National suicide is not compassion.

In my previous posts, I covered the Lord’s commandment through Paul that we pray first and foremost for all those in authority (1 Timothy 2:1-3), that it is God who establishes nations and their boundaries (Job 12:23, Isaiah 9:3, Acts 17:26) and that it is the spirit of antichrist (anti prefix in Greek meaning “against” or “in place of”) that seeks to dissolve those boundaries He has appointed.

“It is for the king to ensure justice, and the saint to ensure charity,” said G. K. Chesterton famously. In other words, the role of the government is to uphold civil law. The role of the church is to administer Christ’s benevolence. Over the last century, government has usurped the role of the church and offered handouts – not because it has any inherent godliness, but because it seeks power over the one receiving its “benefits.” In the last couple decades, governments around the world have taken this to a new extreme, abdicating their role to uphold lawfulness altogether and offering the money of hard-working citizens to criminal vagrants. This is heavily due to the spirit of lawlessness at work through globalists in the United Nations and WEF and their corrupt influence over national and even regional and local authorities.

Even God-fearing Christians are greatly confused about their own role and the government’s in this matter, and as a result, cannot think about this in a single-minded manner. Thus they cannot pray effectively.

The “maybe-they’ll-come-here-and-get-saved” fallacy

“[Human] love begins to be a demon the moment he begins to be a god.” So stated C. S. Lewis in The Four Loves. This theme of pity, or compassion, being a virtue until it is used to manipulate, is seen also in The Great Divorce.

Compassion is virtuous until it becomes weaponized.

Remember how the church was incessantly chided to “love your neighbor”* in 2020? This meant following arbitrary edicts that were based neither in science nor law. Have any of those same scolders talked of love for our neighbors in the context of ensuring they’re not killed, assaulted, robbed, or sold drugs to by criminal non-citizens, or that they can afford their housing or use their taxed money for their own benefits? Not one church in my area that proselytized the loudest on behalf of the government-WHO-WEF-Wuhan collusion of 2020 has addressed the children being trafficked into nightmare situations while our own government plays the middleman in the deal.

“Maybe they’ll come to our country and get saved,” offers the Christian hopefully as the cartels usher more military-aged men through our borders. Maybe a robber will get saved as he’s robbing the bank. But on the other hand, a more rational scenario is that he’ll shoot the clerk and possibly the patrons and make off with other people’s money.

Why can’t Christians pray with authority and single-mindedness that all illegal and illicit activity ceases, instead of harboring vague fantasies that those who have no respect for boundaries and law are going to make good disciples of Christ?

I believe the answer lies in the sincere compassion of Christians, combined with a lack of understanding about the end-game the globalists have in mind.  There is furthermore an unwillingness to believe in the face of all the rhetoric we’ve heard that multiculturalism – while lovely in the church when its focus is Christ – actually weakens societies and encourages government tyranny according to historians and sociologists.

The wavering conviction is also due to a naive but deadly ignorance that the rest of the world thinks alike and holds fast to the same basic principles.

Moreover, the term “refugee” has been heavily misapplied to include mercenaries that burn their papers en route to their country of choice and/or are actually carrying out a caliphate.

The church has struggled for the last fifty years to keep its own kids following Christ. How without power and conviction of the Holy Spirit do we expect to win and disciple those who come with a worldview that is radically different – and dangerous – to Judeo-Christian values?

A friend of mine who has worked with so-called Christian NGOs that get their money via refugee aid has shared some sobering insights, both concerning the organizations and those whom they’re aiding. When we discussed this “maybe they’ll all get saved” rationale put forth by otherwise discerning people in the church, my friend said,  “I think it is a coping mechanism. We’ve been given no choice in this issue, nor do we know how to pray into it effectively.”

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, there was an instant awareness in the U.S. that the nation was under attack.  But because the nature of this present invasion is much more insidious, and because the globalists/collectivists have used resentment politics to divide citizens since the 1960s, we are much less aware of the terrible danger we are in, and we are in a diminished state to face it in unity.

What if my nation is under God’s judgment?

How do I pray for my nation in light of its terrible sins? What if fentanyl and trafficking and the invasion of my country by military aged men who walk and carry themselves like trained soldiers is the will of God?

I’ve heard more than one preacher in my own country say that we are under the judgment of God. One pastor said years ago that because of the blood of the innocents shed through abortion, and the church’s widespread indifference, the Lord is allowing foreigners to bring us to ruin.

After weighing such claims, my thoughts are this:

1) If it is true that this is the Lord requiring national recompense, then like David I cry to “let us fall into His hands, for His mercy is great, but let us not fall into the hands [or schemes] of man” (2 Samuel 24:14).

2) Along with that prayer, I have wrestled before the Lord in that what does it profit my nation if ultimately, Hell comes to earth in the form of tyranny and terror and drug cartels and the suppression of the gospel through socialism in these last days? We are commanded to pray the Lord’s prayer, and that earth looks ever more like Heaven, not Hades. Therefore again, while chastisement might be severe, I can imagine many judgments of God that might be severe, but ultimately get people’s attention, rather than land people toward destruction and hell.

3) Finally, while the mark of the beast is often referenced in these last days, scripture also talks of a mark being put on those who fear the Lord and grieve over the desolation of their land (Ezekiel 9:4, Revelation 7:3). “It is remarkable, too, that the word in Ezekiel rendered ‘mark’ is the name of the Hebrew letter tau, of which the ancient form was a cross” (Pulpit Commentary, biblehub.com).

We can pray that the Lord’s own are singled out for protection from the judgments, and for wisdom of what to do and where to go (or not go). I often pray for unsaved friends and family not only that the veil will be removed from their hearts, but that the Lord keeps them from being in places where harm might come to them.

Any lingering doubts

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.  For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;  he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways” (James 1:5-8, ESV).

The devil’s noise in this hour calls every one who has God-given love for their nation a nationalist or an extremist or a racist or a fill-in-the-blank-phobe. Where there’s news coverage of the injustices perpetrated on citizens by their own governments via globalist-funded mass migration, one can count on some harpy in the comment section justifying the atrocities because “this was once done to indigenous people.”

This is the case all over the world in this hour. It is not by accident, but heavily contrived by the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2).

Note: since human history began, every people group has been exiled or conquered or enslaved at some point from native lands. Kingdoms rise and fall. It is a historical fact, welcome or not. In scripture, more often than not, one of the judgments of God was to allow a nation to be conquered by another because of moral abominations that His holiness could not tolerate. This happened not only through God’s people, but also to His people.

Fervently stand in the gap for your nation

This writing series has been an SOS for national prayer, no matter where in the world you are reading this. The biblical reality that God cares for and indeed ordains nations and their boundaries has gone unheeded by too many. Tyrants today are seeking world dominion just as they did in previous decades; sadly, we have been too distracted or confused in our mindsets to address this.

I pray you are encouraged and strengthened to intercede for God’s purpose and glory and liberty to come to your own nation in a new way.

*” ‘Love your neighbor’ is the Second Commandment. The First Commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength. When one has the second commandment without the first, the result is not godly love, but humanism.” (Jake Kail).