They Call It “Protest Art”

Posted on July 28, 2009 by ehurst

As a kid, I dabbled in graphics arts some. I used to carry a sketch pad a lot of places and did impromptu renderings of things I saw. As an adult, I managed to paint a couple of murals which people actually wanted. Most of that faded before I was 25. By no stretch of the imagination am I a good painter or sketch artist. I’m not all that creative with visual stuff. I do okay with parody of something someone else did, and I do okay with simple decorative stuff. Still, I’m not really a graphics artist.

However, lately I’ve been hit with the itch to do some of that stuff again. I have no strong pull to fine arts, but I do have this nagging thought about something such as sidewalk chalk and fairly simple messages. Naturally, my “protest” is against sin, and I have little interest in typical secular protests about politics and social causes. On the other hand, I suppose my ideas are quite radical and would very much call people to rebel against the current ruling regime here.

It would be interesting if I could get a decent digital camera, then I could post pictures of anything I do along those lines. For now, though, it’s just an itch. I’m praying about it.

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Turning Point

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ehurst

A parable of internal debate and resolve.

There were scars visible on his hands and forearms. It was obvious he had tried it before, and the scars were proof of both past failures and current resolve.

It was not science, since no one seemed quite sure how it worked. Nor was it precisely art, since there was no particular standard among men to judge the aesthetic merits. Rather, it was the simple matter the blocks either stood or fell. Somewhere in the structure of the chalky material was something which recognized when things were done right and the stacks turned solid, as if the whole thing had been cut from a single mountain of the hardest stone on the planet. The standing work of only a few men still stood. Some were so ancient no one knew how long they stood, but legend had it at least one stack had been there before the first home was built in the area. There had always been a stack of blocks waiting for someone to try.

The stuff was popular enough, used as ephemeral art carvings, toys, or kids simply drew on the pavement with it. But every now and then someone came along with some inner flame of inspiration, and would stack blocks of it in some strange pattern in the center of the square. It was popularly believed the stones would speak, but the artists themselves insisted the inspiration was not in the stones. Where it did come from, no one knew how to say.

Of course, the fellows who failed could talk all day, but no one would listen to them. After all, they obviously didn’t understand what they were doing. And it was sure someone would try almost every day, sometimes several in a day. There were always plenty of blocks and plenty of room.

A few admitted they weren’t serious about it, just wanted to feel the blocks and experiment. Once or twice, and it got boring. Most who tried it insisted they really had been inspired, then ended up injured when the structure they were building fell. Again, inexplicably, the blocks would cut when they fell, but at no other time. Under any other circumstance, they would simply crumble and at most leave bruises when handled poorly. In the stacking, though, it was always different.

Today’s aspirant was one of the oldest anyone remembered seeing. His face was familiar by now, since he had been there so often. Once or twice his building fell before he really got very far. The last time, it had gotten well over his head, but still fell in the end. Was that a rather fresh scar on his left hand?

He stood for a moment looking at the blocks. He was muttering, looking about, taking stock of the various sizes and shapes. For a moment, he gazed skyward, then looking back down, he spoke aloud.

“This is the last time. If this fails, I’ll find something else to do. But I’ll never come back again.”

Slowly, he selected a few blocks and cleared some space. This one was going to be quite large. Indeed, if he got it very high and they fell, he might well be killed this time.

Another month or two. If what I’ve built falls this time, I’ll stop forever. I won’t be back any more.

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Babylon Is Fallen

Posted on July 26, 2009 by ehurst

While there is an element of theology here, making it seem more appropriate to my other blog, there is a particular call for action under Noah which does not require a spiritual grasp to get it.

Babylon is the symbolic term for Satan’s commerce in human souls. We summarize all that talk with a characteristic definition: Babylon means everything has a price, and that’s all that matters. This is directly contrary to Noah, and very obviously at odds with “Love the Lord with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself.” Love dies when a price tag is attached to anything. That’s not a condemnation of the academic discipline of Economics, but a condemnation of what’s done with it most of the time. Understanding human behavior through observation of economic activity is wisdom. Acting purely on economic interests and principles is obeying Satan.

Consider the big picture on a more global scale. Politics are local, but there is an element of truth in the socialist/communist “we are the world.” While God surely acts in the life of the individual, it’s downright stupidity to think that’s the end of the discussion, since the vision from the beginning was to reach all mankind. Not blindly, but with an eye to the moral effects of all our actions, as the smallest thing can change everything.

Those who embrace what is typically thought of as political conservatism, aside from no longer having any real representation in the US government, also suffer from a severe myopia regarding economic actions. Shipping a factory to impoverished lands does economic good to the laborers hired there; it must also inevitably change their lives on a vast scale, things which cannot be measured economically. It takes a very dark moral conscience to believe economics answers the whole of our responsibilities. Conducting your personal life along prissy middle class Western lines does not complete your responsibilities before God. If you create a deep hunger for hedonistic pleasures, then use that to sucker some poor country into accepting your factories, with all the hugely different cultural processes inside, destroying their tribal existence as if it’s not a factor at all, then you are the dope dealer selling crack to little kids. To suggest these things is not “liberalism” — the world is not that simple. You have touched the life of another human being, and God holds you accountable.

Every empire in history follows the same life cycle. The whole thing hinges on some means of asserting force in other lands. Whether it be advanced tactics, better organization, cultural allure, better technology, combinations of those things or something altogether different, you can’t play games with words to deny that’s what is happening. You have something different than the folks you touch there in those other lands, and assuming it’s automatically better just because you can use it or make them want it is incredible arrogance — it’s sin. It’s also so common, nobody wants to discuss it. Assyria had a unique warrior culture, Babylon had genius rulers, Persia had a distinct moral and religious union, Greece had another genius leader with advanced military tactics, Rome had superior organization (even as she destroyed the humanity of all she touched), etc. There were other factors in each case, such as Greece’s cultural evangelism on which Rome piggy-backed, but the point is we can see each empire had some unique advantage which allowed them to project their power and influence into places lacking that vitality.

That vitality permitted the growing empire to absorb the resources of other countries, which always serves to artificially inflate the economic situation back home. No matter how you cut it, the imperial forces are stealing and enslaving those they conquer, by whatever means they conquer. You can only do that so long before there’s a backlash. Every empire has been based on greed, arrogance and adventure-seeking (entertainment). The moral laws of the Universe (AKA the Covenant of Noah) can be ignored only so long before God puts them back in place. We call that carrying the seeds of your own demise when you ignore them.

America, at the head of the Western Empire, is about to harvest what has sprouted from those seeds. Because we have projected our power over the whole globe, the collapse will affect all humanity. The depression has started, and in a month or so, it will be impossible to ignore. But it won’t be a short-lived correction. It will be long and painful, lasting easily more than a decade. The fiat currency system has enslaved nearly the entire human race, and with it the infestation of blindness about how this world actually works. It would easily take ten or twenty years to correct any part of that before some other force rises. It won’t be the West, not as we now know it.

This is God’s justice.

Now is the time to grasp the fundamental understanding of what Noah demands. It will hardly be easy, because it requires a complete shift of worldview, a cultural shock, but one which must be chosen intentionally. If you fail to embrace the removal of price tags, embrace the tribal social structure, accept the broad mystical moral assumptions, you will suffer in terms all too predictable.

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Bogus Health Care Racket

Posted on July 25, 2009 by ehurst

Around here where I live, people have begun discovering what a racket this public health care can be.

At the outer edges of the “low income health care delivery system” is a host of little clinics which sometimes actually do some good. However, that good is always cloaked in a particular religion, as it were, of Women’s Health Services. Since women have been so horribly oppressed over the centuries, it’s necessary to ensure they don’t suffer and die from all these horrific health threats peculiar to women. Yes, that’s sarcasm.

They offer this free screening for things like breast cancer, cervical cancer, AIDS, etc. Now, that in itself is a good thing. People who can’t afford treatment and want it find relief that way. However, when the folks who actually worry about such needs have all been through the system, it stands to die or lose some of its fund-raising clout when they can’t find enough clients. You see, too often the folks in these clinics aren’t the best at what they do, and they might not have a job if the “free clinics” were shut down for lack of clients.

So the screening is extended, and more and more women are roped in, even to the point of phone-banking the numbers of anyone who ever had any connection at all with anyone who was once served at the clinic. They collect numbers of all breathing humans they can talk to just for this purpose, even if it’s just grandma watching the baby while a low-income mother applies for WIC or something. When the clinic traffic gets slow, they pull up these numbers and pester folks with free screening of this or that, getting pushy with those who profess no interest or need.

Once they get you into the clinic, they tell you repeatedly, “It’s free!” They always find something on that first mammogram, of course, and make a referral for further examination. The bigger clinics often sponsor the screening to get new patients. Naturally, you are sent through some long intrusive application for some kind of welfare assistance. With enough fudging and so forth, they can usually get you something to cover that next exam. It’s their job to make sure they qualify you for this stuff, so you can bet they’ll look for any opening they can exploit.

So you get sent to this expensive MRI clinic, and they treat you really nice. These are good, high-class people, but that clinic has to turn a profit. So you get that MRI, and …. they find nothing. Absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, the original “low income clinic” somehow manages to find a way to charge you for two visits. While it may be at their low rate fee, it’s still not the “free” they promised. You may spend the rest of your life trying to argue with them, because it’s these low-income clinics that are staffed with some of the meanest people I’ve ever met sitting behind a clinic desk. Naturally, who’s going to listen if you talk about these wonderful people who work so hard to serve the under-served poor of the community?

It’s a racket.

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Better Than Horoscope

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ehurst

It is not necessary to be spiritual to get a word from God on things.

Consider: Under Moses, the designated priests could get a word from God regardless of their spiritual condition. All they needed was ritual adherence. There were, of course, other factors, such as the nation’s faithfulness as a whole. There also has to be a mechanism for asking which offers God a chance to ignore your question. This is totally consistent with ANE ethics, particularly regarding interactions with royalty. God casts Himself as the ultimate ANE Sheik. Keep in mind Moses is a subset of Noah.

However, in a broad general sense, most of what we regard as miracles and miraculous intervention was according the Law Covenants, not a genuine spiritual link with God. The spiritual connection adds a whole new element, but does not change the fundamentals. When people observe the Laws, they have standing to ask for things according to the promises of the Laws. I’m not sure exactly what we might do to mark the answers to questions, since we have no reliable information on what exactly is meant by “drawing lots before the Lord.” Perhaps this is something which simply requires a certain amount of testing.

Strictly speaking, dealing with ANE royalty was mostly a matter of protocol. We assume nothing simply because no one of us could possibly know enough about the Sheik’s business to always get it right. Still, when He proposes a covenant, aside from what seems to us caprice because we don’t know all the angles, we address it mostly as an element of mystery attached to all things. We fulfill the best we know, make a request through proper channels, and wait for a response at the Sheik’s leisure. Naturally, we try our best to make our requests consistent with what we know of His character.

So any Joe Sixpack who is observant of the Laws of Noah can ask God for a good harvest, and have reason to believe it will come. He could, for example, ask for God’s guidance choosing between two or three prospective brides, and reasonably expect His choice to be according to His interests, but would work out well in those terms. The same goes with other perplexing life choices. The guidance offered will always be regarding things covered in the Covenant — things of this world. Please notice: Satan and the demons are generally bound by the same Laws. We can’t possibly fathom the actual details, but demonic activity is permitted or restricted by God according to the Laws of Noah, which remains the covenant binding all humanity today. The story of Job points out the inscrutable angle in God operating outside the scope of our understanding, yet in the long run, according to His promises. Variations are more likely to happen when the person involved is spiritual, due to higher expectations from God, and far less often when they are not spiritual.

It should be obvious under no circumstances should anyone expect paradise on this earth. Certain select individuals, for whatever reason, may approach that, or at least seem to be almost there. However, you and I, regardless of spiritual condition, should never expect it. We should always expect to be denied critical information as part of the Covenant conditions, which will maintain a certain variability in how things work out. However, the promises of the Covenant are unshakable. Perhaps you’ll remember the Western bias for precision is a major hindrance here.

Thus, in terms Evangelicals will understand, God does hear a sinner’s prayer for covenant blessings under Noah. The theology which states God hears only one prayer from sinners, that of confession and commitment to Christ, is not supported in the Bible. It’s a logical derivative of the Westminster Accords, which are themselves entirely too Aristotelian to be faithful to Scripture. The declaration by certain religious organizations God works only, or works best, under their organizational structure, is only so accurate as they adhere to Noah. Any degree of Aristotelian or Platonic assumptions will guarantee they are wrong.

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Haiku OS Progressing

Posted on July 23, 2009 by ehurst

I’m still running Debian Etch because just about everything else so far has failed me. Most of the more recent Linux distributions are utterly unusable on this old laptop. But as the final days of Etch tick down, it seems all hope is not lost. Haiku OS is approaching a useful state, particularly for laptops.

According to the various notices on their website, one developer just recently got a prototype wifi stack working. It’s capable of using an Atheros card to connect to open wifi nodes. Encryption, client services and other drivers will come later. And ACPI code is progressing, but no one claims it works for many laptops yet. I tested a previous incarnation before the project was merged with others and called Haiku. Aside from the lack of drivers then, it was beautiful, and worked just fine for my habits.

What makes Haiku worth watching is it lacks none of the Unix-type boondoggles which still plague Linux. The GUI was taken from BeOS, and is vastly superior. Also, it’s a darn sight faster than all but the most ancient releases of XFree86, never mind the current X.org fork of that. For people who don’t really care all that much about eye candy, and simply want the thing to work without spending a couple hundred to a couple grand on hardware, Haiku may become one of the best things just over the horizon.

I thought about trying to contact some of the folks in the project for an interview, but I’d much rather let them code their hearts out to get it ready for at least a beta release soon. For now, they consider it in an alpha release state.

Go, Haiku!

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Noah and the Power of Islam

Posted on July 23, 2009 by ehurst

Why would God allow Islam to spread so relentlessly around the world? Because so many nominal Christians have no answer for this, they have concluded God wants them to destroy the Muslims through war. Isn’t Islam and evil religion?

Islam is not a religion, per se. It is best to view Islam as a social milieu with a religious component. Further, the cultural and intellectual foundation of Islam is rather close to the ANE. As such, we find Islam produces a society much closer to Noah than just about any other society currently in existence. Islam is not good; it is simply better. In terms of the Covenant of Noah, it is by far vastly superior to Western Civilization as it now exists.

For God to remain consistent in His promises under Noah, He must grant a preference to it as the best game in town. Barring the rise of something more precisely observant of Noah, it will eventually take over most of the world. It is hardly a secret the Christian faith slices through the religious component of Islam like a hot knife through butter, as it does every other belief system on this planet. Genuine Christianity is based entirely on the miracle of God’s grace bringing life to dead souls. Wherever the gospel is presented with any degree of accuracy, God uses it to open the spiritual graves and bring His Son’s Spirit into the new born spirits. No other religion could possibly offer that. Our grand mistake is not going farther to claim the better understanding of Noah, and building a social structure to reflect it. Instead, we spin our wheels promoting the failed Western rationalist society. That society is powerless to resist the superior covenant embrace of Islamic culture.

Western Evangelical ignorance and confusion about the actual requirements in the Bible provokes us to hideous behavior which God cannot support, even as we carry His Spirit in our faith.

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Sample Application of Noah

Posted on July 22, 2009 by ehurst

For those who have been following the posts here about the implications of the Covenant of Noah, I find I am about to run out of track. Given the nature of this type of publishing, it would be difficult to proceed much farther. I would openly invite questions for the sake of clarification on things, but the most important thing you can do is take off on your own wings, as it were. The point is not to constrain your understanding, but to offer you my understanding to provoke your own sincere search for the truth.

Today I’m offering a sort of “workshop” to apply the theory. Let’s review key items of that theory:

  • God revealed Himself within a particular culture matrix, which culture He fostered and developed Himself as the best setting for conveying truth on His terms, to a fallen world which no longer instinctively knew Him. That culture is labeled variously as Ancient Near Eastern (ANE), Hebraic, Semitic, etc.
  • Modern Jewish culture is vastly different from the ancient form, having passed through the corrupting influence of Hellenism and the Greek philosophers. As early as Jesus’ time, it was already too far gone. Much of the conflict He had with Jewish leaders and scholars was because they failed to see their own Law of Moses through the unique epistemology of the ancient Hebrew intellectual climate.
  • Modern Western Christianity has likewise bought into the Hellenistic rational assumptions about what man can know of God. This analytical bias is read back into the Bible. The entire frame of reference is built on the wrong foundation, and we would naturally expect most of the particulars to miss the mark, to one degree or another — not totally wrong, but structurally flawed. It may not be possible to reform the Western churches, but we are obliged to seek that unique spiritual logic by which the Bible is rightly understood.
  • The most difficult part of this is realizing we have to dismiss just about the whole of mainstream organized Christian religion in order to reconstruct what it ought to have been. We cannot avoid being painted as radicals, extremists, and general nut-cases. We don’t become enemies, but it often feels that way gauging by their response to us. They aren’t evil, just woefully misguided, and in many ways an embarrassment to the Eternal Realm. They view us the same way.
  • The ANE understanding of the Covenant of Noah is far more expansive than appears on the surface, as is typical of ANE assumptions. The modern Jewish scholarship appears to be correct in this, at least, listing Seven Noahic Laws which are reflected in the reasoning by the Early Church leaders (Acts 15). It is the Early Church who point out the Law of Moses was essentially closed by the Cross. Jesus became the entire sacrificial and ritual basis for approaching God, and His teaching corrects the false understanding of the social codes in the Law. His teaching indicates Moses was in some respects actually looser than was intended under Noah. We rightly view Moses as a subset, an example, a specific application of Noah within a given circumstance. Generally, when Israel/Judah was faithful to Moses, they were also faithful to Noah, and vice versa.
  • The Laws of Noah allow for no exceptions for any nation. Governments either comply, or they do not. In standing before God as nations, there is one standard which applies equally to all mankind. This covenant includes established provisions for both defiance (curses) and obedience (blessings). Those provisions come to us as explaining the nature of the universe, in terms of moral obligations. As much as we may seek to understand the mechanisms by which the universe operates, it is not possible to gain a full grasp without seeking to know the moral nature of it. Humans, particularly as nations, need not have a spiritual awareness to understand and implement the basic provisions for gaining the best possible life on this earth.
  • Those of us who possess a spiritual awareness are obliged to Noah as the symbolic manifestation of what it means to embrace God’s Spirit and all the obligations attached. For us, the ultimate truth will always remain above explanation, and everything concrete is at best a parable of those higher truths. Thus, we present the Laws of Noah as the markers to indicate the Spirit, as the gateway God granted for entry into the Spirit Realm. To awaken a human spirit remains entirely the prerogative of God Himself, but the best place to stand for seeking this is the repentance call under Noah. Christ is found in Noah.

Let us explore briefly an example of how we can apply this understanding to the situation before us in the world today. The conclusion will be startling.

Afghanistan is not a nation, but a geographical abstraction. It’s a country which includes numerous nations. By now you should realize the nations there adhere to a tribal structure, which is the fundamental requirement under Noah. Aside from our intervention, these tribes have generally experienced some tension and warfare as far back as anyone can find records. What laws exist are culturally based. Virtually the entire population of all tribes are some brand of Muslim.

It’s odd how the modern Western world finds that situation barbaric, since each modern nation hardly blinks at their own mass slaughters using weapons of mass destruction. We are blind to their essential liberty of spirit, and the broad willingness to keep what they have in preference to our Western moral and material decadence. What is most frightening to our minds is realizing they are far, far closer to Noah than any Western nation-state. The flaw, of course, would be their adherence to Islam.

Islam was founded by a very intelligent young fellow who traveled a good bit in the Middle East and Near East some six centuries after Christ. He brushed up against Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and a broad mixture of pagan religions, and appears to have read their sacred writings, observed their practices. His own people mostly served a pagan moon god. From this exposure, he developed a syncretic religion of his own. We should assume he sincerely believed what he taught, though we naturally discount some of the mythical claims of Islam regarding winged horses and Mohamed’s travel on them. What we should not discount is how very much it all reflects the ANE worldview. Arabs in general, and Muslim Arabs in particular, are culturally closer to the ANE than any mainstream branch of Judaism, in part because Mohamed rejected much of the latter’s Hellenism. Any critique of Islam based on Western intellectual and cultural assumptions is simply ludicrous.

By no means should we consider Islam a good implementation of Noah. In summary, it’s easy to see sharia courts are inhumane by God’s standard, a horrific extremist enforcement. However, we should realize it is yet much closer than any part of the Western world. While extreme, those courts are asserting fundamentally decent and just requirements. For example, demanding the burkha is patently silly. At the same time, modesty is certainly God’s command. The very concept of “modesty” is inherently relative, but even from a Noahic viewpoint, the burkha is extreme and unjustified, albeit fundamentally correct. Frankly, the Taleban are generally welcomed by everyone in Afghanistan except the hedonist thugs, who seek the most despicable libertine behavior for themselves, even as they are more oppressive and capricious than the Taleban.

We never forget God remains the Ultimate Sovereign, and we will often find His choices inscrutable. Barring some purpose and plan we cannot grasp, we are left with this conclusion: The Afghani Taleban are far more compliant with Noah than the US, or any Western allies. According to the standards of Noah’s Covenant, we should expect God to give the Taleban victory over US troops. This, of course, requires we understand military victory in ANE terms. It’s not a matter of who slaughters the most, but who is left standing on the battlefield. I predict, based on the Bible, the US will be forced to withdraw in disgrace, much as the Soviets before us, who had ten times our number of boots on the ground.

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The Obligation to Resist

Posted on July 21, 2009 by ehurst

Truth is a Person. You cannot have truth detached from God, as all truth (as truth) reflects God or it is a lie. So all truth is God’s truth. Truth cannot exist separate from His Person. The fundamental nature of the entire universe is personal, as it was all created as a reflection of God’s self-revelation. The key to understanding existence, of being itself, is to understand it remains rooted in someone living.

Among other things, the source of all sorrow and sin seeks to kill, to degrade and enslave all those living. Not just that, but to destroy the essence of what it means to live.

It’s all cut from the same cloth. We are aware the foundation of Western intellectual culture is mostly in Greece, with the Greek Philosophers. The two most frequent names are Plato and Aristotle. In a certain sense, we could say the entire foundation of Western Civilization really stands on Aristotle, in particular. His entire epistemology assumes nothing worth knowing can remain outside man’s intellectual grasp — given sufficient time and inclination, man can know everything worth knowing. Man is the measure of all things. Modern materialism, and lots of other “-isms” arise from these assumptions, directly or indirectly. In the process, ultimate truth becomes a dead, objective entity.

You find this assumption behind all the arguments about religion which forcefully declare there is some objective standard to which conceptions of God can be measured. In such a world, God is reduced to something made by man’s mind, or He must be rejected.

From such a background comes the modern rejection of all God has ever commanded. The notion we could remove the personality from things is the reason we have the modern nation-state, also called Westphalian Sovereignty: the notion we can have an impersonal State, which is more or less sacrosanct.

This is the foundation for creating a concept of government which does not include the persons doing the governing. We create offices and structures, and the persons carry a very limited liability for decisions made while in that office. It removes the soul from government, so that you cannot possibly come back and require accountability, except in the most impersonal form of merely changing the rules and laws. As if that fixes things.

It also allows the legal fiction of corporations as “persons” under the law. This means the evil of the corporate officers will never cost them, so long as what they do can be found by some twisted logic to be legal. Instead, it costs the corporation, which means the stockholders and customers. The crooks running the thing get off with a golden parachute.

It presents the fiction no one needs to be concerned with standing before God, at least not in this life, because there is probably no God. If there is, it’s of no consequence because it won’t affect you here and now.

That’s the ultimate lie. That people seem to grow old and die unscathed is only apparent, but that issue is used to hide from accountability to God for the good fortune of being in the driver’s seat. Just as surely as God promises various levels of reward in Heaven, so there are various levels of punishment in Hell, though such could hardly be understood on this side. Worse, that lie tries to ignore how wrath accumulates to the nation as a whole.

Not a single government operating under the principles espoused in the Peace of Westphalia — that whole business of the modern nation-state — is acceptable before God. Each of them begins with a rejection of God’s requirements under Noah. Only the tribal nations have any hope.

Rising up in revolt against the nation state, an organized armed rebellion, is nothing more than one criminal government replacing another, trading one sin for another. There is no compelling requirement under Noah to do that. However, there is a compelling interest in resisting the unjust demands of such a government. To have standing before God when opting for such resistance, you must first embrace Noah, not so much in the fulfillment, as in the commitment and intention.

Some implications of such resistance can be found in this article, Biblical Rebellion. As you would expect, the discussion includes both earthly and spiritual applications. If you are going to take that route, you might as well do it right. When you seek to resist bad government God’s way, you can fully expect His support.

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Forest of Deceptions

Posted on July 20, 2009 by ehurst

Let me give you a hint. Reality, the Ultimate Truth of “Life, the Universe and Everything,” can never be objectified. To speak of it as something is utterly misleading, because it’s a someone — a Person. In our lore, persons are flighty, variable things, and we aren’t comfortable with depending on a Person for everything. We want something solid, objective, even if ever so impossible to know. We like the idea it remains unchanged and unchanging, because to imbue it with life associates in our culture with variability, untrustworthiness. Yet, Truth is by nature paradoxical. Truth is the Unchanging Person, the Ultimately Trustworthy Living Being.

What that means is when you come back to measure your understanding of things against the touchstone of all Reality, you may not get consistent results. Actually, the problem lies within us, and our limitations for understanding. Regardless of acknowledgments we don’t yet get it all, there is some assumption we could, in theory at least, some day get it. Won’t happen. Ever.

There is a God, and none of us is Him.

However, He has promised to help us gain just enough of what it takes to make Him happy with us if we simply pay attention to Him. In other words, comparing our understanding with the standard of ultimate truth requires we maintain the awareness everything is personal. Ultimate objective reality is a chimera. You’ll have enough to walk on solid footing, but you aren’t permitted to even imagine you’ll one day really understand it. That comes only when there are no more days — AKA, the End of Time. The big lie of “objective reality” is a part of the prison in which most people live. We want the facts so we can decide for ourselves the importance of things. And we will never get them that way.

Got that?

Now, digging for facts is not a waste of time, as long as you remember they are only indicators of importance. For example, you and I should realize by now there is an awful lot of people in the world who want things which will ultimately hurt you and I, and they seem to be making progress in getting them. On the one hand, just saying, “Satan rules the world” can be dismissive in itself. Who could argue with that? So, on the other hand, we do lots of research trying to find out whom Satan is using to get the job done. We want to flesh out the observable reality to make the threat more real in our minds. We find there is a nebulous group of people who operate on some level of malicious genius we can’t match head to head. We might know some names, but it seems the genius is not confined to individuals, but is shared across this mysterious group, and across multiple generations of them.

We talk about the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Conference, the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, Freemasons, Communists, and on it goes. On the list of favorites is Bohemian Grove. Let me assure you, I seriously question some of the allegations regarding that meeting which happens to be going on right now, this week. It’s not a complete waste of time surveying the facts and allegations, but it is if you plan to act on those facts. As with all such things, what really matters is not the facts, but what they signify. The whole event is symbolic anyway, but for those of us who embrace Truth as a Person, it serves as a parable of what matters, a mere pointer.

Fundamental to current Satanic efforts to control Western Civilization is the Blackmail Principle. It’s not as simple as it seems, because it assumes and underlying common moral standard. The trick is to build a fake one. God’s standards regarding human sexuality are expressed quite matter-of-factly, yet are quite prudish. The fake standards make bogus assertions which appear to match God’s standards, but only if you assume an utterly childish, shallow understanding of it. This takes us back to the false idea truth can be objectified, because the notion we can formulate absolute rules assumes there is no God. Formulating concrete social mores is actually mocking the personal accountability we all have to the living God. It’s a shortcut. It’s choosing to avoid Him and His commands by cooking up some artificial construct so we can nail it down and quit worrying about it. “Here, God; take it or leave it!” I’m sure He’s really impressed with that.

So we have this lingering phony Victorian veneer of prudery, utterly impossible to maintain without serious neurosis. Which is precisely the goal. You can be wacko or you can get real and get down-n-dirty. It’s a false dichotomy, designed to make us all schizophrenic to the core. And even when people wisely seek to moderate the polarity, they still end up buying into the basic assumptions of one side or the other — people must be either animals, angels, or a mixture of the two. God’s true standard is buried under a thousand flavors of falsehood. With the best of intentions, even truly devoted Christians stumble into marriage with a massive collection of neuroses they may never untangle, and attend a hundred Marriage Enrichment seminars, all without ever finding the Ultimate Truth, because the underlying assumptions are false.

Thus, even the best of God’s servants are ripe for blackmail. Somewhere is that one chink in their armor which can be exploited, sold to them one way or another, and they fall into temptation. Just getting them that far is a mighty victory, but way too many surrender just enough to be trapped. Someone has that one bit of leverage over them, to either ruin them or enslave them, and most often both. The importance of Bohemian Grove is in revealing to us the one basic point of failure in Western society, particularly America: sex. And across the whole gamut of conspiracy studies, we keep running into that one element of human nature: Sabatean Franks are obsessed with sex as a religious act, openly Satanic cults and many pagan religions feature sex as a major element of religious practice, sex becomes a major element in every public downfall of religious leaders, pornography is often on the leading edge of Internet technology, etc. Across the board, in every sector of our modern culture, sex is a fundamental consideration, blown out of proportion, turned into a god itself. In a perverse way, it remains the god of Victorian prudery.

It would take a book or two to correct the false understanding we have about human mating. We keep reading our false assumptions back into the Bible, so we end up with a crippled grasp of it. The main mistake is making it so significant, even as we tend to cheapen it. Maybe some day I’ll write that book, but it will have to come after several others, building a foundation of understanding which peels away the vast lies which constitute our Western culture and epistemology. Meanwhile, let me warn you: When you gaze upon the political class, know in your heart of hearts, rarely does any person join that club without moral compromises, particularly sexual in nature. The mechanisms of the system by which people take positions of power in the US make it nearly impossible for honest people to get in the door. As you look at the faces in the news, you can bet the vast majority have compromised somewhere, and has a sexual Sword of Damocles over their heads.

On a lower scale, your one best hope for obeying God is remaining entirely skeptical of all human government. The Apostles were not joking when they suggested total abstinence was a reasonable consideration in this fallen world. The one greatest key in our world to your ultimate freedom from evil domination is sexual purity on God’s terms.

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