If I Can Dream: A Prophetic Dream of Peace (the Protestant Way)

In this article I will show that real peace in the World  comes from peace in humans heart, not from institutions. Elvis Presley sang, “If I can dream of a better land, where all my brothers walk hand in hand…” That cry still lives because mankind still has not solved the oldest problem on earth: how to make peace without destroying the human soul. Scripture shows that true peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of righteousness, truth, and reconciliation with God (Isaiah 32:17; Psalm 85:10; Romans 5:1).

There will be very strong deception coming over humanity. The New World Order, they will call it. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not to save this World (1 John 2:15), what is most probably doomed anyway. The Gospel is to save our individual soul, totally independent of the World, be IN the World, not OF the World (John 15:19, 17:16, Hebrews 11:1). Political «Churches» can and will not never change men’s hearts, they are made for control of the population, not to free their souls.

  1. Church and State unity. Political or religious / spiritual world order enforced from above and down from institutionalized power structures as Catholicism, also need to defy bad apples in Protestantism for the same, throw female clergy out of the Churches, and defy the perversities they have brought in. Sovietism (Alexander Solshenitzyn «People have forgot God, that is why all this happened», 66 million murdered, for «peace» of the State, in his Harvard Address). Collectivism. Universal, applies for all the World. Tyranny. Peace enforced, cold hearts remains the same. Built on sand, based on political and clerical (Babylonian Whore from Johns Revelation) brutal force, it’s a crime not to comply. A perverted version of Christ is pushed promising «peace» by solidarity, tolerance, kindness, and other political slogans. Hearts by stone, power, might is right. No soft hearts here. It’s just outward, wolves in sheep’s clothing.
  2. Individual souls as in Protestantism, each soul is responsible for his repentance and seek Christ through hard studies, repentance, not to seek a Church to sit down and believe it is done by that, but find Christ in us directly (Luk 17:21). It is a lonely human sitting with his Bible, sola scriptura, and beg, Jesus, please Christ come quickly. He gave the promise to those who search, will find Him, «knock, knock» (Matt. 7:7). When found, than he/she is saved by getting a new heart of flesh to replace the one by stone, Ezekiel 36:26, 11:19, and will make the World Order from below and up. As inside, will be reflected outside. Nordic spirit. Grows organic from individuals hearts, Christ internalized in individuals (Luke 17:21). Outer reality reflects inner souls peace. Individualism. Homogeneous. Built on rock, on Christ. When individuals are good, saved by grace, got a new heart, than the peaceful society grows from below to above, from down to up.

It is not like humanity walks collectively against the same destiny. Some have an eternity,  some don’t. We are not here to make «peace in the world». We are here to rescue our personal souls, to acquire our own peace, inside. What others do is up to them, but when all have acquired it inside, there will be peace in the World, or in our individual homogeneous nations by compatible individuals. Multi cultures will NEVER have peace in the outer. That is the conclusion of 1000 years of experience and lesson learned of homogeneous  Christian Norway. That is the reason God require nations, and Satan world multi-culture Babylonian empire.

Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream

Failed Peace Projects

The twentieth century was filled with vast projects of imposed order. Empires, party-states, ideological states, and administrative machines all claimed they could create a new mankind. They spoke of justice, equality, security, scientific progress, social harmony, even brotherhood. Yet where the human heart remained untouched, the slogans became masks. Scripture warns that fallen man, when given unchecked power, exalts himself like Babel, seeking unity without God and heaven without repentance (Genesis 11:4–9). The state or ruling order then demands what belongs to God alone. In such systems, dissent becomes sin, compliance becomes virtue, and fear becomes social glue. Solzhenitsyn saw the core of it when he said that the catastrophe came because men had forgotten God. Scripture states the same principle: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10), and when men reject God, their thinking becomes vain and their hearts darkened (Romans 1:21–22).

EU was built on the promise there should never be war again. UN the same promise.

This is why Scripture warns against false peace. “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14; cf. Jeremiah 8:11). And again: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them” (1 Thessalonians 5:3). The warning is exact. There is a kind of peace-talk that is itself a sign of danger. There is a peace proclaimed by elites while the foundations underneath are rotten. There is a peace marketed, enforced, ritualized, and televised, while inwardly men remain cold, proud, lustful, fearful, resentful, and spiritually dead. Jesus Himself said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you” (John 14:27). The world gives one kind of peace; Christ gives another.

That kind of imposed peace is built on sand. Christ’s own image applies here: “a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand” (Matthew 7:26–27). It cannot last, because it never touched the center. It never reached the heart of stone.

Real peace comes in only one of two forms

One is imposed from above: by power, decree, institution, ideology, and fear. It promises order, unity, and safety for all, but it does not change the human heart. It manages sin; it does not cure it. It restrains evil outwardly while leaving man inwardly cold, proud, and unredeemed. Scripture warns of this false peace: “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14; cf. Jeremiah 8:11). And again: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

This is peace built on sand.

It may wear political language or religious language. It may speak of compassion, order, brotherhood, and the common good. It may even speak the name of Christ while denying His truth, repentance, judgment, and transforming power. But whatever is built on unconverted nature cannot stand. Christ Himself said that the house built on sand will fall when the storm comes (Matthew 7:26–27).

History confirms it. Systems built on collectivism, coercion, and centralized moral control always claim they are saving humanity. Yet they produce fear, conformity, and spiritual death. Solzhenitsyn was right: when men forget God, disaster follows. For “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). When that fear is lost, power fills the vacuum.

The other peace rises from below: from the inward renewal of persons before the outward ordering of society. It begins where God begins — in the heart. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you … and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26; cf. Ezekiel 11:19). Real peace is not first administrative. It is spiritual. It is not first structural. It is moral. It is not first external. It is internal.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17

This is peace built on rock.

“They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” — Jeremiah 6:14

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.” — Ezekiel 36:26

There is a dream that has never left the human heart

It rises in every age under different names. It appears in prayers, in songs, in tears, in revolutions, in ruins, in whispered hopes at the bedside of history. Elvis Presley gave it modern voice when he sang of a better land, where brothers walk hand in hand. Yet the longing itself is older than any singer, older than any nation, older even than empire. It is the longing for peace that is not false, not forced, not theatrical — but true.

And still the world reaches for peace by two radically different roads.

The first comes from above, imposed by the State or Clergy.

It arrives clothed in the language of order, safety, unity, civilization, humanitarian concern, even holiness. It is announced by rulers, administrators, priests, experts, systems, councils, and powers. It promises a world gathered into harmony through structure, discipline, pressure, conformity, and managed consent. It says that if authority is strong enough, if institutions are broad enough, if dissent is quieted and behavior regulated, then mankind may finally be made peaceful.

But Scripture has already judged that dream.

It is the ancient lie of Babel: unity without God, ascent without repentance, order without truth (Genesis 11:1–9). It is the smooth speech of those who cry, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace (Jeremiah 6:14; 8:11). It is the prophetic warning of a civilization whispering “Peace and safety” just before sudden destruction breaks upon it (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

For there can be no lasting peace built upon unchanged men. A rebirth and rebirth of any human to got a new Spirit of God, to rectify Adams curse, is needed. There is no peace in adamic men of the flesh, but when transformed, the Soul cry out ecstatic it is free, free at last;

A political order may restrain violence for a time, but it cannot remove hatred and animalistic impulses from Adams curse from the heart. A religious order may sanctify the vocabulary of peace, but it cannot breathe life into a dead conscience. A global order may regulate behavior, but it cannot turn pride into humility, fear into trust, or resentment into love. What is unredeemed within will eventually break through whatever is constructed without.

That is why all peace imposed from above, before man is inwardly renewed, is built on sand.

It may glitter. It may impress. It may call itself enlightened, moral, progressive, compassionate, or sacred. It may even borrow the name of Christ while emptying Him of His demands: truth, repentance, holiness, judgment, rebirth. But Christ Himself warned that what is built on sand will not endure the storm (Matthew 7:26–27). The collapse may be delayed. It will not be avoided.

Communist popes. There are no solidarity in the Gospel. Those who not fix their fallen souls, get their demons drived out, ends up in Hell. I have no solidarity with them.

History bears witness

Again and again, men have tried to save the world by system, by ideology, by central power, by administrative perfection, by the fusion of moral language with coercive force. Kingdoms have promised order and delivered oppression. Revolutions have promised brotherhood and delivered graves. Clerical powers have promised salvation and delivered domination. The twentieth century, perhaps more than any before it, showed what becomes of societies that seek collective redemption without spiritual rebirth: they grow efficient in cruelty and eloquent in deception.

The great writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn saw the wound clearly: men forgot God, and the forgetting did not create freedom but catastrophe. Scripture had said it already. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). When that fear departs, power expands to occupy the empty throne.

The common people always pay the price.

For elites live inside abstractions; ordinary souls must live inside consequences. The powerful design the systems, but the humble bear their weight. The rulers speak of harmony, but the weak lose their freedoms. The managers promise peace, but only on condition of compliance. And where compliance fails, peace reveals its hidden sword.

This false peace has many forms, but one spirit. It is outwardly adorned and inwardly hollow. It resembles the Babylon of Revelation: splendid, intoxicating, celebrated by kings, rich in symbols of glory, and yet corrupt to the core (Revelation 17–18). It is peace without conversion, unity without conscience, religion without Spirit, brotherhood without truth.

  • It can still the surface.
  • It cannot heal the depths.
  • The second road is quieter, humbler, and far more difficult for the age to admire.
  • It begins not with systems but with souls.
  • Not with the summit, but with the seed.
  • Not with force, but with transformation.

Here the center of gravity shifts from the throne to the heart. Scripture speaks of this not as reform but miracle: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart … and I will give you an heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26; cf. Ezekiel 11:19). This is the true foundation of peace. Not better management of fallen nature, but renewal of nature itself. Not external control over inward darkness, but inward light that changes the whole man.

This peace rises from below and upward.

It begins when truth is received freely. When conscience awakens before God. When pride bends. When mercy is learned. When sin is confessed. When Christ is no longer merely institutionalized in civilization, but internalized in the person. The kingdom of God moves this way: like mustard seed, like leaven, like hidden life that grows from within until it reshapes what surrounds it (Matthew 13:31–33).

It is built on Christ, who said that the wise man builds on the rock, and when the storm comes, that house stands (Matthew 7:24–25). It is built on the law written in the heart (Jeremiah 31:33). It is built on new creation: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). It is built on reconciliation with God: “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).

This is why Jesus did not build His kingdom from the top of society downward.

He did not begin with Caesar. He did not begin with the priestly elite. He did not attach Himself to the powerful, because power without repentance becomes self-protective, hard, and blind. Instead, He walked among fishermen, laborers, widows, the poor, and sinners (Matthew 4:18–22; Mark 2:15–17; Luke 4:18). He said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3). He thanked the Father for hiding truth from the wise and prudent and revealing it unto babes (Matthew 11:25).

The kingdom of God does not spread like empire.

It spreads like seed in the soul of individuals (Matthew 13:31–32). Like leaven working from within (Matthew 13:33). Quietly. Organically. Person by person. Soul by soul. Home by home. As inside, so outside. When the heart is transformed, the life changes. When enough lives change, the culture changes. Outer order becomes the reflection of inward truth.

This is why Christ did not begin His kingdom with Caesar.

He did not seek first the approval of power, nor the blessing of polished religious authority. He walked among fishermen, laborers, widows, tax collectors, sinners, and the poor. He called men from boats, not palaces (Matthew 4:18–22). He ate with the despised (Mark 2:15–17). He proclaimed good tidings to the poor (Luke 4:18). He blessed the poor in spirit, not the secure in rank (Matthew 5:3). This was no accident of biography. It was revelation. The upper rooms of prestige are often too crowded with self-importance to receive grace. The low places of the earth still know how to cry for mercy.

That is where the future begins.

Not in the vanity of those who would engineer virtue, but in the humility of those who know they need redemption.

A world made new cannot be manufactured by collective pressure. It must grow organically from persons made new. The outer order will always, in time, reveal the inner life from which it springs. Christ said that the tree must be made good for the fruit to be good (Matthew 12:33). The prophets said righteousness and peace belong together (Isaiah 32:17; Psalm 85:10). Paul said peace with God is the root from which all other peace must grow (Romans 5:1).

Scripture gives a name to the false union of power, wealth, and corrupted religion: Babylon (Revelation 17–18). Babylon is magnificent outwardly and rotten inwardly. It intoxicates nations, flatters rulers, and seduces the world with counterfeit glory. But it falls. Always. Because God does not bless peace built on lies.

Christ’s way is the opposite. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6). The fruit of that Spirit is “love, joy, peace” (Galatians 5:22). Peace is not manufactured by institutions; it is borne by transformed men and women.

  • This is the deeper realism, that there is not peace by suppression, but peace by regeneration of the human soul. (Galatians 2:20)
  • Not unity by fear, but harmony by truth, grace, regeneration of the human soul, one by one human.
  • Not collectivism sanctified by sacred language, laws and empty rituals who not regenerate the human soul, but living communities shaped by consciences under God, of humans with a New Spirit of Christ in them.

So there remain only two possible futures before us.

  1. One will always say: change the structure, and man will follow.
  2. The other says: change the heart, and the structure may become just.
  1. One says: peace through force.
  2. The other says: peace through truth.
  1. One preserves the heart of stone and calls the result civilization.
  2. The other receives the heart of flesh and lets civilization grow from that miracle.

If we can dream of a better world, let it not be the dream of managed souls, pious coercion, and cold rulers speaking holy words over unholy foundations. Let it be the dream of hearts made new. Of Christ within. Of truth loved more than comfort. Of humility stronger than ideology. Of mercy deeper than propaganda. Of ordinary men and women remade by grace, and therefore capable at last of building something that does not rot from within. For only that peace is real. Only that peace is clean. Only that peace can endure the storm.

And when all the Babel towers of man and the Babylonian Whore in Rome have fallen, only that peace will remain.

The Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line

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