Sometimes you have to state the obvious. It gets like that when too many people are chasing outright fantasies.
Human nature is fallen; it cannot be amended. The only hope you have in dealing with humanity at large is to ameliorate the situation via revelation (AKA, Biblical Law). Revelation is explicitly tribal-feudal, and implicitly requires the heart-led consciousness. Biblical Law is our best hope; everything else is a failure before it even gets started.
Demanding a cultural shift to suit your fantasies is asking for trouble. Most especially is this true if you happen to subscribe to any brand of collectivism, or imperialism. Both of those seek to restore the Tower of Babel. God is not amused, and people will refuse to change, so the whole thing is a disaster looking for some small excuse to implode. You must build your future plans on a calculus that listens to what God says is real.
Nothing about Radix Fidem encourages people to change the way things are going. The whole basis of our covenant is waiting on God to point out the path we should take as people seeking His peace, serving His agenda. So we cannot be terrorists because we don’t have any notions about changing the world. Our whole game is changing ourselves. The second part of that is seeking to draw closer together in making those changes.
Nothing about Radix Fidem keeps you from playing along with the way God herds those who refuse to acknowledge Him. We don’t buy into the rules of civilization dreamed up by a bunch of non-believers who infiltrated the early church with lies. We don’t pretend that people can live together in peace without first seeking God’s peace, so violence is just part of human nature. Get used to it; Biblical Law presumes a certain amount of it.
Furthermore, Biblical Law presumes you have no desire to stay too awfully long in this world. Thus, we reject the often unstated assumption that “life is precious” — meaning that this fallen existence is somehow the only hope we’ve got. Killing people is not a sin unless you do so unjustly. The Bible justifies a lot of killing that is illegal, and condemns a lot of killing that takes place under the color of secular state laws. This is nothing new, but we have to make the harsh and shattering point that the state, and our society, are both very much contrary to God’s revelation. So it is with the mainstream churches, insofar as they are too much like the world.
Given this vast divide, we have no expectation of engaging our world in reasoned conversation, because they aren’t going to listen. And most likely we aren’t going to see too much reasoning anyway, just a lot of partisan shouting from both sides. Instead, we address each other in the love of Christ, in the truth of His Word, and we allow the results to speak for themselves. If there is any hope the rest of the world might hear the truth, it starts with seeing divine glory between us. Even that is a miracle of God, so it really is just a matter of minding our own business. There is no way we justify anything in their eyes without the touch of the Holy Spirit.
For some limited few of us with special callings in the area of outreach, we might say and do things we know the rest of the world will notice. We put our faith on display, daring them to attack it. We are called and equipped to withstand their pitiful attacks; they can’t hurt anything that really matters to us. We have no intention of being taken seriously by the masses. We seek only to grab the attention of those whom the Lord elects to redeem in any given context.
But in truth, our message is for each other, to support and encourage. It catches their attention because God wants them to be a part of us. Even the prophetic word to the hell-bound is just one more part of God giving them a genuine chance in their humanity to make the right choice. They won’t, but it ensures they have no excuse when they stand before Him on that Last Day. So my prophetic messages are really for those of you who consider yourselves part of the covenant community, even if it sounds like it’s addressed to someone else.
It should be obvious that we don’t take this world very seriously.
