Three things that are so critical that they warrant special attention.
1. We’ve taught this for years: There is nothing any human can do to change their eternal destiny. If you pay attention to the Old Testament narrative, you’ll notice there is precious little comment about eternal matters. That’s because they understood things correctly, that humans have no business trying to talk about eternal things outside the narrow parabolic content that God revealed.
If you understand the thesis of the Unseen Realm (Eternity), then you realize our place in the scheme of things. Jesus died on the Cross to open the Covenant to all the Elect from all nations. The point was not getting more people into Eternity, but to open up the promises of God for this life to all the folks already predestined for Heaven.
God’s Elect are going to Heaven; that is eternal truth. The Devil and his allies never could have done anything to change that. The Elect were always God’s Chosen. What the Devil could do was convince the Chosen to abandon their divine inheritance in this world. His aim is to provoke us to so disobey that God would look like a fool for not giving the Elect the same sentence as God gave Satan.
That concept is a basic assumption of the teachings of Christ and His disciples. Stop teaching about going to Heaven as if it were an option humans could choose. Instead, talk about doing what’s right in this life so as to glorify Christ. The emphasis is the Covenant and harvesting its blessings. Don’t talk about going to Heaven; talk about manifesting Heaven in this world.
Sure, those who are not Elect can and will be moved to join in a community where the sacrificial love of Christ is manifested. We welcome them for the simple reason we have no means of identifying them. That is, we cannot identify them except by the means of raising the standard of love-as-law so high that only the power of the Holy Spirit can get us there. Sooner or later, the Damned will precipitate out of that atmosphere. The issue is raising the standard for ourselves so that they can’t keep up.
Meanwhile, they will be blessed as much as they are going to be blessed just by hanging out with us. Don’t let them drag the standards down. Assume they are Elect folks who don’t understand yet, and keep working with everyone until they rise or drop out. The gateway to church membership is feudal submission to Christ and His Covenant in this life.
2. If you can grasp that, then you understand the place that human reason has in the scheme of things. When reason serves faith, it’s not a bad tool. When reason tries to trump faith — it always does, sooner or later — then it is bound in chains for discipline. It is not allowed the freedom to decide certain things our Lord reserves for Himself.
Thus, let reason strive to work out the implications of the Law of Christ. Put it work engineering and implementing the moral framework revealed from Heaven. We do everything we can to reduce human suffering, but we never allow reason to direct the definitions of “suffering” and “what we can do about it”. Compassion must be an expression of God’s priorities. His priorities are quite different from those of this world.
3. Of all the stuff I’ve read lately, there are few articles that match this one for coming close to divine priorities and slicing out the nonsense with the Sword of Truth: Why Did the FDA Hide Vaccine Injuries? I’d say it’s worth your time to read this article, with the caveat that RFK Jr. is no angel, nor are any of Trump’s other appointees.
Notice that I’m not saying this article is gospel. I am saying that, out of the cacophony of propaganda demanding the public’s attention, this article comes to the closest to pointing out the lies on a human level. The writer lays out a good frame of reference for explaining why we should distrust the medical industry versus medical service. While the former has taken over the latter for the most part, the latter is not the problem.
Empathy can be faked, and the motivations of the medical industry are the same as any other: profits not people. They use their profits to purchase government policy that forces the public at large to act in ways that increase industry profits. It has nothing to do with human health but corporate financial health. There are a whole bunch of losers in power over our medical decisions who don’t give a damn about us.
Your flesh belongs to Christ. It becomes a matter of faith to reject yet another attempt by the Devil to distract us from pursuing holiness. We expect servants of the Devil to keep on serving him, as this is the Devil’s realm. We are an invasive presence. Jesus Himself set the example: We make no attempt to seize from the Devil his control over human affairs; God has granted that to him. But we also do not allow Satan to seize control over our human lives, for God has granted us to Christ. Christ’s authority trumps the Devil’s on the individual level. If that means we are crucified with Him, we rejoice that we are found worthy of being placed in His company.
