[Darris McNeely] It's very tempting for us all to hope for our country and our nation to be rehabilitated, to come out of any problems solved with solutions, the problems that impact every one of our nations, every single day with the problems we're seeing in today's world.

But, you know, I've been thinking about that as we have entered into the Fall Holy Day season. We've just observed the Feast of Trumpets, one of the major Holy Days in God's plan. And the profound meaning of that day, the Feast of Trumpets, as we find from the scriptures, offers us something to contemplate about our world today, the nations of the world and what the Feast of Trumpets shows is going to happen.

In Revelation 11:15, a key verse that talks about the actual appearance of Jesus Christ, we find something that happens that really we need to think about. It says, "At the sounding of the seventh angel, there was loud voices in heaven saying, 'The kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever.'" The kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of our Lord. It's what Revelation 11 and verse 15 says, our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Christ at His return is not going to take over the nation of China with its particular form of government, or the United States of America with its form of government, or Russia, or any other existing nation in this world. The Kingdom of God is a completely different system.

It's a completely different government based on, get ready to hear this, different laws, the laws of God. And so when we look at our countries and our nations today and tempting as it might be to get involved and to want to promote the reform and the political structures of our particular nations, we have to understand that if we're looking for the Kingdom of God, then we're looking for something completely different because Christ is not going to reform those nations. He is going to place them under the rule of the Kingdom of God.

It all makes more sense when we understand something that Jesus did when He was on this Earth as a human being. We have to go back to Matthew chapter 4 where we have the occasion where Christ as a man was tempted by Satan with various temptations attempting to get Him to deny His divinity and His role as the coming King of kings and Lord of lords. The final temptation Satan put over Jesus was, as we read, he took Him up onto the high place of the temple and he showed Him all of the nations of the world. And he said, "They're all Yours if You just bow down and worship me," to which Christ replied, "Get thee behind Me Satan, as it is written, you shall only worship the Lord your God" (Matthew 4:8-10). At that moment, Christ rejected rulership over the nations of this world. When He comes the second time as King of kings and Lord of lords, He is coming to take over the kingdoms of this world and to make them the Kingdoms of our Lord.

That's a profound truth of the Scriptures anchored and understood as we observe the Holy Days and specifically the Feast of Trumpets and all that that then begins to unlock in the meaning of God's plan of salvation toward the other fall Holy Days, which we're just a few days away from observing. And it does make a big difference in the way we live our lives and the way we think about our place and role in this world today, and our view and understanding of God and His Kingdom.

That's BT Daily. Join us next time.