Game Parable

Posted on February 15, 2024 by ehurst

Here’s a parable: This world is a game, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Some characters belong to the game; covenant people are just playing it.

I’ve been contemplating the alternate realities of inside versus outside the Covenant. We meet the rest of humanity in a fallen world, a sort of virtual reality that isn’t the real thing. They are rooted in a place of law covenants, while we are rooted in an eternal existence by grace. They belong to this false reality; it’s all they have. When it goes, they will go with it.

We have symbolic language, parables declaring to us some conceptual framing of these things, but nobody can declare to you in propositional terms exactly how and why God decides who belongs to this world and who is marked for rising above it. The only thing really clear to us is that there is a difference. Creation does not respond to us the same as them. We have connections outside this reality that the rest of the world cannot comprehend. They don’t have access to a keyboard and mouse, or a game controller.

In a discussion, someone asserted that it’s a Christian duty to have children under our Christian identity so that we can take over the world. That is so loaded with nonsense that it’s hard to parse from a spiritual point of view. Obviously, this is the words of someone obsessed with conquering this world on its own terms. They want to “change the world”. It won’t happen.

To embrace that choice puts you outside the Covenant of Christ. It does put you squarely into the territory of the Covenant of Noah, though. Over the years I’ve written a great deal about the Covenant of Noah, and some good friends still don’t get the relationship between Christ and Noah.

Noah is this world. It’s how things work now; the Covenant of Moses is no longer in effect. Moses is an empty shell, an artifact worthy of examination, but having no life or power. It’s game code from a previous edition. Moses is how we understand Noah. In that sense, you can learn from Moses how Noah works; the differences are within our grasp. I’ve written a little about that.

But Noah is confined to this life. It points to something better and higher, same as Moses did, but is not that higher thing in itself. The Covenant of Christ is that higher thing. Christ is not rooted in this world, but in Heaven. It adds a whole different dimension, connecting a higher reality to this simulation in which we live. We are real outside of this world. The Covenant of Christ tells us how to break out of the simulation.

Thus, we learn from Noah the rules that confine the players in this simulation. They might be aware of the higher reality in some sense, but they cannot possibly understand it. We are granted the enlightenment to understand it if we will. We have to think outside the game, use capabilities that are not confined by the simulation.

But back to this so-called “Christian duty” — it’s a reflection of the rules of the game. It not a uniquely Christian idea. It works that way under Noah; it works that way for humans who belong to this world. Christians have a different approach based on entirely different assumptions.

Growing the Kingdom of Christ is a matter of spiritual birth, not natural birth. Just because you grow up in a Christian family, it doesn’t mean you’ll be a Christian, depending on how you use the terminology. The definition of “Christian” is ambiguous in our vernacular. It means “following Christ” as your Lord. The idea is that you are wholly His, a feudal subject. It implies eternal spiritual birth, but in practice that isn’t always the case. It’s a popular rhetorical device to insist on a pure definition of the term, but in practice it simply does not exist. We have no way to verify; all we have is limited evidence to support a working assumption about whether someone is a true family member of Christ.

The simulation allows for high-functioning bots that don’t appear to be NPCs (non-playing characters) in this game. Get used to it. Some of them will be your earthly family members, people you grow to love or maybe hate, but they will be significant in your life. You are obliged by the conduct of the game to invest some strong emotional ties to some people, and you cannot verify whether they have an identity outside the game.

A couple of my siblings didn’t manifest any evidence of an eternal identity. They didn’t even do a good job of playing by Noah, much less Christ. Nothing I say or do changes the situation. Yet, I must confess it was the influence of my parents that brought me to Christ. They didn’t help too much beyond the introduction, but my point is that you cannot count on a Christian identity resulting in a changed world.

Raising children in a Christian home is no guarantee at all. We are obliged by the game to try, but it’s a crap shoot and the simulation produces varying random results. You can improve your chances by building a covenant community, but the difference is marginal. There is no apparent history of anyone actually trying to do that. Nothing about the mainstream church comes close enough. Have you seen how church people live, how the kids grow up mostly no different from the rest of the world? Do you understand that church girls are more likely to fornicate than those outside? Ask any PUA; church is the best place to find their prey.

No, the growth of genuine eternal family in Christ is not by fleshly birth, but by spiritual birth. The whole of God’s Covenant people could simply stop having babies and we’d still grow from people converting, people who grew up in non-Christian homes. And you see, that’s the uniquely Christian answer. The way to grow a covenant community is mostly a matter of Christ touching those who were born into the game, who didn’t know they were eternal or Elect.

In absolute terms, the limiting factor for growth of the Kingdom is how many Elect are out there who don’t yet know their identity. For us as players in the game, we simply participate in God’s programming. He’s the developer who decides what happens, in the sense that the algorithms are all His doing, along with live adjustments to suit His tastes. He’s watching the game server closely. The most we can decide is the degree to which we participate and take advantage of the algorithms.

Trying to raise children with a strong covenant background is a good use of the Noah algorithm, but it’s not a uniquely Christian play. We conquer because of all the NPCs who don’t have any existence outside the game; they have no capacity to recognize a higher reality. We can come out with a good score in the end, but those who belong to the game will end when the game ends.

Addenda: Someone asked if I can fit the Devil and the Elohim Council into this parable. The Elohim Council are hired technicians, systems administrators with no skin in the game. Their permissions are limited; only God has root access. However, the Devil and his allies are trying to skim off the profits from the game.

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They Will Fall

Posted on February 13, 2024 by ehurst

Basic biblical truth: No human political construct will last very long, at any scale. From a clan to a whole civilization, none of them can possibly last very long. Given the nature of our unstoppable decline to the final apocalypse and Christ’s return, the time line of collapse will shorten progressively. God will not allow humans to build something that excludes Him. More to the point, He does not tolerate structures that ignore His Word.

That still leaves a lot of room to operate. He still favors and grants relative stability and longevity to any political construct that honors Him. Get the picture: Israel was a special case. God redeemed the most difficult nation that ever arose in human history as a special demonstration of His Word. Their national covenant was unique to them; it could not possibly apply to any other people. But it signals that a covenant with Him is always possible. To the rest of the world, the Covenant of Noah has always held out the promise of stability and hope for a future.

It’s never been tried, so far as we can determine. It appears there have been a few partial attempts, but they are lost in the mists of pre-history. We have only legends and hints. The point is that it hasn’t been tried in a very long time on any significant scale.

This whole business of covenants assumes a community. You can discern guidance for individual living, but the whole point is to build something bigger than any individual. It’s part of the fundamental nature of revelation that the individual is the foundation of faith, but the community is always the primary objective. The discipline of dealing with oneself in the context of other fallen people is the whole point.

The individual must strive for community as the goal. Realistically, you should expect it to fail often. You should expect that the vast majority of people you encounter will balk at the demands of the Covenant. They’ll demand everything except what they really need from you and from God. We are pulling people away from the various societies and cultures of our world, and it’s no small jump. Yes, some are worse than others, and the American society is among the worst. Still, everything you do has the goal of enticing someone away from their false dying world into one that could live.

Over and over again, the Lord has promised through His prophets that if only we could seize the vision, be seized by the vision, we could harvest a wealth of peace and joy. Jesus said that He would be manifested in community in ways that individuals cannot experience alone: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name…” Every such gathering is a church, never mind whether anyone recognizes it officially. It’s a church, a manifestation of the Lord, for as long as it endures.

Leaning how to relate to other humans in accordance with the Covenant is our path to this. The whole of the Law has only ever been to love your God as He requires and your covenant brother/sister as yourself. Those two commandments are the two edges of the same sword to cuts down all the lies of Hell. Get your hands on that, and all the hordes of evil will fall.

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Parish Fellowship

Posted on February 12, 2024 by ehurst

Yesterday, our online community met via Skype video. Four showed up. It was good to see each other that way, as close to meeting face-to-face as we are likely to do for a while, yet. Some of us had to work out some computer kinks, but we got it working and now we all know what to expect.

We’d like to make this a regular event. We’d like more of the community to join us. For the time being, we don’t publicize it outside of the forum. You can always join the forum anytime, and those who do will get the inside scoop. It doesn’t require you to install any software, just use a browser that can handle the protocols and click the link. It’s just an open and informal chat for now. There’s no particular reason for adding a bunch of rules unless it explodes to more than a dozen.

I’m also hoping to make this a regular means of contact for other purposes, as well. I want you to be able see me when we talk. It’s not a secret: my Skype address is br073n@outlook.com . This is something that becomes more valuable as we slide deeper into tribulation. It will become most precious about the time it becomes impossible for whatever reason.

At any rate, if you are one of us — forced to exist on the fringes of the mainstream for whatever reason — we’re here for you.

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Leaving Yourself Open to Manipulation

Posted on February 11, 2024 by ehurst

The guidance of Scripture is not that hard to fathom. The real question is whether you believe strongly enough to obey it. I’ve said it often enough: The issue is not success in the real world. The issue is making peace with God regardless how He wants to use you and your actions to testify of His glory. Nothing is better for us in the long run than peace with Him.

A part of the oppression built into our current system is gate-keeping. That’s pretty much the whole point of John mentioning the Mark of the Beast in Revelation. The system seeks to make us dependent, and part of that dependency is convincing you that you cannot survive without their provision. They seek in many ways to foster a desire — an addiction — for things they alone can offer.

I’m convinced that, once we understand the underlying theory, God can guide His people into specific applications. Sometimes it’s useful to share specific tactics as a way of illustrating the theory, but the focus is you having inside of you the frame of reference that allows you to glorify God in your specific choices.

Thus, the answer is to recognize the tactics of oppression. To what goal are they trying to herd us? There are times when it’s alright to play along, if that puts you in the place for your mission and calling. However, in a broad general sense, the proper goal of Biblical Law is building a way of life that is holy unto the Lord, a measure of separation and distinction. This is the symbolism of the lamb’s blood on the door frames of Israel during the Passover event in Egypt. We want to prepare a context in which God’s wrath passes over us when He’s destroying the works of sin. Alternatively, we want to build up the hedge that keeps the Enemy away.

Thus, to the degree possible, we need to opt out of the mainstream system and create our own parallel provision for life. That way, their gate-keeping won’t affect us.

Now, I realize that it’s very possible we could all come together and agree on certain specifics about how to build our alternative world. We could learn a lot from the Amish, the Roma (Gypsies), or even modern Orthodox Jews. Not so much their motives and specifics, but in the broader image of refusing to assimilate, and always seeking a way around the system. However, I am convinced that we are far better off implementing our societies in smaller sizes, not such massive wholesale uniformity.

Our one criticism is that each of those three examples is how little variation there is between the various centers of their populations. That’s a human tendency, and not the way God leads in His Word. They focus on uniformity in the wrong areas. That has been the subject of hundreds of posts on this blog.

But today I was inspired by events in Canada, how the protesters remain dependent on the system to fight the system. I applaud their efforts, but I am skeptical about their prospects. One court victory does not give me much hope that the system is not essentially turned against the people. A major point of all this activity is that the protesters remain vulnerable to the leveraging of all the things on which they depend for their daily lives.

It’s not as if everything could be replaced; that’s not practical. I’m not convinced that they are looking at the few things they could do to become more independent of the system. Yes, I know that’s the way Canadians are, socialist to the core and believing very much in democratic government. But we are only slightly less dependent here in the US. The only good answers have been the rumblings of smaller regional governments defying the central government. There’s a very good reason to promote local governments that are willing to fight back.

But in a much broader sense for us as covenant people, we need to pray long and hard about what we depend on, and over which we have zero control. How much can we break from that system?

On a much more personal level, I’ve run into this issue a lot lately. I’m compelled by my own body to reduce sugar and sodium consumption. Do you realize just how hard it is to find food that hasn’t had way too much of those two items added? Think about this: a simple flour tortilla has almost 600 mg of sodium. That’s about a quarter of what’s recommended for the whole day (2300 mg). Check the labels in any grocery store; you can scarcely escape added salt. Even if you are careful, the mindlessly added salt to our food supply will guarantee you hit over 5000 mg daily, and that means high blood pressure. Just a single meal at a restaurant can carry that much.

I don’t care why they do it; it’s going to kill me. It means I have to cook far more from scratch, and that means in batches that I freeze or otherwise put away for later consumption. For someone with all the distractions of my daily calling and mission, that’s a big time sink. I don’t really enjoy that kind of activity, but I know how to do it and have no choice.

By the way, my conversations with my primary care physician reveals that the vast majority of the US population suffers from this salt sensitivity, and they do nothing about it except consume palliatives like diuretics, which are a danger in themselves. People die early every year because they can’t be bothered to watch their salt intake, and thus can’t be bothered to demand changes in the food supply.

Thus, doctors say that hypertension is the silent killer. Most people don’t notice it. I’m trying to become sensitive to it. I want to give back to my Father the full life of service I can render to His glory.

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NT Doctrine — Galatians 5

Posted on February 10, 2024 by ehurst

In the previous chapter, Paul pointed out that we should not seek to place ourselves under the guardianship of the Law. Christ died on the Cross to claim His inheritance, and that’s you and I. He ended the Law and set us all free, including Jews who embrace Him as the Messiah. The purpose of the Law was to drive Israel to the Messiah, and in the process to draw us Gentiles to Him. But it’s a one-way transaction; Christ does not drive people back to the Law. In Christ, we are set free from that regime to find the Father’s favor in His Son. The Law was never meant for Gentiles, but the Messiah was.

Christ set us free for a reason: so we could walk freely in His favor. This is a personal relationship with Him, not a highly ritualized subservience. The rituals are not part of His reign, and that includes circumcision. It’s not for Gentiles. If Gentiles enter into that dead realm, it owns them wholly and they are no longer part of Christ’s realm. They have walked back into the realm of flesh and death. We need not wonder fearfully whether God will accept us. The Holy Spirit assures us that we are accepted by Him. The condition of our fleshly body is not considered; it’s a matter of faith in Christ. His love replaces fear.

When Paul last saw them, the Christians in Galatia were running free and easy. Who loaded them down with burdens to make them drag around so slowly? That load of nonsense did not come from Christ. All it takes is just a tiny little bit of deception to stop you in your tracks. The “burden” of Christ is like wings that speed you up. Let the fools who are preaching that burdensome nonsense face their own judgment; don’t help them carry their garbage bags around.

Paul didn’t preach a Jewish identity to them. If he had, the Jewish authorities would not have persecuted him. He wouldn’t be preaching the Cross; there would be no reason for Jews to choke on the Cross as the final sacrifice God accepts to end the entire body of ritual law. Instead of cutting around (“circumcision”), let the Judaizers cut themselves off (emasculation). Paul suggests mockingly that, if a little cutting helps, how about a whole lot?

Granted, the wrong kind of freedom will also become a burden that kills. It’s the paradox of faith that it sets us free to voluntarily bind ourselves to loving each other as Christ did. Besides, rabbis had been teaching for at least a couple of centuries that loving your neighbor as yourself is the summary of the whole Law of Moses. Get that right and everything else will take care of itself. But if you follow the example of the Judaizers, you’ll end up like predators, taking advantage of each other. This would destroy the churches.

The Spirit and the fleshly nature are natural enemies; there can be no peaceful coexistence. One will rule or the other, and the Law is for the flesh, not for the Spirit. Obeying the Spirit transcends the law code. Paul lists the kinds of stuff that comes with the flesh. It’s power is nonexistent and desperately needs the Law, because it does not know how to do good. It can only destroy, not build up.

By contrast, the power of the Spirit produces a host of glorious behaviors that take you outside the reach of the Law. Belonging to Christ nails the flesh to the Cross. Law cannot do that, because flesh refuses to surrender. You can walk in the Law and stay in the flesh, or you can embrace the new life in the Spirit and live by His character.

Yet again: The typical character of Judaizers was to be snarky, always jockeying for position while seeking to undercut each other. That’s what they made of the Law. Christians don’t need that stuff.

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The Paradox of Faith

Posted on February 9, 2024 by ehurst

You would think something like this is simple. Broadly, the psychology profession regards faith as something built into the human psyche. The message that profession has gotten from Christian religion is that faith is a miracle, not a normative human trait.

The two are talking past each other.

First off, most psychologists deny the existence of the heart as a separate faculty. They simply assume that whatever the heart does is part of the brain. This is due to how hard it is to estimate what the heart does from a human scientific point of view. You can observe the effects of the heart, but you cannot observe the activity of the heart if you don’t recognize your own heart. There’s an a priori rejection without ever seriously investigating the question.

Be that as it may, they are correct that humans do natively possess the means to invest commitment in something or someone past the point of death. It’s part of human capabilities to die for something that really matters to them. That’s faith, and we’ve seen it too many times in human history to deny it.

But beyond the obvious, for believers, God Himself has said that faith is a universal human trait. Consider: We can take for granted that not everyone in the Nation of Israel was spiritually Elect. Too many of them lacked any anchor to their souls, and died in sin. Yet, God said quite flatly that every Israeli could obey Him if they would. Deuteronomy 30:14, despite the clumsy wording as it appears in most English translations, is God’s way of saying that every heart is capable of obeying Him in full faith. The heart, as a faculty of will, is capable of understanding and obeying the Law, if not God Himself; it’s well within reach.

What the New Testament says about faith as a miracle of God refers specifically to faith in Christ, not faith in general.

Here’s the thing: New Testament faith in Christ is faith in a Person. You can commit yourself to principles and a frame of reference, but you cannot commit to Christ the Person if you don’t know Him personally. That’s the whole point of talking about the Presence of the Holy Spirit; if He is not alive in your soul, then you cannot know Christ. You cannot commit to an unknown, and you cannot know Him without His Spirit.

And the long story of the Bible as a whole is that you cannot receive His Spirit without Election. Every human has a heart; not every human is elect.

We’ve tried to cover this before in our various Radix Fidem community teachings, but the whole question of predestination is confused in our minds because there is predestination in this life, and there is predestination in Eternity. The two are related in ways impossible to state in human language, but they are not the same thing. In Romans 8 & 9, Paul weaves the two together because the point is not explaining the concept, but declaring it. God can assert His will over human behavior on this earth, and certainly asserts His will in eternal Election.

Paul does not pretend to explain why, only how it works out in human experience. The only question Paul answers is that you had better not try to hold God accountable on human terms for things like fairness. Some have a fun life; some live and die in misery. Some go to Heaven; some go to Hell. That’s the way it is. Stop carping about it and get on with your own obedience for the Lord.

Now, this makes no sense at all intellectually, but if you are elect, it makes a certain kind of sense in the heart. Do you see this? Without that overwhelming power of the Holy Spirit, you cannot see it. People who reject this assertion do not have the guidance of the Holy Spirit. He could well be present in their hearts, but He is not reigning there as Lord. But either way, only the Elect can embrace this truth fully, because only the Elect can know Him as the Living Truth.

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The Man of Wrath

Posted on February 8, 2024 by ehurst

Let’s not even pretend this is a word from God. I’m sharing what is actually a prayer request. This is very much a part of praying that the Lord bring down His wrath against sin. His children will prosper if they are clinging to Him when He comes to visit, as He did Sodom and Gomorrah those many centuries ago. It is time for a divine tour of inspection and correction.

We have seen how God has done these things in the past. This is a time for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, though perhaps not their final advent. It’s time for the conquerors, the destroyers, the economic collapse and disease. God is quite the artist, always implementing His wrath in a glorious mix of human and natural destruction of man’s follies.

And, boy, do we have some hideous follies around us today.

Let’s be clear: Trump is an egotistical windbag. This whole election campaign is about his ego, and nothing more. This was always true. We can hope that he has learned at least a few hard lessons on how to boost his own ego through the office of POTUS. His fame will rest on destroying the globalist agenda. His power will rest on placating the neocons, and pretending to be a friend of liberty. I can’t promise he’ll take that path, but I believe he will.

Trump is not good for America, but his brand of harm to the nation is more consistent with what I envision as God’s wrath coming for us, versus the insufferable dark evil of the globalists. I believe the globalist agenda is like Babylon in the prophecies: It is fallen, fallen, and it’s time for the smoke to billow out of their works. If you read their propaganda fear-mongering aimed at us, you realize they are scared of Trump.

The election will be a chaotic mess, but I still believe Trump will end up in the driver’s seat. If not him, someone worse and more destructive in the same ways. But at this point, I can’t imagine who that might be, so I’m convinced it will be Trump. The mood of right-wing vengeance is smoldering, and he’s the best front man. There’s a high probability he will be the last POTUS, simply because the US is quite likely to break apart.

Taking all of this together, let’s pray that Trump assumes the presidency. Let the man of God’s wrath come and perform his mission of destruction. Never mind what Trump intends to do, or what most imagine he could and should do, let’s pray he drag with him into office divine fury for his enemies, and eventually for himself.

Now, as a side note related to this, you should understand that decentralization is our best hope for surviving the global catastrophe heading our way. For the world to shatter into thousands of tiny nations is the only hope we have; it would be divine mercy. A strong centralized global government would actively hinder us even knowing about the disaster, much less taking wise actions to prepare for it. As the magnetic poles continue their rapid movement away from the geophysical poles, and earth’s magnetic shield weakens and collapses, the destruction this will bring requires preparations that no central government would permit.

It won’t be long before the Internet becomes unusable; it’s a race to see whether bad government or the celestial disturbances will kill it first.

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The Politics of Dead Souls

Posted on February 5, 2024 by ehurst

The globalists have one major blind spot. They assume that breaking down the large government systems in the West will allow them to replace those systems with something else, while keeping the large countries intact. And then, they expect to further unite all the people into a single, global unity under their elite control. They want a new “West” with an alternative definition.

That’s not how it works. Each of these large government systems was welded together from smaller units, and the unity across these smaller nations is rather shallow and fragile. Despite any rhetoric about “we are all in this together”, people with a will to act remain committed to a much smaller national identity. Decentralization is hard-wired in human nature, starting with the Tower of Babel. The unifiers are not as vigorous and determined as the decentralizers.

So, if the globalists break down the system that holds these small nations together in large unions, then the nations will reassert their identity and refuse to unify again when the proposal is tilted against them, as globalism is. Destroying large unions of states will guarantee they scatter. People are inherently tribal. It is utterly impossible for large mixed populations to forget who they are. Their loyalty to the union is very thin, concealing a readiness to split at any moment. Every day, the real politics of what people do always reflects their sense of what tribe they belong to.

And the globalists are silly enough to exacerbate those tribal tensions in order to break down the system they plan to replace. They honestly believe that human identity can be atomized so as to make every individual socially isolated. It may appear to be our current reality, but it’s a thin false veneer. The moment things get tough, they will form tribes to survive.

The globalists are being used by the neocons. The neocons want fractures and chaos because they hate the West in the first place. Why the globalists cannot see this is a mystery to me, but they are blinded by their ideology. It’s as if they believe they have some magic in their hands that will allow them to marshal force against the chaos, when the force itself is organic to the chaotic mix of peoples they seek to rule.

There are no globalist troops to suppress a rebellion.

Granted, I know the globalists seem so certain they can simply persuade everyone to buy into their wild dreams. They can’t seem to realize that there is substantial resistance to their ideals from the people themselves. They have been infected by the communist mantra that people are infinitely malleable. They honestly believe that, if they can just seize all sources of public information sharing, everyone can be fooled. They have infinite faith in hypnotism, when any good hypnotist will tell you that a significant portion of any population cannot be hypnotized, and these same people are natural leaders.

At any rate, the globalist failure to make the vaxx unanimous should have been warning enough their plans are hopeless. But they will continue trying to tweak their system to make it work.

Now, I’m not suggesting that the resistors are somehow great or even good people. They are simply humans doing what humans naturally do, guided by the various false gods they serve. The allies of Satan on the Elohim Council have no intention of letting either the globalists or the neocons win. The elohim opposition wants us humans to destroy ourselves. Indeed, the elohim don’t have the power to simply turn off elements of human nature; they can only steer humans by their natural fallen fleshly inclinations. The elohim experiment in tweaked humans (the Nephilim) was crushed by God. Instead, they use the disembodied spirits of Nephilim to seize normal humans — we call it “demon possession”. That’s going to become far more prevalent in the near future.

Meanwhile, nothing — absolutely nothing — humans cook up on their own can stand against God’s will. The story being told by human activity in our fallen condition is God’s story in the end. Our existence in this world is in itself a fiction, a simulation God is running to prove a point. While our eternal destiny is locked in as individuals, Elect or Damned, the lives we live here allow us to choose only whether we consciously participate in God’s case or prove it by our failures to account for His revelation.

He grants a clarity of moral vision to humans who submit feudally to Him as the One to whom all glory is due. That’s what it means to embrace the Covenant of Christ. Jesus is our living Testament of the Covenant, the Living Law of God for us humans. We are allowed to see what the globalists and neocons cannot see. They are incapable of understanding it because their souls are dead.

Yes, I know that what I suggest here sounds like the ravings of a madman. I am very far outside the mainstream. I’m not trying to persuade anyone who isn’t ready to hear this. I’m trying to encourage those who already know the truth: We are on the Lord’s side. He will take care of His own, but on His terms. Our duty is to embrace His terms and the mission of His glory.

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Don’t Defy God

Posted on February 4, 2024 by ehurst

Following a debate online, I felt compelled to make one distinction: I am utterly sexist because the Bible fits the definition of sexist according to modern usage of the word. However, I am by no means a traditionalist within this culture. I do not particularly favor our western traditions regarding the place of women in this world, whether current, or from any part of our past.

The West was mostly wrong from the start, and has never been right, and certainly isn’t right today. The West has always favored women in one way or another, and what we see today with the feminist cult is simply the tail end of where the West has always been. The biblical standard for the female identity bears only a superficial resemblance to some aspects of the western version.

The problem we face is that the Bible gives you a few hints and leaves the details to your own convictions. Sometimes we can articulate the fundamentals, and it’s a good exercise to try. It’s very enlightening, showing you something about yourself and your situation.

But sometimes you can best address a conflict by pointing out the implications of the fundamentals. Where do we come out on the issues right now, the ones in front of us? How do we respond to a fallen world deeply antagonistic toward faith?

I see nothing wrong with girls learning to climb trees in order to work as arborists (people who trim, nurture or cut down trees). I’ve met a couple of really competent female auto mechanics, and it doesn’t feel wrong to me. On the other hand, I’ve met a lot of female soldiers and not a one of them would make a good battle buddy. It had nothing to do with the particular skills or even the physical fitness requirements, but was a simple matter that women have the wrong kind of instincts.

A woman’s internal organization and her thought processes are different from those of a man. She can strive to embrace them and emulate all she likes, but when it comes to the moment you dodge bullets, it gets lost. There are already too many men with feminine influences who get lost in combat, but for a woman to have the right stuff is so rare it’s of no statistical significance. When it comes to the realm of strategic planning, women have no place in combat.

They do just fine at non-combat roles, even in management, but I think we should demilitarize some of them, in part for that reason. We should assign gender-based duties and keep men out from under female leadership. That’s something so fundamental to Scripture that there can be no debate. The only time females could direct male work was when the man was an unconverted Gentile slave, not considered an actual “man” in the sense of the Covenant.

Thus, I find no place for women in government, aside from certain limited supporting roles. They shouldn’t vote; they have historically abused that power to destroy every functioning political system. Whatever might be wrong with governments in human history, putting women in certain key roles made it worse. There is simply no excuse.

Here’s the key issue: Once you open the door for some specially talented female genius to take a place in masculine duties, you cannot possibly keep out the incompetent females — not in our world, at any rate. There are certain boundaries that you cannot fudge on, because of feminine nature at large. The story of Esther exposes this. If you give women a chance to form their own political organizations, they will rebel and destroy God’s will among men.

Women are critical assets in keeping track of issues men forget. Women are supposed to coordinate with their own household men to take care of those things. They have a duty to use their influence that way, but God forbids they ever put their hands on the levers.

It’s not a question of women being inherently evil, but uniquely open to demonic influence on certain key questions regarding our human existence. Some men may be open to that, but every woman is open to it. Regardless of the problems inherent in male leadership, it is what God has demanded of us. Defying God never turns out well for humans.

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NT Doctrine — Galatians 4

Posted on February 3, 2024 by ehurst

Paul reiterates the imagery of preservation of an estate until the heir reaches the appointed time and condition of bequest. The emphasis is that all of God’s Elect, Jew and Gentile, were the estate, and Christ was the heir. But we were minor children, as well, as part of the divine household estate. We were under the various elohim powers God appointed over the nations of the world, all of us under one law covenant or another. For us, it was no different from being slaves, just like any minor heir prior to the bequest of the estate. Jesus was the natural born heir, but we have received an adoption that elevates us to the status of true younger heirs behind Him as Firstborn. The mark of that adoption is the Presence of the Holy Spirit of Christ in our hearts. Because of this, we can call Him by the personal terms of endearment used by natural children — “Daddy! Papa!”

Paul follows a tangent thought here: Gentiles were under the control of lesser deities, the Elohim Council in God’s courts. Those were not gods, not honestly classed as such in the Creator’s eyes, but they played that role, seeking to skim off some of His glory for themselves. But now that the Galatian believers had become acquainted to the true God and Creator, were they going to return to that slavery under those lesser beings who were just scam artists at best?

Paul mentions that they were now enslaving themselves under Talmudic holy days, something wholly inappropriate for Gentiles who did not inherit any of Israel’s national history. There were a whole bundle of special observances that God had not commanded, but which the Pharisees had forced into civil law, choking the common Jewish people with an excuse for yet one more abusive tax. Paul kept his Jewish habits rather private, living more like a Gentile than a Jew among them. How many Jews did they know who would even admit to such a thing? Did not Jews typically hector their Gentile neighbors about pagan habits that interfered with nitpicking Jewish observances? The Galatian Christians should stand with him in rejecting that legalistic nonsense; he certainly didn’t feel insulted that they would ignore the Jewish calendar.

He mentions some physical condition that compelled him to spend time in Galatia, apparently when he had planned not to even go there. There are a couple of plausible guesses what he refers to, but it doesn’t matter. Whatever it was usually caused superstitious Gentiles to spit at him, but instead, the Galatians received his gospel message with frank enthusiasm. What happened? It sounds like the Judaizers had managed to turn them against Paul personally.

Was it not odd how the Judaizers treated the Galatian Christians as suckers? First they come courting the churches, appealing to their vanity. Then, they start telling them how awful they are for not embracing Judaism, using the old trick of provoking desire for the snake oil by talking about how hard it is to get. And Judaizer religion was snake oil, indeed, completely worthless. To Paul, it feels like having to give birth to the same child again, after they had grown quite a bit. Whatever it was that compelled him to struggle physically to bring them the gospel was worth it, but this pain and sorrow of countering the Judaizers was egregious and unjustified.

Do they really want the Law? Paul will give them a bit of Old Testament the Judaizers would prefer to hide. He talks about Abraham who had an elder son (Ishmael) by his household slave, Hagar. However, Isaac was his natural born heir. The distinction is that Isaac was born in response to a promise from God, whereas Ishmael was born from a mere human choice. Paul will use this story as an allegory — in the same rabbinical style the Judaizers would.

The Covenant of Moses was like Hagar, rooted in the customs and laws of slavery. Israel as an earthly nation was purchased from slavery in Egypt. Like a concubine, her children held limited privileges, represented by earthly Jerusalem (Zion). But the legal wife was Sarah, and her children were full heirs, which is the Covenant of Abraham/Christ, represented by the spiritual Jerusalem (Heaven). The faith covenant is everything the law covenant could not be. Paul is being terse here by letting the implications seep through without words.

Continuing in that vein, Paul refers to Isaiah 54:1. The ancient prophet paints the image of what those returning from Babylon could have if they rose to faith instead of wallowing in mere law and all its limitations. Would the Judeans coming home be more like a bitter old woman who lost her children? Or would they return in full faith in Jehovah and be more like a young bride that has not yet had children? If the latter, then they could expect a whopping large faith family that would inherit the heavens.

Those who put their faith in Christ are like children of that prophetic promise. Yes, Christians would face persecution from Jews, as Isaac faced from Ishmael, and for the same reason. But those who retain their status as Jews are born for slavery to the law, while the children of faith inherit as fellow heirs with the Son of God. Only a fool would go back into the slavery of the Law Covenant.

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