Willie Robertson

It's kind of like a little bit of a diplomatic moment as he writes this, because he pointed out this is in the... Well, forget about Caligula and Nero and some of these horrible...

the leaders of Rome that were horrible to the church.

Yeah, just ignore that.

But you could tell he was kind of like doing a little bit of maybe politicking too.

But I want to revisit that for a second.

Think about, this is something, the framework that I think is biblical and it's centered to what I would say is a biblical eschatology is that the kingdom is expanding.

I mean, that seems to be the picture in Scripture.

Even before Christ inaugurates the kingdom, even in the Old Testament, I mean, Genesis 128, the call was not to, okay, I want you to build the garden, cultivate this garden, and make sure you guys build a fence around this thing to keep it contained and don't let anybody in.

That wasn't really the instruction.

The instruction was to take it and expand it, to cultivate the earth, expand it.

And so when you think about the nature of the kingdom,

And particularly as Jesus is giving the keys to Peter, based on this confession that I am the Christ, I'm going to build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail.

That does tell you something about the nature of the kingdom.

that the kingdom is expanding and moving forward.

It's not regressing and retreating and fortifying.

That's what hell does.

Hell has gates, not the kingdom.

And then the way the kingdom proceeds is it barrels through, it just pushes right through, and it storms the gates of hell.

And so to me, that is one of the...

I mean, that is honestly one of the key things I think about when I think about, okay, where is God moving?