Movement for Transforming the Nations

A Cry for the transformation of the nations into the kingdom of God goes up all over the world. It is a cry for righteousness, justice, and peace. How long will mankind continue to ignore the only true source of righteousness and peace? When will mankind learn that making himself God, and rejecting the authority of the true God only brings misery and diaster? Day by day we continue to see the massive corruption and greed of the few, while multitudes waste away in poverty and want.

What's behind the world wide economic meltdown? What's behind the conflict among nations? What's behind the decades of war, the massacre of millions, the war crimes, the unstable political conditions in many nations? Is it mere human greed and selfishness? Is it a struggle for power and wealth? Is it a case of the strong exploiting the weak for their own selfish interests? Is it driven by an ideology that the world is for some and not for others? Is there a cure? Can the nations of this world become a kingdom of peace, justice, and righteousness? Is a one world government and a one world religion, promoted by agents of the kingdom of darkness, bring us a better world?

This human tragedy seems to be as old as mankind itself. Let us look at the record of human history given in the Bible. Mankind originated with two human beings, Adam and Eve. They were made in the image and likeness of God, so there was no evil or sin in them. They were bearers of the righteousness of God. There was peace on earth. They had a perfect relationship with God. They had direct face to face communication with God. There was perfect harmony between the two. They were one flesh. They had joy in obeying God. This is how God wanted it to be always. Paradise! Heaven on earth!

But someone else comes on staqe, Satan - the enemy of God and of mankind; Satan, called in the Bible the liar, the deceiver, the destroyer, the murderer. He inhabits a serpent, and comes to the woman in the form of a serpent. He can do that, as all satanists know. He specializes in messing up what God does. So with a masterly piece of deception, he gets the woman, and the man to throw off God's authority; to reject God's word; to assert their independence, and sufficiency; to affirm that man is God, and beside man there is no other god. Man is a law unto himself. Mankind threw off the idea that God was the Absolute Authority. Well, that was the recipe for disaster for man, for the family, and for the nation.

Adam and Eve soon experienced the consequences of what they had done - shame, fear, broken fellowship with God; loss of eternal life; serious curses. It was soon to be seen in their family. Cain became jealous of his brother for offering to God an offering which was acceptable to God. His thought was to offer to God what He wanted, not what God wanted. God had no part in what he decided to offer. That was entirely his decision. God had no authority in the matter. Cain envied his brother who prefered to honour and fear God. Cain hated his brother. He murdered brother.

Then came a new phenomenon. God united the man and the woman whom He had made and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth." But women, again flouting God's arrangement, chose to marry demonic creatures called 'sons of God.' What do you expect to be the result when a woman marries a demon? This seemed to have been so widespread that the whole world was affected, just as the whole world is affected by the economic melt down.

Look at the kind of world that resulted from the marriage of women with satanic beings! 'God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually...The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them...I will destroy them with the earth.' That sounds like our world today. There are women today all over the world, who marry Satan, or Satan marries them. That is probably the most powerful means of corrupting the world. Of course there are men who sell themselves out to Satan also. Children, are dedicated to Satan. So what do you expect? Look at the manifold ways in which the mightiest and the wealthiest nations of the world flout the authority of Almighty God! God laughs at them! Judgement has come upon them.

One more reference. Abraham had two sons. The first, Ishmael, was not the 'son of promise.' It was not God's idea. It was Sarah's and Abraham's idea. For them, God was taking too long to fulfill His promise, so they took matters into their own hands, and Abraham had a son by his Egyptian servant girl. An angel of the Lord appeared to Hagar and told her what kind of man he would be. 'he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand will be against him...' Thirteen years later Abraham had his second son, Isaac, the son of promise through whom God's promise would be fulfilled. What do you expect when we doubt God's word, and when we take it upon ourselves to fulfill God's promise in our own way, and as we think it should be done.

The major conflicts of the world, political, religious, economic, and racial have their origin in the nature of man as a fallen creature. Fallen man, perceiving himself as God or as a god; fallen man, too proud to accept his humanity; fallen man, rejecting all absolute authority in the spiritual and the moral realm; fallen man, driven by greed for money and for power; fallen man, an easy prey of the devil's bait, is himself responsible for the calamities in his individual life, in families, in communities and nations.

However, the devil sought the company of Adam and Eve uninvited. Moreso today, because mankind has lost the authority and power to rule over, to have dominion, and to subdue creation. We know from the Scriptures that Satan makes it his business to stand behind those in positions of authority to influence their decisions and movements. It is not a light matter that Christians are called upon in Scripture, to pray for those in authority. It is a very serious obligation, considering what the powers are that we have to fight against. We know too that Satan has his agents all over the world dedicated to affecting families, parents, children, and churches. We know he has his own churches, his own altars, his thrones and seats of power. He is organized worldwide, and he is organized in the heavens to steal, kill, and destroy.

But God has not finished with His creation. He has not left his creation to be a prey to Satan. His purpose is to establish His kingdom on the earth. That purpose will be fulfilled. No devil can prevent that. The nations of this world will be transformed and become the kingdom of God and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. So, we are taught to pray, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Let us acknowledge that there are many who have no place for God, and the things of God, in their minds. What is said here will not appeal to them. There are those who doubt the reality of God and the possibility of man's relationship with God. There are those who have no room for Satan or the devil in their thinking. There are those who believe in God, but it is just a matter of convenience. Many of them are easy prey for the devil. They should ask Satan's devotees some questions. I believe the devil is glad when people do not believe that he is real.

The nations of this world will be transformed and become the kingdom of God.