By being obedient, they were acting in the same way as the people of the Old testament Israelites who were labeled as “People of God.” People of God are weird, normal and extraordinary in the heavenlies. Biblical examples include: Mary a virgin, Jesus a carpenter, all of the disciples had a normal day time job and then met Jesus and gave up everything, Ester was a queen and yet looked out for her people and risked her life, and so many other people did extraordinary things and yet in the heavenlies the things they did were “normal”. By the Pilgrims coming to America, they in turn were doing the most weird thing of their time and listening to the voice of God to leave everything that they knew to a land where they would have the freedom to read scripture and interpret it in the way they wished. I believe that in the same way, we should not take the things these people of God fought for, for
By being obedient, they were acting in the same way as the people of the Old testament Israelites who were labeled as “People of God.” People of God are weird, normal and extraordinary in the heavenlies. Biblical examples include: Mary a virgin, Jesus a carpenter, all of the disciples had a normal day time job and then met Jesus and gave up everything, Ester was a queen and yet looked out for her people and risked her life, and so many other people did extraordinary things and yet in the heavenlies the things they did were “normal”. By the Pilgrims coming to America, they in turn were doing the most weird thing of their time and listening to the voice of God to leave everything that they knew to a land where they would have the freedom to read scripture and interpret it in the way they wished. I believe that in the same way, we should not take the things these people of God fought for, for