To Fear God

Posted on April 9, 2019 by ehurst

Nehemiah wrote in his official diary:

I gave the charge of Jerusalem to my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the leader of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many. (Nehemiah 7:2 NKJV)

What does it mean that Hananiah “feared God”? It should paint the image of someone who lives as though he senses God watching over his shoulder every moment of this waking hours. This is pretty good, because God can read your mind.

That’s not paranoia unless you have a lot of sin in your life. It is the natural result of the Presence of the Holy Spirit, and it is meant to be comforting. You will be guided and supported. If you are faithful, His promises will be fulfilled. That doesn’t mean there’s no testing. On the contrary, trusting the Lord ensures more testing. Instead of meaningless suffering and sorrow, everything has meaning and it calls you to trust Him more.

When I suggest that Biblical Law requires certain things of certain people and governments (or any agency with governing authority), it comes with the promise that those who obey will reap the rewards of obedience. Those promises are woven into the fabric of reality itself. It’s not to say you will always love the outcome, but that it most certainly is in your best interest. The question is for you to discern what His purpose and glory demands of you.

And there is most certainly the element of covenant here. Any nation that fails to enter the Covenant of Noah will be short-changed on those promises even if they do happen to stumble into obedience on some point. Even if your compliance is poor, embracing the covenant changes things completely. God fully expects a measure of failure, but the covenant promises hold far more strenuously in your favor if you solemnly declare it.

Hananiah was under the Covenant of Moses and was conscious of it. He had a duty that was quite clear. He acted like someone who honestly believed what the Covenant said. He proceeded as if all the miraculous blessings were quite real, even if he saw no objective evidence of them at the time. Obedience was the right thing to do because it was right, not because it worked. He committed in faith to the promises before he saw the manifestation of the rewards.

It’s a whole lot easier to get a small handful of fellow believers to embrace the Covenant of Christ (AKA Biblical Law) than it is to get any government to embrace the Covenant of Noah. This is what makes it particularly heartbreaking that so many churches are filled with people who do not actually fear God except in the phony sense of paranoia that Satan gives to keep us powerless.

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Commonplace Schizophrenia

Posted on April 8, 2019 by ehurst

Schizophrenia is an affliction of degree, not of kind.

Every human is born with multiple personalities, typically in the form of personas. This is the norm. We have to be different people to the various folks we encounter in life; otherwise, we can’t get much done.

So if someone is always exactly the same person at all times, it makes things difficult for everyone else. It constitutes an inconsiderate demand that everyone accommodate this one persona at whatever cost. We are designed by God to adapt to varying degrees by wearing different roles. In a truly biblical society, adults would be at least a dozen different people at any given time, depending on the context. The only question is just how flexible we can be without losing our grip on who God meant for us to be. It is a balancing act each of us must engage in our own way.

Of course, this presumes a heart-led atmosphere. That is, when the focus of your conscious awareness is in your heart instead of your head, you are in a position to see and manage the multiple personas that reality demands of us. You can keep it all in safe mode. Without that superposition of awareness above the intellect, you easily lose track, since no one persona is truly competent to manage the others.

Thus, it’s easy for folks lacking a heart-led awareness to become schizoid. Most of our society is poorly managed in that sense, and some folks suffer enough damage to separate the personas more completely. There is no competent manager for the interaction between them. The various personas are far less seamless, as we are designed to be, and the shifts are abrupt as each follows their own line of thinking and consciousness simultaneously, but without the normal traffic control. When there’s a collision, things get broken.

Once we get used to the idea, we are less shocked when fairly ordinary people exhibit hidden personas that manifest in odd ways. If most of the world around you is secretly schizoid, and you are aware of it, there’s less struggle inside of yourself when dealing with the manifestations. You have to view it from your own heart-led perspective and take appropriate action.

We could go on all day about the various ways people ought to handle their multiple personas, and clinical literature is abundant, if highly varied in quality. None of it assumes the heart-led way, so take it all with a grain of salt. Still, we can learn some things from reading it, if so inclined. My point here is to establish a biblical heart-led awareness of reality, particularly regarding how people think and act.

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Biblical Law on International Relations

Posted on April 7, 2019 by ehurst

The Covenant of Noah is the applicable law covenant for the entire human race, and it does have some things to say about international relations. More to the point, we can use the Law of Noah to critique the wrong things nations do right now. It’s not as if we could expect anyone to pay attention, but we should always seek ways to clarify the revelation of God so no one has any excuse.

Spying in itself is not a sin. There’s nothing wrong with trying to snoop on the secret councils of any government whose decisions affect your country. There are a whole range of justifiable spying activities, to include economic and military decisions. However, by no means at all should any spying government try to influence those decisions in any way at all. That is a hideous sin and God will not ignore it. The whole idea is that you can prepare to face their decisions, but you cannot in any way try to change those decisions.

Alliances between countries are just that; it is utterly immoral for any national government to ally with parties and factions within any other government. It’s morally proper to help another country defend itself from military attack or similar aggressive actions, but helping one faction against another within a government is evil.

In other words, trying to influence things in another country to benefit your own people is throwing a challenge in the face of God. He has revealed in no uncertain terms that He is the one who steers the affairs of human governments. Should a government embrace the Law of Noah, they can claim special benefits. Not a single government does that, so none have any unique status before God. All human governments are therefore steered by God, and He likens it to herding cattle. It’s nobody’s business what He decides, and human attempts to shape the outcomes of His decisions within other governments is strictly forbidden.

That does not prevent open and honest diplomatic gestures. That’s often one of the best ways for one government to tell another how they will react if things go one way or another. Nobody says a government cannot seek the best interest of their citizens, but there are restrictions on how to go about that. Blustering, threats, etc. are part of the rhetoric, but the logic requires a government to honestly admit what they view as the interests of their citizens. God allows no government to decide the internal affairs of any other government.

As I’ve noted previously, there is a range of provisions for imperial governments that rule over vassal states. That makes imperial policy an internal decision, even if it affects the vassals. I’m not talking about that here. We are looking at how countries bully each other, and it’s evil. There is no excuse and God will eventually pour out His wrath on sin.

By this standard is America judged, along with those officials and activists who promote the evil we have done.

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Teachings of Jesus — John 6:22-59

Posted on April 6, 2019 by ehurst

This chapter of John’s Gospel opens with Jesus traveling to Galilee, then to Tiberias on the western shore. The crowds from the area had been following Him around, since they saw Him with His disciples and recognized this as the man who performed miracles.

The average Jewish peasant was looking for the Messiah to come any day now, and they figured Jesus was Him. But the problem is what they thought “Messiah” meant; they were expecting a hero who would conquer by mighty miracles and restore the ancient glory of David’s and Solomon’s reign. That it was near the Passover stirred people’s emotions about such things, as they were celebrating the Exodus and reviewing that period in their national history, as well.

Jesus climbed up on the hillside above the city there and sat down with His disciples. Eventually a crowd made their way to them. This is where Jesus fed the five thousand men and anyone who came with them. The crowd began talking about making Him king, by force if necessary, so He sent them away. He withdrew higher into the craggy hillside and sent His disciples ahead of Him back to Capernaum. During the night they fought against a storm and He walked on the water, nearly passing them by. But they cried out to Him and He climbed into their small craft, and suddenly they were on the northern shore at Capernaum. The crowd from the previous day noticed that He had not left with the Twelve, but couldn’t find Him, so they got into boats and rowed over to Capernaum, where they knew He had been residing.

They found Jesus there and were quite puzzled how He had crossed the sea. No doubt their heads were filled with fanciful nonsense about it, but the truth would have been even more stunning. Things were reaching a crisis point, as His miracles seemed to provoke the worst of such behavior, and yet He kept escalating the miracles. Still, His Kingdom had nothing to do with their dreams. His would be a kingdom of hearts, and He was about to sift them severely so that only those who were truly committed to the truth would stick around.

Jesus knew what they were thinking. He accused them of petty materialism, not impressed by the miracles, but just happy their bellies were filled. So He lowered the boom on them: Stop worrying about full tummies and start seeking a full heart. Jesus called on them to start considering issues of the Spirit Realm. Obviously the physical bread that would digest and be forgotten was not much of an issue with Him, but they should be asking Him how to work for the Bread of Life.

What kind of work would that be, they wondered. English translations of this passage vary, and some miss the point entirely. He told them they must submit to Him as the Messiah, the Heir of Heaven. And how did He propose to convince them that He was sent by God? This was almost Passover, celebrating how the nation in the wilderness were fed fresh manna from the sky every day. Could Jesus match that miracle that Moses did?

He replied that manna was not the Bread of Life. His Father had given them eternal bread in the form of the Son. Whoever embraced the claims and message of the Son would find the substance of life itself. But they still didn’t get it, because it probably sounded like not having to work any more, which was close enough to manna for them. Sure, they’d be glad to eat bread and stop working for food. And Jesus, “Here I am. I’m the Bread of Life. Submit to me and your problems will be solved.” Of course, they had seen His physical form and His miracles, but they still didn’t believe anything He said. He spoke plainly how He knew that only those moved by the Spirit of God would be able to claim Him as Messiah.

And whom the Father gave to Him as His inherited kingdom would become His precious treasure. Jesus was dispatched from Heaven, and He had no separate human plans, only the divine mission. That mission was to seal with the Holy Spirit those whom the Father gave Him and equip them for eternal life. They would die, but then be resurrected on Judgment Day as family members of God’s household. But only those who discerned the true nature of the Son would receive that seal.

Now among this crowd of people were some Pharisees and such. They murmured among themselves about how this Jesus of Nazareth was just a builder’s son and they knew His family. They got the symbolism enough to understand Jesus was claiming to be the Son of God, and they just didn’t see how that could be, with Him coming from such humble and well-known circumstances. Jesus told them not to waste their time with such questions. If His claims didn’t register in their hearts, then they weren’t among those God gave Him for His kingdom. They wouldn’t be raised up to eternal life on the Day of Judgment. Without that mighty voice of the Spirit in their souls, there was no way they could swallow all of this.

Granted, no one had seen the Father either, but Jesus claimed to have met Him face to face. But whomever had the wherewithal to accept His message would become members of the Father’s household. Jesus was the sole source of the Bread of Life. Being Jewish didn’t mean anything. The people who ate manna died in the wilderness, and everyone knew it was because they didn’t have faith, either. Jesus was something far superior, and anyone who could figure this out would not miss out like that.

Using an established Hebrew symbol, Jesus said His flesh was the Bread of Life. It meant that the substance of His human behavior and teaching was a manifestation of ultimate truth, of divine revelation. He was ready to sacrifice His human existence to establish an eternal covenant. The Pharisees were being obtuse, wondering how Jesus could let them take a bite of His body. That wouldn’t be kosher! Plowing ahead, Jesus confirmed that they should eat His flesh and drink His blood, the true provision from the Father for eternal life. If they couldn’t figure this out, there was no way they could go to Heaven. It was symbolic of embracing everything He represented. They must accommodate His divine nature in their own bodies.

He reminded them that eating manna didn’t bring eternal life to anyone. It was a subtle way of asserting that His authority was higher than Moses. Jesus was God’s heir.

John slips in a note at the end of this passage to point out that some of this teaching took place in the synagogue, signaling to his readers that this thing went back and forth over a period of a couple of days, at least. Then John goes on to tell us that this challenging parable was just too much for the crowd to swallow and most of His followers dropped out. The Twelve stayed on, and just a few others, people who seemed to have the heart to understand all of this.

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The Primacy of Individual Calling and Conviction

Posted on April 6, 2019 by ehurst

This is in response to some offline comments…

The ethic of utility is a false idol, a rejection of Jesus Christ. Whether or not something works in practical terms is easily the very last consideration God requires of us when it comes to choosing what we shall do. First and foremost with God is obedience to His divine will for you.

There is no authorized arbiter on this earth commissioned by God to tell you what His will is for you. The one and only voice of God is that voice in your own soul, the voice in your heart, the divine character granted by God in your convictions. Everything else is advisory at best. We do have the Scriptures, but God had then written for us in a language of parables and symbols. Even the Greek New Testament documents presumed a parabolic approach. You are supposed to know God in your heart first and find His call for you in the Bible. Over and over again: There is no such thing as propositional truth. Jesus would have snickered at such an idea (see John 3). The primacy of the soul resurrected by the Spirit of God is the whole matter.

So there is no objective standard to which anyone can point and demand conformity. Pretending otherwise makes you an enemy of Christ, a servant of Satan.

The same Father of Jesus Christ is the God who told the Israelites that Amalekites should be exterminated, and certain inhabitants of the Canaan Land with them. That wasn’t some bad nationalist propaganda in the Bible; that was the divine command of God Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth. This same God did not change His divine moral character when He was born in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. That’s why Jesus cracked a whip in the Temple, and that was only when He was being exceptionally patient. He could have called ten legions of angels, but that wasn’t the mission for that time. However, it most certainly represented well the character of God. Instead, God later drove the evil Jewish leaders out of the city using the Roman Army.

Their rejection of the Son had very real bloody consequences, and God is the one who made it happen.

In the current context of the United States with God’s wrath falling on this people, there are certain things that God is doing. You can go along with it, or you can fight it and be crushed with all the other fools. I have a prophetic calling from God; it does not require any human approval. I am bound to obey. You go right ahead and follow your own convictions. But my convictions demand that I prophesy against first the Globalists, who by now are just about crushed. Theirs is an evil idolatry of Satan, seeking to raise up the Tower of Babel again. Next, God calls me to condemn the socialists/communists. Not because their philosophy is evil; it is, but that’s not the point. Their intentions are contrary to God’s plan.

They plan to enslave the whole human race to their evil idolatry, too. Here in America, they are no longer willing to play by established rules; they aren’t willing to live and let live. They insist on destroying the right-wing if at all possible. They are perfectly willing to slaughter everyone who opposes them. More, they are perfectly willing to torment and torture them on the way to the grave. They are a relentless evil, but the real problem is that they are getting in the way of something God has planned. They deserve to die, and God will see to it a great many of them do. You tell me: At what point in that killing will they back off and let non-leftists go their own way? I guess we will find out, because God has decreed a bloody civil war to make it happen.

(Aside: I don’t have any predictions, but Trump has betrayed his constituency and everyone can see it. Biden is the last of the globalists with a chance at winning any election. The rest of the viable candidates are flat out communists, though they rhetorically prefer the term “socialist.” And at this point they are gearing up for a coup on every level from local municipal government on up, so it may not matter who is President after 2020. We are headed for a civil war. I’m not calling for violence and bloodshed; I’m warning that it will happen regardless of what anyone wishes.)

I am by no means a right-winger; they are a different kind of evil. However, God plans to use them for a while longer yet, so I have to go with what my convictions say about that. It could be that in just a few weeks or months, I will be put into the position of taking up arms and defending some things that matter to God in my life. Will I kill some commies for Christ? You betcha, but it will have nothing to do with supporting the philosophy of whoever happens to be opposing the commies. Can I keep that distinction visible for all to see? Not likely. Nothing I can do about that. The minds of people in this country are so very many layers away from God’s truth that it’s not possible to explain to more than a tiny minority. I would prefer the commies come to their senses, but that won’t happen because they are under a very solid demonic delusion, so I’m gearing up to fight. God intends to slaughter a bunch of them.

It doesn’t matter if I am victorious in battle. It’s right that I be ready to engage in combat operations because that’s what God has called me to do. In the mix of human idiocy, it turns out that anything resembling nationalism is by far the one “ism” that comes close to God’s revealed truth, so I plan to support nationalism as the least of evils in this world. If, after all the words I’ve plastered on this blog, you cannot grasp that idea, then stop reading this blog. The only question, then, is what constitutes my “nation.” I can assure you that it has nothing to do with any of the categories most people recognize. Some of you already understand the answer to that question; the rest of you are trying not to understand.

But the moment I find myself in the situation like Jeremiah, where an enemy of my nation is sent by God, I’ll be the first to stand up and prophesy in favor of surrender. Will it do any good? That’s for God to handle; I’m called to obey. And I will most certainly not countenance anyone’s wheedling and whining that I should not promote the idea of humans killing other humans. That’s a damned lie from Satan, so take that nonsense and shove it. God decides what is morally correct for me, and you aren’t Him.

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Aristotelian Logic Has Its Place

Posted on April 6, 2019 by ehurst

Aristotelian logic is valid for its purpose. It has its place, but that place is not at the top of human awareness.

The reason I spend so much time castigating Aristotelian logic is because it has serious limits. It is not equipped to deal with things beyond this realm, and has only limited use for things in this realm. It does not recognize any other realm. So you should understand Aristotelian logic as much as you can, but recognize that it only gets you so far. It’s what you use when there is no guidance from your convictions.

The real issue is the big raft of goofy assumptions people put with that logic, certain a priori assumptions that aren’t necessarily a part of the logic itself. This is the real moral scandal in Western epistemology. The whole world wants to hide the plain fact that the West is founded on pagan Germanic mythology. The basic assumptions about reality are the real problem; the logic is just the mechanism of how those assumptions are used and applied.

You cannot build an epistemology on the mechanism alone. Somewhere you have to make certain assumptions about what is morally right and wrong, how reality works in the first place. Logic by itself cannot offer anything of that sort. And in Western Civilization, those assumptions are fed by the ancient tribal Germanic mythology typically associated with things like Grimm’s Fairy Tales and literature like Beowulf.

It is plainly visible that everyone starts from certain moral assumptions and that everyone has an inborn sense of other realms outside what is discernible from the five senses. For Westerners to pretend they can approach the question of morality from neutral or objective ground is one of the biggest lies people tell themselves. It’s natural for people to assume what they were raised with is somehow the universal “objective truth” of things. That’s the Idol of the Tribe, one of Bacon’s “Idols of the Mind”

  1. Idols of the Tribe (Idola tribus): This is humans’ tendency to perceive more order and regularity in systems than truly exists, and is due to people following their preconceived ideas about things.
  2. Idols of the Cave (Idola specus): This is due to individuals’ personal weaknesses in reasoning due to particular personalities, likes and dislikes.
  3. Idols of the Marketplace (Idola fori): This is due to confusion in the use of language and taking some words in science to have a different meaning than their common usage.
  4. Idols of the Theatre (Idola theatri): This is the following of academic dogma and not asking questions about the world.

So while logic can help you see the assumptions by which you build your world-view, it cannot supply that world-view. And yes, Bacon was reacting against the limitations he saw in Aristotelian logic by offering what became the foundation for the Western Scientific Method, with its own limitations and flaws. Things happen that can never be explained by Bacon’s approach.

My point is that the whole of Western Civilization is founded on a lie. There’s nothing wrong with the tools, but the foundation itself is deeply flawed and frankly pagan. Western Christianity is a senseless perversion of the teachings of Jesus. His teachings don’t defy logic, but put logic in it’s place as a mere tool in the absence of revelation from the Creator.

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The Rhetoric of False Diversity

Posted on April 5, 2019 by ehurst

We have no argument with multicultural ideals, but lots of argument with how most activists implement it.

We avoid using popular terminology and rhetoric. There is a lot of rhetorical nonsense out there, but most of us can see that, in our current context, anti-white racism is officially encouraged in a lot of settings in the US. It’s been growing for a few decades, so it’s better to get used to it than to pretend it shouldn’t exist.

Racism is a human trait. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do to remove it. Indeed, the whole range of activism against racism could be the single biggest waste of human time and resources you’ll ever see. You can reduce humans to something less than human by extreme measures, but there is nothing mankind can do to make us non-human. Humans are fallen and hatred is built in.

So is unfairness. Striving against inequality is just plain stupid. As anyone can see, the legal efforts to curb it have accomplished nothing of any value to anyone. We still have the same old hatreds and unequal treatment, but it’s simply disguised.

So right now we see, particularly on college campuses, that segregation is back. Now we see all kinds of ridiculous efforts to provide everyone except whites their own “safe space” away from others. More and more accommodations are offered with that kind of segregation. When you get outside the ivory tower atmosphere, you find most people angry at the whole idea of “safe spaces,” including non-whites. The population at large still clings to the old desegregation values. Yet this business of re-segregation into safe havens is gaining traction among folks who consider themselves social leaders.

And who knows where this goofiness will lead tomorrow? Informally, most people work things out just fine and get on with life. Crafting artificial rules about what one can say and do only serves to keep things hostile.

Our Radix Fidem covenant assumes people need to associate with others of similar culture and religious practices. This is why we don’t prescribe any particular practices. Instead, we talk in broad generalities about preferring natural settings and eschewing real estate and facilities. Obviously there are limits to that in some climates and locales. The whole idea is to keep you in touch with Creation via the natural world around you. But actual rituals and such are left to the individual groups. Whatever helps you keep your eyes on Jesus is a good thing. Worshiping with others tends to work best when everyone holds the same expectations about what that means in practice.

In our world, that means cultural segregation is virtually necessary. And, in practice, that typically means racial segregation to some degree. Nobody should force that, of course. Still, it was never really about skin color or any other feature arising from DNA. It was a matter of tradition and culture, and how those things tend to arise in response to who lives where, and it tends to be tribal. That’s because God made us that way and His Word promotes a tribal social structure.

Some day out there in the future, some of you who embrace the Radix Fidem covenant will find yourself in a community of faith based to varying degrees on that covenant. The last thing we need to do is prescribe rituals and cultural boundaries from here. How your congregation does “tribal” can vary widely in practical terms. We can say “ignore skin color,” but that may not be possible where people associate distinct cultures with it. So the admonition here is that you do what works to make religion express faith.

Follow your convictions.

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A Prophetic Warning about Violence and Wrath

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ehurst

This is hard for me to write because I know most of you who read this will reject the message. I can’t help that; I must be faithful and obedient to my convictions, for they are the voice of God in my heart.

God’s wrath is upon the US. He has decreed an end to what we know as the United States and her government. This was visible to prophetic insight decades ago. Along this decreed path of destruction, there have been some options. There were decisions people could have made, both key individuals and the mass of people living here, that would have made things better or worse.

But the simple truth is that God has decreed bloodshed and civil war in the US. Up to now, decisions have been made that will increase the bloodshed and aggravate destruction. I have consistently asserted that God turned away from an apocalypse, in part because we have embraced the heart-led message. However, that doesn’t mean we have dodged all the other bullets; it will be a huge painful mess even if it is short of an apocalypse.

Trump is not a good guy, but he was God’s chosen scourge for this time. In that role, he could have taken any number of good or better paths, and has so far chosen instead to take some of the worst paths. A critical element in this context was God’s wrath specifically on globalists. Had these folks ended up arrested, mobbed and beaten, or even assassinated, it would have fulfilled a distinct element in God’s wrath. That did not happen, so God is now taking things along an alternate route.

The globalists are being taken down another way, but that way includes having to contend with the rise of a popular passion in favor of socialism. That didn’t have to be, but it is now our fate. The bloodshed that God has decreed will be far worse than it had to be, because now we will have to confront that awful monster that could have been kept away. In other words, had there been a potent alt-right storm against the left, and had there been a few lives lost that way, some of God’s wrath would have been turned away.

Have we forgotten that the Old Testament depiction of God was accurate all along? Our teaching is to emphasize the unity and continuity between the Old and New Testaments, that the Law Covenants still have meaning. Christ ended the Covenant of Moses on the Cross, but that did not change the nature of reality and how the Law Covenants still guide our understanding of who God is and how He operates in the affairs of humanity.

So while you and I may not be called to get involved in the violence that God insists will come, we should all realize that it must come and we had better understand the role it plays. We can decry the violence on personal moral grounds, but we had better get used to the idea that God still works that way. We don’t have to promote it, but we had better not deny it’s importance and utility in God’s will. And as such, we should realize that had the alt-right been more violent and assertive early on, there would be far, far less violence in the future.

This rise of socialism will result in a much wider violence later on. The longer it takes for the right-wing resistance to socialism to get started, the worse it will be once it comes. A little violence now will save a lot more later. Blood must be shed to atone for sins; humans do have some options in taking care of this debt owed to God. You can accept the sacrifice of Christ and obey Biblical Law, or you can reject revelation and see all Hell break loose. There is a sliding scale; you can do better or worse. God is not a simplistic absolutist, but He is God.

Right now, the US is on a path that will take us back very close to an apocalypse. Let that sink in to your awareness.

I’m not saying the right-wing violence is good, or that God’s truth favors them. Rather, God intends to use them in His future dealings with the people living in this country. And whether we like it or not, a sense of racial identity is deeply tied into how things turn out. So while I still assert that Anglo-American culture is crappy, God still has a use for it. It has a role to play in the final fate of the US, and the violence inherent in that culture is part of the picture.

The reason that there must be a violent backlash that leaves the right-wing somewhat victorious is that this is the basis of how the US will be broken up. Where the righties prevail will be one new nation, while the lefties will be granted their Hell-holes where they rule. The shape of the borders will have a lot to do with how the final break comes about via civil war. The sniveling panic about potential violence serves only to make the future worse.

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Try to Imagine

Posted on April 4, 2019 by ehurst

Typical is not necessarily normal.

A critical element of heart-led faith, of walking by conviction, is that we are granted a stronger and more conscious connection to our own bodies. That’s a clear element in being more firmly connected to Creation, since our bodies are part of Creation. Being able to commune meaningful with nature means communing with our mortal bodies.

The whole point of shalom is entering that space between Heaven and Earth, where we pass through the Flaming Sword of divine revelation and return to Eden. It’s not meant to be fully literal, but a parable of what could be if only we embraced what God has said. We don’t have to live and die like the rest of humanity who take the broad way to Hell.

It doesn’t mean that you automatically get better health, but that we discover what God intended for each of us. Faith opens us up to the promises God wrote into our convictions. We can’t know what God has provided in our divine heritage until we are led by the heart.

When Jesus did so very many miracles and drove out so many demons, He was restoring the blessings of shalom to the nation of Israel. Those blessings had slipped away because the leadership had rejected the ancient Hebrew heart-led way of living. Instead, the nation had been subjected to a perversion of the Covenant based on Hellenized reasoning, versus the ancient Hebrew mysticism. So Jesus taught that path of heart-led Hebrew mysticism and provided the miracles of restoring the blessings everyone should have had were it not for that intellectual perversion of revelation. What had previously been considered “normal” for Jews in His day was washed out in a restoration of Covenant promises.

The miracles of Jesus served in part to prove just how far Israel had strayed from the Covenant.

Today we have a whole mass of medical science based on observations of what has been typical of human existence, but that “typical” has been nothing at all like what God intended. Instead, we have a long history of medical observation from within a society that rejected divine revelation a priori. There have been just a tiny few humans in Western history that have tasted the heart-led way, faced up against a massive mountainous lie about the nature of reality. Faith goes only so far as you let it, so even people of conviction have suffered mightily from being denied the full heritage of faith.

What would happen to the statistical data on human health if suddenly a portion of the population seized the full range of heart-led communion with their bodies? What if those whom God intended to live longer and healthier lives suddenly became conscious of that via consciousness of their convictions? What would it do to medical science if people suddenly began to defy the statistical norms and claimed the blessings of their divine heritage?

Living by Holy Cynicism means being fully aware of what God could do if we obeyed. Seize the communion with your bodies that God has already offered to everyone in the human race; know what your body says. Like Adam in the Garden of Eden, command your flesh by God’s Word into the path of shalom.

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Patient Heart, Clear Head

Posted on April 3, 2019 by ehurst

An offline discussion inspires me to write a review of some things.

There are, in fact, more conspiracies than you can shake a stick at; most theories about conspiracies have major flaws. Too often they are based on false assumptions. And most conspirators are involved in more than one conspiracy, sometimes playing both sides against each other.

Once more: There is no single diabolical group seeking to take over the world. There are at least a half-dozen who want to do so, but none of them are capable. The Lord made it painfully clear that He would never permit any one-world government to arise (Tower of Babel narrative) until very near the end of this world. We aren’t there yet; too many indicators are missing.

Where we are is the end of another civilization. We can already see the whole thing collapsing in upon itself, rotten to the core. It will take a long time, and things will be painfully messy for quite a while. It will get worse than it is now, but it will not be an apocalypse. Close, maybe, but not a full apocalypse — God has relented on that.

There is no single group or agency capable of ruling or doing everything they want. There are some that do manage to get away with an awful lot. Members of the CIA killed JFK and RFK, and quite a few other people, but even the biggest part of the CIA isn’t fully aware of that, much less the details of how it was done. And the CIA couldn’t have done it alone; it required the help of affiliates in other agencies and groups. Some of those groups still don’t know the whole story because it was just a few key individuals involved. But those two assassinations, along with a few others, were the start of something we didn’t have before that time, with the CIA gaining the authority to block certain political shifts in the US.

But a lot of stuff blamed on the CIA isn’t their doing. Same with most other clandestine agencies and groups out there. Inevitably, not a single clandestine group has clean hands; there are no good guys. It doesn’t matter how you evaluate the morality of such things; stuff is kept secret because the citizens believe that stuff is evil. It won’t matter what excuse the actors make up for it. From our covenant perspective, they are all bathed in evil, including the conspirators and the citizens from whom they are hiding stuff. A better question is not who has clean hands, but what kind and what level of dirt is on them.

So my point here is to help you throw away the silliness of thinking there is a simple explanation for most criminal conspiracies. As I said, most of the theories are based on false assumptions, and pull in just a portion of the facts in the first place. Just about everything reported in the media is, on one level or another, bullshit. It might be accurate in one way, but totally ignores what really matters in other ways. They are trying to get you to believe anything except the truth.

The problem is that we need to have some discernment about what most people around us believe. Not what they say they believe, but what they reveal by their actions. We can establish a reasonable profile of what kinds of things they will likely believe and predict their actions. We need to predict their actions; we need to be aware of how the common craziness affects people around us. We need to see how the interplay between a lying government, a lying media, lying activists, and a cynical but benighted public produces certain typical results.

Jesus suggested it’s a good thing to recognize the signs of the times. The madness of both mankind and the natural world is perfectly normal for this time. Don’t be shocked by what happens; your heart knows enough to help you prepare. Handle it with aplomb.

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