Sovereignty has been an interest of mine for the past thirty or more years. I see sovereignty as defined in the following way “sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a territory”. A classic reference to this concept is found in the bible when King Nebuchadnezzar was told sovereignty was removed from him for a period of seven years and at the end of the seven years it was then to be restored. He held supreme independent authority over the world at that time, would lose it, and would receive it a second time.
Greece, Rome and many others can come to mind. Another way to think about sovereignty is to think in the realm of Empires, the most recent being the British Empire.
I tend to think of world empires as sovereignty with a big S while there can be smaller regions that have all of the characteristics of global sovereignty but they are similar and have a more limited and potentially shared sovereignty or sovereignty with a small s.
When the iron Curtain came down it was evident to me that sovereignty had been removed from Russia. They had a sphere of influence and ruled over a territory for seventy years and then they lost their “ability’ to control. The book of Ezekiel in chapters thirty-eight and thirty nine indicates that to some measure a degree of sovereignty will again be given to Russia as she plays a future role in gathering many nations under her leadership and attacks Israel.
America has enjoyed a long season of sovereignty (big S) but my question and I think the question that is manifesting itself in so many different ways now and in the next few years is,
IS AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY LIFTING?
All ‘EMPIRES”, just as Rome, have their birthing or sunrise filled with vision, new ideals, new definitions and new frontiers to conquer. Those tasks give rise to a full and sustained midlife era where all of the above become realities. Eventually the sunset years lead toward a fulfillment of those same realities yet it is often beset with a growing corruption eventually resulting in the end of the era.
At the end of every empire there is often a defining event or season where their “place”, “position” or sovereignty is seemingly removed. They no longer “own their sphere”. Like Nebacenezer they lose their power and ability to control.
Generally at this time there is a crisis season when those contending against the sovereign position, those who have been NIPPING at their heels rise up to replace them.
INSIGHT, WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
CAN BE FOUND IN DISCERNING
TWO THINGS
* WHO IS FALLING AND WHO IS RISING
WHO IS NOW COMING INTO THE NEW PLACE OF SOVEREIGNTY
* WHERE ARE THE PLAYERS AT IN THE PROCESS?
America as a nation is not looking like some old worn out empire. America is still nationally and internationally strong and but the termination of sovereignty the process isn’t always a long slow decline. With our twenty first century war capacities or Jihadist and nuclear bombs things could switch very fast without a long wind down. In any case I feel America is in the vortex of being “weighed in the balance” and that our current decisions will soon leave us “found wanting”. In this article I’m not going to go into all of the good America is involved in nor all of the bad she is involved in.
MY FOCUS IN THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT
IS AMERICA LOSING HER SOVEREIGNTY
AND
WHO IS GETTING IT?
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING
IS THERE A NEW sOVEREIGNTY ARISING IN MILITANT ISLAM?
Is there a tide turning to a new era of power being given to the Jihadists be it a Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah Hamas, AL-Qaeda, Erdogan, or the myriad of local aspirants.
IF AMERICA IS PULLING AWAY FROM ISRAEL
As in democracy and the Judeo Christian ethic
TOWARD A PASSIVE APPEASMENT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Committed to destroying America and Israel
THEN ARE WE NOT CHOOSING
TO WHOM WE WILL PASS OUR SOVEREIGNTY TO
AND TO WHOM WE WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME SUBJUGATED?
Am I saying Militant Islam will win and rule the world? NO. But militant Islam might be given a season of sovereignty (small s) that becomes the instrument or vehicle that removes Sovereignty from America. Thus being used transitionally setting the stage for potentially a whole new possible global sovereignty solution. The types of terrorism that are threatening could in a heartbeat cause a collapse in the already tenuous economies of the world.
In the very big picture I see the current rise of a potential sovereignty shift away from America toward a season of Islamic militancy as a small sovereignty shift (as in a small “s”). Yet it could be one so horrendous, like a Hitler, that the stage would be set for the next sovereignty shift as in CAPITAL “S”.
When Hitler was done the world woke up to a new world order.
Obviously this is not the end but we are traveling toward a road of either facing the cancer of mushrooming Islamic militancy or host of emerging global solutions.
So how should we then live?
Love the Lord you God with all your heart, mind and soul and with all your strength.
Remember the Islamic militants do.
