The unrest and uprisings in N. Africa and the Middle East have western Christianized nations speaking out of their own imaginations of democracy finding expression in the results of the overthrows of the existing oppressive regimes. Democracy has become almost a mantra, and certainly an idol to praise and bow down to. Yet isn’t it evident that its most inspiring expression, as seen in the United States of America, is shorter-lived than the major historic empires of history?
In Israel, where government is more democratic than in the Islamic world surrounding it, there are also elements which reject democracy as their model. The ultra-religious admit that Judaism and democracy conflict: Israel can not be a Jewish nation concurrently with democracy, which deteriorates to everyone doing what is right in his own eyes. Messiah Yeshua intends to restore the Kingdom of God back to His people whom He has chosen to be His inheritance, and the first-born of many other nations. This is not democracy, yet, being the King whose throne is established in righteousness and [righteous] judgment, there will be much freedom for those subject to His rule.
The prophetic voice calls for repentance back to YHVH God, and for mercy and justice to the poor and needy in society — both for the native born and for the stranger who has joined himself to the people. We are called to be salt in the world, and to maintain the salt of the covenant. If this salt becomes saltless, Yeshua teaches that it is then good for nothing but to be thrown out. Yeshua is coming back!