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Secular Power is Presently Authorized by God to rule on Earth, But It is a Punishment from God.

Presently, God has authorized secular power to rule the world; Upon the Apocalypse, Jesus will Rule.

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Steven Merten

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Ezra 5:12
But because our fathers provoked the wrath of the God of heaven, he delivered them into the power of the Chaldean, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who destroyed this house and led the people captive to Babylon.

Jeremiah 27:4
Tell your masters: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: It was I who made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power, with my outstretched arm; and I can give them to whomever I think fit. Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; even the beasts of the field I have given him for his use. All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his land, too, shall come. Then it in turn shall serve great nations and mighty kings. Meanwhile, if any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, or will not bend its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and pestilence, says the LORD, until I give them into his hand.
God was King and Ruler over Israel from the Exodus till the, Fall of Israel, in 587 B.C. Because of the massive sins of Israel, God ripped the, House of Judah, out of the Promised Land, Relinquished His Kingship over Israel, and put secular power as king and ruler over Israel. The house of Judah was exiled to Babylon in 587 B.C., and the House of Israel was exiled to Assyria in 722 B.C.. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Israel's new ruler, was just as ruthless as Adolph Hitler and Stalin.

The Big Promise from God, is that, Israel will be Restored! Jesus is Israel’s Messiah Who will Restore the Kingdom to Israel. Upon Jesus’ Ascension into heaven, Jesus tells His Apostles that He will Return to Rule on Earth (Thy Kingdom Come), and as of Jesus Ascension, He is not yet King and Ruler over Israel and the world. Jesus will Rule on Earth, with and through His Church, the Catholic Church, upon victory at our future Battle of Armageddon. The big event of Apocalyptic scriptures, is Jesus' future Second Coming, where He takes over as King and Ruler of the World. Hallelujah!

Acts of the Apostles 1:6
When they had gathered together they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He answered them, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.

Matthew 6:9 The Lord's Prayer
"This is how you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven ...//... Subject us not to trial but
deliver us from the evil one.'
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled

Acts of the Apostles 26:17
I shall deliver you from this people and from the Gentiles to whom I send you, to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God,
Daniel is God’s great Prophet who becomes, secular power, king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon’s, Jewish counselor to the king, as Israel enters into exile in Babylon. King Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2, is prophecy from God, about Jesus Return to Rule over Israel and the world. Secular power will be smashed to pieces and blown to dust by Jesus, when Jesus (Second Coming) Comes to Rule the world.

Daniel 2:31
'In your vision, O king, you saw a statue, very large and exceedingly bright, terrifying in appearance as it stood before you. The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs bronze, the legs iron, its feet partly iron and partly tile. While you looked at the statue, a stone which was hewn from a mountain without a hand being put to it, struck its iron and tile feet, breaking them in pieces. The iron, tile, bronze, silver, and gold all crumbled at once, fine as the chaff on the threshing floor in summer, and the wind blew them away without leaving a trace. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Luke 20:17
'The stone which the builders rejected has become the keystone of the structure'? The man who falls on that stone will be smashed to pieces, It will make dust of anyone on whom it falls."
This was the dream; the interpretation we shall also give in the king's presence. You, O king, are the king of kings; to you the God of heaven has given dominion and strength, power and glory; men, wild beasts, and birds of the air, wherever they may dwell, he has handed over to you, making you ruler over them all; you are the head of gold. Another kingdom shall take your place, inferior to yours, then a third kingdom, of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth. There shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; it shall break in pieces and subdue all these others, just as iron breaks in pieces and crushes everything else. The feet and toes you saw, partly of potter's tile and partly of iron, mean that it shall be a divided kingdom, but yet have some of the hardness of iron. As you saw the iron mixed with clay tile, and the toes partly iron and partly tile, the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. The iron mixed with clay tile means that they shall seal their alliances by intermarriage, but they shall not stay united, any more than iron mixes with clay. In the lifetime of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed or delivered up to another people; rather, it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and put an end to them, and it shall stand forever. That is the meaning of the stone you saw hewn from the mountain without a hand being put to it, which broke in pieces the tile, iron, bronze, silver, and gold. The great God has revealed to the king what shall be in the future; this is exactly what you dreamed, and its meaning is sure.

Daniel 7:11
I watched, then, from the first of the arrogant words which the horn spoke, until the beast was slain and its body thrown into the fire to be burnt up. The other beasts, which also lost their dominion, were granted a prolongation of life for a time and a season. As the visions during the night continued, I saw One like a son of man coming, on the clouds of heaven; When he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him, He received dominion, glory, and kingship; nations and peoples of every language serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away, his kingship shall not be destroyed.

Revelation 22:16
"It is I, Jesus, who have sent my angel to give you this testimony about the churches. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star shining bright."

Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdom of the world now belongs to our Lord and to his Anointed, and he will reign forever and ever'.
 
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