A.R.T. Theology Meaning:

“Nation Shall Rise Against Nation”

Relationship Wars — A Word to Senior Christian Leaders

By Apostolic Sr Leader Taveau D’Arcy (C)2026 All copyrights reserved
A.R.T. — Abiding Relationship Theology
www.taveaucreativeleadership.com

Matthew 24:7 KJV

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”

INTRODUCTION

Many senior Christian leaders have interpreted Matthew 24:7 primarily through the lens of geopolitics, world wars, economics, or governmental conflict. Yet the Greek meaning of the word “nation” also opens the door to another serious reality now visible throughout society, media, churches, ministries, marriages, families, denominations, and Christian culture itself.

The Greek word translated “nation” is ethnos. It can mean:

• ethnic group
• tribe
• race
• people group
• social grouping
• cultural identity

Thus, Jesus was not speaking only about military conflict between countries.

He was also warning of:

• ethnic conflict
• relational fracture
• tribal hostility
• cultural division
• social suspicion
• emotional polarization
• accusation culture
• division between human beings

This is now occurring globally.

And sadly, many times it has entered directly into Christian ministry culture.

A.R.T. THEOLOGY INSIGHT

“Relationship Will Rise Against Relationship”

A.R.T. — Abiding Relationship Theology =Abiding in Enduring, Long suffering JAMES 3:17 fruit)Relationship Theology— recognizes that one of the greatest modern battlefields is now relational.

Not merely doctrinal.

Not merely political.

Not merely racial.

But relational.

Thus:

Nation shall rise against nation.

can also reveal:

Ethnic group against Ethnic group

and in our own A.R.T. specific training meaning:

Relationships will rise up against relationships (in family, marriage, life, church, ministry, business, society, media and nation)

This means even  Christians against Christian platform against platform tribe against tribe denomination against denomination social media against fellowship

This is what A.R.T. identifies as:

Relationship Wars.
And apostle-overseer pastor has witnessed, experienced way to many of these, hence the long teaching and upcoming Series

Personal note: I use AI a lot, now, due to what I’ve been through as it saves time and confirms what I already noted,and knew in the Bible. Maybe if God’s send proper help I can go back and it the old fashioned way, which I from 1990’s to 2023 when I began asking for Church history, real meaning of Bible, Greek, Hebrew about “accusation and TV media gossip.”

THE CURRENT CHRISTIAN CULTURE PROBLEM

Many mature leaders are now witnessing:

• online accusation
• scandal culture
• gossip ministry trends
• public shaming
• suspicion without relationship
• “discernment” without personal knowledge
• anonymous slander
• clickbait outrage
• factional loyalty systems
• fear-based leadership
• emotional manipulation
• celebrity ministry tribalism
• harsh correction without restoration

The result is:

• wounded believers
• broken trust
• fractured churches
• exhausted leaders
• suspicious fellowships
• confused youth
• fearful women
• isolated ministers
• hardened relationships

This is not merely a personality problem.

It is becoming a relationship crisis.

PSALM 120:7 KJV

“I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.”

This verse describes what this nice minister quality person has lived through in my private life, family and in Christian ministry, notably only speaking in tongues variety and that is only certain doctrines which this ministry she was not accustomed to, having been raised among the Baptists. And these latter had come forth during the rise of Christian TV media, the shepherding authority movement and more.

I resemble MANY OTHER fellow modern Christian leaders and persons who genuinely desire:

• peace
• wisdom
• honesty
• fellowship
• reasoned discussion
• restoration
• mature communication

Yet they are repeatedly met with:

• cagey suspicion
• mean indifference
• even hostility
• accusation
• social, ministry,warfare
• online attacks
• rumor campaigns
• relational sabotage
• undermining, Judas
• persons regarded as ministry, family property

This creates what A.R.T. Theology calls:

Hence use of the Descriptive words

Relationship Wars.

Point: THE STRIFE OF TONGUES

Psalm 31:20 KJV

“Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.”

This phrase:

“strife of tongues”

is deeply relevant in today’s culture.

It includes:

• verbal conflict
• slander
• gossip
• malicious speech
• hostile criticism
• relational tearing-down
• rumor spreading
• emotional attacks
• accusation culture
• divisive speech

Today this often occurs:

• online
• through social media
• in ministry media
• in church politics
• in hidden cliques
• in factional “discernment” groups
• through anonymous comments
• through platform rivalry

Yet God promises:

“Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.”

This is relational refuge.

Not escapism.

Not isolation.

But spiritual preservation while remaining loving, truthful, wise, and emotionally health.

THE TONGUE PROBLEM

James 3:5–8 KJV

“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members…

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”

A.R.T. Theology does not ignore the reality of human weakness. And Taveau D’Arcy is always not one bit frightened by it and does not fear admitting HER OWN. For it is simply a part of the human condition, and WHY we each need to know GOD and His Bible and how and where to safely “fellowship” and how, where, also WHY to “get edified, comforted and strengthened”

The Bible openly admits:

• the slippery human tongue is dangerous
• speech can destroy lives
• words can divide relationships
• accusations can spread rapidly
• emotional poison contaminates fellowships

This is why mature Christian leadership must become:

• self-governed
• emotionally mature
• wise in speech
• slow to accuse
• careful with public criticism
• respectful toward people
• balanced in correction
• relationally responsible

A.R.T. CORE VALUES

The A.R.T. of Abiding Relationship Theology is:

• self government
• Equal Opportunity REAL Respect
• mutual dignity
• relational honesty
• accountability with mercy
• wisdom before reaction
• peace before platform warfare
• truth without cruelty
• correction without humiliation
• discernment without suspicion addiction

A.R.T. rejects:

• relational manipulation
• emotional domination
• gossip culture
• accusation entertainment
• tribal superiority
• ministry elitism
• dehumanizing speech
• “us versus them” Christianity
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WHAT SENIOR LEADERS MUST NOW ADDRESS

Senior leaders can no longer ignore the emotional climate developing among many believers.

Many younger Christians are growing up in an environment shaped more by:

• outrage media
• accusation culture
• suspicion
• emotional warfare
• online humiliation
• celebrity conflict
• “cancel culture”

than by:

• servant leadership
• restoration
• humility
• long suffering
• mutual honor
• wise correction
• healthy fellowship
• peaceful communication

The danger is that younger believers may begin to believe this hostile environment represents normal Christianity.

It does not.

A.R.T. PERSPECTIVE
JESUS AND RELATIONAL TRUTH

Jesus confronted sin.

Yet He also:

• restored people
• protected dignity
• spoke truth relationally
• corrected without performance cruelty
• walked personally with human beings
• valued mercy
• valued humility
• valued peace
• valued reconciliation

James 3:17 KJV

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

This is one of the central foundations of A.R.T. Theology.

RELATIONSHIP WARS

The upcoming A.R.T. series:

RELATIONSHIP WARS

will address:

• accusation culture
• scandal-driven Christianity
• ministry rivalry
• gossip systems
• emotional division
• online hostility
• relational fracture
• false witness
• slander
• pride-driven communication
• tribal ministry identity
• restoration versus cancellation
• peace versus platform warfare

The purpose is not condemnation.

The purpose is:

• healing
• clarity
• discernment
• wisdom
• emotional maturity
• biblical restoration
• healthier leadership culture
• stronger fellowship relationships

LAST DAYS PROPHECY AND RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN

The Bible warned that the last days would involve more than political upheaval, wars, economics, and natural disasters.

Scripture also foretold a breakdown in:

• relationships
• communication
• loyalty
• self-control
• mercy
• trust between people
• emotional stability
• healthy human interaction

Many of the relational conflicts now seen throughout society — and sometimes even within Christian culture — are not random.

The Bible prophesied these conditions long ago.

2 Timothy 3:1–5 KJV

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men (also women, youth, and church people) shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

Notice how many of these prophetic warnings are relational:

• false accusers
• trucebreakers
• pride
• betrayal
• fierce behavior
• lack of natural affection
• disobedience
• self-centeredness
• hostility toward good people
• outward religion without inward transformation

This describes far more than merely “world conditions.”

It describes relationship conditions.

The Apostle Paul foresaw a future environment where human relationships would become:

• fractured
• suspicious
• emotionally unstable
• hostile
• self-focused
• difficult to maintain

This is one reason A.R.T. Theology emphasizes:

• emotional healthyness, mature great respecting, loving hands on parenting,
• maturity
• discussion of issues one to one, and ongoing, eternal Isaiah 1;18 ‘working things out but without undue comprovmise or attack, violence”
• self-government (part of the fruit of the spirit  after one knows Jesus as Savior Paul in Galatians 5:22-23 (this is the root of all authority, government in fellowship, life and the world)
• peaceful communication (respect, love Galatians 6:1, Isaiah 1:18, bearing mature fruit of “wisdom from above” mentioned in James 3:17 “pure, peaceful, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits (Gal 5:22-23 fruits of the spirit), without partiality and without hypocrisy.”
• mercy
• truthful relationships
• wise accountability
• Equal Opportunity REAL Respect for office of every human made in the image of God,(Psalm 139) of all faiths, types, races, looks, genders belief sets…ALSO EORR and humility for the office of the parent, pastor, leader, president, head of nation, etc
• discernment without cruelty, subliminal occult divining, attack
• correction without humiliation

For in an age of increasing “Relationship Wars,” mature Christian leaders must intentionally model the opposite spirit of the world.

Matthew 24:12 KJV

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

The phrase:

“the love of many shall wax cold”

reveals one of the deepest last-days dangers:

relational coldness.

People become:

• emotionally hardened
• suspicious
• cynical
• reactive
• accusatory
• disconnected
• desensitized
• unable to trust

Thus the modern Church must not merely preach doctrine.

It must also rebuild, role model and ongoing TRAIN the following

• healthy fellowship
• wisdom in communication
• emotional stability
• truthful relationships
• mercy
• peace
• mutual honor
• spiritually mature leadership culture

For Jesus did not merely come to save isolated individuals.

He also came to reconcile relationships.

FINAL THOUGHT

Jesus warned:

“Nation shall rise against nation.”

A.R.T. Theology recognizes that today this can also manifest as:

relationship against relationship.

Thus the modern Church must now intentionally rebuild:

• honor
• wisdom
• emotional maturity
• peaceful communication
• truthful relationships
• wise accountability
• healthy correction
• mutual respect
• fellowship trust

For the future Body of Christ cannot remain healthy OR Bear the Good Witness of the blessed Jesus Christ while permanently living inside continual relational warfare.

This includes wise families, and fellowships and the Ephesians 4 “transformed” respect and confront mature prospering True Community (see Apostle Paul for instructions of HOW to train and to resemble it Ephesians 1:6, 2:14-5`5, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4 whole chapter, Ephesians 5:21

A Wise Quote from Christ

Matthew 5:9 KJV

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”

TD note: children may be whimsical or solemn, well behaved or not, immature or mature, yet with the right training, healthy firm authority, be the parent or pastor, teacher, then they CAN be trained to SELF GOVERN themselves and to REGARD OTHERS respectfully.
Yet all of this must begin in the first 4- 7 years of their life then the next stages will be not be so hard.

This is a apostolic  WARNING MESSAGE to the CHURCH.

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