‘It’s clear that military generals, including former senator Rodolfo Biazon, have taken the cudgels for the demoralized but undaunted officers and men of the Armed Forces, many of whom are ready to defend our seas and shores.’
AN association of retired Armed Forces chiefs is calling on President Duterte to set things right for the country in the face of rampant Chinese incursions at the West Philippine Sea.
In an open letter, they urged the President to take a strategic and firm stand so we can assert our rights against Chinese bullying but stopped short of denouncing Beijing while hoping for a healthier and stronger relationship with it.
It’s clear that military generals, including former senator Rodolfo Biazon, have taken the cudgels for the demoralized but undaunted officers and men of the Armed Forces, many of whom are ready to defend our seas and shores.
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Only in the last moments of their lives have many COVID-19 victims found themselves finally calling sincerely to God to accept the truth of eternity with Him. Probably, for the first time in our history, Easter Sunday presented the ghoulish image of a cemetery and that the essence of its other name, Resurrection Sunday, has been lost to hopelessness among the COVID victims and their families.
And yet, according to many pastors and Christian counselors, many of the sick and suffering had renounced their sinful ways and embraced the spiritual life for their souls.
More people have now embraced religion which teaches variously about prophets who never rose from the dead and accepted that only Christ who came to life again provides the other “reality” of a more rewarding and far greater life.
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Pastor Myles Munroe, who heads the Munroe Global, gave an inspiring perspective on Christ’s Resurrection that expresses the eternal truth that our life goes on after death. He says “the kingdom of Rome could only rule to the limit of the grave. But, the Kingdom of God transcends death and continues to rule over its citizens.”
The Philippine government, for example, has jurisdiction over us while we live and will have nothing to do with us after we die. And indeed this is very rarely talked about even among loved ones who ordinarily surmise that their dearly departed are going to heaven.
Bible-grounded families are sure that those who have passed on or have become “absent in the body are now present with Christ.” It makes more sense that because Christ is in us through the Holy Spirit we are always present with Him in this life and in the next. Pastor Munroe stresses that “in the kingdom of God death cannot separate the citizen from the jurisdiction of the King.”
