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U.S. it's just kind of fleeing North America. Hadn't. Like, my. Some of my ancestors are Chippewa from the north, northern parts of the US And Canada in that area. And I just think all the time, like, my ancestors, they were here, they were in the dark. They didn't have the light of the gospel, and they were governed by evil spirits, their lore says so. They say. So like our moderns, we look back and like, oh, well, clearly they invented this. They looked at the sky and they thought to themselves, what if there were spirits that were moving all of the pretty lights? And they were like, no, we were like. We had gods and they appeared to us, and there were giants, and there was all this stuff, and it was really bad. And sometimes we'd have to kill people for them, and they'd make our crops grow or not grow. And so then Christianity comes to the continent, and they start converting. And we should expect that at the border of that. You think of it like an empire that's expanding. There's war at the borders, right? You can have enemies come in behind you and do nonsense, and you have to do a battle behind you sometimes. But it's at the borders that you'll find the hottest part of the battle. And that's what you see in history, whether it's the Germanic pagans in the first millennium, or whether it's the Native Americans in the second millennium after Christ. Christ is treading underfoot his enemies. In 1 Corinthians 15, it says he's seated at the right hand of God. The most cited psalm from the Old Testament in the New Testament. Actually the most cited verse from the Old Testament in the New Testament, Psalm 1:10:1, where it says, the Lord says to my Lord, and it's Yahweh says to Elohim, or the Jehovah says to Elohim, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. Paul picks up on this in first Corinthians, and it's okay. The Father says to the Son, and the Son is seated at his right hand until the Father makes his enemies a footstool for his feet. So what is the picture? Christ died, he conquered, like Colossians 2. He conquered the domain of darkness. He put them to open shame. He triumphed over them. And then he ascended to the majesty on high, where he sat down at the right hand of God. And as the gospel of the kingdom goes forth and converts the nations, those old gods and old powers are being subdued progressively in history. And when will Christ return? This is why I'm a post millennialist. Christ will return when the nations have been subdued and the world has become Christian. Not every person in the world, not universal salvation when the nations are baptized, but when the nations have been baptized and instructed in Christ's ways. And then he will stand up and he will return as a triumphant ruler to his conquered domain. And until then, we're going to see skirmishes. It's like in Narnia when Peter the High King and the four Peter and Edmund and Lucy and Susan, they're the four, the two kings and two queens over Narnia. There's a time when it says that they put down all their enemies, but then they would still go out to the borders on the north, and they would fight the giants there, and they would expand the kingdom. And that's basically what's happening in history now.
