The concept of church and nation share something fundamental: they both require long-term development and vision. Neither the nation nor the church is an immediate or even midterm project. These are enduring visionary mandate, designed to outlast individuals. When we truly grasp this reality, it changes everything about how we build. The way we lay foundations, create frameworks, and establish structures for both the ecclesia and the nation must be designed with permanence in mind. These structures must be built to outlast even the best intentions of their current leadership.

Right now, both the church and the nation stand at a critical junction. We desperately need clear prophetic insight to navigate this moment we’ve been thrust into. I think anyone would agree that we’re living in critical times. Whether we want to accept it or reject it, whether we even realize it or not, the church and the nation are in a state of deep crisis. Where we find ourselves today is like someone in the ICU, in critical condition, requiring serious intensive care to revive that which is about to die.

Certain ideologies about leadership have been promoted as the solution for what the church and the nation need. But these very ideologies have done tremendous damage and continue to cause harm through division, segregation, and marginalization.

I want to expand on this further because this is critical to understand. God’s intention has always been to unite. Wherever we find division, wherever we find the works of separation and fragmentation, wherever we find all kinds of things that are not a reflection of divine counsel, we can know with certainty that we are not seeing the heart of God at work. The Bible tells us clearly that the enemy has come to steal, to kill, and to destroy. And one of the primary ways the enemy accomplishes this destructive work is through the spirit of divisiveness.

Division is not the nature of God. It is not the nature of the church. Neither should it be the innate nature of nation building. To truly have a nation, you must find unity. You must discover and cultivate the things that unite people together.

But when the rhetoric coming from leadership centers around division and segregation, when the language is constantly about separating people into opposing camps, when the focus is on what makes us different rather than what brings us together, that is a massive warning sign.

Any leader who is in a position of leadership and authority but whose message and methods create division is not representing the heart and intention of heaven.