I would like to begin my answer by quoting John 1:1-5, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. And THE LIGHT SHINES IN DARKNESS, and THE DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT.” These profound words teach us that Jesus Christ is God and the Creator; and when He walked this earth, He was the LIGHT OF MEN. What does it mean that His life was “the LIGHT of men?” I believe it means that as Jesus walked among men His life was REVEALING THE TRUTH to men; the “truth about God” and the “truth about men.” We know that when one walks into a dark room and turns on the light, everything in the room is revealed. This allows us to see so we don’t stumble around and trip over things. The eternal Word became a true Man (see verse 14) so men could see Him and hear His words and if they believed what they saw and heard, the truth about God and themselves would be revealed to them. They would then know the truth about God’s holiness (1 John 1:5) and their lost and sinful condition (Luke 19:10; Romans 3:9-18, 23). But they would also learn how to be saved from their sin (John 3:1-17). If they did believe, they would then have the LIGHT to be GUIDED through this dark and sinful world until they are taken home to heaven (John 8:12; 12:35, 46).

Sadly, when Jesus revealed the truth about God and man through His life (of love and holiness) and His words, the majority of men did NOT believe the truth! We saw that the LIGHT shone in darkness and “the DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT.” This means they did NOT understand that Jesus was God and that He was revealing the truth about God and about man. You would think they would have had their eyes opened immediately by seeing a perfect Man with perfect love and perfect holiness, along with the miracles He performed and the words of truth that He spoke. Their unbelief begs the question, “Why didn’t they welcome and accept the LIGHT that Jesus presented to them?” The answer is given in John 3:19-20, “And this is the condemnation, that the LIGHT has come into the world, and MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.” In a word, they LOVED THEIR SINS and refused to have them exposed. They would rather live in darkness and when presented with light they retreated into further darkness to avoid the light. Did men “laugh at Jesus” when He was bringing the “light of life” before them? They did much more than this, for we read in Isaiah 53:2-3, “And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is DESPISED and REJECTED by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did NOT ESTEEM HIM.” Psalm 69:4 says they “HATED Him without a cause.” We learn then that they looked down upon Him as if He didn’t even exist. They avoided looking at Him and He held no value in their sight. In a word, they REJECTED Him and the truth He brought to them and eventually their rejection led them to turn Him over to Pontius Pilate to be crucified (Matthew 27:1-2, 15-26).

I will add one more thought to address your specific situation. You will never read of Jesus speaking about politics. He did exhort men to “pay taxes” to the Roman government (Matthew 22:15-22), but He never confronted anyone about the tyranny of Rome or the wickedness of Caesar. In other words, He never engaged anyone about the DARKNESS of human politics (the lying, corruption, and love of power). The LIGHT He was here to present to man was, as we have seen, the “truth of God and the truth of man’s lost condition” so they could believe on Him as their Savior and be saved. All believers should follow that same example by giving men the truth (by our LIFE and by our WORDS) that they need to bring conviction of sin and then the gospel of salvation (consider Ephesians 5:8-13 and 1 Peter 2:9).  (DO)  (657.5)