DESECRATION and Grace: The HOLY TRIAD of God’s Reign

The Bible unveils a “holy place”—first the tabernacle, then the temple, shadows of a deeper reality (Hebrews 8:5). I see it now as a triad, three pillars where God’s kingdom stakes its claim: the political sphere, pulsing through the White House, mightiest office reigning over earthly kings; the Church, America’s charge to bear the gospel’s light, whose fall imperils Christendom; and the individual soul, a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). Daniel declares, “The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed” (Daniel 2:44), and I’m convinced it reigns today—not in triumph, but in contention, desecrated by Satan’s claw yet upheld by a grace I’ve tasted. This isn’t whimsy; it’s a lens to pierce our lawless age of April 2025, a truth to make us wise and evade the “man of lawlessness” rising (2 Thessalonians 2:3). I lay it bare—credible, urgent, a call to see the snake’s bore and the line that holds the world from his sway.

The Political Sphere: The White House

The White House stands as more than stone—it’s the nerve center of worldly might, the most powerful office on earth, its decrees bending kings and nations like a shepherd’s rod sways the flock. Scripture affirms God “removes kings and sets up kings” (Daniel 2:21), and I see His hand wrestling here, in this holy sphere—not divine in essence, but set apart by its dominion. For years, I watched desecration take root: pride flags raised as idols on its lawn each June, a rainbow banner supplanting the cross; policies bent to appease abortion’s altar—millions of lives lost since Roe v. Wade, a stain unwashed even after its fall. Lawlessness poured forth—open borders bled chaos, cities burned in riots, unchecked by a spirit not of God but of Babylon’s daughter, “mother of harlots and abominations” (Revelation 17:5).

The 2024 election was a war of kingdoms, lawlessness against order, Godlessness against grace. I saw anarchy rise—human trafficking surged through shadowed routes, cartels grew rich with blood money, streets drowned in fentanyl’s tide—until a new tenant swore the oath in January 2025. Flawed—his tongue cuts, his past stumbles—but orders shifted ground: border patrols doubled in Texas, trafficking rings raided from Ohio to California, a grace on the world, frail yet a lifeline cast across the waves. Daniel 4:26 says, “The heavens do rule.” I’ve wrestled—can law hold this dark? The White House shines when its edicts bow to justice—shielding the weak, binding the lawless—not man’s whims. Yet Revelation 18’s merchants, drunk on her wine, claw back—lobbyists weave agendas through April’s halls, ideologues twist truth into shadows. It teeters, a linchpin or a fall—I watch with breath held.

The Church: The Ecclesia

The Church, Christ’s body, is the second pillar—“salt of the earth,” “light of the world” (Matthew 5:13-14), restraining evil until He returns (2 Thessalonians 2:6-7). America once stood as its head in the West, tasked to blaze the gospel across the earth, a charge to anchor God’s order. If she falls, the West crumbles; if that goes, Christianity’s husk is razed, and Israel’s walls fall—the snake bores deep, seeking to unravel all. I see apostasy breaking her: prosperity preachers hawk gold over the cross, megachurch scandals bare greed masked as faith—millions gained while truth fades—while drag queens bless pulpits, rainbow robes mocking the sacred in St. James Episcopal. Worship turns theater—Jesus flipped tables for less, naming it a “den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13); Paul warned of Satan’s ministers cloaked as righteous (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). This is desecration—a pest piercing Christendom’s shell, a rot spreading wide.

Yet grace holds—the ecclesia restrains the lawless one, thwarting Satan’s sway. In the last presidency, the enemy struck—politics warped, pulpits twisted, hearts poisoned—but it failed, the remnant firm. I’ve seen it stand: in Georgia’s pews, they reject rainbow banners; across Asia’s rice fields, South America’s slums, Africa’s sun-scorched plains, they pray, casting out lies with scripture’s steel. A preacher’s flock grew from 50 to 200, dozens baptized in a muddy creek, hymns rising against the wind’s chants. Cocooned by the Holy Ghost, led by Christ, this core endures—the gates of hell batter but won’t breach God’s shield. I’ve seen the Spirit’s fire there, a warmth pulsing through cracked walls, defying the cold beyond. The husk breaks—lawlessness tests—but the remnant reigns, its light fierce across the earth.

The Individual: The Soul

The individual soul—you, me—is the third holy place, God’s temple (1 Corinthians 6:19), where the battle cuts personal. Our age mirrors Noah’s—“every intention was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5)—a flood reborn. Rebellion runs wild; Godlessness spreads. Babylon’s wine of wrath (Revelation 18:3) pours from screens—porn streams flood views, TikTok peddles self-worship to kids, minds molded before prayer. Lawlessness grows—anger festers, perversion twists love, pride chokes humility. I’ve seen it—a child parroting filth from a phone in a grocery aisle; a teen lost to fentanyl, his temple broken in a ditch off the road. Satan defiles these temples, cracking what’s holy, staining the innocent.

But grace breaks through—I’ve tasted it. A soul says “No,” sparked by a laugh or a verse: “He who began a good work in you will complete it” (Philippians 1:6). It’s surrender—turning from filth, step by step. A young man turned from his phone’s poison to prayer after a sermon pierced his heart; his eyes cleared by Easter, a light kindled anew in his gaze. I’ve seen that shift—a spark against the flood, growing to a flame through nights of wrestling. One redeemed soul lifts the Church—picture a mother in a small congregation, weeping as she returned from years lost; a steadfast Church guides the state—her voice ringing strength to steady a faltering land. This fight’s ours—lawlessness tempts, Babylon beckons—yet grace sparks what’s cracked, a hope enduring.

The Triad’s Truth

Here’s the revelation I stake: God’s kingdom reigns—through the White House, mightiest among kings, when it bows to His law; through the Church, America’s torch, whose remnant restrains the lawless one; through the soul when it spurns Babylon’s cup. If the U.S. falls, the West collapses; if Christianity’s razed, Israel’s fate hangs by a thread—the snake bores to topple God’s order. In the last presidency, the enemy swung—lawlessness flooded—but it failed, the ecclesia holding fast in muddy creeks and shadowed slums, a grit forged in prayer and steel. Yet should the rapture snatch this remnant, the safety pod breaches—all hell breaks loose, a recoil shattering resistance, “darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people” (Isaiah 60:2), sleeper cells artfully infused into the West’s architecture springing alive by the tiger spirit of antichrist, kicking off the great tribulation, a trouble unlike anything seen. With the ecclesia at the helm, the dark world’s rage chants death to Israel and Christendom—the end crashing in like a storm long held at bay. One can only imagine when the kernel is plucked from the husk, that which restrains all darkness, its fallout unleashed. Daniel 7’s beasts rage; Revelation 18’s harlot seduces with her wine; yet grace rides the flood, as Noah’s ark endured. April 2025 echoes Matthew 24:12—“Lawlessness will abound”—but the gospel presses on, a lifeline in chaos.

The White House teeters—will it hold? The Church’s husk fractures—America falters, yet the remnant digs in, unbowed under Christ. Souls drown—do we rise? Satan desecrates all three, coiling through power, pews, hearts, but grace redeems—not fully, not now. “The kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark 1:15)—present in this triad, a truth to discern. See the desecration, the lies; see the snake’s aim, the line he can’t break till the trumpet sounds; cling to the grace—for the Lord reigns, His holy places endure, a beacon in the twilight.

2 thoughts on “DESECRATION and Grace: The HOLY TRIAD of God’s Reign”

  1. A Proposed Footnote for Your Article

    A growing number of leaders in Christendom are of the opinion that the Gospel (as taught from the pulpit with strict adherence to Scripture) is ineffective, antiquated, and the leading cause for the decline of orthodox Christianity. But they are wrong. Everything we need to live the Gospel message is in the Bible. Scripture tells us why Jesus came, what He said, and what He wants to do “in us” and “through us.” But what would Jesus say to church leaders today? He might remind them to think again about the longstanding principle of trusting God, a prophetic message given centuries ago. The prophet Jeremiah wrote:

    “Thus, saith the Lord; “Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord” (Jeremiah 17:5).

    In what way does the Jeremiah warning apply to the church? What verse in the New Testament would support the warning. The Apostle Paul’s warning mirrors Jeremiah’s prophecy. The apostle wrote:

    “Beware lest any man deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8).

    Mans trust in man (or trust in the philosophy of man) makes flesh his arm (strength) to do exploits without need for God, and herein the moment when the heart departs from the Lord.

    One example of the heart departing from God is Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Movement, a slick marketing philosophy that “… offers a ‘Broad Way Christianity.’ One of the mysteries of the Christian faith can be found in Jesus’ warning that “the way to everlasting life is ‘narrow’ and that ‘few’ there be that find it. Jesus is telling us in advance that the ‘Broad Way’ (no matter how well intended) is not from Him. With Rick Warren’s reformation movement based on deeds and not creeds, everyone is invited to participate in this global effort.” (Source) (italics mine)

    Any movement of man away from the “whole counsel of God” is desecrating the word of God. Those adopting the philosophies of man appease the flesh by approving the often heard “non-offensive-gospel” blended with “entertainment-styled” worship services. This, then, is the new and better way of doing church. But when you think about it, how can that “made by man” be better than that “made and decreed by the will of God?” And yet, the minds of men strive to find “new thoughts and new ways” to make the gospel acceptable to all the world. The Lord God said:

    “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV)

    And what does the arm of flesh look like? It looks like self-eminence, the sin of Lucifer to think more highly of his “thoughts and ways” than of God’s. Many churches have adopted Warren’s philosophy of doing church in a new and better way, and all the while imagining they follow the “thoughts and ways” of Christ not realizing the harm they do.

    The church desecration of which you write is the “spear being thrust in the side of Christendom.” Again, thank you for stirring my memory to remember the seriousness of the moment.
    Blessings!
    Jim

    1. Jim, your footnote nails it—Warren’s movement is a stark example of the desecration I’m pointing to, a broad-way drift that trades God’s narrow truth for man’s slick ideas. Jeremiah’s curse and Paul’s warning hit the mark: trusting flesh over God is the rot piercing Christendom’s shell. I see it too—self-eminence masquerading as progress, yet the remnant holds fast against this tide. Thanks for the scriptures and the spear image—it’s a piercing reminder of what’s at stake. Blessings back!

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