Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. (Hebrews 13:17—NIV)

The America of today is not the nation the Pilgrim fathers envisioned. What has produced the change from godliness to crime and moral filth? The answer is, the philosophy of democracy.

Antichrist is the "man of lawlessness." As people are brought further away from the concept of "the Divine right of kings" they are focusing on themselves. When people focus on themselves they are an easy prey for Satan. Since God is not on the throne of their personality, and they are not being governed by a strong ruler, they are open to invasion by Satan.

Satan always counsels people that if they will disobey God they will be happy. This is how he counseled Eve. When there is a strong government that punishes sin, people are restrained from following the counsel of Satan. They don't want to be punished!

But when there is no strong government, and people are led to believe they can govern themselves, and are able to change the leaders and the laws when they are not pleased, they are an easy mark for Satan. The first thing you know there is an abundance of sin.

Homosexual behavior is sinful, according to both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The government of America, in line with the philosophy of democracy, will not act to limit homosexual behavior. Instead it is spending a great deal of money to find a cure for AIDS.

If the government were to spend as much time and money seeking to promote abstinence outside of the family structure, it might make a considerable difference in the spread of AIDS. But the cry of anguish from large segments of our society prevents the government from pursuing this realistic solution to the problem.

This would not be the case in a strong monarchy that was concerned about an epidemic capable of destroying the kingdom.

We see, therefore, that the philosophy of democracy, the philosophy of Antichrist, while it seems to be Christian in nature, is the archenemy of true Christianity.

The Christian Gospel commands us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow the Lord Jesus along the path of suffering. Our hope is that when He returns we will enter His joy and peace.

The philosophy of Antichrist is that the individual must be in control, that his rights must be secured so nothing hinders him from a long, successful, happy, fulfilled life.

Does it seem to you, as it does to me, that these two ways of life are incompatible?

There is little evidence in the Scriptures that the Lord Jesus or His Apostles favored the idea of people governing themselves, but there is evidence that they wanted us to obey those who have the rule over us. Christianity came into being in an empire and there is not much said in the New Testament about an empire being a bad form of government, that the people ought to be governing themselves.

To be continued.