GOD and Rulers!

GOD and Rulers!

In the Church today we hear so much about the End Times and the Rapture, but what about the Millennial Reign of Christ? How is it that after 1000 years of the Risen Savior reigning from Jerusalem all of the nations will gather under the banner of satan to dethrone Him and destroy Jerusalem? All this happens after the seven year reign of the anti-christ and the false prophet; when Christ returns for His persecuted Church and raises those who have been killed while doing the works of the Father in the earth.

Why can this happen?

This happens because since the beginning humanity has rebelled against GOD’s rule (government) no matter how good humanity’s existence was. Adam and Eve lived in the perfect environment economically, physically, emotionally and spiritually yet they desired more; to be like GOD to know good and evil and it cost them everything good and eternity.

Humanity is the same today; after four thousand years GOD came as a Man, Jesus Christ, to redeem humanity back to GOD. To restore our relationship with GOD as our Father as it was in the Garden of Eden, yet humanity resisted GOD’s Will and Gift and still resists today.

Humanity was not created flawed but through Adam and Eve was deceived and disobedient this resulted in our spiritual death and broke our relationship with GOD our Father. We see glimpses throughout history of a few people Enoch, Noah, Abram (Abraham), Moses, Esther, David, Mary (Mother of Jesus), Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Billy Graham and many others who have yielded their life and will to the Father’s so that humanity could be redirected to a personal relationship with the True and Living GOD; but even they had their faults.

If you have been a Believer very long you should understand that since Adam and Eve’s fall we are born with a flawed nature that desires sin rather than righteousness and that we can only be saved from its resulting eternal damnation by believing in Jesus Christ His life, death and resurrection as revealed in the Gospels.

How does this happen?

Since the beginning of time GOD has raised up and torn down rulers and kingdoms and He still does that today even if we do not see and understand it. The scriptures teach us that rulers are for our good but if we desire evil we will have evil rulers. We see throughout history how evil men have been followed by the masses to destroy others for their own political and economic gain; Nimrod, Pharaoh (who enslaved the Israelites), Nebuchadnezzar, Nero, Hitler and others who gave themselves over to destroying other nations and ruling over the people for their own benefit and purpose.

This will continue until the heavens, the earth and the seas are destroyed by fire and the New Heaven and the New Earth are created and Christ reigns from the New Jerusalem. But first satan must be bound for 1000 years then released for a while; in which time he will again draw the rebellious and self-willed to join his cause against GOD.

This can only happen because during Christ’s 1000 year reign in Jerusalem unredeemed people will still live in the earth. Revelations reveals that Christ will rule with a Rod of Iron over the nations. If the nations were populated only with Believers who had yielded their life to His Will there would be no need for Him to rule with a Rod of Iron. So during the 1000 years that satan is bound and not able to influence people sin will still exist in the hearts of men; even with Jesus Christ ruling over the earth from Jerusalem.

This is why throughout history and today and in the future sin is so hard for us to overcome. This is why Jesus told us that we have to take up our cross and follow Him; this is why Paul says that we have to work out our salvation with fear and trembling; this is why in the Epistles we are taught to gather together with other believers and to limit our contact and relationship with those who are opposed to GOD and His Kingdom.

We can be a witness without condemning and judging but also without joining! We use our experience in life and our experience as a Believer to show the lost and deceived the Light, Life, Love and Truth of who Jesus is and the eternal consequences of believing in Him and rejecting Him.

Rulers

We are taught throughout the Bible to pray for and support our rulers and that we get the rulers that we deserve based on our yieldedness and obedience to GOD. If we are a people that pray for GOD’s will to be done in our lives, families, communities and nations then we will have moral and righteous rulers who exercise integrity in all they do. If we are a people who complain and resist GOD’s will then we will have rulers that lack morality and integrity and lead us into wickedness.

This is what we have in many nations today, governments that are crooked and wicked because the people have resisted GOD’s will and allowed the wicked to come into authority. There have been and will always be rulers who are selfish, prideful and wicked as long as this natural world exists. Once this heaven, earth and the seas are destroyed and the New Heaven and Earth exist there will no longer be deception, corruption and wickedness at all and there will only be the perfect, holy just and merciful reign of Jesus Christ for eternity. There will still be government, the 12 Elders and the 24 Elders under the Father and Jesus Christ and whatever structure they establish, but it will all be perfect and without corruption.

Israel and America (USA)

Israel and America are two nations that were established by GOD for His will to be done in the earth as it is in Heaven. Israel was established under the Law to reveal GOD as the Almighty Creator and LORD over everything who was to be worshiped and served by all peoples.  Israel was to bring the Light of GOD’s Love to the world through worship, obedience and sacrifice under the guidance of the Law. America was established under the Bible to reveal GOD as the Almighty Creator, LORD and Redeemer who was to be worshiped and served by all peoples. America was to bring the Light of GOD’s Love to the world through the freedom to worship, obedience and service to GOD under the guidance of the Bible. Both nations have had success and failure and both nations are still GOD’s chosen nations to reveal Himself to all the nations.

There are other nations where the Gospel is sent forth from but these two are the ones that GOD has put His mantle on to proclaim and demonstrate His eternal Kingdom in the earth.

But, if Israel and America are to regain their role of proclaiming and demonstrating the Kingdom of GOD in the earth as it is in Heaven, then the people of these nations must repent; personally and as families and communities; seek leaders who have the integrity and morality to serve GOD first and proclaim salvation to the lost of their own nation and the other nations of the world.

Jesus’ admonition to us as individuals and therefore as nations is to, “…seek first the Kingdom of GOD and His righteousness…” and to lay down our life for His and to take up our cross daily.

This is every Believers challenge and responsibility!