The History of the Geopolitical Advance of the Pivot. 1. The Dispensation of Israel. a. The first client nation to God was Israel. The dispensation of Israel was built around four different client nations. Between B.C. 1440 and A.D. 70, God called out a new racial species in order to form the first in a series of Jewish client nations. Blessing was related to those nations. Many Old Testament books reveal Israel’s impact on history. b. The four different nations were: 1) The United Kingdom. 2) The Northern Kingdom. 3) The Southern Kingdom. 4) Judah. c. The administration of the fifth cycle of discipline to each of the four client nations was as follows. 1) Assyria administered the fifth cycle of discipline to the northern kingdom in B.C. 721. 2) The Chaldeans administered the fifth cycle of discipline to the southern kingdom in B.C. 586. 3) The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and took over Palestine in 70 A.D. that was the end of all Jewish client nations, and the beginning of the times of the gentiles. 2. The times of the gentiles. a. During these times of the gentiles, no Jewish nation can be a client nation to God, not until the second advent of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of the four unconditional covenants to Israel. b. The first gentile client nation to God was S.P.Q.R., i.e., the senate and the people of Rome, which we call the Roman Empire. This was the first and in many ways the greatest gentile client nation to God. 1) When the Roman Empire reached its peak with a large pivot, there was the golden age of the Antoine Caesars, 96 - 192 A.D. The historian Gibbon called this period the golden age of humanity. 2) The period of the Antoine Caesars was a time of dictatorship, and yet a time of the most fantastic blessing. This proves that the issue is not the type of government, but the pivot of believers. c. Other great gentile client nations of the past include the Goths, the franks, the Swiss under Calvin and Zwingli, Scotland under Patrick, Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus, parts of Germany under Luther, France under the Huguenots, Great Britain, Brandenberg Prussia under Frederick the great. History of the Gentile Pivots 1. Pauls prayer of Eph 1:15ff anticipated that Rome would become the first gentile client nation. As he traveled, he was always looking for a pivot. Finally, he found it in the Roman province of Asia, with Ephesus as its capital, the holy city for the next few centuries. This motivated his prayer in Eph 1:15ff. Rev 2 3 mentions seven of those churches in Asia. a. However, Paul’s prayer is effectual for the pivot as it spreads around the globe throughout the church age. b. This first pivot, headquartered in Ephesus, can be called the Aegean pivot as it spread to Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Northern Africa, and Rome. 2. The second pivot was the pivot around the Roman sea, under the one hundred year reign of the Antoine Caesars. The Mediterranean Sea became a Roman lake. 3. The third great pivot was Eighteenth Century western European civilization, as evidenced in the renaissance, the reformation, and the four great pivots in Germany, France, Holland, and England. 4. The fourth was the Atlantic pivot of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. a. It began with the age of discovery and Columbus. Then came the colonization of the western hemisphere, South Africa, other parts of Africa, and India. This was the great period of the British Empire, whose influence caused stability throughout the world. b. The core of it all was the Anglo-Saxon pivot, mainly found in England and the United States. But today the Anglo-Saxon pivot has run out of gas! It is dying here, and is practically non existent in England. 5. In the Twenty-First Century, if the rapture doesnt occur, the pivot will move to the pacific basin. a. The pacific was already great at the beginning of this twentieth century. It saw one of the greatest revivals ever in Korea in 1905 under Presbyterian missionaries. b. Today we see many signs that point to the pacific basin as the next pivot center. 6. Just as the barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in its decline and were often evangelized, with many becoming strong believers; so today we see the invasion of the peoples of the east, as it were, coming to the United States to be evangelized. 7. We are on our way out today. We are constantly leaning toward decadent Europe, which is gone. Our missionary thrust should be toward the pacific. History of the Pivot and Client Nations from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. 1. In modern history, the eighteenth century was one of the greatest periods of radical change. It began with the death of Louis XIV in 1715, and terminated with the congress of Vienna in 1815. 2. This century cannot be understood from the standpoint of the pivot apart from Louis XIV, whose reign and policy in the seventeenth century shaped the course of Europe for over 100 years, and the course of everything, including the industrial revolution, down to this moment. a. Louis xiv was called the sun king. He was a very arrogant person. He ruled France under the concept: I am the state. b. Louis XIV was a rabid advocate of the divine right of kings. It was he who first wrote, “Kings are absolute lords. To them belong, naturally, the full and free disposal of all property of their subjects, whether they be churchmen or laymen.” He also said, “God has given kings to men and He has willed that they alone should review their conduct.” c. Louis XIV ruled for half a century, from 1643 to 1715. He started out under the brilliant administration of Cardinal Mazarin, who died in 1661 (Richelieu died in 1642), after which Louis took over the reign of the government. He not only impoverished France through many arrogant, useless wars, but in 1685 he did one thing that changed the course of history and brought in the Anglo-Saxon pivot. d. In 1685, Louis XIV revoked the edict of Nantes. Up to that point, France had been a client nation due to the presence of the Huguenots, the French Calvinists who, as the middle class, had brought the most phenomenal prosperity to France. e. But in his terrible arrogance, Louis renounced the edict of Nantes and began a persecution. Those Huguenots who were not killed left France for several places: Prussia, which became a client nation; Holland, for the Dutch republic was a client nation; England; and the United States. Charleston, South Carolina was the home of the Huguenots in America; from there they branched out through the Carolinas. 3. The reformation was another major factor in the development of the eighteenth century pivot. In effect, it began in 1517 when Martin Luther published 95 theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. That was the beginning of the reformation, out of which came new pivots and new client nations: the pivot in the Netherlands resulted in the rise of the Dutch republic, the pivot in France was made up of the Huguenots, the pivot in Sweden thrived under Gustavus Adolphus, the pivot in northern Germany under Frederick William the great elector, and the pivot in England under Cromwell and the wonderful protectorate he provided which was continued under the rule of William and Mary of Orange. 4. The English colonies saw the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon pivot in this hemisphere. To this day, the pivot has only existed in our northern hemisphere; it has never existed south of the Rio Grande. 5. So the eighteenth century was a cauldron, a time of great wars, the rise of great generals, great battles, and it was all terminated by the treaty of Utrecht. a. In America, the War of Spanish succession was called Queen Anne’s war; it made a definite contribution to the beginning of our fantastic client nation. b. From the war of Austrian succession, great leaders emerged, like Frederick the Great; in America it was called the King George’s war. c. The seven years war was here called the French and Indian war. d. The French revolution terminated with the rise of Napoleon. e. All these wars made fantastic contributions to history, not only militarily, but also to the rise of the renaissance and the beginning of the industrial revolution. 6. The eighteenth century saw the beginning of inventions which affected the rise of the industrial revolution. Hargraves invented the spinning jenny, Cartwright the power loom, James Watt the steam engine. 7. In 1730, at Oxford University, three men held a prayer meeting: John and Charles Wesley and George Whitfield, from which grew a fantastic pivot. As a result, the eighteenth century was the beginning of client nations from a great pivot of mature believers in England, the United States, northern Germany, and Holland. 8. The eighteenth century ended dramatically with the congress of Vienna in 1815, and a new map of Europe emerged under Metternich. Russia received Poland, Finland, and Bessarabia; Sweden got Norway; Belgium and the Dutch provinces tried to unite into one kingdom (which didnt work) called the kingdom of the Netherlands; Prussia received half of Saxony, part of the Rhineland; Austria was given the eastern side of the Adriatic: Lombardy, Venetia, and upper Italy. Russia, Prussia and Austria formed the holy alliance, one of the greatest threats ever. For under the command of Alexander of Russia, this holy alliance planned to invade the United States, which would have been disastrous! 9. Out of this great eighteenth century pivot came the beginning of the greatest missionary activity of all time, with such missionaries as William Carey, Henry Martin, Reginald Hebert, Adoniram Judson, John Scutter in India, Robert Morrison, dr. Nevius, Hudson Taylor, Peter Parket in China, Dr. James Hepburn, Samuel Brown, Gido Werbecht, Capt. L.L. James in Japan, Dr. H.G. Underwood and John Ross in Korea, Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons, Dr. C.W. Van Dyke and Eli Smith in Beirut; Keith Falconder and Samuel Zweemer in Arabia; Robert Moffat, John Crop, John Redman, Alexander McKay, Thomas McComer, George Greenville, Henry Rich, Adolphus Good, Mary Schlesser and Samuel Crowthar and Livingston all in Africa, Capt. Allen Gardner in Tierra Del Fuego, David Trumball and H.B. Pratt in Columbia, and L.L. Letters in Mexico. 10. First came the wars, then the pivots, then the missionaries. The wars readjusted history, setting the stage for missionary thrusts. The French lost India to the British. With British rule came the missionaries. The same occurred in Africa. Those nations who succeeded in controlling parts of Africa sent some of the greatest missionaries in history. 11. This same eighteenth century saw great changes in culture and the arts. In the field of music came Bach, Handel, Hayden, Mozart. Great artists included Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainesborough, Goya, and Hogarth. Great writers included Alexander Pope, who became the exponent of neoclassicism in English literature, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, John Boswell, and Oliver Goldsmith. 12. All the eighteenth centurys cultural, spiritual, and historical changes pointed to one great pivot. The so called “Holy club of Oxford” started it all. a. From George Whitfield came Selenas countess Huntington; the Moravian brethren were under count Zinzendorf; Spangenberg went to Pennsylvania; Dober and Nichemann went to St. Thomas, and Christian David went to Greenland. Augustus Montague Toplady became one of the great men involved in that pivot of 1740 1778. b. Others included John Newton, William Calper, John and Isaac Milner, Henry Venn, Hannah Moore, Robert Rakes, John Howard, William Wilburforce, Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, William Carey, Henry Martin, and Robert Morrison. c. Though these are all just names to you, in gods books, these are the great men of history! Some came close but missed the boat, e.g., Immanuel Kant. He was so close, yet he failed. 13. The Holy Alliance and the Monroe Doctrine. a. During the congress of Vienna, Metternich authored a league of nations in Europe. It was led by czar Alexander of Russia, emperor Francis I of Austria, king Frederick William III of Prussia, and later Ferdinand vii of Spain was added, making it a quadruple alliance. It formed one of the greatest attacks this hemisphere has ever sustained. b. The objective of this league was the maintenance of the catholic religion plus peace and order in Europe. However, this occurred during the time of absolute monarchies and the suppression of all political freedoms. c. One of the agenda items of the holy alliance was to retrieve the colonies Spain had lost, and therefore to invade this hemisphere. At that time, James Monroe was our president. His secretary of state, John Quincy Adams, was one of the best in our history. d. On behalf of president Monroe, Adams wrote an answer to that invasion before it began: if the holy alliance subdues Spanish America, the ultimate result of the undertaking will be not to set up a standard of Spain, but to portion out this continent for themselves. e. So Adams recognized immediately the evil that would come out of this. For example, Russia might have taken California, Peru, and Chile, and the Pacific Ocean would have become a Russian lake. f. This crisis resulted in a speech given to congress by president Monroe on 2 December 1823, written by John Quincy Adams. We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to amicable relationships existing between the United States and European powers, to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. In other words, well fight! As a result, they never invaded. g. The result was that, in this hemisphere, there were fifteen independent republics involving fifteen million people which emerged from the ruins of the Spanish empire, to include: Colombia, Venezuela, equator, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, etc. h. Prior to this Monroe doctrine, in September 1821, czar Alexander of Russia had claimed the entire pacific coast for the Russians, for he planned to take over this hemisphere. i. The Monroe doctrine is the last time the United States has had a clear foreign policy. That policy made it possible for this hemisphere to remain in a state of semi isolation, so that not only could a pivot be formed, but also so that millions of people throughout the world could find eternal salvation through faith in Christ. For we sent out more missionaries than anyone in the world, with the exception of England. And we developed a fantastic pivot in this country! So that the Anglo-Saxon pivot eventually received its strength from the United States of America. 14. Whats the status of the pivot today? How stands the United States of America now? a. We see the same historical trends occurring as in the eighteenth century. Again, Russia has plans to take over the United States and make the Pacific Ocean a Russian lake. b. Popular among fundamentalist Christians today is Christian activism and civil disobedience. We see a decline in interest in Bible doctrine. Therefore, we see a failure to send out the right kind of missionaries, a failure to form a large enough pivot, and disaster will inevitably result. 15. Application to the believer. a. There are two things the believer must never do when he is depressed by history. 1. Feel sorry for himself. 2. Justify his nation when its on its way down under divine discipline. b. The believer takes responsibility for his own decisions. If he makes bad decisions, that contributes to the overall failure of the client nation.
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