God revealed Himself in the Bible. If you reject the testimony of Scripture, you reject God.
In the Bible, we learn that a covenant society is peaceful and stable. Everyone has a place, a mission in life, and they have no cause for doubting that mission. If you aren’t comfortable with the roles God has assigned, you can always appeal to Him. There are clear boundaries and priorities. If you don’t like His answer, you can leave in peace.
You are not free to demand fundamental changes. You may well have a mission to persuade folks to think a little differently about some things on some levels, but you are not permitted to attack the underlying revelation of God. He is the final Judge of all things.
Some of the things God has made clear are the roles assigned for males and females. If you leave the boundaries God has established, people lose track of who they are and how to live. Western society hasn’t simply lost track, but has rebelled. Western Civilization represents a truculent rejection of divine revelation, the Covenant in particular. Not just a rejection of the one covenant, but a rejection of the very concept of covenant.
Early in American history, we still had some vestige of traditional ideas about the roles of men and women. They weren’t good, but they did work well enough. Women always had a mission in the family, and men could eventually find a mission on their own. We’ve lost that. Women have hatefully trashed their roles, and have seized control of society and law to a large degree. Women at least believe they have a mission, so they can orient their existence, even if they are woefully misguided. They have stolen away the last little bit of frame of reference that men could use to discern their place in the world.
Men today have no sense of purpose. They are hard wired against almost everything women demand. This country is lost. A precious few men here and there gain some sense of purpose, but society as a whole has denied the root nature of manhood, so for a man to be seized by a sense of mission is an act of open rebellion.
To walk in Christ’s Covenant means declaring war on the American society, and to a great degree, against American government. You need not lift a finger to threaten the system; simply refusing to surrender makes you dangerous. The Covenant binds us to pray for His wrath to fall on sin.
Lord, start with me. Cleanse my sin first.
