The Failure Of Human Government

The West is no longer democratic. Covid-19 pandemic has murdered democracy in the West. In the end time political scenario, there will be nothing like democracy. All regimes all over the world will degenerate into dictatorship. China is way ahead of the rest of the world in playing the Big Brother to its citizens. The ultimate form of democracy, and indeed any other form of human government is dictatorship. In the final end time political scenario, dictatorship and state control of the masses and media will prevail all over the Globe. The Covid-19 pandemic has provided a spring board for dictatorship, autocracy and state control of the citizenry to ascend to supremacy – totalitarianism.

My dear brother and friend Rev. Dr. Aloja Airewele has written:

“The sham that is democracy was revealed in Germany over eight decades ago. Free market economy, socialism and the American so called Bill of rights are man made ideas with built in assured lifespan. The Bill Of Rights is the best that mortal man at his best could offer his fellow man. As communism was exposed to be the hollow, godless ideology it was, so has democracy, a pagan idea from Greece and fueled by the liberal idea of man’s ability to determine his own fate do not stem from the Torah or the Kingdom of God. (God is not a democrat, not even a benign dictator, but the benevolent Sovereign). Disappointed? No. Expected? Yes. Why is the Messiah and the Kingdom He will usher in not only our best hope, but our only hope? Exactly that all the wisdom and craftiness of mere mortals will fail. That’s why as we preach, God has chosen the weak, foolish things to confound the power and wisdom of man.

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”(1 Cor.1:27 KJV).

What does the Psalmist say? Israel, trust in the Lord- the only Sovereign. “O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.”(Psalms 115:9 KJV).”

What is happening in the UK, US, Canada and Israel spells doom for democracy. Unelected officials now have more authority than the British Paliament and the Israeli Knesset. Matt Hancock, the UK Health Minister now decides who boards a plane into UK and who deplanes at Heathrow and Gatwick. Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci are virtually taking decisions concerning health both for the US, UN and WHO. The rights of citizens are brushed aside, trampled under foot and they are told to simply and unquestioningly obey instructions. Is that democracy? I think it is time we stop viewing the West through a democratic lens. Those who continue to do so will be hopelessly disappointed as also those who see the West as the bastion of Judeo-Christian values, mores and orthodoxy. The West is now postchristian and postdemocratic.

Even if there happens to be war as some envisage, I don’t see Russia and China and Iran defeating the West. Since they are all nuclear powers, and afraid of one another, some sort of deterrence will be upheld. If one is being mauled by the other, in the event of conventional war, the one being mauled might invoke doomsday weapons. Since none of them want a state of MAD(Mutually Assured Destruction), some sort of settlement has to be reached with the big powers essentially retaining their boundaries and territorial waters.

Based on my study of eschatology, what I forsee rather is the breakup of the Russian Federation. Meshech and Tuval which will come out of the Russian Federation will unite with Magog(Western Europe) to form the three power base coalition of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan. Will this be achieved through war? I don’t know. It may be a peaceful breakup as did the former Soviet Union after seven decades of lies. (With three words, perestroika, glasnost, and democrati God dismantled the former Soviet Union). The Scriptures do not explicitly or implicitly state how. The most important fact is that these events will occur as the Scriptures foretold. The exact time and how we may not be sure. One thing is very sure though, those of us alive then will look back at some point in the future and exclaim: “it happened exactly as the Scriptures foretold.”

The antiMessiah who will be the most powerful ruler in human history(Rev.13:4) will be of magogite descent. Magog is the ruler of the West and its head is Gog of the land of Magog who also is the head of Meshech and Tuval(Ezek.38:1-6).

There are Russian politicians who want better relations with NATO. The Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has other ideas. Essentially that Russia will not play second fiddle nor subordinate itself to any other world power. He will not rule nor live for ever. His regime will soon be over. No condition is permanent. The only thing that is constant is change. Everything else is in a state of flux. Generations(Regimes) come and generations(regimes) go, but the Earth forever stands(Eccl.1:4).

China itself has regional enemies like Japan, India, the Philippines, South Korea, etc with which they have controversy over boundary and territorial rights in the South China Sea.

And Iran which is Tiras in the Table Of Nations in Gen.10 and Persia in Ezekiel 38 and Daniel 7 will eventually unite with the West. Why do I say that? Because it will be part of the Eighth And Final Beast Empire of Satan(Ezek.381-6). The Iranian people want peace with the West, but the Islamic regime in Tehran is something else. They will not be in power for ever. Like the oppressive reign of the Iranian monarch Mohammed Reza Palhavi, their tenure will also expire.

What is happening in the West is really disgraceful. But it is all part of the outworking of the end time scenario. The political terrain is anything but permanent. Everything is fluid and in a state of flux. Things will keep changing until the man of lawlessness brokers a 7-year peace treaty between Israel and its Arab and Islamic neighbors marking the commencement of the 70th week of Daniel(Rev.6:1,2; Matt.24:4,5) and finally takes his seat in the Temple of God in Jerusalem at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel displaying himself as being God and demanding worship of all mortals(Isa.28:14-18; Dan.9:27; 2 Thess.2:3,4). Thus will commence the utmost horrific persecution of believers, Jews, and anyone else who repudiates the authority of the antiChrist and refuses to worship the Dragon-Beast, known as the Great Tribulation(Dan.12:1; Matt.24:21).

Avraham Shallom.