it over" one another. His Kingdom is not "of this world," which is to say, it runs on entirely different, 100% godly principles. Also very sadly, the church--largely due to bad translations and stubborn insistence on using worldly, political means-- persists in impeding the advance of the Kingdom.😢 Here are a couple of articles directly answering your request, but please know that the universal misunderstanding and misapplication of Romans 13, 1 Peter 2, and other passages used by mainstream denominations to support statism are based on deeply hidden, underlying assumptions that will take broader study to bring to light... But these articles should at least give you something to think on.🙏🤔🧐😄👍 Why Romans 13 cannot possibly be talking about governments we know all too well: