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.
Okay ... that’s fine in terms of the government and not mixing it up with salvation.
I’ll only say this one idea, in passing, about prophetic events (things to come, according to God’s Word).
Can you imagine this concept ... let’s say I write a series of letters to you but I write them thinking to myself that you’ll never understand what I mean in what I’m trying to get across to you until you are dead and in the afterlife. Wouldn’t that be an absolutely crazy way of thinking about me writing letters to you?
OR ... let’s say that you are the one, who in receiving these letters from me, are thinking to yourself that you’ll never be able to understand them, no matter what you do and that it’s something you’ll only know after you die. Wouldn’t that be an absolutely ludicrous way of thinking?
Can you even imagine what this kind of concept would do in terms of contracts and contract law? You would tell the judge that ... “You can’t expect me or anyone else to ever understand or know for sure what this contract means until after we’re dead, can you?”
Better yet, it would be sorta like the Democrats saying that you won’t know what the piece of legislation is about until you pass it! ... LOL ...
LIKEWISE ... can you imagine a person telling God, as the supreme and perfect and all-powerful being, the Almighty God of the Bible, that he does not have the ability to have his word given to us and have us understand it UNTIL we are dead and have passed on to the afterlife, after which time “it will have happened” - and only then will we understand what God was trying to tell us!
Isn’t that a GREAT INSULT to the Almighty God and Supreme being of the universe, that although he has the capability to speak worlds into existence out of mere words spoken by him and out of absolutely nothing before — that — he’s a bit DEFICIENT in the “language category” and unfortunately we won’t be able to really understand what he was trying so hard to let us know “until it has already happened!
I don’t believe we should be INSULTING our Creator God of the universe and tell him he can’t write good enough for us to understand him!