Gentiles

The Gentiles are fellow heirs..

Ephesians 3:6

A Gentile is a non-Jew. So for all of us, Japanese, Korean, English, American, Russian, Chinese, etc, the Bible doesn't make a distinction. Clearly in the historical books such as Kings and Acts, nations like Babylonia & Greece are mentioned, but modern nation states such as Japan 🗾 and the UK are not mentioned. I think we can learn from this: language divides us since Babel, but we don't have to be enemies.  

So for Kishida today to turn to extremely negative language- 'barbaric'- to describe, yes, a provocative & dangerous missile fly-over by North Korea, is to make things worse not better. Yes it was needlessly dangerous but no one actually died. We need to talk to the North Koreans. If we can't shoot down such missiles before they reach our shores, then we need to encourage them not to send them, and mere insults isn't going to get the job done. I am not arguing for unilateral concessions, but surely negotiating is not in itself a bad idea?