Dispensational doomers, Pessimistic eschatology, And Dispensationalist Zionism has inflitrated Christianity and the church. Praying.

[believeinHim]

Dispensational doomers, Pessimistic eschatology, And Dispensationalist Zionism has infiltrated Christianity and the church. I am praying for a brighter future for America, Israel, Russie, The UK, England, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, The Middle East, and everywhere else to lift up their eyes to God, The One True God, And turn from their wicked ways and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Delete your Big Tech accounts, Cancel basic or cable lite, Cancel Netflix and any and all other Secular Entertainment, Turn your eyes toward THE NEW COVENANT, And Repent and Ask Forgiveness of Jesus ! In Our Loving Lord and Saviors' Beautiful Name, AMEN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[DPMartin]

21 minutes ago, believeinHim said:

Dispensational doomers, Pessimistic eschatology, And Dispensationalist Zionism has infiltrated Christianity and the church. I am praying for a brighter future for America, Israel, Russie, The UK, England, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, The Middle East, and everywhere else to lift up their eyes to God, The One True God, And turn from their wicked ways and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Delete your Big Tech accounts, Cancel basic or cable lite, Cancel Netflix and any and all other Secular Entertainment, Turn your eyes toward THE NEW COVENANT, And Repent and Ask Forgiveness of Jesus ! In Our Loving Lord and Saviors' Beautiful Name, AMEN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

was there ever a time in church history the church or churches wasn't inundated with some type of corruption and theories of men who don't know God? Walk with the Lord, He will keep you doing what you should be doing and were He wants you to be.

[AdHoc]

23 hours ago, believeinHim said:

Dispensational doomers, Pessimistic eschatology, And Dispensationalist Zionism has infiltrated Christianity and the church. I am praying for a brighter future for America, Israel, Russie, The UK, England, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, The Middle East, and everywhere else to lift up their eyes to God, The One True God, And turn from their wicked ways and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Delete your Big Tech accounts, Cancel basic or cable lite, Cancel Netflix and any and all other Secular Entertainment, Turn your eyes toward THE NEW COVENANT, And Repent and Ask Forgiveness of Jesus ! In Our Loving Lord and Saviors' Beautiful Name, AMEN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Your second paragraph contains much good. The first, while holding a noble sentiment and approaching a problem the right way, will not be realized. The poison that man inherited from Adam cannot be reversed. Briefly, God's Word predicts a crisis of epic proportions and if He has said it will be so, it will be so. The positive side is that (i) we are warned, (ii) we can avoid being caught in the snare, and (iii) we can be encouraged that the change of world government from corrupt Gentile government to equitous and strict order under Christ is near.

The word "Dispensation" is largely misunderstood. The Greek is "Oikonomia" from which we get the English word "Economy". It means "household management" and conjures up a picture of a mother in the kitchen "dispensing" tasty and nourishing food to her family. What caused Bible scholars to give it the meaning of a period of time is that God is able to deal with His creature with different criteria without infringing on His righteousness. While dealing with the Nations via their consciences, God can deal with Israel according to a Covenant of Law. In other words, God "dispenses" His government differently in different ages, OR even parallel in time.

In a timely and generous fashion God has given us warning that He is going to change His "dispensing". Take the martyrs under the altar in Revelation 6. They call for vengeance. And our Lord promises it shortly. But in Luke 9 the disciple called for Elijah's fire of vengeance and are severely rebuked by the Lord. The difference was that the "age" of time that God will deal with men with patience was just beginning in our Lord's day on earth. But in Revelation 6 this age is over and God's patience with men is over.

But I personally see the "Dispensational doom" and "Pessimism" differently. This world and its people groan under Gentile government. God does not wink at evil. The coming wrath and trials set forth by God on men is a sure sign of His being intimately involved in the change of government. Men have earned tribulation - and oh boy, are they going to get it.

[believeinHim]

1 hour ago, AdHoc said:

from corrupt Gentile government

^I'm Sorry, What ? 

[AdHoc]

4 hours ago, believeinHim said:

^I'm Sorry, What ? 

Man was made to govern this earth with the sea and sky and all that is in them (Gen.1:26-28). The previous government, and angel, had governed badly and the earth descended into chaos (Gen.1:2, Isa.14, Ezek.28). Adam sinned and the earth again fell into chaos. 1650 years after Adam was made God was obliged to destroy all men except eight. After the flood men fell into idol worship and God broke their unity at Babel. The Nations were formed by the confusion of tongues. These Nations governed badly and so God raised up a Nation which was promised that kings would come from and that they would "possess the gates of their enemies". This Nation received God's Law and were invincible as long as they obeyed that Law. This Nation was Israel and they called the other Nations, collectively, "the Gentiles".

Within less than a thousand years, Israel had so broken the Law that God dispersed them among the Nations. Without His people reigning according to Law, and without His people occupying the Land, the earth had only "Gentile Rule". According to the prophets, especially Daniel Chapter 2, God promised that one day His Kingdom would rule and His people would be kings. But because His people under Law failed, rule of the earth is given to the Gentiles. He called the time that the Gentiles would rule; "The Times of the Gentiles" (Lk.21:24).

When God is ready, and He has built up a royal House with men and women capable of ruling by God's will, He will smash Gentile supremacy and set up His government under Christ and some worthy members of the Church. The present government of the earth - Gentile government - is made up of fallen men and empowered by evil principalities. This will not always be so. Christ is returning and will end "the times of the Gentiles".

[believeinHim]

1 hour ago, AdHoc said:

Man was made to govern this earth with the sea and sky and all that is in them (Gen.1:26-28). The previous government, and angel, had governed badly and the earth descended into chaos (Gen.1:2, Isa.14, Ezek.28). Adam sinned and the earth again fell into chaos. 1650 years after Adam was made God was obliged to destroy all men except eight. After the flood men fell into idol worship and God broke their unity at Babel. The Nations were formed by the confusion of tongues. These Nations governed badly and so God raised up a Nation which was promised that kings would come from and that they would "possess the gates of their enemies". This Nation received God's Law and were invincible as long as they obeyed that Law. This Nation was Israel and they called the other Nations, collectively, "the Gentiles".

Within less than a thousand years, Israel had so broken the Law that God dispersed them among the Nations. Without His people reigning according to Law, and without His people occupying the Land, the earth had only "Gentile Rule". According to the prophets, especially Daniel Chapter 2, God promised that one day His Kingdom would rule and His people would be kings. But because His people under Law failed, rule of the earth is given to the Gentiles. He called the time that the Gentiles would rule; "The Times of the Gentiles" (Lk.21:24).

When God is ready, and He has built up a royal House with men and women capable of ruling by God's will, He will smash Gentile supremacy and set up His government under Christ and some worthy members of the Church. The present government of the earth - Gentile government - is made up of fallen men and empowered by evil principalities. This will not always be so. Christ is returning and will end "the times of the Gentiles".

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Edited October 28, 2022 by believeinHim

[believeinHim]

1 hour ago, AdHoc said:

Man was made to govern this earth with the sea and sky and all that is in them (Gen.1:26-28). The previous government, and angel, had governed badly and the earth descended into chaos (Gen.1:2, Isa.14, Ezek.28). Adam sinned and the earth again fell into chaos. 1650 years after Adam was made God was obliged to destroy all men except eight. After the flood men fell into idol worship and God broke their unity at Babel. The Nations were formed by the confusion of tongues. These Nations governed badly and so God raised up a Nation which was promised that kings would come from and that they would "possess the gates of their enemies". This Nation received God's Law and were invincible as long as they obeyed that Law. This Nation was Israel and they called the other Nations, collectively, "the Gentiles".

Within less than a thousand years, Israel had so broken the Law that God dispersed them among the Nations. Without His people reigning according to Law, and without His people occupying the Land, the earth had only "Gentile Rule". According to the prophets, especially Daniel Chapter 2, God promised that one day His Kingdom would rule and His people would be kings. But because His people under Law failed, rule of the earth is given to the Gentiles. He called the time that the Gentiles would rule; "The Times of the Gentiles" (Lk.21:24).

When God is ready, and He has built up a royal House with men and women capable of ruling by God's will, He will smash Gentile supremacy and set up His government under Christ and some worthy members of the Church. The present government of the earth - Gentile government - is made up of fallen men and empowered by evil principalities. This will not always be so. Christ is returning and will end "the times of the Gentiles".

Ever notice the dissonance?

The early Christians saw their mission as global in scope, but during his earthly ministry, Jesus explicitly declared his mission to be focused only on Israel (Matt 15:24).

When traced backwards, the flow of universal mission of the early church runs into the rocks of Jesus’ striking particularity. What gives?

Here’s my brief attempt at giving an answer.

Jesus the Nationalist

The Gospels reveal a Jesus focused on Israel. In fact, his ministry appears to be focused so relentlessly on the Jewish people that many scholars have debated whether Jesus was concerned with outsiders at all. When taking into consideration the nations-focused mission of the early church as directed by the risen Jesus that was so prominent in Christian thinking, it is striking to discover that this global impulse appears to be absent from Jesus’ earthly ministry.

Furthermore, the Gospels record Jesus as being up front about his nationalistic intentions. He claimed that his mission was only to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24), a statement made upon his initial refusal of a Gentile woman who asked for healing for her daughter.

It is interesting to note the parallel between the global vision of the risen Jesus as manifested in the actions of the early church and the nationalistic vision of Jesus’ earthly ministry as manifested in the disciples’ avoidance of Gentile towns in favor of “the lost sheep of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6, 23).

Other statements reinforce Jewish priority during the ministry of Jesus, including his decision to choose twelve disciples (corresponding, most likely, to the twelve tribes of Israel) and the fact that the “God of Israel” received the glory when Jesus did engage in brief ministry in Gentile territory (Matt 15:31).

The Wrong Answer

Because of the apparent discrepancy between Jesus’ ministry focus and that of the early church, some scholars assume the evangelists had ulterior motives in the way they portrayed Jesus’ interactions with others.

For example, the Jesus Seminar chooses to pit Mark’s intentions against those of Matthew, postulating that Mark’s account of Jesus’ healing of a Gentile woman’s daughter is meant to justify the church’s Gentile mission, whereas Matthew’s account is “an effort to reinstate a narrower scope for Jesus’ activity.” While it is undeniable that each evangelist chose particular emphases in shaping the Jesus stories, this kind of speculation is wrongheaded. After all, both accounts show Jesus answering the request, and both Gospels also include an emphasis on global mission. (We could make the case that Matthew envisions the Gentile mission even more clearly than Mark does.)

Regardless of how one interprets the evangelists’ different accounts of the same event, it is clear that Jesus’ focus was on reforming Israel, not bringing his kingdom message to the rest of the world. His focus on Israel can be seen in his prophecies and pronouncements of judgment on the nation. Through symbolic, prophetic actions like cursing the fig tree (Mark 11:12-14, 20-25; Matt 21:18-22) and cleansing the temple (Mark 11:15-19; Matt 21:12-17; Luke 19:45-48, John 2:13-16), as well as strong prophetic denunciations (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21, 13:6-9), Jesus made his particular focus on Israel clear.

Christ’s Mission to Israel for the World

The messianic identity of Jesus, formed and shaped by the Old Testament promises and the Jewish prophets, leads in a direction that simultaneously complicates and resolves the issue. Instead of seeing Jesus’ messianic mindset in terms of either or, one ought to see his mission as to Israel on behalf of the nations. In other words, in narrowing his focus to Israel, Jesus does the work necessary for the entire world to be blessed.

If Jesus saw himself as Israel’s Messiah, the one who will constitute a new Israel, and if he purposefully acted in ways that fulfill the role of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah and the vocation of Israel as the light of the world, then it is no surprise that he would focus his ministry squarely on his Jewish contemporaries.

Jesus’ ministry was to the lost sheep of the house of Israel precisely, because he is the good shepherd come to gather the renewed Israel around himself and to launch their trajectory into the world with the healing grace God always intended to flow through his chosen people. Jesus ministered to the Jews for the Gentiles.

Therefore, we should say the mission of Jesus is first to Israel (through his own ministry) and then to the Gentiles (through the actions of his apostles), but this trajectory should not be reduced merely to salvation-historical terms. Instead, the mission of Jesus to the Gentiles (through his apostles) should be seen as contingent upon the success of his mission to the Jews.

Mission to the nations depends upon Jesus’ accomplishment of his mission to Israel. The particularity of Jesus’ earthly ministry serves the universality of God’s ultimate vision for the world.

Conclusion

Creating too strong a dichotomy between Jesus’ mission to the Jews and the church’s mission to the Gentiles is unhelpful. As the long-awaited Messiah who fulfills Israel’s vocation, Jesus accomplishes the mission of Israel through his own life and work, thereby bringing the blessing of Abraham to the nations, as was promised in the Old Testament.

The mission to the Gentiles was not at the expense of mission to Israel, nor was it merely an extension. Instead, Israel was to be the catalyst through which God would accomplish his promises to the world.

Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel in order that through his regathering and reconstituting the true Israel, the blessing of salvation would be released to flow from Israel and into all the world, just as God promised in the Old Testament.

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Jesus came for All, AdHoc. This is proprietary and Un~Christian~like. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/why-did-jesus-say-he-came-only-for-israel/

[believeinHim]

1 hour ago, AdHoc said:

Man was made to govern this earth with the sea and sky and all that is in them (Gen.1:26-28). The previous government, and angel, had governed badly and the earth descended into chaos (Gen.1:2, Isa.14, Ezek.28). Adam sinned and the earth again fell into chaos. 1650 years after Adam was made God was obliged to destroy all men except eight. After the flood men fell into idol worship and God broke their unity at Babel. The Nations were formed by the confusion of tongues. These Nations governed badly and so God raised up a Nation which was promised that kings would come from and that they would "possess the gates of their enemies". This Nation received God's Law and were invincible as long as they obeyed that Law. This Nation was Israel and they called the other Nations, collectively, "the Gentiles".

Within less than a thousand years, Israel had so broken the Law that God dispersed them among the Nations. Without His people reigning according to Law, and without His people occupying the Land, the earth had only "Gentile Rule". According to the prophets, especially Daniel Chapter 2, God promised that one day His Kingdom would rule and His people would be kings. But because His people under Law failed, rule of the earth is given to the Gentiles. He called the time that the Gentiles would rule; "The Times of the Gentiles" (Lk.21:24).

When God is ready, and He has built up a royal House with men and women capable of ruling by God's will, He will smash Gentile supremacy and set up His government under Christ and some worthy members of the Church. The present government of the earth - Gentile government - is made up of fallen men and empowered by evil principalities. This will not always be so. Christ is returning and will end "the times of the Gentiles".

The current government in power is not the Gentiles, @AdHoc.......................................................,,,,

[AdHoc]

16 hours ago, believeinHim said:

Ever notice the dissonance?

The early Christians saw their mission as global in scope, but during his earthly ministry, Jesus explicitly declared his mission to be focused only on Israel (Matt 15:24).

When traced backwards, the flow of universal mission of the early church runs into the rocks of Jesus’ striking particularity. What gives?

Here’s my brief attempt at giving an answer.

Jesus the Nationalist

The Gospels reveal a Jesus focused on Israel. In fact, his ministry appears to be focused so relentlessly on the Jewish people that many scholars have debated whether Jesus was concerned with outsiders at all. When taking into consideration the nations-focused mission of the early church as directed by the risen Jesus that was so prominent in Christian thinking, it is striking to discover that this global impulse appears to be absent from Jesus’ earthly ministry.

Furthermore, the Gospels record Jesus as being up front about his nationalistic intentions. He claimed that his mission was only to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24), a statement made upon his initial refusal of a Gentile woman who asked for healing for her daughter.

It is interesting to note the parallel between the global vision of the risen Jesus as manifested in the actions of the early church and the nationalistic vision of Jesus’ earthly ministry as manifested in the disciples’ avoidance of Gentile towns in favor of “the lost sheep of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6, 23).

Other statements reinforce Jewish priority during the ministry of Jesus, including his decision to choose twelve disciples (corresponding, most likely, to the twelve tribes of Israel) and the fact that the “God of Israel” received the glory when Jesus did engage in brief ministry in Gentile territory (Matt 15:31).

The Wrong Answer

Because of the apparent discrepancy between Jesus’ ministry focus and that of the early church, some scholars assume the evangelists had ulterior motives in the way they portrayed Jesus’ interactions with others.

For example, the Jesus Seminar chooses to pit Mark’s intentions against those of Matthew, postulating that Mark’s account of Jesus’ healing of a Gentile woman’s daughter is meant to justify the church’s Gentile mission, whereas Matthew’s account is “an effort to reinstate a narrower scope for Jesus’ activity.” While it is undeniable that each evangelist chose particular emphases in shaping the Jesus stories, this kind of speculation is wrongheaded. After all, both accounts show Jesus answering the request, and both Gospels also include an emphasis on global mission. (We could make the case that Matthew envisions the Gentile mission even more clearly than Mark does.)

Regardless of how one interprets the evangelists’ different accounts of the same event, it is clear that Jesus’ focus was on reforming Israel, not bringing his kingdom message to the rest of the world. His focus on Israel can be seen in his prophecies and pronouncements of judgment on the nation. Through symbolic, prophetic actions like cursing the fig tree (Mark 11:12-14, 20-25; Matt 21:18-22) and cleansing the temple (Mark 11:15-19; Matt 21:12-17; Luke 19:45-48, John 2:13-16), as well as strong prophetic denunciations (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21, 13:6-9), Jesus made his particular focus on Israel clear.

Christ’s Mission to Israel for the World

The messianic identity of Jesus, formed and shaped by the Old Testament promises and the Jewish prophets, leads in a direction that simultaneously complicates and resolves the issue. Instead of seeing Jesus’ messianic mindset in terms of either or, one ought to see his mission as to Israel on behalf of the nations. In other words, in narrowing his focus to Israel, Jesus does the work necessary for the entire world to be blessed.

If Jesus saw himself as Israel’s Messiah, the one who will constitute a new Israel, and if he purposefully acted in ways that fulfill the role of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah and the vocation of Israel as the light of the world, then it is no surprise that he would focus his ministry squarely on his Jewish contemporaries.

Jesus’ ministry was to the lost sheep of the house of Israel precisely, because he is the good shepherd come to gather the renewed Israel around himself and to launch their trajectory into the world with the healing grace God always intended to flow through his chosen people. Jesus ministered to the Jews for the Gentiles.

Therefore, we should say the mission of Jesus is first to Israel (through his own ministry) and then to the Gentiles (through the actions of his apostles), but this trajectory should not be reduced merely to salvation-historical terms. Instead, the mission of Jesus to the Gentiles (through his apostles) should be seen as contingent upon the success of his mission to the Jews.

Mission to the nations depends upon Jesus’ accomplishment of his mission to Israel. The particularity of Jesus’ earthly ministry serves the universality of God’s ultimate vision for the world.

Conclusion

Creating too strong a dichotomy between Jesus’ mission to the Jews and the church’s mission to the Gentiles is unhelpful. As the long-awaited Messiah who fulfills Israel’s vocation, Jesus accomplishes the mission of Israel through his own life and work, thereby bringing the blessing of Abraham to the nations, as was promised in the Old Testament.

The mission to the Gentiles was not at the expense of mission to Israel, nor was it merely an extension. Instead, Israel was to be the catalyst through which God would accomplish his promises to the world.

Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel in order that through his regathering and reconstituting the true Israel, the blessing of salvation would be released to flow from Israel and into all the world, just as God promised in the Old Testament.

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Jesus came for All, AdHoc. This is proprietary and Un~Christian~like. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/why-did-jesus-say-he-came-only-for-israel/

I readily agree with almost all you have written here. God chose Israel to be the platform from which He would launch His recovery of the earth. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews (Jn 4:22). God made promises to Israel via His prophets and they will be kept. God promised Israel a Messiah and the got, and will get Him. In His sincerity, God sent our Lord Jesus to Israel first. It was only after Israel's rejection of their Messiah was complete, that our Lord turned to the Gentiles. Besides daily harassment, our Lord Jesus suffered TWO great rejections. they were (i) being accused of being an emissary of Beelzebub, and (ii) being set aside in favor of Caesar.

God is sincere. He is so fixed on Israel getting the Messiah, and Israel getting reign, that the Church, the vehicle God will ultimately use, is not even revealed in the Old Testament. But what is revealed is that Abraham would have THREE "Seeds":
"The Seed" - Jesus Christ (singular) (Gal.3:15-16)
"Seed as the and of the sea-shore" (earthly and adjacent to the sea - an analogy of the Nations 
"Seed as the stars of heaven" - heavenly in calling, birth and nature

It was foreseen, from the discussion with Nicodemus in John Chapter 3, that Israel would avail them selves of the birth from above. This second birth was to accomplish, among other things, the transition of Israel to "stars of heaven". Rule of the earth was always from heaven - for heaven is God's Throne. Thus we have an angel first and later "principalities in heavenly places". Israel might be qualified by Law to rule Israel, but to bring the "Kingdom of HEAVEN" to earth needed much more. The mission of our Lord Jesus was to elevate Israel to the state needed to rule the world (Rom.4:13). This they refused and God turned to ALL MEN. Israel subsequently forfeits the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt.21:43).

But Israel have more than the kingdom promised. They, through Abraham, have a promise that they would have the Land of Canaan for "an everlasting possession" and that God would entertain their service to Him while He protected them from their enemies. And this is the grand issue that Paul spends a full three Chapters in Romans 9, 10 & 11 on to set in legal and judicial order. And even these Chapters tax the best scholars of the Bible because Israel receives mercy via Covenant and not faith. Scholars of scripture find no judicial grounds for God to restore Israel because they half believe "Replacement Theology" - the popular belief that the Church replaces Israel.

This I will address in my answer to your next posting.

[AdHoc]

16 hours ago, believeinHim said:

The current government in power is not the Gentiles, @AdHoc.......................................................,,,,

I appreciate your answer, but it is so brief that I could very well miss your point. So if I be found having gone down the wrong avenue, it is because your answer is very brief. Let me expand on it.

It is clear from multiple scriptures that God rules the universe e. g. Daniel 4;

35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

But God delegates authority. Gravity is set in motion and faithfully exercises it's laws to keep order. And God institutes hierarchy. The Laws of aerodynamics are equally faithful, but eventually gravity prevails and the birds must rest from flying. God does not change His philosophy. Among angels and men there is authority and hierarchy. Because of the intricate and dynamic way these living creatures have been made, there is a very good chance that one or more will think that they have a better technique for government than God, or that God's appointed leaders must be replaced by them. The result is rebellion. Now, God, being ALL-mighty can do one of three things;
(i) He can do nothing, but this almost impossible because He is a God of order and will, sooner or later, intervene
(ii) He can annihilate His enemies. This is very effective but does not show His full potential. It robs Him of glory
(iii) He can stick to a strict judicially correct procedure and relieve His enemies from their posts and exact due vengeance. This is the most satisfying way. It shows His omnipotence, it shows His righteousness, it display patience and displays His sovereignty in every situation. It has one point that might be taken by the impatient to be negative. It takes TIME.

Without going into a lengthy treatise on the history of the earth's problems, it is clear that God's delegated authority has been perverted by certain of His creatures. These creatures were appointed by God to ensure order, but decided to create chaos instead. They could only d this because they had delegated authority. That is, God is supreme Commander of the universe, but, creatures having authority used it incorrectly. And because God can afford it, and to His glory, He recovers the situation over TIME.

That means that for a TIME, it may look like God's adversaries are ruling. But their TIME to rule is set by God to end. God Himself admits to this situation by calling the previous governor - Lucifer - "Prince of this world" and "Prince of the power of the air". God readily admits that a fight is taking place. God readily admits that the enemy is powerful and cunning, and God readily admits to the truth that His army is not as successful as we would like. It would appear to some scholars of the Bible that God is not in charge, and it would appear to other students that God's people already rule. The fact of the matter is that God's own words indicate that the Gentiles rule, that they rule legitimately, that their rule is unrighteous and that their rule does not benefit the people who are subject to them. He also says that there is an unknown number of years allotted to the Gentiles for this rule, and that He has set a day in which He will relieve them of their authority.