Why in the world do wars repeat themselves? Why do we continuously as humans trudge down the path of our ancestor's. On the Individual, family political, societal and world level, events over centuries play out such as an old videotape that is passed down generation from generation.How is humanity going to stop this train on its continuous path of destruction?
We discussed in other articles how humankind chose a different path from the beginning than God's path. We are not living in the the ideal world of God which is the ideal of world peace.
Even though God created human beings, we received our fallen nature or characteristics from God's enemy fallen Lucifer. Satan knew that God's Will for man was for us to have a world of peace, so Satan created a world similar to God's ideal world. As a result, human history formed a world that is not principled and mimics God's ideal world based on false unity.
We see from this that in the providential course of restoration, false ideals present themselves in the form of truth before the Messiah returns. The Bible verses prophesying the appearance of the false Christ before the coming of the true one can be elucidated only by such a principle.
Satan Copies God's Ideal World
Why do societies such as communism seem to bring about unity among the people, albeit forced?
Before God restores the Kingdom of heaven on earth, there will be a pseudo form of the ideal world, centering on Satan; this is the world of communism. To communist, Stalin, Lenin and Hitler were their saviour and lord, their fuhrer. This is satan's ideal world.
The society first formed by fallen men was a primitive society. This was a society in which men fulfilled each other's needs, centering on Satan not God. If there were no struggles and divisions of good and evil in such a society of Satan, it would continue forever, and God's providence of restoration would never be realized.
Every fallen man has two minds in conflict; the evil mind and their original mind. This conflict within the mind appeared in men's actions, and would create conflicts between individuals. Therefore, the primitive collective society could not maintain peace.
Moreover, as the collective developed into a society where people differed in financial interests, then this struggle grew to a greater scale. The original mind in each man pushed them toward God's providence of restoration, thus division and struggle developed from the early days of primitive society centering on Satan. In other words, the division and wars came about due to the internal struggle between the evil mind and the original mind.
The primitive society grew into the clan society, and the clan society grew into feudal society. Feudal society finally expanded its territory and sovereignty to form a monarchic society. This is because God intended to call good individuals out of the sinful world and establish a clan society of goodness centering on them. Next, forming a good feudal society which would finally become the kingdom of goodness with its territory and sovereignty of goodness able to receive the Messiah.
Satan, knowing this in advance, copied God's ideal world.
God called Abraham out of such a sinful world to be the center of goodness. By having him multiply offspring with the capacity of serving God's will, He established the Israelite clan society. Later, the descendants of Abraham went into Egypt and developed there from a clan to a tribe. After their return to Canaan, they formed a period of judges, and the society centering on the Judges was the Israelite feudal society.
Why then do we call it a feudal society?
The primary characteristics of a feudal society are,
1. The political system has a relationship of master/servant with the servant obeying the master.
2. Its economic system of self-supply within the territory of the blockade. The period of Judges was such a society where each Israelite tribe was allocated Canaan land. These tribes centered on the Judge who was a feudal lord. Feudal society people were to obey the ideology and leadership of the feudal lord with absolute submission.
Consequently, the significance of the clan society's having developed into feudal society was to prevent Satanic invasion by taking Satan's possession back to the heavenly side and forming greater territory belonging to divine sovereignty.
Satan knew this was God's plan to bring World Peace, so he formed a Satanic feudal society in advance.
God intended to establish the Israelite monarchic society under this providence, so Satan attempted to prevent God's providence by forming a monarchic society, centering on himself - outside of God's realm.
Therefore, we see that before the period of the United Kingdom, the kingdom of Egypt erected its first dynasty on the side of Satan more than twenty centuries before Christ; this kingdom lasted for 30 dynasties. The ancient kingdom of Babylon had already unified the whole of Mesopotamia at the time of King Hammurabi in the 18th century B. C.; and the kingdom of the Hittites became the greatest power in the East centering on Syria in the 14th century B.C.
Thus in the Satanic world, according to the original mind of man relating to God's providence, a kingdom higher in standard of goodness fought evil kingdoms constantly, resulting in the separation of good and evil.
Therefore, if King Solomon had at that time served God's will to the end, he could have unified all the Eastern countries by showing his excellent political abilities, after having absorbed the three great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete (Minoan). Furthermore, he could have formed a worldwide territory enabling the Messianic ideal to be realized. This means the Messiah could return on this foundation earlier than our time.
However, due to the fall of King Solomon, God had to work His providence of tearing down this monarchic society and find another central figure.
Thus, the kings of the period of the United Kingdom failed to provide the foundation of faith on which to restore God's sovereignty. Therefore, God finally divided the kingdom into those of North and South. God let the Northern kingdom be destroyed by the Gentile nation of Assyria.
The Southern kingdom of Judah served God's will. Then they began to rebel against God and left no way to work for God's providence of restoring the world, God allowed this kingdom to fall into the hands of the New Babylon.
Democratic Society Repeats History
When you see history repeat itself where powerful territories fail to follow God's mission, then you know that America itself, even though it is prosperous, once it leaves the ideal of God's realm, it also leaves his protection. This means that it is possible that America, if it does not fulfill God's will as a Christian nation, may be left open to mountainous terrorist attacks worse than 9/11 - this is called World War III.
God provided a society of a democratic type (around his elect) so that later, if the Jewish people should receive the Messiah upon his coming, he might become their king, according to the will of the people. However, since the will of the Jewish people was to crucify Jesus instead of enthroning him, the purpose of God's 2,000-year providence of restoration, which He intended to realize centering on Abraham's lineal descendants, was fulfilled only spiritually. Also, this is why the Jewish people and their land for 1, 000 of years were left open for attack.
The Providence of Restoration and European History
The Roman Empire, which had persecuted Christianity, finally surrendered
before the crucified Jesus at the end of the 4th century and decreed
Christianity as its national religion. However, if in the beginning the Jewish people had become one in faith and service to Jesus as the Messiah, the ancient united world on the Mediterranean Sea, centering on the Roman Empire, would have been moved and inspired by Jesus in his lifetime. This would answer why it was prophesied that Jesus would be king - it was meant to be substantial not in spirit only. Then they would have erected a kingdom centering on Jerusalem, exalting Jesus as their king.
However, due to the Israelites not believing in Jesus as the Messiah, the Jewish nation was destroyed, and the Roman Empire, which was to be the foundation for the kingdom of the Messiah, began to decline until in 476 Western Rome was destroyed by Odoacer. Thus, God's providence of restoration was shifted from Judea, to West Europe, which was the territory of Western Rome.
Christianity restored the providence on a spiritual level after Jesus was crucified giving only spiritual salvation. This was accomplished with Western Europe as the basis.
Therefore, the providence of restoring the world of this age developed only in Western Europe. Then, Christian history centering on Western Europe became the central source of the providential age.
Religion and Science Should Unite
Religion and science naturally have not harmonized. God first created man's external physical body and then his internal spirit, therefore as God restores the providence, he must go from the external to the internal. Science pursues the benefit of the physical world and explain its attributes. So, it is only evident that religion and science would struggle with one another.
Also, the religion and the economy cannot develop freely without forming the same unity. These two have divided missions to restore the internal and external lives of fallen men.
Like the relationship that should form with religion and science, religion and economy have conflicted each other in some aspects, they have formed respective histories of Christianity and economy by relationships with our social life.
This is especially evident in Western Europe, which was strongly Christianized. Politics in Western Europe should have harmonized through social life, the economic development following the radical development of science and the movement of Christianity, which had not yet been able to take any clear direction in the providence of restoration.
Therefore, the political history of Western Europe headed for a new direction. Consequently, in order to grasp accurately the historical development for the providence of restoration, we must study separately the political history also. As an example, let us study the course of development of the history of Western Europe toward the end of the 17th century.
Seen from the history of religion, Christian democratic society was already
formed in this period. With the collapse of the spiritual kingdom under the
pope's absolute authority, which took place due to the Religious Reformation in
1517 led by Martin Luther, medieval men were liberated from the life of faith, and their subjection
to the pope, and everyone could lead the life of faith freely, centering on the
Bible. However, politically, this period saw the rise of the absolute monarchic society, while seen from the aspect of the history of economy, the feudal society existed under the system of the manor. Thus the society in this period was a democratic society in the aspect of religion, a monarchic society in the aspect of politics, and a feudal society in the aspect of economy.
So in order to grasp the character of this age form the viewpoint of the providence of restoration, we must consider their courses of development separately.
Then, we must know why the historical development in the period of the providence of restoration (the Old Testament Age) had not undergone such a process.
The Israelites of the Old Testament Age, when their mode of life was the same for all, led a simple life under a social system of the master-servant relationship in which they had to obey the strict law at the command of their leader. Therefore, their religious life was, actually, their social life. Accordingly, in this period, religion, politics, and economy could not enjoy separate development.
Socialism
It is only too natural for the satanic world, which is headed toward a communistic society, to advocate socialism. This is because Satan, knowing God's process of restoring man to the heavenly side, copies God's ideal in advance by going toward the socialistic system of economy which tries to bring equalization through force.
God's ideal of creation is that each man's original value must be equal between any two individuals. Consequently, God intends to give everyone an equal environment and equal conditions of life, just as human parents would to their children. Therefore, production, distribution, and consumption must have the same organic relationship with one another as that between the stomach, heart and lungs of the human body.
So there should not be any competition over the market because of excessive production, nor any accumulation or excessive consumption which would bring obstruction to the purpose of the life of the whole, due to unfair distribution.
There must be a necessary and sufficient amount of production, distribution in fair and proper quantities, and reasonable consumption for the general purpose, just as in the liver of the human body there should be an appropriate reserve for the smooth operation of the entire body.
Man, having been created with such an ideal, cannot help demanding such a socialistic system of life since he quite naturally searches for his original nature or original mind which is connected to God. Therefore, there will ultimately have to come a socialistic society centering on God from the Democratic state.
We can find a socialistic idea even in ancient Christian society, while the ideal of "Utopia" by Thomas More of England in the 16th Century was also socialistic ideal. The ideology based on Owen's humanism in the period of the industrial revolution of England was also as such.
Together with the Catholic socialism and Protestant socialism, brought about by the Christian idea of Kingsley of England, all of these must be regarded as coming from the natural expression of man's original nature, which is headed for the ideal of creation.
Foundation For the Second Coming
How, then, will these expressions be able to provide the foundation for the ideal of the Second Advent in which they unite with one another?
We have also clarified above that the development of history has been made in three divisions because religion and science, which were to overcome man's spiritual and physical ignorance, were not unified as one theme.
Accordingly, in order that history may be concluded into one focal point in which to realize one ideal, the new truth must manifest itself, which can solve the historical problems of religion and science.
The period to prepare for Jesus was 400 years from Moses time. Likewise, the preparation for the
The preparation period for the Second Advent of the Messiah is the 400-year period from the Religious Reformation. The 400-year period that sets the foundation for the Messiah ended during World War I in 1918. That means, this is the time period for the return of the Messiah.
Seen from the viewpoint of the providence of restoration, this era is divided into three periods: the period of religious reformation, the period of struggle between religion and ideology, and the period of maturity for politics, economy, and ideology.
Then there will come a political society in which all mankind, having been unified into the heart and bosom of God through the Messiah's new truth, will realize the ideal of creation on the economic foundation centering on God's ideal World of Peace.
As you see history from looking at the providential will of God, the reasons behind the rise and fall of power is for one purpose, to found a people that can receive the Messiah. History seemingly repeats itself because when God prepares a nation and people to set a foundation for the Messiah and they fail, He allows that foundation to crumble and chooses another nation and people.
Also, we can see God's desperate attempt to bring a Jesus-like figure beginning with Cain and Abel through their respective offerings. History repeats itself based on the responsibility of the chosen people and nation which the providential dispensation rests. History continues and will continue in this way until the Second Coming and ushers in God's ideal world. That time is now.
Return for tomorrow's post: Why Hell on Earth, Not Peace on Earth?
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