It is not our place to “make a country ‘great’”. Yes, we can do everything we can to ameliorate the effects of the Fall in caring for the welfare of the people and legislating (insofar as that is possible) against the proliferation of evil. But setting up a mass movement with silly caps and slogans and vast rallies, and all the pride and boastfulness about one’s nation which goes with all that, and the jingoistic partisanship, and the virtual hatred of those who do not join, or those who are regarded as cultural enemies, is nothing but idolatry. The word “patriotism” comes originally from the Greek, pateros, and Latin, pater, meaning father, as if a country can be our “fatherland” (a distinctly Nazi idea). There is only one who is great, that is the Father over us all, who is God and not a country.

Trying to make a country “great” is also a complete waste of time and energy because it is actually impossible to make any country in this fallen world “great”. It is only “great” in the mendacious mouths of politicians who have their own double-faced agendas. This world is at its heart corrupt and unjust and run by very wealthy materialistic rogues, liars, grifters, deceivers, and narcissists who think that this world is the ‘be-all and end-all’ and that they are unaccountable to anyone, human or Divine.

While there may be occasional bits of respite here and there, the degradation will always return with a vengeance. There is no greatness of any nation ahead but deterioration. Neither is there any “golden age” or “global revival”. That is all ‘pie in the sky’ peddled by either secular or religious deluded mountebanks. Everything is set to go from bad to worse — via “apostasy” and a “multiplication of lawlessness” (2 Thessalonians 2:3; Matthew 24:12), leading to the revealing of the Antichrist — on an escalating scale until it reaches its hideous climax, which will only be brought to an end by the return of the Christ, who will destroy this world and create a new one…. a genuinely GREAT one, without the taint of sin and selfulness.

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