What a theocracy looks like...

...according to the Prophet Micah.

"And it will come about in the last days that the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. And many nations will come and say, "Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the House of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths." For from Zion will go forth the Law, even the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He will judge between many peoples and render decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they train for war. And each of them will sit under his vine and fig tree, with no one to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. Though all the peoples walk in the names of his god, as for us, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. "In that day", declares the Lord, "I will assemble the lame and gather the outcasts, even those whom I have afflicted. I will make the lame a remnant and the outcasts a strong nation." And the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from now on and forever."

Micah 4:1-7

- A theocracy is established by teaching the Lord's ways, it is not salvation by legislation.

- God is above the nations, but the nations are not abolished or done away with. There is no 'one world government', except in the spiritual sense.

- A world permeated with the Law of God is a world at peace, a world preoccupied with plowing and planting.

- Private property is established as the basis of peace and security for each household.

- False Gods and false religions, though present, are gradually and peacefully put away.

- The government of God is concerned with the afflicted, the poor, the weak, the lame; and He establishes and strengthens them. Christian, do you desire authority and respect in this world? Then go and serve the orphan and the widow, for this is true and righteous religion, according to the Apostle James.