Whither Christendom?

This site goes online Christmas Day, 2000 Anno Domini - the two thousandth year after the birth of Jesus Christ. From the fall of pagan Rome, to the rise of the Holy Roman Empire, Christianity transformed itself from an obscure sect to the State Religion of Europe. On Christmas Day 800 A.D., in the Eternal City, the Pope crowned Charlemagne supreme monarch of that Empire. Charlemagne ruled from Aachen, Belgium.

On June 1, 2000, in Aachen, the prize that bears his name was given to William Jefferson Clinton. And so another ironic inversion of history occurs, the eponymic honor of the first European Christian leader is conferred on a leader of the New World Order. Inversion of the good into evil is Satan's favorite trick.

In the twelve hundred years between those two events, Christendom extended its reach from the four corners of Europe to the seven continents of the world, and became the world's largest religion, claiming over two billion adherents in the year 2000 A.D. The expansion of Christendom caused and coincided with the expansion of European world power, technological, cultural and military.

That expansion eventually formed the jewel of Christendom's crown. The United States of America inherited the best traditions of Europe: English law, French political ideals and German democratic traditions. In the final two centuries of the last two millennia, the United States of America proved that a nation could not only survive but thrive by granting maximum freedom to the individual.

From 1941 to 1991, Europe's baptized child returned to Europe to rescue its fatherland from National Socialism and Communism.

The year 2000 should have been Christianity's triumphal year. In the twentieth century after the birth of Christ, the nations of Christendom, led by the United States, won the world wars against National Socialism and Communism. The world spoke English - the chief language of Christendom. The world traded in dollars, the coin of the Christian realm. And all the world reckoned time from the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

How strange and yet how fitting that Christianity should be required to begin anew its work at this very moment. Because man again chooses to turn away from God, to reject His Providence, to sacrifice his Son, in the vainglorious pursuit of some man-made idol, some New World Order. Again, the innocents are slaughtered - by Cain, by Pharaoh, by Herod, by Pharisees, by Romans. And on, and on, and on, for if God does not end the World, it shall continue, and wickedness shall therefore continue because it is as much a part of this World as any other thing.

From Mesopotamia, to Egypt, to Rome, to Europe, to the United States and beyond, Providence unfolds before us and requires us to decide, to commit, and to fight. The enemy comes in many guises, but he is always the same - it is the ruler of this world who is coming, the Evil One (John 14:30). Gird yourselves for the battle. Prepare to fight for faith and freedom.