Only a Matter of Time

All Nations Required to be Christian

"All nations are absolutely required to be Christian, in their official capacity as well as in the personal character of their individual citizens. Any nation that does not submit to the all embracing rule of King Jesus will perish; all nations shall be Christianized some day. It is only a matter of time. Jesus Christ is the universal sovereign, and he will be recognized as such throughout the earth, in this world as well as in the next, in time as well as eternity. He has promised: 'I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth' (Psalm 46:10). The Lord of hosts is with us." 
David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance, p.489.

1 The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool."
2The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power,
in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.
4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind,
"You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
5 The Lord is at your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses;
he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.
Psalm 110

The Kingdom of God does not come by the sword, or by force. It is a Kingdom of consent--just as no-one truly believes in the Saviour except by personal faith and repentance. It is a Kingdom of people universally born again by the sovereign, free work of the Spirit of God. Without this, no-one even sees the Kingdom, let alone participates. So our Lord definitively declared in John 3. God's people freely offer themselvesin the day of His power.

So, why then the reference to kings (and nations) being shattered, filled with corpses? This is the judgement of God wrought upon ungodly kings and nations by the ungodly. Even as the pagan Romans encircled Jerusalem in AD 66-70, destroying it utterly, for their own reasons and goals, in fact they were the servants of God, carrying out His purposes and judgments. That is why the Christ declared to the High Priest that he would see the Son of Man Himself at the head of the destroying armies.

This was not new. God used the Assyrians and the Babylonians as His servants, His chosen vessels, to judge faithless Israel. He also used the Babylonians to shatter the Assyrians, then the Medes and Persians to judge Babylon, then Greeks to judge the Medes, and so on. These judgements are so shattering that they shake the very foundations of Unbelief, and, as it pleases Him, lead people to yearn for the Prince of peace. The violent degradation of so many people in the Roman world was one of the reasons the Gospel first spread so powerfully amongst the Gentiles. In the same way, we are told, (here, here, and here) we are witnessing a turning to Christ amongst Muslim people in these days, as they see the violence and wickedness of their inherited religion.

These patterns are not new. They are typical of the work of God making His enemies a footstool for the Lord Jesus Christ. As the kings of Unbelieving nations shatter each other, in mutually destructive, enervating divine judgements, so the people yearn for the Prince of peace. Until the day their kings and governments also offer themselves freely in the day of His power.

Only a matter of time. From age to age, He stands, and time is in His hands.