Govt. Authoritarianism & The Church in Scotland 1662-1679
Daniel 3:16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
It's a history podcast - with lessons for today. It's about the progress of history in Scotland from 1662 to 1679, but it has faint echoes today, and it may have great relevance in the future. In March 2021 a group of church leaders in Scotland legally challenged the Scottish government in the Court of Session, claiming that the Covid restrictions that had been imposed on churches were a breach of their freedom of religion. Churches had been ordered to close, to space out their seating areas, to restrict their numbers, to stop singing, to meet outdoors, to make their people hide their faces behind masks… But government interference in the affairs of God’s kingdom in the British Isles, ordering churches to deliberately disobey the precepts set out in God’s Word is not entirely unprecedented. In this history podcast we are travelling back in time to the seventeenth century, when the government expelled from the churches, all those ministers who would not conform to their punitive decrees, and began a quarter century of persecution for the Lord's people...
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Music on licence from www.NeoSounds.com SRP Theme: "In Another Time"
Podcast theme: 'Scotland'
Psalm 124, with thanks to Conor Quigley www.ThePsalmsSung.org
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