At the time of the early Church, there was a stumbling block to Jews.
Every day they gathered together to plot how to stop the crowd of people who were doing what was a stumbling block to them, how to slander and hinder them from attracting people's attention.
What was the stumbling block to the Jews?the thing that they hated the most?
It was the preaching of Jesus Christ. God is light, so darkness hates the light (Jn 1:1-14). It is because darkness retreats even when a tiny bit of light shines.
What Satan hates the most is revealing God, our Savior in each age: Jehovah in the age of the Father, Jesus Christ in the age of the Son, and the Spirit and the Bride?
We, who are children of light, should shine the light of the glory of Jerusalem on the whole world, so that we can defeat darkness and lead all people into life.
The world does not know God through its wisdom The preaching of G
od who has come in the flesh is a stumbling block to Jews who claim to believe in God, and foolishness to Gentiles who do not know God.
However, God's point of view is completely different. The Bible says that God is pleased through the foolishness of what is preached to save those who believe.
1 Co 1:21-24 『For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.』
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