Historical trends
1. Historical trends during the
Church Age depend on the number of believers in any given generation deciding
for residence and function inside the divine dynasphere.
2. When a maximum number of
believers in this dispensation perpetuate their spiritual momentum to the point
of maturity a large pivot of mature believers is formed. The world historically
lives on that prosperity — blessing by association.
3. But when a maximum number of
believers live in the cosmic system during any given generation, the client
nation to God malfunctions and historical disaster occurs throughout planet
earth. But even though disaster exists there are no tragedies in history.
4. Historical blessing then is the
result of a maximum number of believers living in the divine dynasphere,
whereas historical disaster finds a maximum number of believers living out
their lives in the cosmic system. Both peoples and nations are the products of
their own decisions. No nation ever suffers historical disaster unless they ask
for it. Peoples and individuals must take the responsibility for their own
decisions.
5. Historical trends then depend on
the spiritual life of the individual believer. This is the invisible factor of
history rather than the obvious and visible factor of human leadership plus the
economic interpretation of history.
6. Believers residing in the divine dynasphere
influence the historical trends in the direction of blessing, while believers
residing in the cosmic system influence historical trends in the direction of
degeneration and disaster.
7. The predictability of historical
trends is based on the impact of objective reality of those believers and
unbelievers whose modus operandi is related to the divine dynaspheres.
8. Therefore the second and third
chapters of Revelation are a summary of the historical trends of the Church
Age, they are not a prophecy. All seven churches represent trends at any moment
in any part of the earth right now, there is no chronological sequence of
events from the seven churches. Prophecy does not begin until the removal of
the Church by the resurrection or the Rapture. Then the Tribulation or Daniel’s
seventieth week begins and, with it, prophecy begins. In the meantime Jesus
Christ controls history.