A. ENGLAND’S DEATH OF THE DIVINE KING
In our September 11, 2026, issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier analyzed England’s transition from the Divine Right of Kings to “The People Rule.”
In that report, Paul wrote, “I believe that the godly men and women of this 60-year period were struggling to sustain statehood whose God is the Lord without becoming madmen who advance the Kingdom of God with earthly, rather than spiritual, power.
“For Christians, this remains a challenge, how do we sustain the “righteous” state without making it our Kingdom maker?
“Many of those struggling beside these Christians, however, were struggling for advantaged power. They knew God no more than the Muslims did. But they knew the shibboleths of “Christian” power and used that language to “justify” earthly power for themselves.
“England had already established some checks on Royal power long before the Catholic Kings arrived. Had they not, perhaps the Catholic Kings could have succeeded in brutalizing their god onto the English people. But that habit of checking Royal power created in the English a sense of entitlement to do so.
“Even when Cromwell’s Major Generals and mad parliaments attempted to impose their god on the English people, they failed to change the fundamental protestant culture of the English, who continued to chafe at the bit of a hard master, be he Catholic or Puritan.
“I see in the factions unclean hands, men and women who perverted their own gods to serve expediency and satiate fear. Yet somehow, the now-British would find themselves with more liberties than ever, far more, I would surmise, than anyone in 1650 would have wanted.
“This is because, I theorize, amongst the killers and the self-servers were true men and women of God wrestling with His will for their state, their nation, and their own personal lives. This is the story of the state throughout history, a battle between servants and masters, both using the same vehicle of power, but for radically different ends.
“The plumbline for servant and master is imprecise, and thus no guaranteed filter can be applied that can keep the master out of the state.
“For America, the heart of the people is not Christ, and Protestantism has become, in many denominations, more like Islam, Catholicism, and Progressivism. It is difficult to tell how many God-fearing Protestant Americans are left in this country. I fear that number is far less than even 50% today.
“Protestantism’s vestigial hold on institutions long taken over by progressives is nearly gone. Large percentages of today’s youth may be completely outside even the cultural Protestantism that allowed non-Protestants to “inherit” these values, individual sinner, repentance that leads to full restoration, and individual self-stewardship of one’s beliefs.”
As we get ready for election season, we urge our fellow Americans to get engaged in the political process without becoming the political process. One way is to know who to vote for, what are the issues, when, and finally, where to vote.
Here are some Voter Guides to get you started not just in voting, but in choosing which elections to become active in supporting. Our October 30 issue will also include a comprehensive analysis of the midterm elections.
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B. BE LIKE ESTHER, DANIEL, AND JEREMIAH IN TODAY’S AMERICA
In our September 11, 2026, issue’s Final Thought, Paul Gordon Collier explored his stewardship to the state as a Christian when the state turns against Christ.
He wrote, “As our civilizations collapse around us, those without roots outside of those civilizations will experience a collapse within themselves as well. Those with roots outside of those collapsing civilizations will be best equipped to be stewards of what might replace them.
“As Christians, we are called to be good stewards of whatever state we find ourselves in. We have as our examples Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, and Joseph (and others as well).
“All of these men and women of faith found themselves subject to a state that, in some way, wanted their people killed. These states were enemies of God’s children. Yet not a one of these people called on others to raise up arms to vanquish the state that wanted to destroy them and their people.
“Jeremiah explicitly is given a prophecy commanding the Israelites to submit to the invaders and live well under their rule. The Israelites refuse to enter God’s rest. Instead, they drag Jeremiah to Egypt, blaming their “unrighteousness” towards the Queen of Heaven for their woes rather than their unrighteousness towards God.
“They will die in Egypt, and the 10 tribes of Israel will be scattered. To this day, they have not been identified, which has led to more than 2500 years of exile from consequence of men entering their own understanding rather than God’s rest.
“Ezekiel prophesized God’s Word, but never incited others to rise up and throw off the yolk they were under. He preached the words God gave him, even when God called him not to mourn for his own wife when she died, because he was to physically prophecy the indifference God held for his unrighteous bride.
“Ezekiel entered God’s rest, and his words today continue to lift the body of Christ towards heaven.
“Mordecai not only served his nation faithfully, without violating God’s laws, but he saved the King from an assassination plot. He saved the instrument of his peoples’ destruction from destruction.
“The book of Esther never mentions God, but all who know His Word can see God moving through all Mordecai did. We can see how God confounds earthly authority, leading it to fulfill His will, no matter how obstinate that authority might be.
“Mordecai entered God’s rest and God raised him up to become the second most powerful man in that same state.”
We recommend those that wish to understand what’s going on right now, and what may be to follow, to get to know the prophets of the Old Testament. Here are some resources to get you started:
The Beginner’s Guide to the Prophets in the Bible – Overview Bible
Old Testament Prophets – Topic Bible
The Old Testament Prophets: An Outline – Bible.org
The Old Testament Background for A Study of the Prophets – Bible Study Downloads
Appendix 1: Understanding the Prophets – Bible.org
C. THE ELECTION FIGHT FOR EASE, NOT THE REPUBLIC
Our Deep Dive for our September 18, 2026, weekly MIA was on the state of the prevailing narratives in the upcoming midterm elections.
In our Deep Dive, we wrote, “If America were not under the thumb of the progressive state media and its cultural agit prop machine, the horrors of the rise of Islam, the depravity of abortion, the anti-American values of progressivism would have been clearly shown by an Americanist press, a true free press and not a content marketing terror machine.
“Were corporate media outlets to regularly show the consequence of abortion, both on the murdered child and the murdering mother, abortion would lose support overnight.
“As it is, they seek to criminalize such exposure, calling the display of their work, mutilated dead babies, ‘hate speech,’ a progressive concept that existentially threatens America’s founding principles of self-stewardship. Every woman that chooses to murder their child is now forced to protect the progressive state, for an American one would rightly shame them.
“The progressive state press is NOT the free press, it is an illegal political action center that willingly and intentionally uses lies, obfuscations, and omissions of truth to demoralize the American republic and protect the depravity of the progressive state.
“It is a criminal operation centrally directed. It deserves no 1st Amendment protections since it is not executing free speech, it’s executing an information terror campaign intended to destroy the republic from within.
“The Progmericans, people like Trump and Vance, want to hold on to that power for themselves. They want to exapt the progressive state press to become the Progmerican state press.
“The failure by the Trump administration, even in his first term, to recognize the ongoing existential threat the progressive state press poses on our Republic continues to shackle our ability to resist an enemy from within who wants us enslaved, starving, imprisoned, or dead.
“Again, we suspect this is because Progmericans like Trump still hope to use that de facto state press to their own ends, for while they value nation-states over a global imperialist Empire (which is the progressive goal) and they value nation-state patriotism as a unifier of a nation, they don’t value true individual liberty, for they hope to control outcomes every bit as much as progressives do, just for more localized ends, not ecumenical ones.”
Even if the Progmericans win, until Americans are fully in charge the corporate press will continue to be a source for party-protecting narratives, not truth.
We recommend you familiarize yourself with Agit Prop tactics, and, more importantly, teach them to anyone you have standing with to do. Teach your children, your receptive friends and family, anyone that will listen.
- NOTE: We separate agitprop into agit prop to bring attention to the agitation part of the propaganda technique.
The more people recognize the tactic of violent sophistry, agit prop, the less effective it will be. A people with an ear to recognize agit prop would rightly reject anyone using such tactics to create political power for themselves.
Here are good starting points to learn what Agit Prop is:
What is Agitprop? – New Discourses (video)
Agitprop – Political Strategy – Britanica.com
What is Agitprop: The Art Movement That Shaped Propaganda – Filmmaking Lifestyle