The Kingdom Of God Has Spiritual Walls, Not Physical Walls

How to best address the manner one man treats another man who is also created in the image and likeness of God?

It is a matter of love and faith.

A lack of such gifts from God determine how badly people are treated.

I would point out that in times past, as still today, regimes conquered lands and the peoples found therein. 

This is what empire does. 

However such ambition is motived in man's eyes, God determines the outcome and ultimate purpose.

The management over different peoples, from a central government, sometimes represents a semblances of justice and equity, and other times none whatsoever. 

A central government is not always friendly, but often times hostile (overtly or inadvertently). 

The issue is "love your neighbor", and this is absent in public policy of all governments of men.

But such absence never obstructs or negates God's Law - a Fixture that repeatedly corrects the waywardness of men's ways.

A question was once asked: "who is my neighbor?” 

The foreigner. 

Those 'other' people, usually demonized and vilified and dehumanized.

The is the New Age perspective as taught by the risen Lord is that those 'others' are called into union with you and Him.

Yeshua Christ is the Lord thy God revealed unto mankind... but not to every man's heart. 

What's the Law's perspective when walls were to be erected, in order to protect or divide peoples? 

Much the same: 

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, 

the great God, mighty and awesome, /

who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. 

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, 

and loves the foreigner residing among you, 

giving them food and clothing. 

And you are to love those who are foreigners, 

for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. 

- Deuteronomy 10: 17-19 

It was a heart issue back then, and is still a heart issue Today.

It is a mental issue of ideology and political identity Today that prevents the so-called 'Christian' to love people who look and speak differently than themselves.

Lots of 'Christians' are believing state religion, instead of the Way, the Truth, the Life. 

If only believers would recognize 'how' God has brought the entire world under His Christ (spiritual Christendom - unseen and unmeasurable - spiritual Israel). 

When men refute a 'one earth' and 'one world government', they are beguiled by their particular brand of state religion.

Their state religion talks through man's word, while God has already spoken of One.

One faith, one body, one kingdom.

State religions worship at the altars of the baals (money, material, maddening mental meanderings of men).

When men embrace the earth as their 'home', men justify all kinds of atrocities.

When men realize the earth is a temporary place, perhaps men will see past the walls in their minds built by the ideas of men vacant of God's love.

When men embrace the foreigner as also their brother (in Christ, at the moment or not yet), then perhaps men will recognize themselves in the faces of others as when looking into a mirror.

When believers study the kingdom of God, they are possibly allowed to 'see' such a spiritual reality.

Where insight into the kingdom of God is absent, or not even a part of one's religious view, hate is justified as 'just', killing justified as 'God's will', and every violation of the Law of Christ ignored... yet ironically quoted. 

When men use a worldly vernacular to reinforce man's ideas, an understanding of the kingdom of God is likely not present.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, 

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 

Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is— 

His good, pleasing and perfect will. 

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: 

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, 

but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, 

in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 

For just as each of us has one body with many members, 

and these members do not all have the same function, 

so in Christ we, though many, form One Body, 

and each member belongs to all the others. 

We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. 

If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 

if it is serving, then serve; 

if it is teaching, then teach; 

if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; 

if it is giving, then give generously; 

if it is to lead, do it diligently; 

if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. 

- Romans 12: 1-8

It seems some 'Christians' are very much 'gifted' in accusing others.

It is embarrassing to hear and read how so-called Christians repeat hateful political slogans.

It is appalling to see so-called Christians fomenting rage and angst against both the foreigner and those domestic to them.

Empty vessels... or immature believers led astray by the temptations of the flesh.

When men argue over walls, do they not understand that the past walls of Jericho symbolized a time that would be realized in Christ.

The physical walls of Jericho came down through a faithful shout... in order to let the Israelites in.

Those walls Today represent the many walls in the hearts and minds of the hostile, those yet to taste heaven's fruit.

They also represent the varied walls of ignorance and hostility of religious people who are suspicious of foreigners or people who do not look like themselves.

Notice how in the era of Messiah, the Church did not battle or aim to destroy physical walls.

It was by love and faith and martyrdom that God, through faithful Christians, brought down the walls in people's minds and hearts.

The secrets of the kingdom of God have already been taught, but few are taught by the Lord.

The brands of religion people are taught by religious zealots masquerading as 'teachers'... is empty personal sacrifice, a very basic teaching of Messiah.

Many mainstream religious ideas are pandered by puffed-up buffoons... but wisdom is a gift granted only from His Right Hand.

For He Himself is our Peace, 

who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, 

the dividing wall of hostility, 

by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. 

His purpose was to create in Himself one new humanity out of the two, 

thus making peace, 

and in One Body to reconcile both of them to God through the Cross, 

by which He put to death their hostility. 

He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 

For through Him we both have access to the Father by One Spirit. 

Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, 

but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of His household, 

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, 

with Christ Yeshua Himself as the Chief Cornerstone. 

In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a Holy Temple in the Lord. 

And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. 

- Ephesians 2: 14-22

This article is not a justification for dismissing the laws of any land, no matter how inhumane they are in word or implemented in practice.

No matter how irreligious or unkind any nation's laws are, nor how quickly men change a law from one day to the next to accommodate their greed or appease mob sentiments, most secular laws are to be obeyed by the Christian.

Whether or not a law is just is less the initial issue as is keeping the peace the primary goal.

The Christian submits peacefully to law and order, whether that law is foreign (hostile) or domestic (according to Christ's Law).

Again, law and order is man's political argument, while love fulfills God's Law and the laws of men.

God calls His children to be at peace and willfully submit to even to the most outrageous and incongruent attempts of one man to manage another man.

Since this world is not the eternal home of those heaven-bound, their flesh is less of an issue than their souls.

In due time, as history shows the manner the Church came from outright persecution to overcoming that time's empires within a few century's time, perhaps the world will witness yet another historical redemption.

Patience, dear friends and family.

God can move in a moment, or through a generation, or over the lifespan of an empire's preeminence.

God is always toppling the proud, no matter how they publicly portray their 'god' / 'gods'.

Momentary troubles are no justification for eternal mistakes.

Be sure you are not hating the very people you are called to love, feed, house, and clothe.

Be sure you will not be among those whom the Lord will say 'away from Me, you evil doers'.

Make sure you are one of these:

Then the King will say to those on His Right, 

‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father; 

take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 

For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, 

I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, 

I was a stranger and you invited Me in, 

I needed clothes and you clothed Me, 

I was sick and you looked after Me, 

I was in prison and you came to visit Me.’ 

Then the righteous will answer Him, 

‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, 

or thirsty and give you something to drink? 

When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, 

or needing clothes and clothe you? 

When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 

The King will reply, 

‘Truly I tell you, 

whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, 

you did for Me.’ 

- Matthew 25: 34-40