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The apostle Peter wrote his second
epistle to stir up the people’s pure minds
by way of remembrance (2 Peter 3:1).
My heart's intent, as I begin to write this
letter, is to stir up the minds of God's
people, especially the brethren among the
Amish and other Anabaptist descendants
who attempt to preserve the faith of our
forefathers.
Man can nearly always recognize the
people of God who lived in the past, but
somehow to recognize the people of God
living today is not so easy. It has always
been that way. Nathaniel Howe phrased
it well, "The way of the world is to praise
dead saints, and persecute living ones."
Jesus found this problem among the
religious leaders during His days on
earth. In Matthew 23:29-31 He says,
Woe
unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypo-
crites! because ye build the tombs of the
prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of
the righteous, and say If we had been in
the days of our fathers we would not
have been partakers with them in the
blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto your-
selves, that ye are the children of them
which killed the prophets.
When the
scribes and Pharisees read the books of
the Old Testament, it was easy for them
to distinguish the righteous people and
the true prophets from the children of the
devil who rejected them. They were posi-
tive that they themselves would have
been in one accord with the righteous
ones. The scribes and Pharisees were
sure that if the prophets of old could
somehow step into their own present era,
they would surely give each other a right
hand of fellowship. But they could not
identify the righteous people and the true
prophets that were among them in per-
son, and thus they rejected them.
Likewise when the leaders of the state
church during the Dark Ages and Refor-
mation era read the gospels and the book
Children of Who?
—
Duane Troyer
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