Kingdom Come

“God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16)

At this stage in the process of spreading this news throughout the world, the only leadership with the biblical literacy to understand YHVH’s Savior’s fulfillment of millennia of prophetic scripture were the Jews. The problem, as documented in the apostolic record – and history –  is that the “chosen people” were also highly bigoted.

Enter the “chosen vessel unto me”.  Just one human being is all YHVH needs to get his work done, because HE is the power within that material being, however small.

“to bear my name before [first in order of importance] the Gentiles, and [their] kings, and [last in order of his calling] the children of Israel” (Acts 9:15)

The penultimate academic Pharisee Paul was uniquely qualified to discern the world-wide aspect of Melchizedek, and, probably just as importantly, was born with a personality marked by the strong independent streak needed to stand against peer pressure.

“when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but

1. I went into Arabia
   1. standard MO of beginning ministry by isolating with God like Moses and Jesus
2.  and returned again unto Damascus

a major Gentile capitol and commercial city located on the north–south trade route connecting Egypt with Asia Minor, and the east–west cross-desert route connecting the Mediterranean with the Euphrates river valley.

one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.^[8] First settled in the 3rd millennium BC,

a Gentile city where Jews and Gentiles commonly associated] . Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.” (Galatians 1:15-20)

“Then came he / Paul to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple named Timotheus, the son of a…Jewess [which made him Jewish regardless of paternity] his father was a Greek. Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

This establishes that what we call “Christianity” was at that time what we call Messianic Judaism.

 

And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.” (Acts 16:1-5)

This did not make these churches / assemblies Jewish, it just establishes that the leaders of the churches were Jewish.

“God hath not cast away his people….in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God…this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:” (Romans 11:1-2, Hebrews 8:10, Galatians 6:15-16)

 

Even the “republican” rulers of Rome had reverted to the old ways of becoming sons of the god Apollo. Any converts to the God of Israel could no longer bow down to or serve other gods or their designated drivers like Caesar.

…it was until quite recently fashionable among political scientists to believe that the religious factor had ceased to have much impact at all—whether in the direction of conflict or consensus—on the contemporary politics of the western democracies…If religion itself had not dissolved away in the cold light of Reason, as Enlightenment thinkers had once expected, it was surely much more marginal for the modern European with an essentially secular and materialist approach to life and politics. After 1945 in particular, the political agenda seemed to revolve almost entirely around the humdrum business of ‘who gets what, when, how’…

In the 1960’s, however…a number of studies…showed that not only had religion…been of prime importance in the foundation of the European party systems in the late nineteenth century…but that the effects of this impact had been extended into the most recent period…religious divisions, not class, are the main social basis for parties in the Western world today.’

And in 2026 President Donald J. Trump is the Godfather of America. Trump’s operating model is not, as some maintain, the foreign autocrat—even if he curries favor and sings the praises of Putin and Orban and Erdogan, and cozies up to Middle Eastern potentates…Trump the president is shaped by…his father, Fred Trump, For many years father and son were partners who mastered the byways and back alleys of real estate at a time when, as two of the period’s best reporters wrote, New York was a “city for sale.” It was a brutish world of transactional power, of patronage, favors, cronyism, bribes, payoffs, pork, and spoils—as well as extortion, intimidation, and threat. It was a world ruled by Mob capos…what we’re told time and again must never be normalized—has, in fact, a long history in American politics,..

The question we should be asking is not why this president thinks he can do this, but why so many people outside of New York City—voters numbering in the tens of millions—seem to agree…The great majority of the MAGA millions want what most of us do, a shot at the American dream, which they feel Trump’s policies might help them realize…Trump grasps the latent potential of those other ordinary people, most of them young men, members of the “manosphere,” who can be mobilized into a force. He tapped into this in the days and months leading up to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. And upon taking office he pardoned more than 1,500 of them. They form one faction. He has also signed an executive order intended to allow the American military to perform police functions and granting police immunity from prosecution. He has enlisted law firms to promise to do pro bono work defending cops against accusations of strong-arm behavior.

“God hath not cast away his people….in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God…this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:” (Romans 11:1-2, Hebrews 8:10, Galatians 6:15-16)

Even the “republican” rulers of Rome had reverted to the old ways of becoming sons of the god Apollo. Any converts to the God of Israel could no longer bow down to or serve other gods or their designated drivers like Caesar.

…it was until quite recently fashionable among political scientists to believe that the religious factor had ceased to have much impact at all—whether in the direction of conflict or consensus—on the contemporary politics of the western democracies…If religion itself had not dissolved away in the cold light of Reason, as Enlightenment thinkers had once expected, it was surely much more marginal for the modern European with an essentially secular and materialist approach to life and politics. After 1945 in particular, the political agenda seemed to revolve almost entirely around the humdrum business of ‘who gets what, when, how’…

In the 1960’s, however…a number of studies…showed that not only had religion…been of prime importance in the foundation of the European party systems in the late nineteenth century…but that the effects of this impact had been extended into the most recent period…religious divisions, not class, are the main social basis for parties in the Western world today.’

And in 2026 President Donald J. Trump is the Godfather of America. Trump’s operating model is not, as some maintain, the foreign autocrat—even if he curries favor and sings the praises of Putin and Orban and Erdogan, and cozies up to Middle Eastern potentates…Trump the president is shaped by…his father, Fred Trump, For many years father and son were partners who mastered the byways and back alleys of real estate at a time when, as two of the period’s best reporters wrote, New York was a “city for sale.” It was a brutish world of transactional power, of patronage, favors, cronyism, bribes, payoffs, pork, and spoils—as well as extortion, intimidation, and threat. It was a world ruled by Mob capos…what we’re told time and again must never be normalized—has, in fact, a long history in American politics,..

The question we should be asking is not why this president thinks he can do this, but why so many people outside of New York City—voters numbering in the tens of millions—seem to agree…The great majority of the MAGA millions want what most of us do, a shot at the American dream, which they feel Trump’s policies might help them realize…Trump grasps the latent potential of those other ordinary people, most of them young men, members of the “manosphere,” who can be mobilized into a force. He tapped into this in the days and months leading up to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. And upon taking office he pardoned more than 1,500 of them. They form one faction. He has also signed an executive order intended to allow the American military to perform police functions and granting police immunity from prosecution. He has enlisted law firms to promise to do pro bono work defending cops against accusations of strong-arm behavior.