Time for some clarifications.
The Covenant of Moses ended at the Cross. God’s covenant relations with humans were moved to a different kind of covenant, a spiritual covenant under His Son. There would no longer be a nation belonging to God while all the other nations were parceled out to the Divine Council. God was taking His “nation” from among all the world, robbing the elohim who had misled them. Instead, the Devil and his allies have all human nations (minus the Elect).
There was no doubt in anybody’s mind that allegiance to Christ was a rejection of human national identity. Jesus flatly stated to Pilate that His Kingdom was not of this world, but Rome clearly understood that any of their subjects following Christ no longer gave their highest loyalty to Rome. Christians did not deny this, as if to blunt the fury of Rome, but affirmed it openly. Roman soldiers called to Christ typically ceased wearing their military headgear as a symbolic gesture that they belonged first and foremost to Christ. They would continue serving and executing Roman justice, but only as if they were on loan from the higher authority of Christ.
Caesar was not god.
At the same time, Christians knew that God would not destroy Rome for a long time to come. It appeared to be a universal conviction, spoken by the Holy Spirit, that there was nothing they could do about Roman persecution aside from hiding or fleeing as they felt led.
Today we have the US government, pretending to leave your conscience free to follow Christ. The statements of our government claim not to seize the throne of God, only of men. However, in practice there is little distinction in what the US demands in practice versus ancient Rome. More to the point here, various political agendas and ideologies most certainly do assert themselves as deities for ultimate faith and loyalty.
In particular is secular leftism. In all its forms — Marxist, communist, socialist, woke, etc. — it proclaims there is no God, and humans under its care can have no other loyalty on any level. They take the same approach as Rome did: the state is your god. Unlike Rome, the Holy Spirit has not universally decreed to our convictions that there is nothing we can do about a leftist government here in the US. Rome had God’s permit for a time; a leftist government in the US has no such permit.
Christians should feel free to resist a leftist government in the US. There will no doubt be consequences to follow any such resistance, but the principle is there. Follow your convictions. While the gullible point to Romans 13, they forget to read the second half of that chapter, which clearly states that our first duty is to the Law of Christ to love our covenant brothers and sisters — that kind of love “is the fulfillment of (human) law”. We also play along with the bogus demands of secular governments regarding material things (taxes, revenue, respect and honor) on a human level. There is no divinity in human government. We must not yield to demands that transgress Christ’s Law for us.
We have in the US a broad tent of ideology what we call “globalism” that represents a flat and honest rejection of Christ as our Lord by simply rejecting the existence of any spiritual realm. They use the rhetoric of faith, but only when it suits their agenda. The leaders of this beast regard themselves as demigods, and clearly reject any higher loyalties.
Under Trump, we are given the impression that their time has passed. Let me assure you, the mid-term elections will show otherwise. They are resurgent mostly under the label of Democratic Socialists, and with the support of Antifa. Trump has so far been unwilling to do what it takes to crush them, though he talks a good game. There is no doubt he will make some progress, but I’m convinced he will waffle too much and only encourage them.
I don’t fear their resurgence where I live. Whole portions of the US are simply too dead set against them. I doubt my personal resolve will be tested much. However, I think many will be quite surprised at where they pop up in the coming year or so across the US. I fully expect them to challenge, not just Trump, but the entire range of conservative-leaning Americans. I believe the threat is very real that they will institute wholly intolerable policies wherever they can. Life will become very hard under their bootheels.
People can see this, and many are predicting a civil war. I find it wholly likely. We will have some economic troubles, but the real problem will be with the chaos of government infighting. I suspect that this conflict will give rise to a Zionist fascism unseen anywhere before.
We’ve said it before: The US is not Rome. There are overlapping features, but God has already decreed that the US must fall. He alone knows His timeline for that, but there’s no doubt about the moral truth behind events on the ground. Neither the globalists nor the nascent fascists will be granted a divine commission to rule for any significant length of time. Test your own convictions; I’m convinced that God will not give any prophetic warnings regarding these events, only the general warnings any of the Elect should sense in their own souls.
I suggest you worry less about defending property and any imaginary rights, and focus on fighting for the authority to confess your convictions and live accordingly. Consider in advance where you might draw the lines, but be flexible in context. For myself, I know already that I will reject any medical injections or procedures that reflect an intent to rewrite DNA, for example, like the COVID shots and any of the new therapies based on the same mRNA technology. I would resist to the point of killing people who tried to force it on me.
I would also take up arms against genuflecting before the Israeli flag and all that represents. Taxes and so forth are not the issue; I won’t offer incense to Caesar’s bust, if you will. I’m sure there are other spiritual insults I’d resist with force, but I can’t predict what they might be. What I do know for certain is that testing will come, and it will be accompanied by social and political chaos, along with a fair amount of economic distress. Crime and disorder will rise substantially; that’s already happening.
This is only the beginning of sorrows.
