Section 3. Democracy

1. Initiator of the Democratic World

Do you know why democracy was created? God made it because of His desire to embrace humankind as His children. In the past, rulers treated people like servants or laborers, but this was not proper. So God sent a true messenger so that He could embrace even those who are betraying and cursing God. Furthermore He sent His own son even to death to embrace people. Through that God has been destroying the evil world. When the messenger is embracing people, he is causing to retreat all rulers who are in the position of Satan's servant, and he is causing to retreat all the rulers who are children of the evil world. Now he is pushing to make an era of the realm of brotherhood.

Where is the initiator of democracy? When we look at the democratic world, we see the hand of God. Democracy is a worldwide structure which was molded from the Christian culture. Christianity was started by God. Christianity, which has centered on goodness, flourished. However, now, in the Last Days, democracy has not been producing good fruit. Then, is the lack of good fruit God's fault, or does the lack of good fruit result from Christianity's lack of responsibility to set the right direction? It's not God's fault. We can reason that if Christianity, which is representing all people, doesn't fulfill its responsibility, a bad result will follow.

Had it not been for the sacrifice of the early church, do you think that there could be the kind of Christian church today where we can sit comfortably and worship? No way! We have to know that. If you visited Rome and saw the catacombs, you would know how unbearable it was for the early Christians. They lived each day thinking, "Today is my last day, today I am leaving this world to go to God." They could not live one day comfortably. Today's Christians should never forget the foundation created by their blood sacrifice. Through this kind of sacrifice, God made the foundation for democracy.