* Luís Alberto Alves
The apostle James, brother of Jesus Christ, and leader of the Jerusalem church, wrote in chapter 1, verses 1 to 6, warning the 12 tribes of Israel that temptations would come, but that they would be strong maintaining honesty and running the race Stipulated by Jesus Christ, being careful not to drop the crown of life from the head.
We need to pay close attention to this detail: ordeal! Today, Christians do not like the gospel that speaks of ordeal, that is, of the struggles they will have to face in order to enter Heaven. They worship the gospel of ease, where all is permitted, not a mistaken view that God overlooks sin. Worse: they reversed the word when Jesus said he loves the sinner, but they feel the disgust of sin.
It was not in vain that the Lord told the sinner to go to church the way he is, plunged into the mire of error and iniquity, but that he did not remain in that situation. Change for the better, being a new creature. In this text, James warns the 12 tribes of Israel about the future of that nation. Even under a lot of fighting and destruction, they would not leave honesty aside.
Alerted by the Holy Spirit, James knew that after his death in 62 AD, eight years later Jerusalem would be destroyed by the Roman army, with the majority of the population slain by the sword, crucified, women raped, children and old men annihilated, and the city under rubble .
The terror implanted by the Romans was so great that the few survivors spread throughout the world in the movement known as diaspora. They wandered for 1878 years until the return to Israel as territory. In this period they suffered enough in the hands of other people. Four years before the return to homeland, 6 million Jews were charred in the Nazi ovens in World War II.
* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor
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