Again: Come Out from Among Them

Saying that “abortion is murder” misses the point.

Big Pharma flat out lied about the use of fetal tissue in vaccine development. Babies died to make these vaccines.

Edit: The primary issue here is not the use of fetal tissue, which is evil, but that they lied about it.

Let me unwind the biblical position here. The world at large is going to Hell. That’s both literally and figuratively true. It’s more important to understand the latter, that this is a metaphor, a parable of spiritual truth. We’ve said time and time again that the issue isn’t whether you go to Heaven. God alone controls that and there is absolutely nothing any human can do to alter their eternal destiny. All this business of chasing spiritual birth completely misses what Jesus said to Nicodemas that night. We don’t pursue it; spiritual birth is necessary to understand what is happening here in our fallen world. It is necessary to understand revelation and redemption. It’s not a matter of whether you are spiritually born, but whether you are operating from that basis. In other words, there is no place to start until you have become aware of your spiritual birth.

The point of saying that the world at large is going to Hell is that they don’t know how to live after the Fall. Lacking that awareness of spiritual destiny, they cannot possibly get a clue about the Creator’s character and purposes in human existence. So the issue is to awaken the spirits of the Elect, and to point them to revelation so they can fulfill their purpose. There is nothing we can do for the rest of humanity. We can’t really know one way or another, but that is precisely why we focus our understanding on the at-large shape of human nature first, then we decide how we are going to handle each individual we encounter in this life.

So we have no business at all pretending that we can appeal to fallen society or fallen governments to stop the slaughter of innocents. Everything they do is sin; changing the rules doesn’t make it better. This is their show. Their father/god is Satan. The Lord owns Satan, but has granted him a certain level of power and control in this fallen world. You and I as children of that higher power can do certain things to resist that damnatory power, but it doesn’t include changing government and social customs. What it includes is the power to see clearly how God wants us to live, and some measure of the power to act on that. However, the power to act is limited.

A primary means to resist damnation is to create spheres of divine dominion. As long as innocent babies are being slaughtered for the convenience of their mothers, the land is defiled and wrath is due all under that dominion. By striving toward making literal enclaves of un-assimilated micro-societies, we create a separate dominion that reclaims and washes some space clean for our use. We deny that we belong to the damned world around us, and are not party to their sins.

So while government and society make “legal” claims to the turf on which we stand, a higher authority in Heaven recognizes the sacredness of the ground on which we gather as distinct and separate people. If we occupy it and use it, to the degree we manage to do so to the exclusion of outsiders, to that degree the land is purified. We have plenty of room here for virtual control and virtual territory; it doesn’t have to be literal. But the literal is a good thing if we can get it.

This is why we must separate as literally as possible; this is why we have enclaves and “ghettos” of holiness whenever we can make it happen. We withdraw from the stains of their evil and guilt. We denounce their sins as sin and refuse to participate. There is nothing to gain trying to change them; let them go to Hell if they want. The only way God is going to bless them is if there is a safe place to go, and we are that safe place. This is what Christian Mysticism is all about.

The more people who belong under my covering, the more literal my righteous control will be. The only reason we ask the Lord for more souls is because we stand in the background of the natural world around us groaning to be set free from sin. We want to rescue as much as we can, people and nature and our own lives all together. So within the current context, we each strive to make as real and literal as possible the existence of a holy enclave, while at the same time making our witness visible to rest of the world. Each covenant family household must find their own balancing point between visibility and separation.

Yes, the evil outsiders will cross the line. They will demand that we wallow in their filth. In particular, the American tradition is to claim people within the jurisdictional boundaries as economic assets “for the national good.” We must resist to the degree possible. Each of us must search our own convictions and see what God requires of us in drawing and maintaining the boundaries. There is no single rule of religion that fits all people in all cases. We are commanded to recognize a sliding scale that is valid before the Lord. At the same time, we must recognize that none of us is required to go along with another servant of the Lord. This is why holiness requires that each of us draw our own personal boundaries, too. And then we turn around and commune with others who share enough of our boundaries that fellowship is tolerable, and living together daily is possible.

God will most surely move His children in ways that make these living and flexible boundaries turn into congregations. There will always be someone out there in His service who will be led enough like you to fellowship and act like a family.

For me, in my Kiln of the Soul covenant household, as covering elder in my personal parish — If you want my covering, you’ll have to understand that I am willing to shed evil blood to prevent having innocent blood injected into my body. You want to be part of my faith family? Get used that idea. Sharing in innocent blood defiles too much; that’s more than I’m willing to do. And the New Testament does mention “resistance to the shedding of [our own] blood.” I’m willing to die on that ground, within those boundaries. It doesn’t mean I can’t accept into fellowship people who have taken the vaccines, but you will have to recognize that I can’t cover you on that point of sin. You are outside of my covering there; you are on your own when it comes to that defilement. The fellowship will have to accept my point of resistance, and my encouragement of others to do the same.

But if you want to call me your elder/pastor, then I’ll be glad to sign your exemption forms as religious leader. A fat lot of good it will do, but I’m willing to paint that target on myself. Harvesting tissue is not morally separate from killing a fetus. Once innocent blood is shed, the moral obligation of the righteous is to mournfully handle the remains in toto as sacred. Voluntary organ donation is not the same thing; the babies did not consent to anything. Still, the real best hope here is to live in a state/jurisdiction that rejects federal mandates.