The word “politics” is from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) and literally means “cities” and “affairs of the cities or nations.” It is the way that people living in cities or nation-states make planned decisions.
The Greek “polis” means "citadel, city, or community," from a root meaning "citadel or hilltop."
The “polis” (plural poleis), or city-state, was the dominant political unit in the ancient Greek world. It was commonly agreed that a “polis” is a community of citizens organized under a constitution, usually based in an urban center.
In Ancient Greece, the word “polis” indicated a city-state – such as Sparta and Athens – a self-governing unit. But it also meant more; the word “polis” also encompassed the concepts of both the rights and the obligations of the citizens. Aristotle considered the goodness of a “polis” in terms of whether it promotes the good life of citizens.
If this is what “politics” is all about and the Bible does not address this, than the Bible has little relevance to life here and now. And guess what? That’s what most non-Christians think about the Bible and Christianity. Worse yet, that’s also how most Christians view the Bible - irrelevant to politics i.e. “the affairs of our city or nation” - that politics is unspiritual.
So why did God have the vast majority of His Word, over 75%, written about the affairs of city and state? Over 75% of the Bible, Exodus to Acts, is written exclusively about the city of Jerusalem, the state of Israel, and other nations.
Why were Jesus’s last words (Mat. 28:18-20): “Go and make disciples of all nations”? Jesus did NOT say go disciple all churches or even all people, but rather “all… nations.”That has to unequivocally include - POLITICS, the affairs of cities and nations.
Thus, Jesus commands Christians to effect the politics and governance of cities and nations today. And when Jesus returns… only Christians will govern cities, as Jesus said in Luke 19:15-19:
“When He returned… the King exclaimed. ‘You are a good servant. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, so you will be governorof ten cities… and to another He said, you will be governorover five cities.’”
In the Old Testament it is about the affairs of cities and nations. In the New Testament Jesus commands us to disciple “all nations.” And Paul and the Christians were doing exactly that (Acts 17:6-7):
“They dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They areall defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.”
Why do some assume Biblical instruction about church issues or family issues is spiritual but instructing about national political issues is unspiritual or less spiritual? From Exodus to Acts was totally in the context of God’s Law and national and political issues, not to speak of continual references thereafter.
Moreover, most Christians don’t know that God ordained not 2 but 3 institutions for today: family, state, and church. And God did NOT ordain anything to be unholy or ruled by Satan at any time.
If a church is unholy, God’s people will be condemned if they neglect to work at turning God’s church around to be ruled by men subject to the “Chief Shepherd.” If a state is unholy, God’s people will be condemned if they neglect to work at turning God’s state around to be ruled by men subject to the “King of kings.”
It might be stated, that if pastors were preaching, “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27), they would be preaching 3 out of 4 sermons on God’s Law and our national political issues, since 75% of God’s whole counsel, Exodus to Acts, was in the context of God’s Law and national/political issues. This is not to suggest that Jesus Christ is not central to that and the whole Bible - for He is“the Word… and the Word became flesh.”(John 1:1,14).
However, the BIBLICAL political issues of today may be more important to address than any other time since the founding of our nation, since the unrighteous non-Christians are in the final stages of completely taking over one of God’s ordained institutions - our nation/state America.
Even the Greek New Testament word for “church” (ekklēsia), which Jesus used in Matthew 16:18, to build His church, came from Aristotle’s time in Athens when people would regularly get together to discuss the political affairs of the city and what they were to do. And of course Jesus Himself publicly and continually addressed the political issues of His day. Jesus was doing this every time He was contesting with the Pharisees (who were the political leaders in His day - Mat. 23:2) about the Mosaic Law (which was the civil law of Judea at that time).
To my dear pastor friends, might your church become more relevant today to the outside world and more of the outside world come to hear you speak - if 3 out of 4 of your messages today were on the relevance of the “whole counsel of God” i.e. God’s moral/civil Law and Biblical political issues… that’s impacting every single person every day. Sharing more of God’s Law you might even have more people saved, “convicted of sin… and fall to their knees and worship God, declaring, ‘God is truly here among you.’” (1Cor. 14:24-25).
By the way, the “churches” on the Left, “Synagogues of Satan” (Rev. 2:9, 3:9), are preaching their “social justice” laws EVERY Sunday. They’re shouting and twisting Scriptures every Sunday - motivating their whole congregations to rise up and turn our nation upside down for Satan. And they’ve about won. And they will complete their win soon… unless a critical mass of God’s people obey His call and rise up now to take back God’s state institution for our King.
“Faith (prayer) without works is useless” (James 2:17).
“The complacency of fools will destroythem” (Prov. 1:32).
