Men break their oaths. In this fallen age, we are told this is reasonable and just: we must have a debt jubilee, we must allow divorce freely, so that love can flourish, freedom grow, and the flowers can grow.

The legal structures we put in place are removed by the courts because of other agendas. And tyranny re emerges.

It is not so with God. His promises still stand. That includes his promise to Israel and to the tribes at Sinai: those who keep the law will live. The sacrifices were given for mercy, for none of us can the law sustain.

Our rulers are as feckless as we are. Rely on God alone.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise. For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

(Hebrews 6:13-20 ESV)

But do not expect that you will be allowed to avoid the oaths of this age. Expect them to make bigger and more elaborate demands: Since they no longer trust your word and reject God they want to micromanage your thoughts.

An assignment in instructor Revital Zilonka’s “Institution of Education” class tells future North Carolina teachers that “by the end of the semester, you are required to write your own personal/professional commitment to social justice,” the syllabus states.

The class mandates a list of feminist and Marxist readings, and students’ “commitment” is expected to be up to eight pages long and delve into how they plan to advance social justice “given the new understanding you have by now about society and education,” the syllabus adds.

Zilonka nor University of North Carolina-Greensboro officials answered emails from The College Fix asking if students could request an alternative assignment and for clarification on the assignment.

Zilonka’s undergraduate class is one of seven sections of “ELC 381, The Institution of Education” taught at the public university this spring. The course is required for students seeking to earn a K-12 teaching credential, but additional professors teach it besides Zilonka, and scholars can shape it toward their specific interests.

This is when the push back comes. People will pick up the party card. Then ignore it. They will consider it… meaningless. Consider that Sophie Scholl was a leader in the BDM, the (Nazi) girl’s league. When things get tyrannical, people just nod. And ignore.[1]

Until things break. As the poet noted, without the love and word of God preserving us, things will indeed break.

Trust not this elite. Be not them, be not like them, and their promises ignore.

1. Chris Nuttall has an alternate history where Scholl wins and the German Nazis lose. But he has to set it 50 years later, when the Nazis were even more corrupt, and in Berlin.