=== Voting ===

I’m waiting for my white pebble — theocracy, rather than democracy. (Daniel 5:12,14, 12:3,4,9–13)

“He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things: “I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith — He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.” — Revelation 2:12…17, cf. Acts 26:10

Democracy me think of voting for the beast, Revelation 13:18:

“In this situation wisdom [1] is needed. Let the person who has insight [2] figure out [3] [the meaning of] the number of the beast, because it is a human number. The beast’s number is 666.”

1. Greek sophia (or wisdom, insight, the root of sophisticated philosophy; the Greeks gave us democracy)
2. understanding: mental capacity to exercise reflective thinking, intellect, receiving God’s thoughts, through faith (Ro 12:2,3)
3. “let him count”: “indeed chiefly in the middle in the Greek writings to give one’s vote by casting a pebble into the urn; to decide by voting”