Satanism A or B

There was no clean sweep in the elections. Redemption comes not from partisan politics. Ideology is a very poor substitute for national identity.

Genuine Christian faith is following Jesus to the Cross. The ultimate victory is leaving this world, not dominating it. Jesus could easily have taken over the governments of His world, but He deliberately sidestepped all of that. The ultimate conquest of the world is leaving all the cares of this world behind.

We are taught in the New Testament to nail our fleshly natures to the Cross. Not literally, of course, but it’s symbolism for bringing our fallen nature into subjection of our spiritual nature. We have to live in this world with a commitment outside this world.

Christian faith is not an ethnic identity, but it displaces ethnic identity. You can hold a commitment to all kinds of things. Most human pursuits are idolatry, but we are fundamentally wired to be tribal. The ultimate expression of human nature is not in ideals with the resulting civilizations and empires, but in the results of the Tower of Babel: God forced everyone to scatter into tiny ethnic tribes. That’s how nature itself is wired. Every aspiration of humanity outside of that existence is doomed to failure.

God will not tolerate us doing anything else. This is why there can never be one single religion or church for all of mankind. While living on this earth, following Christ means keeping ourselves in tiny enclaves of varied languages, customs, traditions and theologies.

You must understand that theology is man made. It is nothing more than the ruminations of one person seeking to organize the ineffable driving of the Holy Spirit within one or another context. The ideas themselves are not divine. If you can reason about it and put it into words, it’s man made. The ultimate divine truth is beyond words and mere mental apprehensions.

Thus, one man’s theology is another man’s lie from Hell. My blather about covenants and Eternity are just that; it’s my own formulation to give shape to my Kingdom service. You’ll need to formulate your own. They may well end up sounding a lot like mine, but that’s just a signal to us that we should work together in one way or another. In the final analysis, all we can really claim to know for sure is what God requires of us individually.

Your passion to glorify the Lord is what He counts as holiness. Then again, be careful that your passions are not simply the flesh running wild with an ill-considered zeal for something it does not really understand. The true passion of the Spirit leads to quiet contemplation, and only rarely to fiery action.

Don’t take yourself too seriously. The answers you believe God has given you may not work for someone else. This is especially true when it comes to organizing human activity. Do not pretend that church isn’t just another human activity. Our God commissioned the principle of acting on our faith, not your particular set of actions.

Thus, church activity is just politics, and it may or may not turn out well. Indeed, the outcomes will be all over the map, blessing some and defiling others. That’s what we should expect. That’s part of the Curse of the Fall. There can be no single definitive answer for every child of Adam and Eve.

All the more so is this true regarding secular politics. Satan is the master of all human activity not covered by the Covenant. The most you might say about the elections is that the two false tribes will continue to fight with no particular advantage to either side. God is not directly involved; it’s all been handed over to Satan because none of it is under the Covenant. Both sides are Satanic in one way or another.

Your Christian faith identity cannot be associated with any earthly tribe.