We’ll Be Okay

We have a burden to tell the truth, even though we know the world will not listen.

Jesus warned His disciples of a fundamental truth: It is not for us to know the Father’s plans for human governments. He reserves His own counsel on such things. Instead, He gives us guidance that prepares us for what is coming on a different level, keeping our focus as shepherds over our flocks.

At the same time, His Word points out patterns and priorities by which He operates. This is what the Scripture calls “wisdom” — knowing God so well that you know what to expect from Him. As with all knowledge of persons, it’s not a matter of precise detail, but of general trends, so that nothing really surprises us.

The various covenants declared in Scripture give us a clue to God’s priorities, amplified by the record of how He acts when humans fail. Humans have drifted very far from those revelations. Most people who read the Scripture are coming from a totally alien viewpoint so that it requires a heavy burden of effort to restore the fundamental value system behind Scripture. Ask yourself: How many people do you know who would even for a moment entertain the biblical prerequisite of eastern feudal-tribal social structure? Yet, without that underlying assumption, you cannot even begin to comprehend what Jesus taught.

Indeed, the whole of the New Testament rests on that assumption. The Kingdom of Heaven manifests on earth in just that way. The whole concept of “church” is fundamentally feudal and tribal; it’s wired into Creation itself. The world God created expects to see this before it will cooperate with any human effort to harvest the blessings God promised.

Robert’s Rules of Order is anathema, a feeble human effort focused on everything except the Law of Love Christ proclaimed at the Last Seder. The US Constitution is even worse. We know what happens when institutions are built on such things. It keeps everything out of the covenant and within Satan’s domain. Thus, failure is the only option long term.

Some say that Civil War 2.0 has already started, and I agree. I’m not too sure the first one ever ended, though the human ideals for which people fight have shifted a great deal over the decades since then. What matters is the fighting, not what anyone claims is the reason. Those who lack spiritual guidance in Christ’s love will fight over anything, or even nothing.

I remain convinced that the real battle will be informational, trying to conquer pubic perception. The linked article is part of the propaganda war. What the author suggests is the solution won’t happen. That is, it might happen in a few areas, but not the locations where it matters most for the sake of propaganda. The Bundy style militias will react to a left-wing federal government, but not to bused-in lefty protesters.

By the way, the militia action at the Bundy Ranch was broadly justified and arguably lawful, but it doesn’t make any difference. Nobody on either side cares what God has to say about it. It was all under Satan because nobody was acting under the Covenant. All that’s left is discussing what might be effective in the given context.

We know what to expect from Trump in general terms; it’s all about his ego. He is wholly unconcerned with the welfare of the either the people or the institutions. Meanwhile, I keep wondering when he will be removed from office; his own people are plotting against him. Some of them have good sensible reasons, but if it happens, it will only make life here in the US even worse. The people at the top of government and finance are consolidating their controls over the economy solely in order to seize more plunder for themselves. They are heedlessly destroying sectors of the economy that don’t interest them, not realizing how the whole thing is welded together.

Meanwhile, the relative poverty for the little people will gradually creep upward into higher classes. The middles will join the bottom in struggling to maintain their accustomed lifestyle. It’s a slow rot. For awhile yet, it’s going to look okay because the higher class businesses will continue to prosper. If you watch the independent small businesses that cater to the common folks, they are already starting to close their doors. Only the big name-brand franchise shops remain open, and even they are closing outlets in some areas.

God will take care of His covenant people. We’ll be okay. Operate by your convictions because God will sponsor that. Stay focused on what really matters — love Him and His people. Be compassionate with lost sheep.