In our lives whenever we strive in faithfulness and obedience to God to be good, the devil is there to deceive and destroy.
Our loving God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – blessed Trinity has been so gracious to us in history:
Exodus 19.3-6
3 “… This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:
4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ …”
Unfaithfulness and disobedience followed while Moses was with God on Sinai:
Exodus 32.3-4
“3… the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
As a result:
Exodus 32.25
“Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control …”
The people could have been in the Promised Land in three months, but as Psalm 95 teaches God’s decision:
Psalm 95.10-11
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.”
11 So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”
This confirms:
Deuteronomy 1.35-38
35 “Not a man of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your forefathers,
36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.”
37 Because of you the Lord became angry with me also and said, “You shall not enter it, either.
38 But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it.
The wilderness was a form of “captivity”. Are our Covenant Nations entering into a different kind of wilderness and “captivity” – “captivity” through unfaithfulness and disobedience? Are Covenant Nations going astray, losing control – forgetting our promises to Almighty God?
Jesus said:
Matthew 7.15-21
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
Are we in our Covenant Nations forgetting our Christian heritage? Moving into a new dark age or darker age worse than the “dark age” Mr Churchill overcame 1939-1945?
The Prophet Isaiah recorded c701BC words that our Lord Jesus quoted:
Mark 4.11-12
11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
12 so that, ” ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!’ “
Are our values and attitudes changing? The Apostle Paul reminds us that history is repeating itself. He quotes from Psalms 14 and 53 and Ecclesiastes 7:
Romans 3.10-12
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
In the sight of Almighty God are Covenant Nations becoming “worthless”?
The Editorial [1] wonderfully defines the disastrous situation which needs to be repeated for emphasis focusing on spiritual and physical failure:
The truth is that a great spiritual struggle is raging for control of the destiny or the Kingdom of God “in our midst”.
Concerning the above quote, we know the “struggle” is real, however, the church needs to get real. This warning from Jesus to the Church at Ephesus:
Revelation 2.4-5
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.
5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Through the strength and power of the Holy Spirit Covenant Nations need to heed God’s call – be holy.
Scripture encourages:
1 Peter 5.6-9
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
Satan has been defeated:
Revelation 5.5-6
5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the centre of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven-fold Spirit of God sent out into all the earth.
Also from the Editorial:
The Prime Minister said that restoring the status quo after the pandemic “isn’t good enough” and that instead the crisis should be used as an opportunity to reshape the country. He promised to create the economic conditions for free enterprise to flourish and lead the country’s recovery ….
The true “recovery” has to be a spiritual recovery. Acknowledge the Lord’s continual call – be holy.
Leviticus 11.44
I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.
Holiness is the key in every aspect of life. Samuel knew:
1 Samuel 2.30
“Therefore the Lord , the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and your father’s house would minister before me forever.’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.”
Almighty God blessed the Covenant Nations after the total evil 1939-1945. But from 1958 ‘till today evil has returned as the Editorial highlights:
It Is our sovereign domestic law that must prevail – as Lord Keen of Elie, the Advocate General for Scotland, ably stated in a House of Lords discussion on 10 September in the face of an evident inspired “unclean” spiritual onslaught by pro-EU legal Lords.
Over the centuries Almighty God has blessed our Covenant Nations. The above Editorial quote is true. The events 1958 – today should not have happened. Remember how we were blessed from the Seven Days of Prayer throughout the Empire.
The Editorial is true about problems of – mixing ourselves and our laws and culture with other nations and pagan supranational organisations like the European Union and the United Nations Organisation. If the same process of undermining our nations integrity had taken place four and five hundred years ago, as has been conducted in the past seventy years, Western civilization would never have emerged to save the world from oppression, disease and manifold destructions.
The Lord does require Israel of the covenant nations to remain separated for service, while at the same time leading and teaching, this in order to preserve their calling and destiny as a servant people.
In the wonderful Editorial quote above, we note the word “separated” – “Covenant Nations to remain separated for service.” Where would we be without Mr Churchill and the Covenant Nations’ service 1939 – 1945? Brexit has to happen fully with trade to those whose service was there under Almighty God to execute His glorious deliverance over total evil. How people forget. How our young people do not even know!
To the word above – “separated” – this word is part of the Hebrew definition of the word “holy” – Hebrew “qadash”. This means to make, pronounce, consecrate, dedicate sacred to sanctify.
To cut-off or separate from sin or anything unclean spiritual or physical – meaning “to be holy”. It is to do with knowing the Holy Spirit’s leading and strength to be faithful and obedient to our Saviour our Lord Jesus to whom we have to give an account. He has protected us over the centuries. We walk in the footsteps of the faithful of the House of Israel in whom we will be grafted. (Exodus 19.5-6; Romans 11.25-26).
In our Covenant Nations we have people from other cultures as the Editorial has mentioned – people who will not assimilate and who demand change because they feel discriminated against – people who have come for a better way of life. They reject our sovereignty and support the alleged “civilus defendus”. [2] As Covenant Nations we are thankful for Jesus’ blessings and future hope for:
1 Corinthians 2.6-10
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” –
10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
Remember our Politicians have sworn allegiance to the Queen and in Her Coronation the Monarch promised to be subject to the Power and Empire of Christ.
Remember God’s love, care, compassion and salvation for now and eternity.
Remember God’s blessings.
Remember God’s call – be holy.
[1] The Covenant Nations Vol 5 No 4, 2020 p5
[2] https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/4-stages-of-islamic-conquest/