I agree that in many countries even just talking about the gospel and being a Christian is against the law. I also agree that England/Europe does need spiritual awakening, as does the other western countries, including my own.
There were two authorities in Jerusalem: The civil authority which was of Rome, and administered through King Herod. And the religious authority which was administered through the Temple. It was the religious, not the civil authority that objected to the Apostles' teaching concerning Jesus. The main persecution of genuine believers sharing and preaching the gospel has always come from the established churches. During revivals it was not the civil authorities who opposed it - because they welcomed the positive results in their communities. But it was the established churches that spoke against it and forbade their members to attend the revival meetings. You will see this in the Methodist revival, the Welsh Revival, Pentecostal revival, Charismatic revival. All the lies and fake news concerning these revivals have come from the established "respectable" churches, not the civil authorities.I respectfully disagree!
Acts 5: 27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,“Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood. 29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than men! 30 The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. 31 God exalted him to his own right hand that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. 32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
The real Anarchy will come on the day of judgement for those who have not heard and responded to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have already been commissioned by the Highest Possible Authority to preach the gospel, everywhere, to everyone and at all times. What about the countries where the preaching of the gospel is illegal, shall not the dear people in those countries be given the opportunity for life because we're pandering to mickey mouse laws brought in by tin pot dictators?
But in the case in question In London this is not relevant anyway-one of the issues is that what the Police did was against the law, using their position to try and stifle the truth. Is England not meant to be a Christian nation? Is the head of state not meant to be a Christian? How then can the propagation of the Christian gospel be a crime? If it had been a crime the preacher would have been charged with something, all it was was an illegal arrest designed to try and shut him up. We should stand with him, shoulder to shoulder.
God Bless
If the guy was preaching about the death and resurrection of Christ and how we can know Him personally if we accept that Jesus died for us on the cross, and not railing against Muslims in the neighborhood, then I can have some sympathy for him. But if the content of his preaching was against Muslims, then he would have been preaching another gospel and not motivated by the Holy Spirit, and so God would not have been with him at all.Hello Oscarr:
1 It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword (Acts 12)
