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the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk
in their statutes. You are to perform My judgments and keep My
statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God.
So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a
man may live if He does them; I am the LORD (Lev. 18:2-5).
That is the only choice: pagan law or Christian law. God specifically
forbids “pluralism.” God is not the least bit interested in
sharing world dominion with Satan. God wants us to honor
Him individually, in our families, in our churches, in our businesses,
in our cultural pursuits of every kind, and in our statutes
and judgments. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace
to any people” (Prov. 14:34). According to humanists, civilizations
just “rise” and “fall,” by some naturalistic, evolutionary
mechanism. But the Bible says that the key to the history of
civilizations is judgment. God evaluates our response to His
commands, and He answers back with curse and blessing. If a
nation obeys Him, He blesses and prospers it (Deut. 28:1-14); if
a nation disobeys Him, He curses and destroys it (Deut.
28:15-68). The history of Israel stands as a warning to all nations:
for if God did it to them, He will surely do the same to the
rest of us (Jer. 25:29).
The eschatology of dominion is not some comfortable doctrine
that the world is getting “better and better” in an abstract,
automatic sense. Nor is it a doctrine of protection against national
judgment and desolation. To the contrary, the eschatology
of dominion is a guarantee of judgment. It teaches that
world history is judgment, a series of judgments leading up to
the Final Judgment. At every moment, God is watching over
His world, assessing and evaluating our response to His Word.
He shakes the nations back and forth in the sieve of history, sifting
out the worthless chaff and blowing it away, until nothing is
left but His pure wheat. The choice before any nation is not
pluralism. The choice is obedience or destruction.
A Thousand Generations
To the Satanist, time is the great curse. As history progresses,
the forces of evil sense that their time is running out (cf.
Rev. 12:12). That is why Satan so often works by revolution: he
must get his work done now, while he has opportunity. He can-