It’s time for a pragmatic reassessment of this ministry. Not so much what we have done, but what can we expect realistically for the future?
My convictions tell me that we are in the early stages of global chaos. It’s going to get much worse. Some of that “worse” will come in leaps and bounds, but most of it will be a long slow descent. But the biggest problem is not the threat of kinetic conflict; that is only a symptom of the information warfare. The real goal of God’s enemies working here on earth is deception.
Because of the deception, there will be a WW3. I don’t have a word from the Lord regarding the details of our path, only that this is where the world is headed. Indeed, the excuses are scattered all over the place. The real issues is that there must be global warfare, so in some ways it doesn’t matter how we get there.
But this is all merely background noise. It should not be the focus of attention for people of faith. The call of the gospel is not to fix the world’s ills. Humanity is fallen; sinners will sin. They will violate the Covenants and reap the consequences. The evil is not in the sad condition of humanity. The evil is in the persistent deception of humans that keeps them from serving their time in prison — this world — according to God’s revelation.
It is exceedingly difficult to get westerners in particular to abandon their mythology. It’s not so hard to get them to embrace genuine faith in Christ; the Elect will always come home to that truth sooner or later. The difficulty is getting them to understand the biblical perspective of what feudal submission to Christ requires of us. The cosmology and metaphysics of the Bible are radically different from what is common among church folks here in America.
To be honest, our Radix Fidem rejection of Zionism is only the proximate cause of conflict with the mainstream church leadership. The real problem is why they embrace it in the first place. It’s that old issue with sowing seeds of biblical truth on rocky ground or hardened footpaths. American society offers little fertile soil. Zionism is a symptom of having never prepared the soil properly.
First, there’s this grand delusion that the Great Commission means changing this fallen world. Spiritual conquest is changing the individual soul, not the fallen condition. For all the formal theology of the last two millennia, western Christians do not actually understand the Fall. I’m hardly the only person to notice that the Catholic Church officially teaches that the human intellect is not fallen, but not very many people recognize that this is also an unspoken assumption of how Protestants approach the question of following Christ.
The Scriptures say very little about what Adam and Eve had before the Fall, but the whole story of the Fall itself is rooted in that makes us fallen: We rely on our human capabilities instead of God’s provision to decide what our destiny and duties are in Creation. We instinctively turn away from revelation. It puts us in the position of passing judgment on His Word; it’s a rejection of Christ who is His Living Word. We end up agreeing with Jews and Judaizers about what God has said.
Without getting bogged down again in all the details, the net result is that American church folks have long been fools for Zionism. But again, that’s just the symptom. The core issue is that the following statement would shock most church folks: Jesus didn’t die on the Cross to bring us to Heaven, but to open the Covenant to the whole world. The issue of going to Heaven was settled before Eden was ever built. The bigger question is whether the Elect will embrace His divine glory while we are here.
The fundamental issue in the Devil’s rebellion is who gets the glory. Scripture is pretty clear about that, even if it is revealed in mystical prophecy, in particular the words of Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. Those passages point out the underlying theme of spiritual rebellion, the primary issue that Satan himself has with Jehovah, and thus the nature of his temptation of humanity. The whole issue is that our God is unique, the only one, and the greatness of His created servants is not on par with Him. They are still creatures, and He is the Creator. All glory is His.
The Devil was disciplined for seizing God’s glory for Himself. He was reduced from his status as the Divine Bodyguard (“Covering Cherub”) to the divine Prosecutor and Jailer. The Devil was confined to staying in this own prison — the fallen world. But he rejected that discipline, and continued making his case by tempting humanity to join him there. He knew God would be compelled to discipline humanity the same way for the same sin, the sin of seizing the prerogatives of glory for themselves.
Redemption is in restoring His stolen glory. We are confined to hard labor in this prison existence, and that labor is restoring all glory to His name. The only path He authorizes for that is in His revelation, His Son. And the frame of reference for His Son is the Covenant. The Covenant of Moses was the proper setting for His Son to manifest on earth, the final revelation to humanity at the end of a series of covenants. The final covenant in Christ was a shocker to the rebels in Heaven. They did not expect a covenant that transcended the boundaries of human identities.
Yes, we desire to return to Eden, which is pretty much the same concept as going to Heaven. The reason we desire it is because our eternal nature was not taken from us. The denial of access to the Tree of Life symbolized being forced into a mortal existence, not the removal of our eternal nature. Were it not for the eternal nature within, we would be wholly unable to respond to the gospel. There would be no home for the Holy Spirit within us. The meaning of Election is the existence of that eternal nature.
There is no clinical description possible of Election. It’s all part of the biblical mystical language. We might be able to delineate what sin looks like, but there is no way we can be made to distinguish the Elect from the Damned until the Elect come home to Jesus and manifest His glory. Thus, our mission is to live like Christ as the means to expose His glory, which He uses to awaken the awareness of Election in the Elect.
And we do this against the background of human chaos in a fallen realm of existence. This is the prison of souls, and we can do nothing to change its nature or its operation. But we can buck the system in favor the Creator’s glory. This is how we manifest His justice in condemning the Devil, and in condemning our own sins. This is how we participate in our original mission in Eden. This is how our lives are redeemed.
This is also the true source of conflict we have with the mainstream of Christian religion. We uphold the Covenant of Christ, while they try their hardest to chase everything else. Jesus died for our sins, so that we could be accepted into His Covenant. Satan can’t steal our eternal natures from us, but he can deceive us into missing our calling to Christ’s glory. That’s the real issue behind spiritual warfare. Will you walk in His Covenant to glorify Him?
We should expect rejection of this message. All the other noise is just symptoms of that.
