The Prince and His Power

 The Prince and His Power - By Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/2022/09/13/the-prince-and-his-power-by-terry-james/ Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli has often been called the “father of modern political philosophy and political science.” He was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian,philosopher, humanist, writer, playwright, and poet of the Renaissance Period. He was often brought up during my hours spent at university. He seemed to me to be both admired and disdained by the professors who stood before us at lectures. It was a strangealchemy of thought that sometimes confused—at least yours truly—while the professors both lauded and lambasted this strange purveyor of political presumption. Always central to their lectures was Machiavelli’s most famous work, written in 1513—The Prince. This is a brief treatise on how to acquire power, create a state, and keepit. The book represents Machiavelli’s effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence, Italy. Most of my professors, even during those days of the early 1960s, lectured from the socialist perspective. The lectures hadn’t quite become the Marxist-oriented lies we hearbeing spewed today, but the anti-America-as-founded propaganda was plenteous, even back then. As I say, the professors seemed to admire this man and his work—and detest him and his treatise at the same time. Almost always, they blamed any political ideology that opposedthe socialist view as being Machiavellian in its wickedness. Today, the political left, while not mentioning the Machiavellian model at all, totally embraces its methodologies. Probably the best way to characterize winning and sustaining power within the model presented by The Prince is “ends justify means.” Machiavelli viewed injuring enemies asa necessity. He stated: “If an injury is to be done to a man, it should be so severe that the prince should not be in fear of revenge.” The prince must be absolutely ruthless in order to win and sustain his power. We see this Machiavellian principle in today’s national and geo-global politics. Injury by use of forced compliance by the globalist cabal of the new world order sort is employedevery minute of every day by those seeking to tear down national sovereignty. Compliance with globalist mandates, no matter who is hurt, is at the heart of the ruthlessness. They state they’re determined to pare down the populations of humanity on theplanet over which they intend to rule—all, of course, for saving the planet. In preparation for the “prince that shall come,” can we discern the Machiavellian principle in play? I believe the answer is more than obvious. Can you say “Trump derangementsyndrome”? In America—and across the world, for that matter—the borders of nations are forced open by the globalist leaders, all of whom seem to be in lockstep. They open borders sothat other peoples can flood through the openings. Into America they come by the hundreds of thousands—even millions—with most of the illegals unvaccinated, unchecked as to criminal background. Even though there is pushback by some, the resistance is relatively small by comparison to the immensity of the problem of nations being overrun. This is because the world’smainstream media is a part of the collective globalist mindset. Their narrative, their full propaganda machinery engine, is pushing the drive to bring about a new world order. Opposition and resistance to this movement are suppressed at every turn. This should be no surprise because everywhere we look, we see humanity going against the God of Heaven and His directives for mankind. We don’t have to be male or female asGod brought us into this world. We can be whatsoever gender we choose. Man doesn’t have to be joined to woman in sexual oneness; we can choose which sex to engage with in such activity, totally apart from the God of Heaven. It is okay for children as young as 2 or 3 to begin the transition from their birth gender to whichever gender their parent says the child should become. This is pushed by media at every level now, every hour of every day. This is because they—the media—have as their supreme leader the prince of the power of the air. We understandthis from the words of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians. “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powerof the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, evenas others” (Ephesians 2:1-3). Satan is that prince of the power of the air. He dominates the dissemination of the falsehoods we are incessantly bombarded with while the new world order is being preparedfor the “prince that shall come.” But we who are in Christ—who are saved by belief in His death, burial and resurrection—have nothing to fear while we endure this demonic construction taking place. Satan’sprince will be dealt with by another prince. Here is what God promises those who are in His eternal family. “And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.” (Daniel 8:24-25) True power resides with the King of all kings. Jesus is that Prince, that coming King of Revelation 19:11. If you are not yet, but want to be a member of that holy Kingdom,here, again, is how. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heartman believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).