Slavery as an institution has never gone away. All the ancient empires, the Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans and so on, they kept slaves. The Muslims kept slaves. The Chinese kept slaves. African tribesmen kept slaves. When people think about slavery, why do they focus so much on American Slavery? The Democratic Party has liked to call slavery as "America's Original Sin." There may have been a Demonic Stronghold regarding American Slavery. We will work to shed some light on this today.
The Romans were a slave society with a slave economy. Some different economies may be capitalism, socialism, a slave economy. In American South, Cassius Clay was an American abolitionist who didn't like the South's slave economy, believing it was holding the South back. Rome had a slave economy. In the this paragraph, we traveled through some big ideas really fast. If you are lost, or thought of Muhammad Ali when you read Cassius Clay, you should take a minute to internet or YouTube search somethings.
Christianity is evangelistic. Christianity in Ancient Rome, it had a moderating effect on slavery. Slaves were given rights, and allowed paths towards freedom. The United States is about 250 years old. There is a lot of Christian history over the last 2000 years. The Pagan Vikings, they kept slaves. The Normans, or Christian French-Vikings, they didn't keep slaves.
A Christian may be a Bond Servant of Christ. He has a master, The Lord Jesus Christ. A Christian owning another Christian as a slave, that may be wrong in authority.
6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. (Ephesians 6:6)
Out of the Reformation usury started to be allowed. Usury brought with it the stock market. Christian men started serving Mammon. With usury, and an extreme pursuit of wealthy, came slavery. Christianity is evangelistic. Christians owning slaves, they may given their slaves Jesus Christ. Were Christians doing evil to other Christians? This is where we may have Demonic Strongholds.
Christians owning Christians as slaves, they were potentially doing wicked things to each other which may bring about God's punishment and curses. Demonic Strongholds regarding American Slavery were built.
This is a complicated topic. Someone may need to pray for vision on it. They may need to be viewing history more as God views history with a big picture view. Why, in the US, is American Slavery so on the forefront of American minds? It may have been due to a demonic stronghold created by Christians doing evil to other Christians.
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