Pastor Alexey Ledyaev |
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Let’s leave the Millennium kingdom alone; the events of this kind do not depend on the will of men. They depend fully on His decisions. Whether we like it or not, it will be there, and that’s the end of it! It’s inexorable, fatal, inevitable. The same way such objective events as birth of Jesus Christ, His death, Resurrection and Ascension and many other didn’t depend on men, His Second Coming, the judgment before the White Throne and of course the Millennium will not depend on men. What is the point of arguing about their chronology: what will be in the beginning and what will be in the end… We’ll see when we get there. It does make a great sense to give some thought to the events that directly depend on men: to the main predestination of church, that is to preach the Gospel to peoples, nations, and languages. Invasion and Expansion – that is the main strategy of the end time church. Invasion and expansion are the rails the 21-century church will move on to establish the Kingdom of God all over the earth. THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER Jesus said: “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). Let me ask you: where do the rivers flow? “All rivers flow into the sea … and the waters of the sea are healed” (Eccl. 1:7, Ezek. 47:8). As much as church is capable to realize itself in the society, so much the society needs it. God has never separated the Church from the state. It was created for the state, for the society for the people. Meant to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the tuning fork of the Divine harmony and the moral foundation of human existence. All rivers flow into the sea. Admit it or not, but that’s the way God created this world. This is the law. The intrusion of Christian outlook into the deep waters of any society’s political, social, economical and spiritual life is however just as natural. The rivers of living water are a strategic revelation for the intrusion of the Kingdom of God into the territory of our unsettled cursed world. REVIVAL “FROM THE TOP” The Christian moral will not only impact drug addicts, the homeless, housewives, plumbers, and janitors. The routes of Revival will inevitably run through various state structures – ministries, Congresses, and Parliaments. It is no wonder, because God’s prophets and priests are the representatives of the heavenly authority. And political leaders are the representatives of the earthly authority. Heaven has always ruled over the earth, and the priesthood over kings. This is God’s order, which God will restore and establish in the end time. The Gospel will be preached in the prime ministers’ and presidents’ offices. They are people too. They also need salvation. They also need Jesus. But who will tell them that any authority is from God and must obey God; that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord and that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He pleases? Who will make them see that God changes the times and the seasons; He removes and raises up kings? How will they know that the Most High watches over the high? Nobody will do that except for church. The revival of a society is impossible without revived its government. When Jesus was coming into Jerusalem, the people cried out “Hosanna”, tore off their garments, and spread them on the road before the coming King. But Jesus wept… Why? Oh but because the revival “from below” is a temporary and fragile phenomenon. When people with so little impact on the society cry out “Hosanna” to Jesus, it’s not bad. But for some reason He is sad and even weeping. Why? Oh but because in this exultant multitude He couldn’t notice officials, deputies, ministers and representatives of the supreme authority. They have kept aloof. Tomorrow they will drown this revival in blood, because the power is in their hands. God’s plan is to bring the revival “from the top”; then it will not be bogged down in couple of years. At the most crucial moment God commanded prophet Elijah saying: “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth” (1 King. 18:1). The rivers of prophetic anointing will flow in presidents’ offices. God will give church the word and a special message to principalities and powers. The kings must hear the voice of God. The dialogue between church and state is the decisive point in revival, and after that, God promises to send rain on our withered and thirsty land. The revival “from the top” is the key strategic matter for the end time church. All authority is from God and must know God. Those are not the ambitions of some presumptuous Christian leaders that stand behind this statement, but the oath of God Himself neither more nor less. “I have sworn by Myself; the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath” (Is 45:23). This is His forecast. Nobody and nothing will prevent God from achieving the planned purpose. The rivers will not change their course. THE GREAT COMMISSION New World Order is the inevitable outcome of the last Revival. The historical role of church in the XXI century comes to realization of a grandiose program – to prepare the world for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ! To prepare the way for the Lord means to fulfill His Great Commission – “…go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matt. 28:19). Notice, that His attention is focused not on some individual republics and ethnic groups, but on the whole world, on all the nations of the earth. Obviously, this raises the question of the grounds for the claim. The answer is simple. Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God took upon Himself the sin of the whole world, and paid with His Blood for the salvation of all the humankind. If the blood of Jesus was shed on the Cross for the redemption of all the humankind, it means that not some individual countries, but the whole world is His legitimate property, the paid goods of the Kingdom of God. His claims on the crown of the World Dominion are lawful and well founded. Music plays at the request of the One Who pays. This is by what right He claims the title of the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. It is already two thousands years ago, that He ordered the Revival and reformation for every country and every nation. THE PRINCIPLE OF “THE PAID GOODS” The foundation of the Great Commission is to understand the redemptive sacrifice of Jesus Christ in its fullness. The Redemption is the biggest deal in the human history. Schematically it looked approximately the following way: The market is the pagan world. The goods are peoples, nations, and languages. The owner is the god of this age, Satan, who had never hidden his imperialistic ambitions: “All the kingdoms of the world belong to me,” which was the absolute truth. But there came the Redeemer or the Buyer on the territory of the market. He did not bargain, there were no Christmas discounts, He paid the highest and most expensive price with His own life, by His blood, His own death on the Calvary’s cross; and not for some individual republics and tribes but for the whole world, for the salvation of every person living on the planet Earth. “It is finished!” – is the blood seal of the closed deal. By his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death – that is, Satan. All the goods were redeemed or bought. At the very moment money passes from the Buyer’s hands to the Seller’s hands, the power over the goods passes from the Seller’s hands to the Buyer’s hands. The goods cease to be the property of the market and the belonging of the former owner. Now they are the property of the Buyer, this is why the paid goods are delivered from the territory of the former owner to the address of the Buyer. At the very moment the blood of Jesus was shed on the cross, which meant the price for the redemption of the whole human kind was paid, all the nations of the earth with no exception ceased to be the property of the former owner. As soon as “It is finished” had sounded, the spiritual seal “paid for” was set on the territory of every country, state and government. If they are paid for, it means that Satan is legally deprived of power over them. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and all Middle East countries are “paid for,” so they are God’s property. The African peoples from Cape Town up to Cairo are “paid for,” so they are God’s property. The European countries are “paid for”, so they are God’s property. China, India, Japan and the entire Eastern Asia region are “paid for,” so they are God’s property. USA, Russia and all that are with them are “paid for,” so they are God’s property. And the paid goods are immediately taken from the territory of the pagan market to the address of the Buyer – the territory of the Kingdom of God. It is legal, rightful and well founded. The understanding of the Redemption is the foundation and driving force of the Great Commission. Jesus had paid the price and He commissioned church with taking the paid goods to the territory of God’s Kingdom. Therefore, He gave church grace and apostleship to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and for obedience to the faith among all nations. It is rather a humble agreement to fulfill our church commission before Him, than megalomania. Let me paraphrase the thought even simpler: If you have paid for a refrigerator, a microwave, a TV set and a box of fruit, but leaving the shop you just modestly take away a couple of small oranges… Can they call you a reasonable person? You will surely hear behind you: “Please take with you everything you paid for!” The purport of the Great Commission is to take with us everything that is paid for by the Lord. Go and make disciples of all the nations, explain to them that there is a price already paid for their salvation and they are no more a property of Buddha or Mohammed, they are the inheritance and property of Jesus Christ. The nations of the earth are the inheritance of Jesus Christ, and we, the Church, are His joint heirs. “Ask of Me and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession” (Ps. 2:8). Do you really think that God has predestined some countries for the cult of Voodoo, the others for Buddhism, some for Islam, some for atheism, and some for Christianity, just for the sake of diversity? Nothing of the kind! “...I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images” (Is. 42:8). The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness is created by Him and solely for His glory! The Great Commission holds in itself the idea of the New World Order. Just think of these words: “...go and make disciples of all the nations...” Church faces the World today, which God will eventually turn into a study room. “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14). No regime, no ideology will stop the triumphal march of the Gospel all over the world. “The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies” (Is. 42:13). The Gospel will be officially preached in all countries in every language, at the biggest metropolitan arenas, in all types of mass media. The official authorization for the Gospel invasion will be personally signed by kings, sheikhs, tsars and presidents of these countries, because God will have had a personal talk with them. THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHURCH
AND STATE Not only God knows the hearts of kings, but their ambitious characters as well. “...But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go...” (Ex. 3:19, 20). We give God a free hand to deal with our government when we enter into dialogue with them, as Moses did with Pharaoh, as Esther did with Ahasuerus, as Elijah did with Ahab, as Daniel did with Nebuchadnezzar. Our prayer and prophetic message addressed to the king will help God to pull down strongholds and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. After having met the prophet Daniel, the king Nebuchadnezzar experienced His mighty hand; and being broken gave glory to God. “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble” (Dan. 4:34). He is well experienced in humbling kings’ characters, changing their decisions, which means changing a historical course of events. “Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear” (Ps. 2:10, 11). The less Christian content there is in a country, the more ugly and primitive society is. The more Christian content there is in a country, the more progressive and civilized it is. The reforms deprived of biblical moral foundation plunge society into the abyss of chaos and disorder. The reforms that come as a result of Spiritual Renascence will ensure the New Order in a country. The end-time Church will enlighten every nation, after making kings to be wise and instructing judges of the earth. Church will have the floor in the midst of the congressmen and parliamentarians. The international political forums will become a place where God’s wisdom will lift up its voice. Be wise, O kings, understand at last, that all your countries with all your specificity and uniqueness are paid goods of the Kingdom of God, and you are not your own, you were bought with the precious Blood of the Lamb, so you have been His property for already a long time. To believe in it, to recognize Jesus as your Lord, to open your country wide before Him is the heart of political wisdom. This message is going to be directly communicated to kings and presidents. “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way” (Ps. 2:10-12). “He shall cut off the spirit of princes; He is awesome to the kings of the earth” (Ps. 76:12). The knees start to tremble, when God enters the presidential palace. Mind’s torn in shreds with fear, lips grow numb and kings’ faces turn pale. The prophet of God is in the supreme governmental circles. - There is an urgent message for you Mr. President… anything unclear? - It is a governmental connection. - Whose hand is it? Who is the one that is writing on the wall? - This is the Most High God, Mr. President, whom you have imprudently removed from your life. - Why is it encoded, what does it say? - It says that now the Most High will prudently remove you from your throne, Mr. President. “But you, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this” (Dan. 5:22). You knew that you should treat church with respect because there was arbitrariness in the country and people were blaspheming and committing sacrilege, you knew that you had to open all the doors for preaching of the gospel; you knew, but alas, you never did... “And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; And the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified... Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription. This is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN This is the interpretation of each word. Mene: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; Tekel: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; Peres: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians” (Dan. 5:23-28). The decline of political career in the prime of life. How stupid and absurd! President wisdom in spiritual respect turned out to be shortsighted and ignorant. Just like on the poster that I once happened to see…
God has a balance. And this is not an astrological sign. He weighs kings. Their political weigh is determined by their contribution to God’s programs, to the cause of Revival. The greater the contribution – the greater the weigh. The greater the weigh – the greater the value. The less the contribution – the less their weigh and value before God. And if rulers separate church and state and declare war against church – they are doomed to defeat. Found to be lighter than emptiness, they leave in shame and ignominy, to give up their place to those who have weigh and significance for the Kingdom of God. “Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain” (Dan. 5:29, 30). It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God! “Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He is angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are those who put their trust in Him” (Ps. 2:10-12). At all costs God will obtain the Revival “from the top”, He will knock until the hearts of kings hear. The dialogue between church and state will be constructive and effective. Kings will become wise, they will honor the Son and will serve Him with fear and trembling. The authority of the King of all kings will be recognized at all levels. When the government bows its knees before the name of Jesus Christ then the country will be Christian. It cannot be otherwise, because the God of the kings will sooner or later become the God of their nations. This is how life is. Like master, like man. Like king, like nation. This how God sees the Revival. This is His strategic plan of the transformation of society. Jesus has never given church impracticable tasks. He is the hundred percent positive that the 21st-century church, in carrying out properly the Great Commission, will deliver all the “paid goods” to the address of the Buyer without losses. I foresee thousands of objections and counter-arguments: Why so sharp? Why so loud? Is it worth taking so much upon you? And where are the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist and the souls of those who had been slain under the altar? Sure enough, that we are modeling the future of church in our own way, interpreting the Great Commission in our own way, evaluating the role of Christianity in the last time in our own way. But please explain to me what does it say here, how should I understand these parts of the Holy Scripture: Who is this coming up looking forth as the morning, awesome as an army with banners, to put all enemies under His feet, to make the kings be wise, to make all nations obey to the faith, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to baptize all the nations in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, for them to serve the Lord and to honor the Son of God – Jesus Christ? What are those? Merely grandiloquent phrases, a charismatic bravado, biblical delirium or a real program and future experience of the 21st-century church on the eve of the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ? As far as I remember Christians are always impatiently waiting for the tribulations time, taking to their heels to go to Arabia, and scaring each other with “666” they find on food packages with smart airs put on. Let me make an observation, that God has never charged us with waiting for the Antichrist and the persecutions, He charged us with waiting for the promise of the Father, the Outpouring of the Latter Rain and with entering into the joy of our Lord, having fulfilled His Great Commission. I know one thing for sure: the forecasts without revelations are illusions and deceit. The forecasts born from God are the course of the tomorrow’s history. CHANGE OF POLITICAL GURUS Why is the matter of Christian invasion of the political
life of the country so crucial? There are forcible reasons for this. It is only as a product of the impact of the determined spiritual forces on the political mind that the ideology of the country is born. There is no such a thing as neutral or unspiritual politics. If the government is closed to Christianity it will be open for occults, and this is a dangerous symbiosis, the root of totalitarian systems and authoritarian regimes. While Christians are keeping silent, our political leaders surround themselves with pagan priests, sorcerers and witches. Being officially called advisers and consultants, they determine the course of legislative and political decisions. While Christians are narrow-mindedly discussing their non-participation, “humbly” sidestepping political questions, the devil is successfully occupying the cabinets of authority. And then we lift our hands in surprise: Why is church limited in its rights? Why should it suddenly be called a sect? Why is there regularly so much filthy libel being poured by mass media that perverts and cripples the true idea about church in the minds of people? Why is the anti-religious badgering becoming a system, shutting off Christians, cut off as they are, from society, dooming them to the complete social isolation? Why does it happen? Oh but because church is voluntarily giving up its positions, creating a great opportunity for the Antichrist to control the legislative power. The task of church is to divide the light from the darkness, the grain from the tares, the sheep from the goats. The task of church is not only to deliver the simple people from the power of alcohol or heroin, but also to free the state officials from the addiction to occults. The dialogue between church and state will at times assume a far from diplomatic character. Now when they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus, who was with proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man (Acts 13:6-12). Here is a typical combination in the highest echelons of authority. A state official having an ominous shadow besides him – a sorcerer or a wizard, a false prophet, who draws up horoscopes for the proconsul, makes the forecasts for the future, takes off the evil eye and wasting disease, sees the aura of different hues, determines for the proconsul who is his friend and who is his enemy. This man called for Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer… withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith (Acts 13:7-8). The problems with the Church are created not so much by the politicians, as by those who stand behind them. The persecutions, repressions, terror, arrests, exiles, devastation and closing of the churches. Who takes advantage of it? In this case, the politicians are only the executors. But the occult ministers, sorcerers, pagan priests, masons, who were always resisting Christianity and trying to turn not only the proconsul, but also all the people from the faith, are those who order it. Christian invasion is not unctuous sermons and lulling prayers. It is a Holy Spirit hurricane that will sweep off every occult nest on its way in the governmental lobby. “Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? And now, indeed, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand” (Acts 13:9-11). It was not for nothing that Elymas the sorcerer was afraid of apostle Paul, his hands were trembling and his throat was parched, and it was not without reason that he whispered in proconsul’s ear: “Isn’t the Church disestablished, what is he doing here, this man is dangerous for us, he has a black aura.” It was not without reason, that all his demons were disturbed, the thing he had feared came upon him. God struck him. He became blind. God put him to shame with all his forecasts and demonic wisdom. This is what he is doing here – reuniting the church with the state. Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had been done, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. The proconsul believed only after God had destroyed the power of magic and witchcraft before his very eyes. The church is really dangerous, but not for the proconsul Sergius and not for the political leaders, but for their secret counselors, personal astrologers and psychics, who have privately assumed the status of political gurus. Their kingdom is prospering while Christians content themselves with taking a back seat. But as soon as Church opens the eyes and understands fully its historical role – to be above and not beneath, to be the head and not the tail – and, having put on the power of the Holy Spirit, invades the political world, their kingdom will end! “Also many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all” (Acts 19:19). Notice, these were not Christians that burned their books, but they, themselves, yesterday’s wizards and witches now born again, with their own hands turned to ashes once priceless magical and occult libraries. A magnificent burnt offering to the God of the Bible! “...And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed” (Acts 19:19-20). The educated church is a disaster for the entire demonic kingdom. The occult schools were closed one by one, because one of the leading teachers, Elymas the sorcerer, had been struck by God and became blind, in trying to stop the Church. How would they follow the guru now that he was miserable and blind? Wasn’t it better now to follow the Stronger? Revival is destruction of occult strongholds in the offices of the State authority. This is the time, when the quartered Dagon will fall on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This is the time when the rod of Aaron will swallow up the rods of the sorcerers of Egypt before the eyes of all the administration, and the political leaders will bow their knees before the name of Jesus Christ, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT At present, there are many countries of the most motley religious tinges. For our mind it’s so natural and traditional to take in the concepts like “Islamic State”, “Islamic government.” Buddhist country – Buddhist government; Communist country – communist government. All this is explainable, historically proved, logically founded – there are no questions. But as soon as the conversation turns to “Christian state” and “Christian government” all the world is put in motion. Being unpopular and untraditional, these categories are hard to grasp for our mind. Frankly, I don’t understand, why the idea of creating Christian political space causes instant protest and indignation? Are the Islamic world outlook or Buddhist religion more topical in the world, than Christian moral and Gospel philosophy? Do you really think that Mohammed and Buddha left to their followers more power to influence this world, than Jesus Christ gave to His disciples? Is there more wisdom contained in the Vedas and Koran than in the Bible? Christians, come to your senses! While socialists, Muslims, Moonies and Buddhists elevate their teaching to the class of national doctrine, proclaiming their god to be the god of their nations; Christians that firmly occupy the back of beyond of universal development, hide their heads in the sand and declare with irritation: “It’s not for us!” The Pharisaism perverts people and turns their life into theater. “Having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Tim. 3:5). Revising and simplifying separate texts of the Scripture, they proclaim their “proletarian” gospel. “A ghost is roaming about Europe – a ghost of Revival.” Everything is ghostly with them: God, miracles, and church. Basically, everything is in the spirit and relative. Plunging into the abyss of religious masochism, glorifying pain and weakness, resigning themselves and keeping themselves aloof, they are isolated from society, for the sake of which church was created. Having taken the keys of the Kingdom of God, they do not enter themselves and hinder the others. The communist doctrine of disestablishing church is stuck in the religious mind much stronger, than the revelation of the Great Commission and salvation of the perishing world. Adding Lenin’s philosophy to their “proletarian” gospel, they obstinately continue to separate church from state, achieving the complete autonomy. Their hits sound incessantly at a stretch, season after season: “Do not fear, little flock, My kingdom is not of this world, And we are not of the world. Do not love the world or the things of the world. Down with education – it is the world. Away with rock music – it is the world. Forbid beauty, style, and make-up – it is the world. We are Christians, so we cannot be engaged in sports, art, journalism, marketing and jurisprudence. We can only fray our trousers, dozing on the church pew. Neither we need prosperity, nor Christian business, all that is good for nothing, and as to Christian government – isn’t it a sheer nonsense. You’d better know how filthy it is there. What a cynicism is there. Please do not entangle God and church there!” “Oh but don’t you worry, God will not get entangled there and will not get puzzled. He has great experience in dealing with kings and kings’ filth. That’s Who He is by profession – King of kings and Lord of lords.” Somebody has separated church and state to unimpededly demonize and control the rulers. Somebody has criminally agreed with that, but somebody is earnestly protesting, proclaiming from the high housetops, that in the last days God will return church to state as the sole solution for all problems. Church will be able to destroy the works of the devil on the governmental level, to clear the government from magic and witchcraft, and to proclaim the just principles of the Kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ in the country. The dialogue between church and state will revive and transfigure the latter beyond recognition. Didn’t the Lord change the king Nebuchadnezzar, who finally recognized the power of the Most High over him, and made a decree for all the people in every city and dominion of his great kingdom to worship the God of Shadrach, Meshack, and Abed-Nego?! Didn’t the Lord change the worldview of the king Darius, who commanded all the nation to tremble before the God of Daniel? Didn’t the Lord change the national policy of the king Ahasuerus, having taken away the wicked Haman? There were no Jewish massacres. The people of God were delivered. The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, who can argue with it? A hundred years ago, there was no Christian in the Buddhist South Korea. Today every fourth person there is a Christian and the church runs to one million. It is not difficult to guess what an influence is such church exerting upon society, if there are the leading politicians, the great officers of the armed forces in its ranks, and just multimillionaires number more than 15 thousand. It is worth mentioning, that the consultative meetings of the president of the country with pastor Yonghi Cho are becoming regular and traditional. After a short break and a fierce election struggle God has once again restored Christian Government in USA. The born again president of the country, his administration that mostly consists of Christians on the key positions of authority – it is a great victory. Advent to power of the Christian government does not mean that the whole country will at once automatically become puritan. It means that the country will have all preconditions for it, because in such circumstances church receives an unprecedented freedom to influence and to act. George Bush Jr. is more of a preacher, than a politician. However, it is exactly this quality that determines his political insight, pragmatism and invulnerability. In the most critical moment, the President cites the 23rd Psalm and calls upon all mayors, senators, congressmen and all the American people to pray. Oh God, hear their prayer and bless America! If the people led by the president humble themselves before Him and seek Him, He has promised to heal their land. “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear” (Is. 59:1). The relay race of political miracles is going on. The prayer to the Living God is coming back to the White House and becoming an integral part of the internal and external strategy. The Congress refuses to give financial help to destructive organizations, popularizing amorality, astrology and abortions. The occult influence on the legislative power becomes a thing of the past. To replace the seances with the spirits of the dead presidents in the lobby of the Capitol there comes fellowship with the Spirit of the Risen Jesus, because the majority of the White House administration are the representatives of the Christian Church and not of the secret esoteric circles. The rating of the US Christian Government is growing up swiftly in connection with the recent events. Practically all countries of the modern civilized world recognize its international authority and are compelled to consider its decisions. Nothing remains but to say: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Ps. 33:12). Neither communists, nor Muslims, nor Buddhists, but Christians are putting in order the modern world and determining the further prospects of the world development. Whether somebody like it or not, but it’s a fact. And this is not the limit. The process of church invasion into society is successfully going on. YOUR KINGDOM COME! Creation of Christian geopolitical space is God’s plan and the purport of the last revival. Some day the Lord will resolutely make and end of our religious debates and put everything in its place. “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (Ps. 46:10) Christians stop, wake up and do not behave like mad people. In cutting ourselves off from the world, we degenerate into an ugly sectarian organization, just like Pennsylvanian Amishes. God is suffocating and cramped in our little, musty, and thick religious world. He is tired of our dullness and sanctimony, compromises and criminal idleness. Where is church that seeks first the kingdom of God, and despising the honor from men, desperately cries to God: Your kingdom come! He is the Great God. He wants to break out to freedom, to straighten His shoulders and to manifest His glory on the streets and squares, to call for justice, to heal the brokenhearted, the land, the economics, the legislation, the power; to shake heaven and earth; to be the God who saves for the peoples, nations, and languages. “I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in labor, I will pant and gasp at once” (Is. 42:14). “Know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations” (Ps. 46:10). God will obtain this at all costs, and He is not going to sit in our religious prison any more. The Great Commission is not a suggestion, not a request; it is a command of the Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army. “Say among the nations, The Lord reigns!” (Ps. 96:10) “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples” (Ps. 96:3). The 21st-century church is going to shock the world, drive it to panic and trembling. Its beauty and wisdom, greatness and power, tremendous scope and grandiose scale will cover the earth as a flood. Church will hear the palpitation of the Heavenly Father and realize not the things dictated by the corrupt religious mind, but His eternal plans on earth. God will pour out of His Spirit on all flesh. The times of Pentecost, and the miracles and wonders of the first apostles will come back. The cities will be enveloped with the flames of God’s power, and the streams of people will flow to the Church that will have become a place of mighty presence of God’s glory. As in the old glorious times the demons will come out of people in crying out, the sick will stand up from their wheelchairs, the blind will open their eyes and praise, praise, praise the precious Savior Jesus Christ! In this stream all the titles, statuses, ranks and estates will be mingled. Every knee shall bow before the name of Jesus Christ in deep contrition and repentance. And the multitude of those who believe will again be of one heart and one soul. And the main treasure of man will again be the fear of the Lord. Church will win the recognition not only of the city and of country. The authority of the Revived Church will be internationally recognized. Its voice will sound both to the separate countries and to the world community. Church will at any cost fulfill the Mission of World Messengership. Church will declare with authority to all nations: the Lord reigns! Church will establish His Kingdom to the end of the earth with authority. ROYAL PRIESTHOOD The mysterious power of God’s messengership will be manifested in the world, and the world will shake, as Egypt did in the time of departure of the children of Israel. God said to Moses: “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet” (Ex. 7:1) Messengership is a position of God’s dominating power over any earthly power. God had made Moses God over Pharaoh, that’s why all his empire wavered. Who saw Moses saw God, who heard Moses heard God. When a person fulfills His assignments, God identifies Himself with the person, to invade, to break the old obsolete bases and to establish the New Order, that’s exactly what happened in Egypt. When God sent prophet Jeremiah, He said to him the same things: “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant” (Jer. 1:10). The real messengership from God has always been a threat for the existing regimes and systems, and the proof of their downfall and perdition. Before entrusting somebody with the mission of messengership, God will always show the levels of authority. See! You are not a mere member of a church, one of the ten in your city, a Christian suffering in the nets of the corrupt mafia system. No, let this position be taken by the ungodly, let them clank their chains, because they are from beneath. I have set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, because you are from above – here is the position of God’s dominating power over any earthly power. For what purpose? To root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down; it means to break the old pagan order. To build and to plant; it means to establish a New Devine Order in these nations and kingdoms – the salvation in the name of Jesus, the principles of the Gospel moral and righteousness. The transformation of the world is God’s cherished dream that is now becoming the strategic program of the church. The Great Commission is God’s revenge, the last one and decisive in the history of humanity. God is getting the church ready now. He will enlighten the eyes of our hearts, and we will understand that we sit in the heavenly places, and not under the table of the fastidious sinful bosses. The world order will not intimidate us, because the scales will fall down from our eyes and we will see clearly, that Jesus is in fact different from the churchy one – He is the Lord of this world and King of all kings, and the Church is Royal Priesthood, that is set over the nations and kingdoms. The Revelation about Jesus will make our faith explode and there will be put an end to Christian myths. “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him… And He put all things under His feet… that in all things He may have the preeminence” (Col. 1:16,18; Eph. 1:22). If Jesus is the head of church, then His dominating position in the world is a legitimate position of church. My God, when will Christians begin to minister to rulers and kings, to preach this Jesus to them? When will the world hear the full truth about Him?! NEW WORLD ORDER In having claims on the world dominion, Jesus is by no means infringing on somebody else’s property. The world as totality of nations and states, including their congresses, parliaments, summits, councils, both developed and primitive, in no matter what part of the world, is His creation, and His property. All things were created through Him and for Him. The throne of my country, Latvia, is for Him. The thrones of the neighboring Lithuania and Estonia are for Him. The throne of Russia is for Him. The thrones of all European countries and of all the states of the world are created as the separate links of the single system – His World Rule. His claims on the crown of the World preeminence are logical and well founded: First of all, He is the One, Who has created this world. Secondly, after the Fall of man, He has redeemed it. Thirdly, God Himself has officially made Him King over it. Fourthly, He gave Him to be head over all things to the church. The transformation of the world will begin with the transformation of the Church. The New Order will come to society, but first to the Church. Church anarchy and the raging of religion will end. We will once understand, that it’s not up to the state to reform the church, but church has the power to reform society. The state will not put the church in order, but the Church will establish a New Order in society. The church will stop doing what it thinks fit. It’s not the Body that will rule the Head, but the Head will rule the Body. Church will come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Church will have the mind of Christ; will think as He does; reason as He does; act as He does; claim, overcome and dominate as He does. The 21st-century church will be the executor not of its own, but of His decrees. And in fulfilling the Mission of World Messengership, just like Him, it will stand firm as royal priesthood over the nations and kingdoms of the earth. And if the messengership of Moses shook Egypt, and the messengership of the old testament prophets made Israel, Babylon, Syria and the entire Near East shudder, there is no doubt, that the Mission of World Messengership of the Church will shake the whole earth. The former order – the system of the ancient religions – will crash down. Dagons, Baals, Artemises, Ashtarts, Moleches will fall in the presence of the glory of God. The homeland of the ancient gods will become their cemetery. The countries open for the Gospel will not be able to henceforth stay pagan. All mortality will be swallowed up by life. The Kingdom of God will swallow up all other kingdoms. Envoys will come out of Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God (Ps. 68:31). Kings will bring gifts. Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine…Over Edom I will cast My shoe; Over Philistia I will triumph (Ps. 108:8-9). Mountains shall be brought low, valleys shall be filled, the crooked places shall be made straight, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God (Luke 3:5-6). In solemn atmosphere, “the paid goods” from all the ends of the earth will be solicitously laid in the treasury of God’s Kingdom. God will ensure this at all costs. “I will be exalted among the nations” – if He said that, it means that the Great Commission is really in our power. Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all the nations shall come and worship before You (Rev. 15:4). Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed… Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominionsiv shall serve and obey Him (Dan. 7:14, 27). When the Gospel is preached to the end of the earth, Jesus will be glorified in all peoples, nations, and languages. If Jesus is glorified, it means that there are Christian principles in the basis of the ideology of the country. And if there are Christian principles in the basis of the ideology, it means that such concepts as “Christian country” and “Christian government” will become a real experience and will easily be taken not only in human mind, but also in the Chronicle of the Last Revival. The 21st-century church will fulfill the will of God: will gather the last harvest from the fields, will make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The fulfillment of the Great Commission is nothing else but foundation for Christian Geopolitical Space, in which God will establish the New World Order. Why New? Because to replace the old religions of ancient gods there will come a living faith in the new Lord Jesus Christ. Why World? Because God will get back to His Kingdom all the “paid goods”, and the experience of the national revival will be known in all the nations of the earth. Why Order? Because when the Lord reigns, it is clear to everybody, Who’s the Master
of the House. And if the Master is in the House, the heart is light and there are no
problems, because everything is really in order.
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