Putting politics into perspective in our Godless and Postmodern era

 

Many of us long for deliverance from a political class which has come to owe its allegiance not to the nation it governs but rather to unelected extranational interests. We see unelected global players such as NATO, the WHO, the WEF in Davos, the World Bank, the UN and EU, and other multinational conglomerates which are both indebted to and controlled by these extranational interests dictating to us how we ought to govern ourselves. We are also witnessing government constantly pandering to ideologies so bizarre and foreign to us that we must conclude that they are antithetical to our very way of life. Inevitably we may come to feel disassociated from a system of government which no longer resembles representative democracy under parliamentary oversite. Here in Canada the executive branch of government now deliberately hinders and impedes the work of parliament while undermining the Rule of Law and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

So, we must ask, who or what can deliver us from such powerful international forces since our own elected leaders not only have not stopped this erosion of our national sovereignty and representative democracy but have actively cooperated with its demise? I often talk about the Grand Narrative and look to the history of how that narrative has played out in the past. The Jews thought that Christ had come to deliver them from Roman rule. Their own king was a mere puppet leader, a Quisling if you will, whose real loyalty was to Rome. The Jewish Sanhedrin, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees had failed to defend the actual Spirit of the Torah and the Talmud. The people of Israel were in desperate need of a deliverer. But they weren’t willing to change their carnal ways for God to deliver them and so they were given over to tyranny. All tyranny is the result of our own moral failures, mine, and yours.

From https://www.gotquestions.org/Jews-reject-Jesus.html

“Why do most Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah?

ANSWER:

The Jews rejected Jesus because He failed, in their eyes, to do what they expected their Messiah to do—destroy evil and all their enemies and establish an eternal kingdom with Israel as the preeminent nation in the world. The prophecies in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 describe a suffering Messiah who would be persecuted and killed, but the Jews chose to focus instead on those prophecies that discuss His glorious victories, not His crucifixion.

The commentaries in the Talmud, written before the onset of Christianity, clearly discuss the Messianic prophecies of Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 and puzzle over how these would be fulfilled with the glorious setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah. After the church used these prophecies to prove the claims of Christ, the Jews took the position that the prophecies did not refer to the Messiah, but to Israel or some other person.

The Jews believed that the Messiah, the prophet which Moses spoke about, would come and deliver them from Roman bondage and set up a kingdom where they would be the rulers. Two of the disciples, James and John, even asked to sit at Jesus’ right and left in His kingdom when He came into His glory. The people of Jerusalem also thought He would deliver them. They shouted praises to God for the mighty works they had seen Jesus do and called out, “Hosanna, save us,” when He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey (Matthew 21:9). They treated Him like a conquering king. Then, when He allowed Himself to be arrested, tried, and crucified on a cursed cross, the people stopped believing that He was the promised prophet. They rejected their Messiah (Matthew 27:22).

Note that Paul tells the church that the spiritual blindness of Israel is a “mystery” that had not previously been revealed (Romans chapters 9–11). For thousands of years, Israel had been the one nation that looked to God while the Gentile nations generally rejected the light and chose to live in spiritual darkness. Israel and her inspired prophets revealed monotheism—one God who was personally interested in mankind’s destiny of heaven or hell, the path to salvation, the written Word with the Ten Commandments. Yet Israel rejected her prophesied Messiah, and the promises of the kingdom of heaven were postponed. A veil of spiritual blindness fell upon the eyes of the Jews, who previously were the most spiritually discerning people. As Paul explained, this hardening on the part of Israel led to the blessing of the Gentiles who would believe in Jesus and accept Him as Lord and Savior.”

So, if we long for deliverance in our hour of need we must first look to ourselves. We need to understand that hoping that elections will solve our moral, spiritual, and philosophical crisis without confronting our own failings is to do as the Jews did in the time of Christ. They rejected their Messiah because they thought He would put an end to Roman rule without them dealing first with their own failures to live as they were commanded by God. If we are to put an end to this globalist takedown of the West, we must first repent and turn away from our own sin before we will ever see the Kingdom of God here on earth. And that is a word of warning I know few will receive and many will laugh at. So be it, I write these things knowing that my words are not winning friends or influencing people, rather I write them because they are true.

And, to add clarity, I have stated these things not because I am a paragon of virtue but because I am equally guilty and therefore must look to myself to ensure that I am living rightly in an age driven mad by Postmodern relativism where nothing is deemed to be true.