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About Jesus - Steve (Stephen) Sweetman

Searching For The Golden Age

During a recent trip to Hungary, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, spoke of a coming "Golden Age" that President Trump is now ushering into human history. If Europeans want to experience this never-seen-before era, they must align themselves with President Trump's agenda.

Others, like Yuval Noah Harari, a professor of history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem explore the possibility, even probability, of a future Golden Age. Harari has extensively documented human history as it relates to politics, revolutions, science, and technology. In his book "Homo Deus" he describes a possible future Golden Age in which humanity evolves beyond its current limitations.

"Homo Deus (Latin for 'God-Human') is a concept describing the next stage of human evolution, where technology enables Homo Sapiens to upgrade themselves into god-like beings—overcoming death, pain, and disease through biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering. In this future, the human quest shifts from seeking meaning to pursuing immortality and happiness".

Humanity constantly searches for a Golden Age. During the Age of Enlightenment, also called the Age of Reason in the 1700's and 1800's, Deist philosophers believed that human reasoning would usher in their brand of a Golden Age. It did usher in modernity that led to post-modernity, and now into post-post-modernity as Don Henley suggests in his song "They're Not Here, They're Not Coming", found on his "Inside Job" album.

English Puritans crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of the golden "City on a Hill". It was to be the "New Jerusalem" that Bruce Cockburn said materialized into New York in his song "Laughter", found on his "Further Adventures Of" album.

Even earlier, the first five emperors of the Roman Empire (Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero) all envisioned ushering in a Golden Age. History tells us a different story, especially in the case of Nero, whose dictatorial rule was more like rust than gold.

Going back even further, the Bible records Babel as man's first attempt at a Golden Age through the process of empire building. That didn't work well, but note what God thought about their aspirations. "Nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them" (Genesis 11:6). That echoes "Homo Deus".

Of course, searching for a humanly manufactured Golden Age was born into humanity when mankind thought it could "become like us (God) knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:22).

So what does all of this mean to you and I as Christians today? If you are a true Christian, you have God's invisible Spirit living within you that should be visibly demonstrated in the way you live. You have been born a second time, but this time into the invisible, eternal and spiritual Kingdom of God (John 3:5) that some day will be materialized on earth as the only true Golden Age of Revelation 21. Until then, and without any hint of compromising our newly-born lives with aspirations of a humanized Golden Age, we must "seek God's kingdom first" and foremost in our lives (Matthew 6:33). It is what Jesus commanded us. In part, we do so by introducing individuals to Jesus so they can receive God's Spirit into their very being as a down payment of God's future and eternal Golden Age.

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