Quick Reflection

Sitting and listening to the Gospel lesson last Sunday this quote jumped out at me as never before:

Luke 4: 5-7 Then the devil led [Jesus] up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”[Emphasis added.]

All the kingdoms of the world have been given over to the devil. Think about that for a moment and it will call into question any attempt to make any "kingdom" (read: nation, government, etc.) into a realm of God. One way to see that is that any government will by nature be involved in things that are not of God.

A look at any nation's history would probably prove that point.