As it is in heaven, may it be on earth. But on this earth, as it is in the church, so it will be in society. Culture flows downhill from faith and politics is downstream from culture. And when the progressives use their exegesis as a slave of their ideology there will be a corruption and a falling away.
I was bought up to believe that slavery was always wrong and apartheid was evil. But… John Minto, the instigator of much of this, has shown his colours as a socialist and Anti-Christian. The faithful remnants are being persecuted from the Boers to the Black Church: the policies of this time are designed to implode families, and protect the corrupt. This will not end well.
The same dynamic we are accustomed to today was at work then. In the mid-1800s, the Bible regulated but did not forbid slavery. God even commanded it in some cases, and Christ and the apostles included slaveowners as members of the early Church. The Bible declared the equal access that men of all races had to the spiritual rights and duties of the redeemed, but said nothing in support of political or social equality among the races. The Bible taught obedience and support of governments as they performed their God-given functions, but put limits on their powers and on our duty to obey their dictates. The heresies of the mid-1800s depended on a bad hermeneutic that twisted the Scriptures out of their grammatical and historical context in order to baptize statist, egalitarian humanism.
The same was true when the descendants of those abolitionist invaders attacked the central tenets of the Christian faith openly. They attacked the virgin birth, the resurrection of Christ, the reality of Satan and of the final judgment and of hell, all to appease their sense of pseudo-Christian morality and their man-made image of what God should be. Rather than take God for who He declares Himself to be in the Scriptures, they created a conceptual idol and utilized social institutions such as the State, and the Church itself, to serve that god.
Today we are still facing the same enemy and the same tactics. They have continued to redefine basic concepts such as man, gender, race, and more. They continue to depend on a terrible twisting of plain language to defend their ideas. Their ideas have terrible consequences on society at large, on the welfare of the Church as a whole, on individual souls, and on the members of their families and communities. They are no less a grave threat to the salvation of souls or the liberty and prosperity of our nations than was the threat posed by the abolitionists in the early 1800s or the baptized communists of the early 1900s
I believe the Baptised Communists corrupted the Jesuits and the current Pope. It is not merely an issue for the Protestants. The Church must be coherent with the Gospel, or it will fall. There will a division and a reorganisation. When Gresham Malcham and Ian Paisley are recognized as saints defending the faith during a time of trial, and Lewis is canonised with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, then we will have healed the great division.
May this be. For this elite are corrupt, and we want them just to leave us alone. But they are turning on their own leaders, as #MeToo morphs into #SheKnew, that is not likely.
2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, 12training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, 13while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. 14He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
15Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.
3:1Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone. 3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another. 4But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8aThe saying is sure.
We must pray for our leaders. it is our duty. Given the current bunch of fools in New Zealand, I pray that they repent and gain wisdom and salvation, before it is hammered into them painfully. They are setting my country up to implode into a depression. The early signs I saw in Sydney are here: the broken fences unrepaired, the infrastructure needs.
Conversation last night with stepson was about the need to keep the drains running in our town and build sea walls, for much of our industrial land is below sea level. The council wants to build a statement architecture instead.
But the council needs to repent and find wisdom, and live within its means. In the meantime, I’m in a small village. Deliberately. For unchecked, the Jacobites will get the war that the wish for.
Were the war to stretch into years, the left would likely destroy their own economy with unfettered socialistic policies. This actually happened to the Spanish Republic in the 1930s. I can image their modern counterparts struggling to make eco-friendly weapons and organize culturally-sensitive, politically-correct collective farms.
Militarily, the left has other problems. They have saddled themselves with a longstanding disdain for military history and thought. A mob of whiney, untrained Antifa or BLM protestors doth not an army make. In recent decades, the left has sought not so much to co-opt the military as to rot it from within. When your idea of a military hero is Bowe Bergdahl or Bradley “call-me-Chelsea” Manning, it is evident that you’ve planned to fight your battles exclusively in the movies. The officer corps, or the part of it that’s worth the name, is ours. Although the left probably has a certain pool of minority ex-soldiers to draw on, I doubt they have a single general officer that still has his original issue genitalia. I’ll take a Texan and a Tar Heel against a metrosexual and a social justice warrior any day — while admitting that the latter might conduct a far more colorful parade. Much would depend on how the military happened to fragment, but even if one side or the other got the lion’s share of it there simply aren’t enough soldiers in the armed forces to garrison the entire country. More troops would have to be raised, equipped, and trained.
The right would probably win a real war, for all the reasons I have sketched above. I suspect it wouldn’t take the three years to decide the issue that it took in Spain, but predicting a short war has usually proven to be a fool’s occupation. Long or short, tens of millions of people would likely starve to death before war and reconstruction were over — far more than would die in actual fighting. Having seen a person starve to death, it is not a fate I’d wish on friends and family members — or even on my enemies. It might be, after all the legal shenanigans are done, the necessary cost of keeping western society alive — but it would no heroic action movie. Utopian ideologies die hard. War is hell.
May this not be. But to stop it, the church has to again preach the gospel undiluted. We need to shun evil, and do good. But we all love our vices too much, and we are too cowardly to preach against them. To stop degeneration.
Even though this will save lives.
May this war remain one of ideologies and ideas. Words do not kill. Knives and bullets do: and that is where some want us to go.
May this not be. May we repent. May our lives be a burning witness. And may the confused, the broken, the discouraged, the damaged and scarred, find comfort in living aright, and at the cross.
May we never be like this elite.