"If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Psalm 11:3 Worldwide, democracy is touted as the ultimate system for the governance of mankind, divided as it is in a myriad nations, many until now without true democracy. And yet we know from history that even mass movements for change, and so-called democratic elections, have been employed to bring the most vicious of rulers and dictators to power. We think of the Russian revolution, which began as a movement to end the corruption of the Czar, but resulted in the rise of Lenin and Stalin, monsters to their own people, millions of whom they slaughtered in the name of Communism. Mao Zedong, swept in on a wave of popular support of and for the masses, only to become China's despotic leader, and butchering an even greater number of his own people in the name of "democracy." We can think of Adolf Hitler. He used the democratic process to reach the office of Reich's Chancellor, then burned the Reichstag - symbol of German democracy - to the ground, embraced the unconstitutional title of Führer und Reichskanzler, and facilitated the slaughter of more than 50 million people - of which more than six million were Jews. Genocide by a "democratically elected" leader! Not to speak of the more recent example of the so-called democratic mass movement against the corruptions of the Shah, the former emperor of Persia. Led by the Ayatollah Khomeini, that "revolution" birthed the terrifying rule of the mullahs: first Khomeini, and now Khamanei and his man Ahmadinejad - the modern-day-Hitler - who threatens, and prepares to inflict, a holocaust on the Israeli Jewish nation. With the predominance of Islamic radicalism and ascendant Shi'ite influence, we may well see the recent movements "for change and freedom" across the Middle East exploited by these fanatical forces to engineer Khomeini-like takeovers of most of these unsuspecting crowds and nations by Muslim Brotherhood- or Al-Qaida-affiliated leaders, all to the detriment of true freedom and democracy. Why is it then that, according to most Western observers and leaders, democracy is such a desirable obsession? The answer is that, in most of the Western world, democracy came about as a result of the transformation of men and women who, while with differing degrees of intensity, at least gave heed to the moral dictates of a Judeo-Christian foundation. It was these men and women, enlightened by a law higher than their own wisdom, desires, and aspirations, who became the initiators of benevolent democracies solidly founded on something above the opinion and will of the masses. Stating this today would likely trigger a fierce and negative reaction, even from modern Western intellectuals, politicians and journalists. For although the glories of the past shone bright in relation to Britain - upon whose empire the sun never set, or the Netherlands - in their 'golden age' with Rembrandt, or on more recently-blessed America - based on the principles laid down by her pioneering puritan-bred statesmen - it is a very different story today. These very nations, founded upon the dictates of Someone higher than their own desires and wisdom, now generally scorn these principles and foundations, each having become increasingly hedonistic, ruled by men and women who reject any authority other than themselves to govern! This is why democracy itself has today become a grave danger - not only in fanatic, religion-ruled Middle Eastern nations, but also in the West, where untransformed men and women are unable to set the right course for themselves and their nations, especially where the final authority for all moral and political questions lies within the confines of their own limited, self-centered-and-ruled, appetites and lives. What is needed, then, is an old fashion movement of change and transformation like the classic revivals of old; that God and the fear for Him would re-enter our leaders and societies, transforming the lives of men and women who will then under God - as the American nation once desired to be - get pleasure from, and have the real benefit of, their democracies!! But is it not already too late for such a change?? Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director International Christian Zionist Center Address:
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