After 6,000 years of human history, where are we in God's program?
After six thousand years of human history, God's program remains right on schedule. Despite wars, famines, insurrections, and revolutions, the world is exactly where God intended it to be. He has allowed individuals and nations free will, yet His purposes have not been diverted or delayed.
Les explains that when you start back in the Garden, God turned over to human choice His pretty much exercise of the free will—not only to individuals but also to nations. Yet after 6,000 years of human history, the world is still exactly where God intended it to be. Through wars, famines, insurrections, and revolutions, God's program remains right on schedule; He works in civil government in ways we cannot fully understand or comprehend. Les also notes that resisting the power resists God's ordinance, and believers are first to live peaceably under government, resisting only when it goes contrary to Christian experience and the commands of Scripture.