We don’t have a place in this world.

As a Christian, we are sojourners on this planet because this is not our final eternal home. A new earth and a new heaven await us.

This is why I find Christian Nationalism so confusing. Why are we fighting for this country? Why do we assume that this country was founded by Christians? It was what we were taught, in schools and in church. The people who wrote the Constitution were Christians.

I’m not going to go in-depth into Jefferson, Washington, Madison and other founding fathers except to say that they were believers in Enlightenment philosophy and denied the supernatural events that happened in the Bible. And they were Freemasons, so there’s that.

The Puritans tried to establish a theocracy when they founded Boston in 1630. But it didn’t work. It didn’t work in England and it didn’t in New England. If God was truly behind the church establishing the Kingdom of Christ before His second coming then these settlements and governing bodies would have had long lasting success. But the success barely made it to the second generation.

As an aside, I find it ironic that the 1,000 year reign mentioned in Revelation 20 is supposed to be symbolic, not to be understood literally, but Christ’s statement “you are a city on a hill” is understood to be literal and be put into practice. But I do not believe Christ meant that statement to be literal. It is a metaphor in that a Christ-lead life means that one’s life will be obvious to anyone who comes in contact with a Christian.

Our place is not in this world. It is in the future. Christ will reign for a thousand years and rule over the nations, from Jerusalem. And then He will crush them under his feet. And then all the saints will be gathered to watch the absolute destruction of this current earth and heaven and we will rejoice as we watch God create a new one.

Why are we trying to save this one? We are meant to create disciples, not create kingdoms.