Matthew 18:3-4 New International Version
3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
One of the things that made George Lucas' fictional Force interesting as a story plot device was how counter-intuitive it was for most of the characters. Luke's first interaction with the Force is a training exercise where Obi-Wan Kenobi asks him to try to defend himself against a drone with the 'blast shield' on the helmet lowered, i.e. to fight blind. After initially failing, he eventually starts to get the hang of it. At the end of the movie, Luke demonstrates that he learned something about the Force in the brief interim by destroying the Death Star by 'using the Force' to aim his proton torpedoes rather than his targeting computer. The Force, in Lucas' imagining, is not like anything we know from our own experience here on Earth.
As Jesus explains the Kingdom of God to his disciples, he time and time emphasizes that the methods and goals of the kingdom he is founding are not those of this world. It won't operate according to this world's rules, and it won't chase after what this world covets. The Kingdom of God will be different.
The Church, therefore, must follow this series of commands and teachings by Jesus when considering how we are to fulfill our obligations as encapsulated in the Great Commission. If we attempt to achieve the correct goals, but do so using the methodology and tactics of this world, we will fail. If we attempt to achieve goals other than the ones that Jesus told us to pursue, we will fail. It is that simple.
Unfortunately, Church History is full of examples of men and women, some of whom were acting in sincere faith and devotion, others not so much, who either abandoned Jesus' methodology, or eschewed his goals. The results were, entirely predictably, disastrous.
Here is where 'Christian' Nationalism comes in. As a movement, it is BOTH utilizing strategies and tactics that are in direct contradiction to Jesus' example of servanthood and righteousness by placing morality as a lower priority than winning, AND doing so in the service of the pursuit of worldly power (and the wealth and fame that go with it) that Jesus never, not once, told his disciples to pursue. Knowing that either immoral methodology, or faulty goals, will doom any human endeavor that is supposedly undertaken on God's behalf, it is certain that 'Christian' Nationalism will fail, as it has always done throughout Church History, no matter how much power it manages to scrape together in this world. Make sure you understand this: Even if 'Christian' Nationalists "take back America for God" they will fail. Even if they control the entire government, in perpetuity, wielding all of its power in pursuit of their politics, they will fail. It may not look like it from the heights of world power, but it will most assuredly be true when looking at the effect upon the Kingdom of God.
Failure is inevitable because the Kingdom of God doesn't work this way, and the Kingdom of God isn't interested in what Nationalists so badly want.
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