By Harold Vaughan 
History shows that nations and institutions are rarely lost all at once. More often, they fall through a predictable, step-by-step process. This same pattern can be seen in both Islam and modern liberalism. For our purposes, I will outline the historical strategy used to advance Islam and bring entire societies under Islamic rule. I am not referring to cultural Muslims, but to radicalized Islam—an ideology driven by the pursuit of domination.
How Nations Are Lost
1. Infiltrate
Immigration has become the primary means by which Islamists gain access to non-Muslim nations. Historically, Islam expanded by the sword. In more recent times—Europe being the clearest example—the strategy has shifted. Large-scale immigration replaces open conquest.
2. Populate
Once established, rather than integrating into the host culture, enclaves are formed and more wives are imported. Through polygamy and high birth rates, Islamic populations grow rapidly, often outpacing the native population.
3. Agitate
Here in the United States, millions of Muslims live on public assistance, which affords time and resources to protest, march and wave foreign flags in our streets. The Muslim call to prayer—once unthinkable in the West—is now openly broadcast in places like Michigan and New York City. Empty-minded liberals celebrate this as “diversity,” when in reality it is an enemy assault.
4. Contaminate
Democracy was uniquely sustained by Christian peoples who governed themselves with shared moral assumptions. Free nations cannot survive without a common language, customs, values and secure borders. Islam is not merely a religion; it is a totalizing revolutionary worldview, historically rooted in conquest and submission.
5. Subordinate
Intimidation is the means of subjugation. The intentions are no longer hidden. Recent protests, such as those in Michigan, openly denounce America and call for Sharia law. I have long wondered why the United States uses its military to defend Saudi Arabia, a nation where Bibles are forbidden and Christianity is illegal.
6. Dominate
Why did Christianity disappear from the Middle East? The answer is tragically simple. Christians were persecuted, driven out and murdered.
Collapse From Within
But the crisis in our nation does not end with external threats. We also face homegrown anarchists who despise the nation they inhabit. Liberals, socialist Democrats and what some have aptly described as “crazy white women” have come out of hiding, openly declaring their contempt for America as it was founded. Barack Obama was the first president to openly call for the “fundamental transformation of America.”
Roughly half the population now rejects biblical morality outright. Here in Virginia, our newly elected governor, Abigail Spanberger, has already moved to legalize abortion up to the moment of birth. Nations that willingly sacrifice their children will not merely experience judgment—they are already deeply under the judgment of God. The restraints of conscience have been severed.
An apostatized Church bears enormous responsibility for this collapse and move toward secularism. When the gospel was removed from pulpits inperhaps in as many as 200,000 churches, God abandoned those congregations. The absence of biblical preaching gave way to strong delusion.
With no power to transform hearts, religionists drifted into social activism, abandoning the proclamation of Christ and Him crucified.
Scores of these churches now openly denounce the truths upon which they were founded. So here we are.
A Call for the Remnant
Yet God still calls His remnant people to proclaim truth as it is, to people as they are.
Hear this clearly: If you will not stand for truth in your local church, you will never stand for God in society.
Many evangelical churches in America have already been infiltrated, contaminated and are now dominated by anti-Christian beliefs, practices and leaders. Few examples are more pungent than the United Methodist Church and its descent into open depravity.
If you find this offensive, I urge you to study history. This pattern is neither new nor unique. It has been repeated again and again. The strategy is proven. The trajectory is clear.
There is only one antidote to this destructive onslaught: repentance, revival and reformation. Church, let us rise up and be the antidote.