I personally believe that powers and principalities beyond man are currently at work, and the redemption of Christians in this age will not come as the result of our militaristic overthrow of the many heads of the beast. I firmly believe this new world order will have its reckoning, but not before things become tragically difficult for the believers of the world.
This is a very important insight. Just as Christ came, not to overthrow Rome, but to redeem man, so too in this age must our focus be on staying true to the faith, not compromising on all that it entails. Of course we should resist, insofar as our ability allows, any evils perpetrated by this "neo-Babylon", but we must not view our inability to totally defeat neo-Babylon as a cause for despair, for we must retain the theological virtue of hope - a true belief and expectation that neo-Babylon will have its fall, and it will be Christ, ultimately, Who brings it about, and only by staying true to Christ can we survive its collapse.
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