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How to conquer the world

All this talk going around about Canada becoming our 51^st state, combined with our 1994 revelation about reunification, it is imperative that we step back and look at the bigger prophetic picture. The prophets say that the glory of God will cover the earth, and His Kingdom will ultimately include all the nations. But how will this come about?

In my early years growing up in the church, I was taught that “Jesus is coming back—and boy is He mad!” This is the Angry God Syndrome. I was taught that He will rule with “a rod of iron” (Revelation 19:15), which was interpreted to mean that this rod of iron would be used as a club to beat the nations into submission (Psalm 2:9). In other words, they claimed that the Kingdom of God would forcibly subject the world to the rule of Christ.

This concept was modeled largely by Joshua’s conquest of Canaan by means of the Old Covenant and the physical sword. But when I learned the difference between the two covenants, I began to see the fallacy of this view. First of all, a rod of iron is the power of an unbreakable scepter, not a club. Revelation 19:15 says,

¹⁵ From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.

Under the New Covenant, the “sharp sword” is the spiritual sword—the word of God—that is much sharper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). How does one “strike down the nations” with the word of God? Does He speak a word that disintegrates the nations like a nuclear bomb?

When “He treads the wine press,” to “put all things under His feet” (1 Corinthians 15:27), is this to destroy nations or to extract the new wine for His communion table? If the nations were destroyed, what would be left of them for Christ to rule? Psalm 2:8, 9 says,

⁸ Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession. ⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.

The psalmist was writing as a New Covenant believer in an Old Covenant time, so he blends the two. It is up to us to separate them by our understanding of the two covenants. Shall our inheritance be destroyed? No, the opposition has to be broken. How? By turning enemies into friends. Many Christians do not think this is possible. I disagree. While there will certainly be unrepentant leaders and unjust judges who will be judged by Old Covenant means, the nations themselves will be delivered from their oppression through Christ.

All nations will be delivered when leaders who govern by self-interest either repent or are replaced by those who rule by the love of Christ.

1 John 5:4, 5 says,

⁴ for whatever is born [begotten] of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. ⁵ Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

That which is begotten by God is the New Creation Man that has been begotten in us by the Holy Spirit. Genuine faith that Jesus is the Son of God begets Christ in you, the hope of glory. When we follow the dictates of this inner man, we are more than conquerors.

How to Make America Great Again

Trump’s stated goal is to make America great again. The real question is how he intends to do this. Does he intend to make America the hegemon of the world? Does He intend to beat the world into submission? Or does he intend to adopt the Abrahamic calling to be a blessing to all families of the earth?

So far, his words tend to reveal an Old Covenant mindset of world domination, a continuation of the Deep State’s plan to be the sole superpower and to destroy any competitor. He claims to be a Christian now, but his spiritual advisors are all Old Covenant Christian Zionists who have faith in the Angry God.

Trump is now talking about taking back the Panama Canal, buying Greenland from Denmark, and making Canada the 51^st state. In each case there would be two ways to accomplish this—if, indeed it would happen at all. At this point in time, I have little confidence that Trump would do so in a New Covenant manner. His words seem too threatening and militaristic. He has said nothing about fulfilling the Abrahamic covenant. It seems to be about benefiting America at the expense of others. His words give little evidence that he has been begotten by the Spirit.

Now that he has been elected, let us pray that he will receive better spiritual advice. And while we are at it, let us pray that he will surround himself with peacemakers rather than warmongers. God has the power to change the heart whenever He so chooses, and I believe we are entering into the early days of the Kingdom. So there is hope that America may fulfill the original dream of the Pilgrims who arrived here in the early 1600’s with the stated purpose of furthering the Kingdom of God. They made a covenant with God on behalf of this country, which is known as the Mayflower Compact.

I expect that God will hold us to that covenant and, moreover, that He will see to it that we fulfill it before the end of our story.