Liberating Planet Earth
by Gary DeMar
by Gary DeMar
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12 <strong>Liberating</strong> <strong>Planet</strong> <strong>Earth</strong><br />
culture. It is not to be seen as a well-disguised defense of any particular<br />
nation’s policies. Nevertheless, no book can escape history.<br />
Because we Christians serve the God of history, we cannot pretend<br />
that we are not creatures in history. We are people who live<br />
and die in particular places and in particular times. Think of<br />
yourself. How well could you do your work with the skills you<br />
now possess if, somehow, you were miraculously pushed a hundred<br />
years into the past or a hundred years into the future? Not<br />
very well, I imagine. You are a creature of your time. So am I.<br />
I am a citizen of the United States. But I am also a citizen of a<br />
better country, for I am a Christian.<br />
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly<br />
wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our<br />
lowly body that it maybe conformed to His glorious body, according<br />
to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to<br />
Himself (Philippians 3:20-21).<br />
If you have turned your life over to Jesus Christ, trusting in<br />
His work on the cross as your dy basis of mercy from God on<br />
judgment day, then you and I are citizens of the same country in<br />
spirit: heaven. In not too many years, you and I will be citizens<br />
together in that country in spirit, but without our bodies. We will<br />
no longer be earthly participants in history. A Christian must be<br />
willing to give up everything except his heavenly “citizenship<br />
papers.” We must never forget what comes first in this life, for we<br />
are recipients of eternal life (John 3 :36a).<br />
Christianity was not invented in the United States; it was invented<br />
in heaven. The United States is only one of several “authorized<br />
distributors” of Christianity, and if its people cease to be<br />
faithful, this “distributorship” will pass to others entirely. It should<br />
be the goal of every Christian to see to it that he does all that he<br />
can to enable his nation to become one of these “distributors.”<br />
This is what missions are all about. This is also what Christian<br />
dominion is all about.
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