“Every historian knows that it was not Gandhi who ended European colonialism,it was the USA that did so. Not just India, but practically every colony received independence after 1945, even if it hadn’t been educated yet to govern itself. Historians also know that the moral might that forced imperial Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s hand was the Atlantic Charter, announced on 14 August, 1941.”  -Vishal Mangalwadi

It seems to me that we have been drinking the Gandhi Kool-Aid for far too long.  We think that being nice is the solution to the world’s evils.  We have no understanding that the World is governed by the aggressive use of force as Rush always said.  Those instagram trips you took to those far away islands were made possible by British and then American dominance of the world.  Chances are pretty good that that island once contained cannibals.  Are you really prepared to debate that all cultures are equal?  It’s because you don’t know anything about cultures without the USA hanging over them.  You can’t go there, you have to read about it, except for that weird Andaman Island.  And we are now seeing it more and more as the lie of Mohammed, is reasserting itself, in Afghanistan and around the world.

We can see how God used Empires to shepherd his people in the Old Testament prophecy in Daniel.  He didn’t tell us what was happening, he was laying out his plan.  He used Babylon to judge his people and to set up a captivity for a future return to glory.  He use the Persian empire to reinstate his people in the land of Israel.  Then he used Greek and Roman culture to unite the world and prepare it for the easy dissemination of the Good News.

We use Romans 13 as an excuse to be lazy cowards going along with whatever we are told, despite the fact that our rulers are under law, which they are breaking.  But the real point of that verse is that God appointed governments to punish evil.  America is the shyest empire ever.  We were handed this dominance after we humbly won WWII.  But let me ask you was there less evil after we pulled out of Afghanistan?  Is there evil around the world that we could be stopping?  Why don’t we?  Because of this silly doctrine about freedom, and state autonomy?  We should know from Scripture that the only kind of slavery that really matters is slavery to sin.  All other slavery is a distant second as a concern.  We should prioritize saving people from slavery to sin.  That is what the Gospel is.  Christ is reigning, we no longer need to be subject to the savage demons of the past.  The imposition of Rome on Israel in the first century was God’s plan.  It stopped evil, after the Jews rejected their messiah a series of wars erupted culminating in 74AD in Masada.  And this is more specifically what Romans 13 is talking about.  Every Jew who rejected Jesus the Messiah, and took up arms against Rome wound up dying by the sword.  The Christians who listened to Jesus words, fled to the hills of what is now Jordan and the Church, grew from there.  But fleeing is not a one size fits all solution.

God used evil men to punish evil.  How much more when the Gospel has spread and whole nations are now operated by Christians? The statue of all those great empires is crushed by God’s Kingdom.   We have Paul’s words.  He even yelled at the Corinthians for needing to go to worldly judges to decide matters.  We have God’s word, we of all people should know how do administer justice, how to punish the evil doer.  And we have Romans 13, we know the purpose of government.  So why don’t we act like it?  Why are we all distracted about state sovereignty and quoting George Washington’s farewell address out of context?  We should be punishing evil.  But we like our evil. We don’t fight it in our own hearts, churches or communities, so why would we fight it in our country or our world? If we don’t repent and start seeing things the way scripture lays them out, we are not only going to lose our dominance of the world, but we will be harshly judged for our apostasy.