There is now no question about it. Western Christendom is entering into a time of extreme duress. Here is a thumbnail sketch. It is important to note that this analysis can only be understood and comprehended by those who know the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, and Joseph and have a biblical world view from the accounts written in both Old and New Testaments, and showcased by the saints from both sides of Calvary. This assessment is a spiritual one that goes far beyond the cold facts of world politics and economics.. So, it can only be appreciated by those who have some commitment to the God of Israel, and His Christ, His coming Messiah. Such people are in a blood covenant devotion to their Redeemer, Israel's promised Sacrifice Lamb, the coming Lion of Judah, the returning Judge and Shepherd-King. They know Him in their hearts by His Holy Spirit, who guides them in the peace of His righteous rule and Law, and in the security and comfort of His redeeming Grace. Here are the main points.

1. The post-Nicene Constantinian Accord of "God and king" "politics and religion" dates back to the Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E. It is 1700 years old as of the Summer of 2025. Throughout those centuries there was the good and the bad. Of course the rulers in church and state who turned out to be scoundrels were there in abundance. But so too were the heroes of the frays and the heroes of the faith. So who has been sovereign in all these events? Sometimes the changes they hoped to avert moved on in the plan of God anyway. Such was the case of church and state we saw play out with King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey.

There is no denying that in this post-modern era Western Christendom, under the protection of Western kings, princes, dukes, and merchants, suffering moral decline. Of late we have seen the mores of a good and moral society under relentless attack of "woke". Is this a temporary "bump in the road" that can be turned around? Or are we looking at the impending collapse of the Constantinian Accord? And if so, what is next? There has been much conversation in recent years of a coming threshold of world history, a "Great Reset". Might this be a regime change for financially strapped western nations, perhaps into some form of new "global governance"?

2. The Pax Americana dating back to the end of World War 2 is 80 years old as of August of 2025. Increasingly it is struggling to maintain world peace in the face of a rabid spiritual assault. There is an existential threat and a "clear and present danger" amassed against both houses of Israel, those being the Jewish people and the nation in the land of Israel and the Christian world currently under the protection of the "hindermost of nations", the American superpower. The big question here is just what will the American superpower do in response to this? Will there be an attempt to restore the America and the world we once knew? Or will there be an event that forces the Pax Americana into a compromise? And if it should be the latter, what might that compromise look like?

3. The Constantinian Accord was brokered by the Byzantine Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th Century. He had received zero input and involvement from the Jewish Church, which after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and as noted in the Acts of the apostles had fallen from its former place of prominence. The Jewish church in Jerusalem had been the original core of the Church as it overflowed out of Jewish Israel on the Day of Pentecost. This came on the fiftieth day of the omer count from the Firstfruits Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah, in the late Spring season of the Passion Year.

4. The Jewish Church went into serious decline in the First Century. It should be noted that all 120 in the upper room that morning were Jews. It is also to be noted that the anointing they were given that epic day of new beginnings was a double anointing, as evidenced by the cloven tongues of fire that rested upon them. And now, nearly 300 years later, the House of David in Judah, the true sovereign of Israel and the Lawgiver as prophesied in Genesis 49, is completely absent from the deliberations going on at the Council of Nicaea. Is this important?

So then, what was this deal we, as the Congregation of Christ, the Church of Israel's promised Messiah, brokered, back in 325 C.E.? The Nicene Council did not feature or in any way include the royal Jewish House of David in Judah. Judah was, and still is destined to be God's Lawgiver, as prophesied by Jacob in Genesis 49 verse 10, and stated by King David in Psalm 60, verse 7.

5. The promised return of the Jewish House is fully assured by the prophet Zechariah in Zechariah chapter 12. The New Covenant in the hearts is the new administration of the Law by the Holy Spirit upholding the "Law of the Spirit". This "Law of the Spirit" is spoken of by the prophet Zechariah in Zechariah chapter 7 verse 12, and by the apostle Paul in Romans chapter 8 verse 2.

6. After the death of King Solomon in 932 came the Breach of Jeroboam. On that epic day the ten tribes walked out on the Jewish House of David. This was their legitimate sovereign. The prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter 3 verse 8 declares that the House of Israel of these ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, were divorced by the God of Israel under the Old Covenant. Where is their hope to be found now?

7. The problem of western disintegration into lawlessness is now becoming abundantly obvious. So then, can we perhaps survey at our current state of lawlessness in what was once some approximation to Western Christendom? Can we look at what we are lacking? Can we diagnose the problem here? Can we look at the remedy that in the New Covenant and and in communion with Messiah seems to have been offered to us?

For an overview click on this link, "The Council of Nicaea."