Calvary or Rome?

As a young disciple, I was taught NOT to “ be unequally yoked together ” with this world. Yes, conditions around the globe were tragic, but what did we expect from a world that was enslaved to sin and under Satan’s boot? What humanity needed was the Good News of the Kingdom of God, not another flawed political philosophy. Since the “ forms ” of the present age are already “ passing away ,” why waste time “ working for the meat that perishes ”?