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Political Threats Today Provide Religious Opportunities

To the eyes of Christians in PNG today the political threats existing in PNG as a normal matter in life and becoming victims to minimise current issues. While to me, it’s proving a great opportunity to make a stand for Jesus, having hope in the heavenly government and its newly kingdom which God of heaven is going to establish after the reigning of all the earthly kings. According to the ancient times in the Biblical history, Egypt, Assyria and Babylon were struggling for supremacy during 6th century BC. They were struggling for political powers to rule the world. Egypt under Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt challenged the rise of the Babylonian empire to power Nebuchadnezzar ii Nabopolassar’s son successfully met that challenge at the Battle of Carchemish (605 BC) and Babylon replaced Assyria as the world empire, 2 Chronicles 36. During the reign of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the Great, Judah was under captivity. God of heaven has given king Nebuchadnezzar the dream about the world’s political powers to rule the world one kingdom and king after another. The king had the dream but few times later he had forgotten the dream, so king invited the young wise man from Judah, Daniel the prophet to tell and interpreter the forgotten dream. The God of heaven made known the dream to Daniel and dream was certain, Daniel 2:31-35. The great image, whose brightness was excellent, image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Then, till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Daniel 2:36-35, KJV, the interpretation of king’s dream. God showed king that his kingdom was of gold but would not reign forever, there would going to be another kingdom  to conquer Babylon. Surely the Babylon was defeated by Medes and Persia in 539 BC, in 331 BC Mede and Persia was defeated by Greece with Alexandrea the Great. In 168 BC Greece was defeated by Roman Empire and Rome reign from 168 BC to 476 AD until its term expired. From the history regarding the great image, the world’s powerful kingdom, the great Babylon fell according to prophecy by Daniel the prophet, as well as other four kingdoms. Now we are living unto 21th century AD, we are at the feet of the great image. “And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” Daniel 2:42, 43, KJV. Note that through the reigning of those kings and empires, the political threats became the religious issue, where the politic was criminalizing the religion. Today same thing is happening, where the government of PNG has got its independent from Australian government since 1975, making its own rule of law to govern the country. But unto these days, Parliament is liberalising PNG’s constitution instead of legalism. Without knowing that house of Parliament has got KJV original Bible on the table, places right in the middle of the PNG’s emblems. It is sort of curse if we don’t use it properly and so as blessing if it is used wisely, Deuteronomy 30:19. The parliament session usually opens with a word prayer follows by Lord’s Prayer. During the session the Parliamentarians never pay such a respect to Bible and even constitution, they start to illegalise all lot of things. This type of reaction is also found in the reign of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 5. He had a great feast in his palace and invited all political leaders to participate in the banquet. “Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.” Daniel 5:2, KJV. And he used those holy vessels from God’s house for political realms, this is sort of a great murky to the Most High. In Such reaction God becomes furious; “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.” Daniel 5:30. God used Medians and Persians as anointed One, Isaiah 45:1, to remove Great Babylon. Probably it seems that Papua New Guinea’s politicians started criminalizing the religion for instance. In times like these, God of heaven is going to establish His everlasting kingdom in which Jesus will be the King and his people will be prince and princes forever, Rev.21:21-26. So Christians right across the country, be informed that the political threats existing provide a wide gape for the Christianity to make a stand for Jesus, make disciples of all nation for Jesus. To give invitations of Jesus in the scriptures to His people, in these times of political and religious crisis that they may make right choice to be the royal citizen of God’s everlasting kingdom. Because the kingdom of today is fallen; “And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” Rev.18:2, KJV.