Teachings of Jesus — Matthew 20:20-28

Posted on August 4, 2018 by ehurst

The mother of James and John was Salome, the wife of Zebedee. Salome was the sister of Jesus’ mother, Mary. Thus, this was His closest kin apart from His mother. Yet, she came and worshiped Him as the Messiah. It was obvious she had a request, and it was protocol that she wait until He asked her what she sought. Her request was quite understandable, since Jesus had no other family.

The significance of her request regards His royal Messianic court. The right-hand man would be His heir so long as Jesus had no son of His own. Typically this would be a ruler’s senior commander of troops and personal representative. The left-hand man is a little more ambiguous. If the right-hand was the eastern symbol of power and active authority, the left was the shield from attack. Near as we can tell, this would make the left-hand man his enforcer and bodyguard, the guy who kept a ruler’s prison and punishment program.

We know that the Twelve struggled to grasp the warning Jesus had just given them regarding His fate once they got to Jerusalem. If they believed any part of that, this was to ensure the group could transition to at least a temporary leadership plan until Jesus was back in action. A lot could happen in three days.

What He told Salome meant more or less that she was missing the point. To His cousins, He asked if they were ready to join Him in the bitter cup, a symbol of wrath and doom. He also used the image of baptism, a ritual of cleansing for a new life, but often a symbol of death. They asserted they were ready. Jesus said that was a good thing, because it was sure to come upon them. However, appointing specific vested positions in His Messianic court was not really up to Him. His Father had chosen who would fill those rolls; it just waited the revelation of all these things.

Of course, the other ten disciples were angry about this apparent quiet maneuvering behind their backs. How dare they? There must of have been some harsh words exchanged, because Jesus had to quell the riot. He told them to assemble for a lesson.

The pagan Gentile world of politics was all about strong figures to which others would bow in subservience. It was painfully obvious in that world who was senior and who was subordinate by who lorded it over the others. That’s not the way things work in the Messiah’s kingdom. The superior among the Twelve would be the one who served most humbly. In the Kingdom, serving is greatness. This hearkened back to the ancient shepherd symbolism.

Becoming a shepherd was the antithesis of ambition. A man inherited the role, and it meant forgetting all his grand plans and his personal comfort. He had to care for creatures who focused entirely on eating and making babies, while all the burden of protection and choosing the right pasture was on the shepherd. It was endless hours of sharp attention and warding off threats. He spent more time in the pasture with them than at home, and most shepherds lived in tents because it wasn’t worth the trouble to build a house you could never visit for more than a short season. It was very much a sacrificial role, the hardest job any man could have.

As their shepherd, Jesus was planning to die for them. His sacrifice was a dire necessity for the flock He was going to inherit from His Father. Anyone expecting to serve close to Him had to learn how to shepherd, as well.

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Contextual Loose Ends for Radix Fidem

Posted on August 4, 2018 by ehurst

Is this Radix Fidem thing for real? Is it real to you? Can a heart-led faith in Christ become both a distinguishing characteristic, and the basis for coming together as a community of faith? There are at least a handful of us who believe it is. We are trying to hold together a communion based on shared faith and understanding. Maybe you, dear reader, are a part of that. Along with recent explorations of what defines our shared faith, I want to offer a few practical considerations.

1. Here’s a serious problem: The younger generation growing up with the Internet confuses virtual reality with reality. Because the Internet is borderless, they assume humanity should be borderless. This makes it very hard to get across to them the lesson of the Tower of Babel, that God requires us to be tribal. This is a major flaw in the nascent Networked Civilization.

Once the globalist cabal in America is destroyed, you should expect the ideals to rise again from the ashes. It’s a fundamental tool of Satan and will not die until Christ returns. The Tower of Babel will be built repeatedly until then.

2. Because there is such a big difference between virtual space and meat space, you and I have to learn something very important. In the coming turmoil of tribulation, the best way to avoid being a target is to avoid organizing in meat space. Any time you draw humans together in one place with a clear institutional purpose and identity, that becomes a target.

This is why you see attempts in the mainstream media (MSM) to portray their enemies as easily defined groups. Once you have a handle sticking out there, anyone can grab it. So the MSM looks for ways to define any group with handles they can use to dismiss something that is completely rooted in virtual space. It’s a big lie, but most of humanity has a reflex to believe at least part of the MSM message.

You and I must be careful to put the focus on the message, not ourselves. This weakens the lies of those who would seek to silence us. The MSM is your enemy, willing slaves of Satan, as are a great many standing social institutions.

3. Do not make the mistake of thinking this isn’t a war. Lots of people still hold up the false image of a debate within a unified nation, but that’s the first lie. The only solution is to separate the main groups, but nobody wants to yield an inch of the larger territory. So they will fight until the battle lines become boundaries on the ground.

The reason we have to see it as a war is because at least one side intends to force their vision onto others. They have embraced the dire necessity of crushing dissent. There never was much unity; that was a facade. But now the facade has been ripped away and naked force is exposed for what it is.

4. Our faith comes with a built-in desire for fellowship and communion in the real world. We have to temper that for the time being with the very real threat to anything that looks like organization. As much as possible, we need to keep the core existence of our religion in the virtual realm. Once things have shaken out and the new political order comes into existence, then we can focus more on building recognizable households of faith. Keep that dream alive.

5. Be prepared to sacrifice in the mean time. Anything still burdened with debt is likely to be taken from you. It’s not so much a matter of packing a bug-out bag, but of mentally getting used to the idea. There’s no way you can estimate in advance what you will need to pack in such a bag because the context is in flux. The greatest survival tool is a heart-led mind ready to march at God’s command.

It’s okay to march alongside any group that’s on your path, but don’t step into their formation. Those who march in formation will always demand something that God says you must not surrender.

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What follows is strictly my personal outlook on things — Trump is an emperor in the making. This business of Q and the online anonymous troll army is the primary means of winning the loyalty of a significant minority. This will turn into a majority-in-effect who will surrender to him the civic authority to ignore the rules. He is the strong man who promises to protect them from a very real threat of globalist oppression.

Again: that threat is very real. The globalist leadership in the Democratic Party had concrete plans to provoke a nuclear war with Russia. They recently convinced some general to launch a missile aimed at derailing Trump’s talks with North Korea. That missile was shot down by an F-16 escorting part of the Air Force One entourage. This is the story told by Q, though not without some pretty solid evidence.

Had HRC won the election, a nuclear conflict probably would have already happened by now. We would have been living in an apocalypse. God saw fit to turn that aside. But the tool He is using is not so different from any other conquering emperor in history; it brings its own sorrows. There’s nothing wrong with keeping an eye on the Q-anon army, along with the more shadowy corps of armed right-wingers ready to defend their emperor with violence (two separate but overlapping groups). It’s okay to watch as Hollywood devours itself. Feel free to watch the economics indicators to discern when things will start to break down.

But don’t let yourself be led astray by the enthusiasm of those who support major elements in this war. Everyone who takes a partisan position is hiding something, even if they hide it from themselves, as well. There is deception all over the place. Just a couple of days ago, CNN was preparing to stage a false flag incident. At a Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre CNN had placed hired agitators carrying fake Q signs who were going to physically attack the CNN crew to make it appear that this Q thing is dangerous and violent. CNN is literally engaging in treasonous espionage against the President. The other major networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS — were also echoing the story (along with big newspapers) that the Q movement was threatening and dangerous. They all ran the same story at the same time by coordination.

Consider that the entire academic foundation of Journalism is rooted in leftist ideology. It’s the same with Teachers’ College and a lot of other professions. I witnessed this first hand during my training for public education. When the a priori norm is globalist religion, with the inherent intent to deceive the populace, you cannot trust anything they say. Even the most innocuous local human interest stories are stained with deception. It’s the same with everything in the entertainment industry — idolatry and deception are the starting point, and they are woven into the fabric of everything they produce.

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Updated and Renewed

Posted on August 3, 2018 by ehurst

Thanks to recent donations, I was able to renew this blog and the G Suite account attached to it. The domain name comes with it. We are good for another year.

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The Fall of America 04

Posted on August 3, 2018 by ehurst

It was almost two years ago that I knew God was planning to bring down the globalists. Don’t read this as tooting my own horn; I want you to understand how God can work if you give Him room. Back in November 2016 I wasn’t really too sure who the globalists were, but I knew their time was short. Nor could I imagine how God would crush them, yet now we see them under fierce attack from the population.

Hollywood has always been one long string of scandals, but the problem of pervasive child molestation is going to destroy the industry. As the pretense of respectability unravels, there is an increasing probability of boycott, or worse. There is a good chance of prosecution in some cases. Keep in mind that I lump together under “entertainment” certain social network sites, also run by globalists. Watch how stock drops can kill major corporations.

On the political side, Trump appears to be making good use of support from the military intelligence agencies to dig into the illegal shenanigans of his enemies. It’s not just public shaming, but it’s clear that legal action is pending. Also, you should be aware that what appears to be inconsistencies in public announcements is a very effective trick to expose the source of illegal spying. False information is planted in certain places, and whoever leaks that stuff has just painted a target on themselves based on their access to where the disinformation is planted. There are numerous other types of traps set like that. It appears the NSA is supporting him, so there is virtually no limit to what he can find out about his enemies.

The globalists are in panic mode. Their actions are going to become increasingly frantic and self-defeating. Even the mainstream media are sounding desperate in trying discredit everything Trump and his fans do. Meanwhile, the patriot troll army is exploding. There is every reason to expect his enemies will be crushed by the end of this calendar year.

Yet be warned: While no one can put a date on it, major economic disruption is right on top of us. At some point, someone holding too much stock market risk will bolt for the exit to save as much wealth as possible. When that happens, there will be a stampede. A lot of electronic wealth will evaporate, and with it comes a halt in certain kinds of consumption that serves to prop up the already weak economy. It will be like falling dominoes as other kinds of business start to close because they were already marginal, too close to the edge of failure. We won’t starve, but we will all be quite surprised at what doesn’t survive the shock.

When things get tight for consumers and businesses, so do resources available to governments. Most bureaucrats and politicians are too stupid to understand the necessity of prioritizing and shutting down services. Look for the most insane scramble for tax revenue that simply won’t be there. This is a rough outline of how the federal government will fall apart. Agencies will start to seize resources and folks will fight back and the system will simply be unsustainable. I’m expecting Trump to be the last President of the US. It won’t be entirely his fault.

The biggest unreasonable demand for resources will be military related, in pursuit of foreign policy goals. As you already know, the prime driver for our foreign policy will be Israel. When we simply have nothing left with which to defend her, that’s when it’s likely she will be destroyed. She has continued to provoke the whole world with an utterly heedless spite for Gentiles in general, and any neighboring country in particular. Her enemies will soon outnumber her friends.

Meanwhile, American evangelical Christian institutions will also be shattered. Some will close up shop, but most will simply be reduced to a thin shell of their former glory. They have long wasted too much effort on “getting folks saved.” Our position is that God and God alone decides who will enter into eternity with Him, and who will stand before Him as enemies. There is nothing any human can do to change their eternal fate; the official theological term is monergism. Churches have been chasing the wrong question. The only thing we can do is seek to awaken the heart so that we can obey His revelation. It was never about “getting folks saved,” but about getting folks to walk in obedience and claim their inheritance in shalom. Like the song says, “Trust and obey, for there’s no other way.” That’s the gospel. Spiritual birth does little good toward that goal if your heart remains silenced by a demonic cultural bias against letting the heart rule.

God alone knows the particulars of how all these things will happen, and most especially the timing. By establishing your genuine faith now, you won’t be distracted by surprising events. America is going to fall, just like Babylon, and for the same reasons.

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Draper Bikeway Early August

Posted on August 2, 2018 by ehurst

There’s nothing like a good hard rain to show you major hydrology flaws in the bikeway. I rode out to Draper Lake yesterday to check on the bikeway. This shot was taken up on the northern end of the loop. You can see how poor drainage created a spot where water pools up on the trail bed. There was some kind of emergency work to drain it off because they are preparing this for paving soon, but it will need a lot more work to prevent it happening again.

I can report that the trail cutting has made good progress, all the way down to SE 134th for the initial clearing work, and the second pass for initial landscaping is down as far as SE 119th. I’ve marked in lavender what I was able to discern checking without getting in their way. However, without aerial photography, there’s really nothing that comes out on camera. They are using mostly the old Westminster roadbed, but around 134th they have to turn back into the woods and cut a raw path until they get past the boat dock area. Some sections of Westminster are still used for vehicle access to the lake, particularly coming in off SE 134th. However, there is no such access near SE 119th.

Down and around on the dam, I noticed that we are still waiting for the pump and valve house construction to finish, but farther along toward the western anchor of the dam I noticed this digging around that swampy spot that I pointed out previously as a trouble area. All of the heavy grass has been uprooted and dumped over the trail on the high side. While I suggest it needs a good build-up with culverts running under it, I can’t guess what they are up to just yet.

We do have some good news: The swamp has been cleared and a flow established. I knew there was an old culvert draining this mess, but it was blocked by at least one very large cluster of willows, and filled with silt. It’s still almost full of silt, but the trees are gone and a trench dug across to the culvert. What it still needs is the culvert flushed out and some rip-rap placed near where the water enters it to prevent silting up again. I’m not sure they’ll do that, so I look for the swamp to flood again this fall when the storm season returns.

I also note that the blacktop has been extended between the start at Point 5 and the model aircraft flight strip. That section took an awful lot of work and it’s still got a couple of places where water is likely to collect and soften the trail bed.

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The Fall of America 03

Posted on August 2, 2018 by ehurst

You won’t come any closer to seeing the face of The Cult than you would by identifying the globalist cabal. This is also the clearest manifestation of Satanism and Luciferian religion. It branches out all over the world with servants and allies. There really is a conspiracy, but too many commentators are looking at the wrong means of identification. By their fruits you will know them. I’m not describing them by tracing out all their operations and contacts, but by how they act in terms of moral effects. The primary key is not what the various humans involved know or don’t know, but how Satan uses people and guides their actions. We don’t have to know all the details on the ground, only how it splashes evil on the canvas of Creation.

You and I are committed to returning to the Garden of Eden; we seek His glory. All our means and methods are based on His revelation of what we can know about how reality is designed. We know that we cannot trust what our human capabilities can tell us about any of that. The globalist religion is a depraved rejection of revelation and elevates a dream of power arising from the assumption that God is hiding from us our true capabilities (Genesis 3:4-5). They seek arcane knowledge on those grounds, whether it be esoteric magic or simply digging into the depths of fallen human terror. It’s the myth of an independent path back into Eden,and that Eden is somewhere in this world. They are rejecting revelation; that means they are willfully serving Satan by default. Anything outside of God’s will is the Devil’s will.

Remember what I said about The Cult: They aren’t Zionist, but they use Zionism. For them, it’s not about Israel, but about world government. It’s a return to the Tower of Babel. They’ll use Israel and Zionism to get there, but will ditch them as soon as possible.

If you’ve read Shahak’s Jewish History, Jewish Religion, you know that one thing has not changed a bit since Jesus’ time: The rabbis despise the common Jewish folk. Over the centuries since that time, the rabbis oppressed their own people with a zeal hard to match. The whole concept of Jewish equal rights throughout history has meant the right of the rabbis to keep their own people under control and taxed painfully.

During the 1300s, Kabbalism became a major factor in perverting rabbinical teaching even farther, so that it becomes common to find rabbis secretly worshiping Satan. Even the more academic study of Kabbalism is radically different from the brand taught and practiced among the Jewish elite. It’s probably impossible to trace at this point, but we do know that during the Enlightenment, there was a split between those who become globalists and those who would become Zionists. Indeed, even though a great many Jewish elite are on the globalist side, a trademark of globalist doctrine is spite for most Jews (for example, the Illuminati were notorious for hating Jews).

While the two camps cooperated on most things for the past few centuries, the Zionists have recently become a major liability for the globalists. Most obvious is that Zionists want to be the global ruling elite instead of the globalists. During American history, the Zionists began cultivating all political sides, but in recent times their only real American friends are the imperialists and the evangelical Christians. We have the comedy of Zionists hoping to rule the world, and Christian Zionists hoping they will try and fail.

And within the so-called Intelligence Community (IC, more than a dozen agencies in Washington DC) there is sometimes little difference between an imperialist and globalist. The reason is because the IC are so very certain they will be part of the ruling elite either way. But when you break it down by agency, we know that the CIA has always been faithful to the globalists, and has never been loyal to the American people or the Constitution. The FBI is somewhat divided — during the past two decades the globalists have taken over most of the leadership positions, but the rank and file don’t seem to share their agenda. Currently, it appears the NSA has joined with various military intelligence agencies to support the imperialists.

So the globalists own Hollywood, the leadership of the Democratic Party, the CIA and the leadership in a great many federal agencies. The imperialists own the Republicans, the military leadership and most law enforcement agencies outside the FBI, and perhaps some portion inside it. This includes the vast majority of state and local “first responder” employees, as well. And while it appears that the deck is stacked against the globalists in some ways, we know that the CIA has moles all over the system, people who would willingly take the fall to gain a solid strategic advantage for the globalist agenda. And if that’s not enough, the entertainment elite have an army of mafioso-like investigators and hit-men who have not been idle. A lot of Hollywood deaths were not at all what the public has been told.

For you and me, the difference is that, while globalists are all about the false religion of Babylon, the imperialists are all about the management and force behind it. Both want Babylon from a different angle. While The Cult has agents among the imperialists, they are much more fully invested in globalism.

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The Fall of America 02

Posted on August 1, 2018 by ehurst

We could spend years discussing what would be required to save America, but it won’t happen.

It would require at least a couple of generations just rooting out the false intellectual biases that come with a western epistemology. Then we would need another full generation of living in a wilderness experience under a fairly harsh application of Noah’s Law just to whittle down the resistance to basic minimum covenant faithfulness. Then maybe we could look at declaring a covenant nation.

Keep in mind that the Covenant of Noah arose after the whole human population of the world at that time was drowned. That would include at least several thousand “innocent” lives that God knew could not be redeemed for various reasons. And that Law Covenant didn’t work well for very long after starting with just eight survivors. Noah’s own son quickly returned to the sexual perversion of the now dead world he left behind. Further, the grand experiment of Israel ended in the covenant nation rejecting an even more explicit covenant and turning to serve Satan (Revelation 3:9). More about that later, but the point is a covenant nation is possible, but is downright improbable with the fallen human race.

So the US is doomed by virtue of the Law of Noah alone. It’s longevity up to now has been merely the convenience of God in His inscrutable plans. Time’s up; that usefulness has ended. The means to her end is tied up in a particular idolatry. The label I use for this idolatry is “globalism.”

Globalism was promoted a century ago in the US as a dream of efficiency, with the added bonus of what they claimed was a kind of shalom: safety, prosperity, health and peace. That was the sales pitch the elite used. Behind that lie was a long festering evil plan to restore the ancient Babylon of King Nimrod (Genesis 11). It goes back that far. Read between the lines of the Hebrew parabolic narrative: This was a global government binding all humanity under one religion. It was a religion aimed at harvesting and maximizing human capability as the means to ultimate redemption. If you research modern Satanism, it would be hard to tell the difference.

On the heels of unionist victory in the War between the States, the die was cast to enslave the whole nation to the goals of a revived Babylon. A group of globalist elites began implementing a series of plans to capture total control without any further armed conflict. They carefully infiltrated, hijacked and changed public education, organized religion, all means of public address (specifically publishing), and shifted all the assumptions behind what our government institutions did. When moving pictures were invented, they quickly seized control of that. In other words, they set about with full awareness what was necessary to so weaken what little moral fiber there was in the US as to make a more blatant takeover possible.

It’s not that America was ever very morally good, but that she was struggling to maintain a facade of goodness that led to a significant minority actually living pretty good moral lives, at least by their own post-Victorian sensibilities. The elite were seeking to remove that false cover by degrees to make the whole empire consciously evil. This was a genuine conspiracy to debase the people and weaken them for the eventual coup.

Folks, the whole single-minded purpose of Hollywood, TV, music industry and all other forms of entertainment is to drag us all down morally. Step by step, various social moral taboos have been nudged off stage until the public at large accepts lower and lower moral standards. This is the fundamental religious commitment of entertainment.

Now we have an awakening awareness and hardening resistance to this long careful struggle of the Satanists. The resistance is, at best, just a return to a semi-Victorian mythology of morality. Some elements consciously proclaim an even more reactionary return to something that resembles Medieval feudal society. The difference between them is not so significant, when you consider that it is all rooted in heathen cultic idolatry with a thin veneer of pseudo-Christian covering. This awakening resistance stands on the last battle line of pedophilia. That is the one last moral boundary that the Satanist elite cannot cross.

At one time the Satanists had a huge army of conscripts we call Progressive or leftist activists. As previously noted on this blog, the lefties aren’t actually open to pedophilia. Thus, you can spot the difference between a Satanist/globalist versus a typical leftist on that issue. Anyone publicly defending pedophiles is either a devoted Satanist or directly serving them. The other lefties are now having a little trouble defending that, so you can see an exodus of folks from the leftist party.

In fact, there is a similar exodus from Hollywood itself. Most people who have worked in the entertainment industry are victims of this atmosphere of abuse. Some have turned around to abuse others, but we are now seeing quite a few of them coming out and testifying of the depth of depravity that Hollywood has tried to hide all these years. The whole facade is crumbling; the political globalists are losing their cover.

This mess is unsustainable; it was a lie of Satan from the beginning. It cannot work because it is all a violent attack on Creation. Reality is willfully opposed to this and it cannot stand for long. This globalist agenda will collapse in on its own rotten core, and their sins will be exposed.

But the right-wing imperialists are no better, just more stable. Once they have shattered the left, their own fortunes will decline and the empire will break up.

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The Fall of America 01

Posted on July 31, 2018 by ehurst

I sense the need to respond more broadly to some questions asked in private. Let me provide some context first as a sort of review.

The US is doomed.

America is under God’s wrath. Some of the cause for this is inscrutable to us, but we do know that part of it has to do with Western Civilization as a whole being inherently false. There are an awful lot of people wistfully defending the West and they are deeply deceived. Some of these people are very noisy on the Internet. They are wrong, and their writings and videos reflect a deep failure to understand how God does things and why. God built the Ancient Near East as the one best setting in which to reveal Himself. Satan built the West in direct opposition to God’s revelation. God permitted this, in part as a test case. The experiment is over; the West is doomed in general, and the US in particular.

America has so thoroughly violated God’s moral character that her doom has come. The core issue is the cultural orientation that excludes mysticism until it has first been perverted and turned into something that can only lie. Mysticism is built into God’s revelation; without mysticism, you do not know Christ. Christian Mysticism is defined as a direct encounter with God in Person, but on some level above mere intellect. Faith precedes any rational knowledge, and is structured in ways that often precludes reason. Faith is direct knowledge of God as a Person, and the commitment to follow Him with such conviction that we dare not trust our own capabilities. American culture inherently denies faith, making it little more than sentiment, and reduces the heart to a store of sentiment. Genuine faith is destroyed a priori before any discussion begins.

Thus, when Americans speak of “faith,” they start out with a false image, and it gets worse from there. So the character of American “faith” and religion is keeping a false front. The only remedy for sin is life from above breathed into our dead spirits, and then the Spirit in us connecting to the rest of our lives through that commitment and conviction. Sure, that changes the mind, but it is by no means a rational change. It is inherently non-rational. American culture reduces faith to a mere sentiment. Great efforts to make faith reasonable fail by draining away the very power of faith and placing the business of religion firmly in human hands. It’s no longer revelation from God, but something derived and perverted so that it fails to represent Christ. This is America.

On this basis, American religion has never been a reflection of genuine faith, but an attempt to put fig leaves on top of human sin. Thus, there has never been much moral virtue, even by the feeble definition of virtue that comes from rationalism. So for example, a great many “Wild West cowboys” were bisexual, a fact buried in hidden history. If you take the Bible seriously, you have to know this is not morally benign. It’s idolatry of sexual release. Most importantly, it destroys the very core of what Law Covenants sought to build. You cannot have divine justice and shalom when people worship their orgasms. Find God’s place for sexual activity and you are on track for His blessings. Otherwise, you are forging yet stronger bondage to sin and His curses.

And you cannot correct these things without the power of God working in your life. So what we have in place of genuine repentance is a fake cover to hide sin from ourselves. We all agree to pretend these things don’t happen; we agree to condemn them in public. Even then it is pretty shaky, but it’s been the very foundation of American society from the start. Thus, the whole American empire has always been wide open to the Devil’s exploitation. The revelation of God is inherently mystical and draws on the power of the Holy Spirit, resulting in a genuine power to obey and stay under God’s covering. Without that, you end up with fig leaves and you are driven out of the Garden to a place where Satan is your master. The term “east of Eden” is a figure of speech for this fallen realm of existence.

So it’s no surprise that a very openly Satanic religion has gained a foothold in the US. Indeed, it very nearly rules our whole country. Satan is quite happy with you believing anything that isn’t the truth, so Satanism takes all kinds of shapes with highly varying rituals, if any, but what matters most is that it keeps you from the truth. Only in a few cases do some Satanists openly call on his name, but the net result isn’t that different — they all obey him. Worst of all is that so very many are convinced they are obeying Christ. They don’t really know Christ, so they can’t tell the difference.

Genuine faith is out there, but it’s quite rare.

The doom on America is frankly not from lack of faith; it’s because faith is actively hindered. We know from the Bible that, in broad general ways, if only a few keep faith with Him, that’s okay — provided the culture, lifestyle and government still match the basic requirements. I’ve pounded that often enough: Biblical Law requires tribal social structure and eastern feudal government. Those are the absolute minimum standards. The modern secular state actively disables such an arrangement, so America has been giving God the dirty finger from the start. He cannot bless us. He has used America to accomplish a lot of wrath on other peoples, and now it’s our turn.

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Covenant Manhood: Conclusion

Posted on July 31, 2018 by ehurst

You cannot compel anyone to follow you.

The shepherd leads by his voice, not with a leash. People have to agree to your leadership, including your children and your wife. Creation and the Holy Spirit together will call people to follow you if you are following Christ from the heart. Let them choose as they will, but make your choice clear.

In this, your very presence is a healing element. Seek to restore divine justice in every context. You will always be limited, but God’s glory is not limited. This is what they will follow.

Covenant manhood means you are an agent of God’s glory.

The End

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Covenant Manhood 07

Posted on July 30, 2018 by ehurst

The Covenant is its own reward.

The Covenant of Christ is equivalent to the term Biblical Law; Christ Himself is the Living Law of God. Your obedience is not simply some burdensome task that grants you a certain religious identity. Your obedience is conforming to reality as God made it. So all of the stuff leading up to this lesson was part of Christ. It’s not simply in your best interest; it is in everyone’s best interest. All of Creation sings in celebration when one more man figures out what God intended regarding manhood.

So it is with your children. Your effort to heal and bring divine justice into your marriage brings that same healing justice to your entire household, your entire domain granted from God.

You cannot make your wife do what’s right. In the final analysis, you cannot make your children do what’s right, either. But you can justly apply more force to them than to your wife. She agreed to marriage; your children had no choice to be born in your household. During their minority, God demands that you guide them more tightly than the adults in your domain. You — and you alone — know from your heart the particulars of what force you should use with them. You have take into account your own strengths and weaknesses along with theirs, the unique character of each person involved, and the cultural background in which you operate.

You will make yourself available for their demands for attention, but never as much as they want. In my case, as a playful clown, I don’t spend as much time with them as I want, either. That’s in their best interest. Don’t ever wear out your welcome anywhere with anyone, including your children. Always leave people wanting more of you, including your children. Make plans to offer daddy-time, but by the same token, make it a treasure. In broad general terms, you don’t seek them out to have time with them. Make yourself the kind of dad they come looking for, always begging for time with you. Make your children and other humans long to be with you.

The key to manhood socially is making the most of whatever natural charisma you have. One of the ways you have charisma with children is taking them seriously, while not taking yourself too seriously. Judge as little as possible verbally; you’ll always have to judge one thing or another, but avoid it until your convictions demand it. Instead, talk to them using adult speech patterns, but words that children understand. Never, ever baby-talk, except when clowning. Talk to them normally and be ready to explain anything you understand. Be honest when you don’t know the answer.

Give them as much freedom as the situation permits. If your reflex is to restrict first, choke yourself until you relax that grip. Only restrict when they demonstrate consistent defiance on something. Most kids will fight with you about one thing or another; don’t take it personally. You have to win no matter how much it pains you, but do your best to avoid growling and howling. Avoid the terrorizing anger until those moments when it is the only thing that works. Even then, don’t lose your cool; be the master. Never threaten what you won’t actually do. A great many effective punishments take more from you than from them. The whole idea is to teach them responsible independence as early as they can handle it.

Here’s the thing most Westerns choke on: You are your daughter’s first romance. The playful stimulation of childhood establishes the physical response to men when she grows up. There is a healthy level you have to portray with her as she grows older, so that she is neither starved for male attention, nor is she bored with you. Observe her responses to various things so you can fit your fatherly care to her personality. She is unique even among siblings. The way you establish boundaries can help her keep them when she’s with other men.

At some point you will apprentice your son to yourself or some other worthy man, depending on your son’s character and personality compared to yours. Be the man he wants to emulate in broader terms of manhood. Let him see how you handle Mom; be ready to explain the secrets that our American society hides from men.

Very early, teach them the heart-led way of communing with nature. Teach them about the madness of the world around us. Unless you expose them to secular childcare early, you’ll have a few years to help them grasp our different approach to reality, and how it makes us so unlike the rest of the world. There’s no guarantee they won’t be seduced by what is termed “peer pressure,” but you can give God a chance to work in their lives by how you grant them a sense of independence so that they aren’t socially dependent, and won’t feel the need to follow the herd.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you have to be “fair” with your kids. They aren’t the same person; even twins typically develop differences that you can recognize early in childhood. Our culture drums into their heads equality, so you’ll have to carefully teach them that it’s a lie. There are some things siblings will get the same from you, and plenty that should be unique to each. You can’t prevent envy, but you can channel it. “I can’t treat you exactly the same because you aren’t the same.”

Your heart will know when and how much to cut them loose in steps as they mature.

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