Gary points out that the mainstream media’s obsession with the boogeyman of Christian Nationalism is a willful ignorance of Islamic Nationalism.
Whoever claims sovereignty expects his subjects to govern his realm in terms of his law and name. Sovereignty, therefore, brings with it the inevitability of dominion, the power of governing and controlling all things. Noah Webster, in his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), defines sovereignty this way: “Supreme power; supremacy; the possession of the highest power, or of uncontrollable power. Absolute sovereignty belongs to God alone.” The beast of Revelation 13 claims absolute sovereignty by requiring his subjects to operate in terms of his law and name. Those who do not conform eventually will be destroyed: ‘‘And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand, or on their forehead, and he provides that no one should be able to buy or sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name” (vv. 16, 17). The Lamb, the only true Sovereign, expects dominion to be exercised in His name (14:1, 5).
The denial of one sovereign assumes the sovereignty of another. If God is denied as the only truly independent sovereign, man will claim this attribute for himself. To deny God as sovereign does not destroy the reality of sovereignty. Sovereignty is only transferred. For example, when Jerusalem was plundered by Nebuchadnezzar and his army, certain young men were brought to Babylon “to enter the king’s personal service” (Daniel 1:5). Nebuchadnezzar showed his denial of the absolute and independent sovereign rule of God by besieging Jerusalem and taking some of the holy vessels of the house of God and bringing them to the house of his god (vv. 1-2). This action by Nebuchadnezzar was symbolic. It was to show the sons of Judah that there is now a new sovereign who claims absolute control and expects them “to enter the king’s personal service” (v. 5). Dominion would continue, but it would be on Babylonian terms.
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Buy NowGary points out that the mainstream media’s obsession with the boogeyman of Christian Nationalism is a willful ignorance of Islamic Nationalism. Muslims have no problem admitting that their goal is total domination through conversion or submission. And yet, Leftists don’t seem to be bothered by this and focus more on Christian Nationalists as the problem.