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Political matters in perspective

Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy made history yesterday, being the first Speaker in American history to be voted out of office. The last (failed) attempt to do so took place in 1910.

https://republicangazette.com/kevin-mccarthy-voted-out-as-speaker-of-the-house-heres-what-happened/?utm_source=pb_ar_rbgazette&lctg=1792096131203

In an unprecedented move, Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of his role as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This marks the first occasion in U.S. history where a sitting speaker has been removed via a vote. A member of his party surprisingly spearheaded the initiative to oust him.

Some Republicans in the House are now discussing the possibility of making Donald Trump the new Speaker. Rules do not say that the Speaker must be a member of the House.

https://ijr.com/conservatives-support-trump-speaker-house/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ijr-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=firefly

I think this would be a long shot. All Democrats would vote against it, and there are too many RINO Republicans who would also vote against him. But who knows? Anything is possible in today’s Bizzaro World.

Meanwhile, it appears that RFK, Jr is getting ready to announce his candidacy for president, not on a Democratic Party ticket but as an Independent.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/robert-kennedy-jr-independent-run-president-2024

This is causing consternation in the Democratic Party, because many Democrats are very unhappy with the Biden regime. RFK would surely siphon many votes from Biden or from any alternative Democratic candidate. RFK is an “old democrat” who has the ideals of his uncle, JFK, and his father, RFK, Sr., both of whom were assassinated by the Deep State in the 1960’s.

The “old democrats” are nothing like today’s Democrat Party. The Party system today is being rapidly discredited as more and more people see them as “the Uniparty,” that is, two wings of a single bird. RFK is splitting the old Democrats from the deranged program of today’s Party. Trump has already split the majority of Republicans from the RINO party. It would be interesting if, in the end, Trump and RFK, Jr joined forces—perhaps as President and Vice-President.

That would shake things up in the world. Again, anything is possible in Bizzaro World.

From a Kingdom perspective, we are seeing the splintering of the (old) New World Order run by Mystery Babylon, the “secret” government of most of the world. In time, this will be replaced by God’s Kingdom, and the pseudo-democracies will be replaced by Kingdom government.

This is, by the way, the reason I report political events in the world. It is not to promote any political parties but to understand how the world is transitioning from Babylon to the Kingdom. If we preach the Gospel, people will repent not only for their personal sins but for the sins of their nation as well. If there are massive changes of heart brought about by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, it will change the very form of governments around the world, because the people will demand righteous government.

This is not just about getting saved so we can go to heaven when we die (or in a rapture). This is about redeeming the earth and working to put all things under the feet of Christ. It is about restoring to God that which is His by right of creation. The goal is to see the fulfillment of Revelation 21:24, which speaks of the New Jerusalem, saying,

²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.

Yes, in that day there will still be nations and kings. I see no evidence that any “presidents” will bring their glory into the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem will not be a democracy. Neither will men have the right to vote to establish the standard of righteousness. God’s law will be that standard, Christ will be King, and the Holy Spirit will bear witness of the truth to each person.

As believers in Christ, we support Kingdom government. We are not interested merely in getting saved on a personal level. We are actively promoting Christ’s right to rule the earth—that is, all nations. It was this very thing that got the early Christians in trouble, first with the religious government in Jerusalem and later with the Roman government. Today Christians are coming under fire in America for the same reason.

At the present time, the Deep State does not care about your personal beliefs, as long as you keep quiet about it in public. They would have to consolidate their power in the public arena before putting Christians into re-education camps to brainwash them into giving up their personal faith in Christ. While this is already being done in some countries in the world, it has not been done in America on any large scale.

We have to keep in mind that this is an existential battle between Mystery Babylon and the New Jerusalem. In the end, they cannot coexist. In the end, one will be destroyed and the other will rule the earth. From prophecy we know that God gave the Dominion Mandate to Babylon (Jeremiah 27:6), having taken it from the kings of Judah in Jerusalem. But this was never going to be a permanent situation. Eventually, when the divine decree expired, the Dominion was to be given to the saints of the Most High (Daniel 7:21, 22, 27).

That is where we are today, and this is why we are moving from the place of submission to Babylon to the time when the saints are given authority over the nations. If we understand the times and seasons in which we live today, we will be able to prepare accordingly.

I should stress that we are not called to foment any revolutions or armed insurrections. Daniel is our pattern, and we know that he never led any insurrections against Babylon. Instead, God raised up unbelievers like Cyrus and Darius, the original “kings from the east,” to do that work on our behalf. We have more important things to do, because we have a greater calling.

In the end, it was not Daniel who declared God’s victory over Babylon. It was Nebuchadnezzar himself. In Daniel 4:34-36 the king said,

³⁴ But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation. ³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing. But He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?” ³⁶ At that time my reason returned to me…

No one had to put a knife to his throat to make him speak these words. God brought him to the place where He freely acknowledged that the God of Daniel is the Supreme God of the Universe. This reveals how God is perfectly capable of turning the heart of the Babylonian king, both then and now. In fact, we now live in the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity which preceded his capitulation to the God of heaven.

So let us not be frightened by Nebuchadnezzar’s time of insanity. Let us see it as a major sign that the rulers of Babylon, who were given “a beast’s mind” (Daniel 4:16), are now having a change of mind. That season is now ending and the age of divine “reason” is returning to the earth. The nations are moving from the beast’s mind to the mind of Christ.

Prepare accordingly.