I'm a political science professor, and I've watched democracy get corrupted, watched autocrats consolidate power, watched my country slide toward authoritarianism.
John's declaration - 'The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord' - comes not as a statement of fact but as a promise. It's not describing what is. It's declaring what will be.
So I teach from that place. Not cynicism about politics, but realism about the fact that human systems are temporary. Not naivety, but defiance. We work for justice not because I think we'll achieve it, but because the ultimate kingdom belongs to God, not to any human regime.
That changes how I approach activism. I'm not trying to save the world. I'm witnessing to the kingdom that's already won, already coming. That's a completely different energy.
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