And it is too difficult for ordinary people. In fact, it is impossible, as the record of human government shows. Turmoil, insurrection, and revolution are inevitable in an open society where the officials are corrupt. Ultimately, the saints—and by this we do not mean a political party of “saints”—must be the ones to judge the earth. Only saints of the faith of Abraham and Paul are capable of governing as God (and humans) would have it, because they work in the power of God and have the character to bear it without corruption.
