I don’t have any problem in being a good citizen and participating fully in our Constitutional Republic. I say to everyone, take part in your civic responsibility and do what one should do as a citizen. That part is perfectly fine with me. It’s actually more than just fine, I figure it’s really mandatory as a citizen.
What I am not going to do, though, is connect up the Gospel message of Salvation with any particular party, with any government, with any piece of legislation, with any President, with the US Constitution, with the Declaration of Independence or anything of a political nature.
In fact, when the one-world government of the Messiah of Israel is set up by him (in the near future) with him ruling and reigning over all the nations of the world — every one of the Bill of Rights will be CANCELED and the entire US Constitution will be null and void! And the Messiah of Israel’s one-world government will be 100 times better than our Constitutional Republic. Our Constitutional Republic, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are absolute trash, when compared to the righteous and perfect government of the Messiah of Israel.
But, that’s not really an issue for us now, because right now we have been given by the Founding Fathers the best secular and man-made government that we could possibly have. And that’s the reality that we live in right now.
So we do our duty as responsible citizens for what we have in a secular government. But we don’t mix up the Gospel message of Salvation offered to each person individually with anything with the present secular government that we have. If one does that, or attempts to do that, with the salvation message for mankind, it corrupts what is perfect and holy with the profane and secular of a man-made government.
And just so it’s clear from this other angle, too ... I’m all for including in a man-made government the long-standing principles and traditions of Western Judeo-Christian society, from which we’ve arrived at this present point in time after hundreds of years. But, in no way, shape or manner does God or the Bible mandate a particular kind or form of government or a kind of political party we should have or participate in.
This government is NOT mandated by God and God is not saying that you should have “this or that” in a political party or in a Constitution. You only have individuals who are Christian who may carry forth some of their principles of life (which they may have personally carried forth from their personal faith), into the public sphere by way of conscience and personal motivation.
In the end God will TOTALLY DESTROY this present form of government as EVIL and as OF THE DEVIL, and replace it and all the other governments in the world with his perfect, righteous and holy governmental THEOCRACY, ruled by the Messiah of Israel with a “rod of iron”!
I don’t believe I am mixing political and governmental things in with salvation, as if to be saved you have to have this form of government, belong to this party, etc.
What I’ve said is that we need to be truthful in all areas of life - including in “politics” - and that will nurture a people able to receive the Law and the Gospel.
I don’t believe we’ll ever have perfect government until Heaven, when sin and the sinful nature is finally destroyed. That goes into different ways of interpreting Revelation - amillennialism - and I have no interest in arguing about it. The only way we’re going to know for sure which interpretation is right is when it’s all over. Either way the admonition is to remain faithful to the end, knowing that God wins.