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Do you think the children of the devil rules this world or we can too?

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Clearly there is a Kingdom of God operating at the same time that the children of the devil are operating. This is consistent with the "all ready but not yet" eschatology that Paul explained in his epistles.
 
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I don’t think they rule disciples of Jesus (“Christian”) and perhaps Christians don’t rule world, because they are in a way not part of the world really.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 15:19

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
John 17:14-15

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
1 John 2:15-17
 
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Just as a starting point: introduce me to a politician who does not lie,
and the possibility of a 'Christian politician' exists.
Liars are defined by scriptures as "children of the devil".

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is
no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
 
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