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  • Political Systems of the Kingdom of God

    Government Systems

    Democracy is the best possible government system ever created by man. Why? Because when bad is voted into power, they will not rule forever. However, evil finds a way to maintain its rulership perpetually over the people. Of course, spiritual ordinances override physical procedures. That means if the people are being ruled spiritually by an evil force, they will continue to be ruled by evil although they keep voting for a new person every election year.

    All the same, it’s the best possible system humans could come up with.  In a monarchy, an evil person as a king needs to be overthrown. If he isn’t, evil will rule throughout his lifetime. With democracy, however, evil as a person can be voted out, but evil as a system cannot be rooted out using votes. This is because evil as a system will always present two evils for the people to choose their lesser evil. Mind you, the tree of death has two main options; a Godless good option and an evil option. That’s why it is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, whether you choose that kind of good like Eve did, or blatantly choose evil, you have chosen death.

    The political system of God is called theocracy. Theocracy is just a theological word; Jesus called this rulership the Kingdom of God. I named this write-up the Political System of the Kingdom of God for lack of better ways of phrasing it. If you remember the prophecy given to Daniel, the devil and evil men (as also prophesied in Psalm 2), have collaborated to establish various evil political systems; Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. Their precedence is Babel and Egypt. In these 6 main political systems of evil that ruled their known world, we saw how evil quickly spread to affect most people.

    These 6 are not my focus; I would have talked about their main manipulation strategies on the hearts of men. Babylon the Great is the encapsulation of all the political systems of evil the devil has ever established, and they are making great waves this last days. However, just like in Daniel’s vision, a stone came and hit the statue and collapsed all these kingdoms. The stone grew into a mountain, the mountain of the Lord. There is a way God rules in the affairs of men, and the system He has put in place for the kingdoms of this world to eventually become the kingdom of our God. Evil will not prevail forever. None of the systems of evil are eternal. God has only used this as an avenue for us to behold and be amazed by His eternality and glory. Revelation 17:17 says so.

    How Elections are Made

    In God’s system, He is the determiner of all, including good. This is His Kingdom, therefore His Righteousness rules. The Righteousness of God in expression is His way of being and doing right. He is the determiner of what is good and right (that means nothing is good in itself. It is only good because God declares it so). His election of anyone are predestined according to His purposes. The offices in this Kingdom are eternal. That means when you are elected by God into an office, you rule with Him forever. You were not voted in so you cannot be voted out.

    What do you do to be elected by God? His elections rest on His Grace and Mercy. There is nothing you can do to deserve that. However, once you are elected, you ought to live worthy of your calling and walk in the good works predestined for you. To shame the wisdom of the world, God elects those who are the most undeserved. There are 24 elders who rule with God among the angels. The “24 elders of men” are the 12 sons of Jacob and the 12 apostles. None of these men did anything to deserve their election. However, anyone God calls ought to live according to God’s expectations and be found faithful, so that God is justified in choosing them.

    If you don’t understand, remember when James and John came to ask Jesus that they want to sit on the right and left of Jesus in the place of honour? They were called by the Father to sit with Him. However, to be chosen by the Father, they had to be prepared by the Father. It takes grace to be called but you need to be tested in order to be chosen. This is why many are called but few are chosen; because many of the called are not found blameless and faithful after being tested. God’s choice of you must be both gracious and just.

    How Ruling is Done

    In the system of the world, the leaders lord over the people. In the pyramid of rulership, those at the top are served. However, it is the opposite in the Kingdom. It is an upside down Kingdom to the world but in essence, it is the right side up Kingdom. A leader is a servant in the Kingdom. The highest amongst us is the meekest. The way up is going down, for anyone who lifts himself up will be brought down. Believe me, Jesus took His time to teach His disciples this.

    We are called to servant-leadership. We are not kings who are served. We are kings that serve. We don’t lose our servitude when we become kings or friends of God. Who was the leader after Jesus ascended? Wrong, it’s not Peter. It was the 12. How can 12 people rule together? Because there is one Lord. Peter did not count himself as better or higher than the rest of the apostles, although he was the most outspoken. In Acts 8:14, the 12 could choose to send Peter and he went.

    Jesus is the first person to use the word “apostles” in Scriptures. He “borrowed” this secular word at the time which meant a king sending his troops on a specific mission; colonizing a territory and transforming it to be just like the territory they had been sent from. We are cultural catalysts, transforming conformed people. We are the light of the world, helping to translate people from darkness into His marvelous light. We are a peculiar people, a holy nation. We are not affected; we affect. We are the Kingdom of God on mobile feet, having been given all authority and power. Until the average Christian understands this, they will live life as victims instead of victors.

    Can An Elect be Replaced?

    Can an elect be replaced in this Kingdom? If you are not bearing fruit, the vinedresser has every right to cut your branch off. If God asks a man to do something, it is a privilege. If the man does it, how wonderful. If the man doesn’t, how terrible. God used Moses to rescue the people out of Egypt but God, throughout Scriptures, kept saying He is the one who rescued them. If God could do it without Moses, why did wait for Moses for 40 years to be prepared? It’s not that He needed Moses; He just wanted Moses to partake in His purposes. What if Moses never went? Remember Mordecai’s advice; Moses will be destroyed but the people of God will still be rescued from Egypt.

    If you are in a position where God is using you, don’t ever think you have attained sovereignty. Never think God cannot do without you. Who are you? God’s ultimate Will still stands, regardless of whether we fail Him or abort our God-given mission. No man or devil has the power to stop God from establishing His Will. You are the only person who can do what God has called you to do. He is not willing to replace you in any way. However, if you try to stop Him or fail Him, you only take yourself out. In the establishment of the Will of God, God doesn’t need you. You need God.

    Prophets, Kings and Priests

    In the Old Testament, we see the government of God in these 3 areas. The king acted like the executive body of government while the priests handled the legislative hand. The prophet, who updated the Bible on God’s judgements, was like the judiciary. I’m only making these comparisons for understanding sake. In reality, prophets, kings and priests went far beyond the executive, legislature and judiciary. In the times of the Judges, judges like Eli and Samuel were all 3 at the same time, making them models of New Testament realities.

    How were kings established? By the hand of a prophet and a priest. In some cases like Samuel, he was both prophet and priest. However, it took Prophet Nathan and Zadok the priest to anoint Solomon as king. How were priests established? By bloodline. A priest had to be of the lineage of Levi, and his clan predetermined what faction of priest he would be. That means being a priest was for a lifetime, and you serviced the altar until you died. A king had the power to unmake someone a priest. The prophets were handpicked by God, and another prophet could choose someone as a prophet when commanded by God.

    In the New Testament, we are all called to be kings and priests unto God. There are 5 offices, who are gifts to the body of Christ, to help mature the body into a full and complete stature of Christ; apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. Not all believers are called to minister to the body via these offices but we are all called to maturity as kings and priests. This fivefold, like Christ, are servant-leaders. Before we can manifest kingship, we ought to be first priests. We are a royal priesthood. God Himself rules from His Throne in Heaven serviced by His Altar. It is this same altar that will compel all things to come under the feet of Christ at the end of this age.

    Jesus is not a President. He is King of kings. He is the King of us who are kings and rule with Him. When He sat in the Right Hand of the Father, we sat with Him because we are One with Him. It is by operating from Heaven towards earth that we partake in establishing the Will of God on earth as it is in Heaven. This is the Kingdom of God! The system of the Kingdom of God is such that Christ, the author, made little Christ of His disciples who in turn makes disciples of the world, until all who receive Christ became Christ-like. The system is so fail-proof and sure as the Blood sets anyone who believes free from the imprisonment of the world system, the Water (of the Word) transformed the conformed and the Spirit develops such a person into the full stature of Christ.

    Next week, we will talk about the family system of God

  • 2024: the Politically-Significant Year

    The year 2024 has been a defining moment in global politics, with over 100 nations—including eight of the world’s ten most populous—holding elections. It is the year that saw the defeat of the globalist agenda. This is not a political post. This post exists to remind the church that God cares about the politics of nations and that God has His own purpose for the last days.

    Politics is God-involved

    If you read the Scriptures from a political perspective, you would see it everywhere. God established a nation Himself, setting up a constitution from beginning to end. The book of Judges is basically about political figures God released to save His people. The kings and high priests are political authorities in the government of Israel. There are also prophets like Elijah and Elisha, who are nation prophets. Prophets like Nathan and Gad are prophets who minister to the king only. “The government shall rest upon His shoulders” is a prophecy concerning Jesus. So why are we discouraged from being involved in politics?

    In these last days, God will raise the Josephs and Daniels and Mordecais. The mantle of Deborah and Esther shall fall upon our daughters. These people were born to lead in the administration of nations and have been specifically anointed to direct the affairs of their nation. If we discourage them from entering into politics, we leave the world of politics for the agents of evil. Their decisions at the top, regardless of our individual inputs, will affect everybody in the country. The politics of the world is different from the politics of the Kingdom, but that does not mean that politics itself is evil.

    A Call to Repent from the Dilemma

    To repent is to change one’s mind. Everybody, including godly people, want good things to happen in their lives but don’t expect the world to get any better. When I wrote The Paradox of Progress: Should the World Get Better or Worse?, I made mention of the fact that we expect our lives to get better but expect the world to get worse. Don’t get me wrong. The world is getting and will get worse but if that is our only conviction about the world, then we indirectly mean our lives getting better won’t have any impact on the world.

    The Last Days didn’t start yesterday. It started at Pentecost. The book of Acts is called the Acts of the Apostles, not the Acts of the Apostates. The book of Revelation is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, not the Revelation of the antichrist. Yes, evil will thrive but it won’t trample over us. Once we get this conviction, we won’t sit down for evil to rule us in the name of “that’s how it’s supposed to be because we are in the last days”. If the early church had that mindset, James and Peter would have died back-to-back in Acts 12.

    The kingdom of darkness is not the primary focus of the last days. They are the reactionary ones. God predestined a tremendous Glory like never before on the latter house. So the kingdom of darkness decided to react to that by releasing great darkness like never before in these last days. The church is proactive, not reactive. That means that the last days was first of all predestined to be a time where the Glory of God is seen like never before. Guess what, we are seeing it but we are not noticing because we keep watching the reactions of the Kingdom of darkness.

    There are several platforms across the world where miracles and testimonies are recorded and read every single day, including countless ones of people being raised from the dead. Do you want it to be written in another Bible so you know how glorious these times are? Are we taking it for granted because we expect evil to prevail? We pray to God to help us and our families and then step out only to curse the progress of our nation on a daily basis. We need to repent from this dilemma before we will see a sustainable revival in our politics.

    “Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me”. If we fear evil, it means we are clearly not convicted that God is indeed with us. “They that know their God shall be strong and do exploits”. If we lack exploits, it means we don’t know our God. This is the last days; it means there is an outpouring of the Spirit like never before. “In the last days, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh”. However, “the Spirit expressly says that in the last days, many shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits”. The best and worst will happen in the last days. Always remember, light shines the brightest in the utter darkness. The smallest beam of light can penetrate the heaviest thickness of darkness. Arise and Shine!

    Because there will be a great awakening, a great falling away makes it more substantial. Can a nation be totally captivated to God? Of course! We just haven’t explored the possibility yet. It doesn’t take eternity for God to do something eternal. “Can a nation be born in a day? But as soon as Zion travailed…” Our nation can be turned around in a day. It starts from dreaming with God to take over the nation. We usually pray for the hearts and wills of the people but it is time to take captive the politics of countries and bring it to the obedience of Christ.

    The Silent Majority

    The US elections revealed that America has not wholly embraced the LGBTQ+ agenda, the transgender movement, or the normalization of abortion. We kept seeing gays and lesbians in every film and we kept quiet. Mainstream narratives have often presented LGBTQ ideas as universally accepted, but the elections highlighted a silent majority that rejects these ideologies. For years, this majority was led to believe it was outnumbered. The minority who propagated LGBTQ+ were in high places, forcing the narrative on the public. Through media-driven narratives, public shaming, and cancel culture, anyone who spoke against them in the US was painted as backward, intolerant, and divisive.

    Christians and conservatives found themselves silenced for speaking the truth, often labeled as judgmental, hateful, or divisive. Simultaneously, movements championing LGBTQ+ rights and liberal freedoms framed themselves as voices of love, tolerance, and compassion. This rebranding suppressed opposition, creating an environment where questioning such ideologies came with the risk of severe societal consequences. The West almost forced this agenda on Africa. However, the Truth won in America in 2024. Let us see what God is doing in politics throughout the world. Most of the globalist Satanists lost their elections. God is moving; let us move with Him.

    Leadership: The Principle of Headship

    Leadership determines a nation’s moral direction. In the book of 1 and 2 Kings, there were several instances where the king turned the hearts of the people away from God. Leadership is the compass that can either guide a society toward righteousness or lead it astray. If we leave politics to the perpetrators of evil, they will endorse evil for us all according to the principles of headship. We no more want leaders who think politics has nothing to do with God, only to get elected and be influenced by evil agendas. For societal decay or sin to be normalized, two avenues are often taken by the devil;

    1. The will of the people can be manipulated toward accepting the wrong as right.


    2. Leadership can impose its will, regardless of the will of the people.


    This is why leadership matters. Without morally upright and courageous leaders, a nation’s values can be shaped by those who dominate the narrative. As Myles Munroe aptly stated, “A flock of sheep led by a lion will always defeat a pride of lions led by a sheep.” The U.S. elections highlighted this principle. A vocal minority of leaders once dictated the agenda, but the elections revealed that the silent majority still holds values that cannot be ignored.


    The lessons from these elections call for the active involvement of godly people in politics. Many godly individuals shy away from political careers, perceiving the arena as corrupt or evil. However, this is precisely why principled individuals are needed. When morally grounded leaders abstain from politics, they leave a void, allowing others to impose ideologies that do not reflect the values of the majority. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a stark reminder of the power of government. Government had the authority to close churches and criminalize worship gatherings, highlighting how leadership shapes not just economic policies but also moral and spiritual freedoms. If the wolf leads the flock, the devil directs the course of the nation.


    It is time to raise a generation of leaders—lions who will not be swayed by the tides of popular opinion but will stand as beacons of truth and righteousness. Let us rise and stand in the gap and interceed for the nations for their hearts to turn back to God. When the nations were roaring and raging in Psalm 2:1, Jesus still declared the decree of the Father; “…I will give you the nations for your inheritance…”. The nations are the LORD’s. Let’s contend for the nations. As the saying goes, “For evil to triumph, it only takes good men to do nothing.” We ought to rise and say, “not on our watch! Not in our generation!”. Will evil still exist, yes! Will it prevail? No! Period.

  • Dunning-Kruger Effect: How the Politicians Lie to the Masses

    During his dictatorship, Joseph Stalin came to one Politburo meeting with a live hen. He slowly plucked out its feathers as the hen quaked in pain, with blood oozing from its pores. He threw the animal to the ground, took some feed and began to throw it at the poor creature. The helpless hen followed him around, eating up the crumbs. Stalin exclaimed, “this is how easy it is to govern stupid people. They will follow you no matter the pain you cause them, as long as you throw them worthless treats once in a while. They will even forget that it’s you who brought them to that situation in the first place”. Bizarre! A story by an Anti-Stalinist in his biography of Stalin.

    The dunning-kruger effect states that “the less you know, the more confident you are”.

    This is one of the ways the politicians and media deceive the masses. It’s not that knowledge is directly proportional to confidence. It’s just that we blow people’s knowledge out of proportion because of their confidence. You would find Ministers in positions they have zero education and knowledge in. They would pay the media to advertise their social skills and gain the confidence of the masses. Yet, they lack the basic knowledge for the job.

    Confidence is Truth

    Why does it get us every time? Confidence is associated with truth. We tend to think that confident people speak the truth. If you had nothing to hide and someone asked you a sincere question, you would confidently give your answer. Once the answer loses enough confidence, people tend to think you are not sure of what you’re saying – which is true most of the time.

    One of the ways our brains detect if someone is speaking the truth is the emotion they express the truth in. Therefore, if you can tell a straight lie but say it with enough confidence, you can easily convince the masses. It’s the wrong use of confidence, but it works every time.

    It’s an unspoken important rule in the political arena, that if you don’t know the answer to something, just say anything with great confidence as if you know what you are talking about, and some people will believe you. Lie to the masses but believe in what you are saying so that they believe you too. We see that in their propaganda and interviews all the time.

    The dunning-kruger effect can also be seen in this way; The less the masses know about the intentions and inner workings of a political party, the more confident they are of them.

    You see this used by frontrunners of major political parties. When you’re in opposition, never go into details about how you are going to solve a problem. Intellectuals within the masses will find fault with your strategy and punch holes in it. Just make general statements. Talk more into detail about the gravity of the problem, not your solution. Every good speaker says a thousand words about the seriousness of the situation and concludes with a one-sentence solution. Simple.

    Another instance is this; if die-hard supporters of the political parties got to know that the political party offers blood sacrifices for victory, adds a percentage to the national budget for their benefit and even has their front-runners involved in the whole scandal, they will immediately lose faith in them.

    The masses like to think that the front-runners themselves (President, Vice-president etc) are not corrupt. It’s those a little below the pyramid who are squandering the money and it’s making the leaders look bad. This is far from the truth. Democracy is a bureaucratic system of running things that makes sure that the main bosses are aware of all operations – both the corrupt ones and the not-corrupt ones – and are usually the pretenders because they are directly involved in every scandal.

    Once someone has too much information about the inner workings of a party, he/she is handed a position once they are in power; Both to avoid blackmail and to shut them up from revealing too much to the public. It’s like seeing your friend discover $30 million under the carpet and before you can make noise to someone else about it, he gives you a quarter of it. Everything can be bought at a price.

    As much as possible, anyone who comes to reveal a dirty lie to the masses must not have credibility. They should look paranoid. Thus, the masses find it difficult to believe. For instance, if I went to Joy FM to say the government stole $30 million from my carpet last night, nobody really cares. Yet, it would be headline news if the President or Vice-President said it. That’s what I mean by credibility.

    Interesting, right? What’s more interesting is going through all this stress to lie to the masses. No wonder politics is now tantamount to cunningness to the layman.