The Gospel message is for individual and personal salvation, per the Messiah of Israel, as the Son of God, and the individual’s acceptance of Him as such.
Salvation is ...
... that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
(Romans 10:9-10)
The “salvation of government” is not what the Messiah of Israel came to do. That is not the marching orders of the Christian.
The Messiah of Israel does set up his true and just government, though - but that is yet to come, and is during his 1,000 year reign and his one-world government.
The marching orders for a Christian is to live the truth - in every area of their life.
Satan doesn’t divide his lies into neat little categories and stay out of the political areas. He spreads his lies into the political areas where we’re told the Gospel truth can’t come. And there he ensnares people so that they can’t receive the truth about ANYTHING - including about the Word of God.
The truth has to penetrate every area of life, without boundaries saying “This is political so it’s OK to lie here, or to let lies go uncontested here.” Wherever we say God isn’t welcome, there the devil will set up a sanctuary in which he ensnares - steals, kills, and destroys.
One of those sanctuaries is abortion. How many women have been ensnared in that, so that they spend the rest of their lives either hidden behind a wall of defensiveness screaming about their “rights”, or else falling apart every time they hear a vacuum? How many women turn to coping mechanisms that lead them away from the Word and away from people who bear the Word? It’s a trap. And one of the reasons it’s so effective is because we’re told that God can’t go there; it’s a “political issue”.
Another sanctuary is a life of theft - chronic welfare with no intent to ever stop stealing from everybody else. Again, we’re told it’s political so God is supposed to stay out of it. But God said, “You shall not steal.” And people’s lives are being destroyed - their spirits becoming depraved - because of an underlying belief in “entitlement”. It keeps them from ever being thankful for the gifts they’ve been given, because they think it’s just what they deserve. The lack of accountability has destroyed whole cultures - and that DOES result in cultures that once would have leaned on the Lord now leaning on welfare instead.
When you’ve got a society where people believe that stealing is fine, murder is fine, broken families and the things that lead to broken families are fine, there’s no such thing as a lie because there’s no such thing as the truth and we all just make up our own truth as we go along, every lifestyle is fine... you’ve got people whose soil is the beaten path - so hard it can’t receive the seed that is sown.
Yes, we sow the Word everywhere we go. But when most of the people in our society are soil beaten down from crushing lies stomping on it all the time, the soil has to be worked before it can ever receive the seed. I was just pulling weeds in the garden - heavy clay soil so a LOT of weeds. I’ve been nurturing that heavy clay for 12 years, adding humus, manure, sand, coffee grounds, leaves - you name it - anything to make the soil soft, porous, and full of nutrients. People are the same way, and the more our society falls to the religious lies disguised as “politics”, the harder we have to work just to prepare the soil.
It all matters. Yes, the primary marching order is to spread the news of salvation. But we need truth in all the devil’s hidden sanctuaries too, or there will be no soil able to receive the Law and Gospel.
The strongest condemnation of Israel in the Old Testament was this: “And every man did what was right in his own sight.” When that was the condition of the society, He had no choice but to humble them, punish them, and force them to see the hard realities of life. That may be where America is at right now. But the whole idea that people are accountable to laws and not justified no matter what they do simply because they make up their own rules is an important thing. And our politicians prance around mocking that very concept.
How much of the Psalms is David lamenting how the wicked prosper? The longing for justice is in our souls, but do the people who have lived under the political lies and prancing crooks in high places really believe justice is real, or that it matters?
It all matters. We need to be people of truth in every area of our life, because the devil will go wherever we’re not willing to go, and he will ensnare people there.