A Last Great Awakening II: Breaking Bad Theology

{continued from Part I}

Due to all the suffering and losses of centuries of religious warfare the entire world leaned towards justice and equality for all.  It was egalitarianism at a global scale brought on by an unbiblical view of forced equality that wished to avoid more wars and death and technology that would allow its globalization. A noble albeit misguided idea. In truth had the world just obeyed Scripture there would've never been 'religious' wars that need avoiding...

So, we enter the Third Great Awakening. It begins around the turn of the 20th century and lasting until 1980 is probably best characterized by the "Social Gospel". It is a philosophy that began to form out of the Second Great Awakening that man can, through works, gain salvation through their own efforts. There is a shift away from the emphasis on personal sin to that of communal or social sin. An idea that went away with the civil law of the Jews when Jesus abrogated it in His sacrifice at the cross. This gives rise to a belief that a thing like poverty is not a personal failure but somehow someone else’s fault or a sin that should be shared and therefore should be addressed by the society/state. The individual needs to take little or no responsibility. This causes a further liberal shift towards a secularization of Christianity.

During the time period of approximately 1920-1970 after WWI there is an attack on corruption of big businesses. There are activists for labor reforms and the strengthening of labor unions. There are civil rights, women's rights, gay rights and now gender neutral movements. There has been a belief in equality of condition or the principle that equality is to be achieved or imposed primarily by government programs aimed at raising wages, transferring income from rich to poor through taxation or finance welfare programs. There are also judicial rulings to redefine what constitutes normal sexual behavior or what defines a family unit (nuclear family). These events are no longer left to the direct sovereignty and providence of God. 

Mankind believes they can somehow redeem themselves via the governmental or social activism due to the propagation of the 'Social Gospel' as purely secular force in legislation and the courts. There is an inherent belief that poverty, racism and discrimination are not a personal sins or failures but a societal failures and that they can be legislated or ruled away.  Therefore there have been expansion of godless secondary and higher educations; attack on religious and racial barriers to equal opportunity (leading to later attacks on sexual and gender-based assumptions of behavior and discrimination based on sexual orientation).

This put responsibility for the success of members of society not on the individuals but on society itself. The theory was that people could be born into circumstances that they did not have the individual strength to overcome. This was a philosophy behind the welfare state introduced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and later exacerbated by Lyndon Baines Johnson and modern Progressives, Liberals. Please note that this is also the Marxist / Socialist / Communist philosophy – people could not do it on their own, they needed a government to look out for their interests. The enemies of this time were the powerful trusts and corporations the same as they are today. Then was the oil rich ad is now the tech rich. All during this time as well we’ve seen the mainstream churches atrophy as government takes over more of the social burdens, reforms and welfare – that had occupied the mainstream Protestant churches in the prior great awakenings. In so doing we see the State has slowly taken over the role of God by becoming a god to the godless. The churches have slowly abdicated their role as salt and light in the world in direct proportion to their decline in orthodox Christianity. The effect on society was and continues to be morally devastating.

In approximately the 1970 to 2010 timeframe we see a gradual shift back again to more orthodox belief in what I believe to be a Fourth Great Awakening that began in the late 1960s and early 70s. We saw the start of it in the West Coast Jesus movement, Jesus freaks and the likes of Chuck Smith, Keith Green and those of their kind. We see a push back on the rebellion and radical changes wrought by theologies such as Liberation Theology and radical Marxist / Socialist philosophies in American universities of the 1960s. This awakening has presented itself in a return to robust relational belief in a living relational God and reassertion of experiential content of the Bible. It has also been a reassertion of the concept of personal sin and in some cases even a return to puritanical Christianity and the Inerrancy of Scripture.

Unfortunately, as with prior awakenings it as also manifested in a further liberalization in the unbiblical church in the form of Liberation Theology, Social Gospel Theology, Queer Theology, Vatican II, Ecumenicalism and a myriad of other unorthodox theologies devoid of sound Biblical teaching. I believe this is directly fueling the societal division we currently see. The division is not just political. It is also a division directly fuel by competing theologies or 'spirits' right within our churches. Society's current division is not just political, it is spiritual at its core. Bad theology as led to bad society.

It didn’t take long for me to realize that making any absolute biblical truth statement that was construed as politically incorrect would cause enormous amounts of division not only right in my church but also here on this blog. It was apparent to me that a false spirit and unbiblical teaching was manifesting itself in an unwillingness by quasi-feminists in the evangelical church to submit to biblical male headship. In fact, some within local conservative congregations outwardly fought it. This anti-Christian spirit also revealed itself in overt resistances to renounce adultery and homosexuality right within conservative denominations such as Presbyterians and Baptists. Instead they've chosen to embrace the recent surge in Social Gospel theology in light of the BLM protests and move towards non-binary gender identification. These are the exact reasons  why I’ve chosen to write politically incorrect and lengthy posts about these issues. To expose these truths, show how insidious and deep these heresies run and show how the Church got to where its at...on the edge of a spiritual precipice. 

While religiously and politically we are seeing a deliberate resistance to materialistic corruption, and a rise of pro-life, pro-family, and media reform movements. We are simultaneously seeing vicious attacks on these very principles by the liberalized versions of Christian theology embraced by the Progressive elements in society. This isn’t just a politicization of the Church. It is a fundamental departure in doctrine. A large part of the Democratic Party aligns itself with what is essentially unbiblical liberal theology which at its core…is not Biblical or Christian. It is demonic and heretical. Similarly, Republicans are aligned with what amounts to neo-orthodoxy. Although a small percentage or remnant of Christians remain obedient to orthodox Christianity in both parties most are corrupt. As the entire political spectrum shifts further left the entire political spectrum becomes more unbiblical and demonic.

Instead of the orthodox evangelicalism, other powers, most notably the neoconservatives, have taken control of the supposedly conservative Republican Party and shifted the entire religio-political system leftward towards liberalism. This shift has resulted in a amassing of an enormous national debt, deep societal division and a move to completely undermine the American democratic society in favor of a Social Gospel style change. A change that is the Marxist/Socialist underpinnings that drive that ideologies that include BLM, Antifa and other radical progressive groups.

The highwater mark of the Fourth Great Awakenings seems to have been about the 2010 timeframe. Things have since begun an extraordinarily quick downward plunge. A drop dramatically faster than the awakenings of the past. I believe this trend has been accelerated by a technology and mediums unknown in prior generations: The internet and social media. If history is an accurate indicator…we’re again heading towards massive discord that will culminate in conflict or an outright war. Due to our new technology…we’ll get to the flashpoint faster than ever before. I fear we are already seeing the opening offensives. We need to pray that the spiritual aspects of this are held at bay by God because it is clear we’re in head-to-head conflict with the Devil. The gates of Hell are wide open in our society right now. I believe only God is capable of shutting these gates now and turning the horde of destruction that is currently descending on our shores. He is the only way to right this chaos. We're just too far gone morally as a people to do it ourselves. 

Hippocratic Hypocrite: Abortion As ‘Healthcare’

Here is a Greek to English translation from the Original Hippocratic Oath. The National Institutes of Health offers a 1595 Greek version of the ancient Hippocratic Oath on their website (accessed Oct. 11, 2020):

“I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract…I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly, I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art. I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft. Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves. Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private. So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.” ~ October 11, 2020 - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

I pose this conundrum to all my liberal or pro-abortion friends. There is something that I really don't understand. I hope one of you can explain this to me. It concerns doctors who perform abortions as a form of birth control or as Margaret Sanger encouraged...as a means of population control or limiting the offspring of 'undesirables' in society. Sanger implied the undesirables to be minorities, specifically blacks and the mentally challenged/ill in the frequent contributions to 'science', societal magazines and 'ladies' journals in the early 20th century.

The original Hippocratic Oath explicitly forbade harming a patient(s) either through euthanasia or abortion regardless of race or mental state by saying:

"... I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly, I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion."

How does a doctor reconcile this practice with the principle underlying a Hippocratic Oath?

What happened to adherence to the original doctor’s Hippocratic Oath? The oath was essentially one of the oldest known binding documents or contracts in history. It is a contract of benevolent intent to a patient(s) from the one that treats them. The oath was intended as a set of standards and principles that unified all physicians under one moral principle. The Hippocratic Oath states three key principles: 

(1) The continuance of the education of medicine. 

(2) The use of skills for the good; and 

(3) To uphold behavior to the religious standards of society in practice. 

The last point being the most intriguing morally. We live primarily in a godless society whose religion is humanism. Humanism that makes mankind the ultimate moral/ethical authority. Therein lies some of the moral thorn that is abortion in modern times. Thus, abortion is an ongoing moral dilemma / problem.

The original Oath actually goes into something far deeper than the initial implications of, “I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will.” Do no harm or primum non nocere. Both of these statements are glaring announcements of a doctor’s responsibility to only do things to the benefit of a patient or patients self-interest. In the case of a pregnant mother there are two patients being treated at that point. The child being symbiotically linked to the mother. In essence they could be considered one-and-the-same considering they are linked via umbilical cord. So that which harms the child harms the mother and vice versa. Additionally, I should define a patient as being derived from the Latin verb "patior" meaning "to suffer". It is a person(s) who suffer(s) or requires medical care. A person receiving medical or dental care or treatment, under a physician's care for a particular disease or condition or who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care. 

What human beings suffer more than a child being murdered via dismemberment, burned chemically and a mother who might later loathe or regret the willful slaughter of her own offspring? I posit none suffer more greatly. Furthermore, it is a 'doctor' inflicting this suffering.

Furthermore, the deepness to which I refer to in the oath is the superscript of the oath's introductory phrase. “I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses...". It is making appeals to a greater moral authority in terms of those who will bear witness to their actions and their ethos...to God/gods. It is in essence appealing to a higher moral authority outside of one’s self. It doesn’t mean modern doctors are asking fake gods to bear witness to their deeds or basing their moral authority on them. It is a pattern of thought or principle. In essence a doctor is appealing to an authority outside of themselves to do good at all times. They are being held accountable for their actions. 

For a Christian it is the God of the Bible. A Jew appeals to the God of the Hebrew Bible. An Islamic doctor appeals to Allah, etc. But what of the atheist or humanist doctor? He would need to appeal to humanity or himself. He would need to make himself his own highest moral authority. Inherently a conflict of self-interest. He would essentially need to self-deify. This of course would be in contradiction to the principle of the oath’s original superscription. Therefore the original oath becomes a moot point to a godless doctor. The oath they swear to would be morally meaningless to them even though they create the illusion that they abide by an oath.

Surprisingly, in modern times this is exactly what we’ve seen happen. So that there is no contradiction to the oath yet still be able to appeal to an oath in an informal contract with a patient. Some medical institutes and associations have rewritten the oath to remove appeals to God/gods yet ironically thereby swear not to ‘play God’. Hypocritical and ironic if you ask me. That is why I kept referring to the  ‘original oath’ prior to this. What most doctors swear by at the present time isn’t the original oath nor does it have the same principle anymore. Having removed the appeal to a higher moral/ethical authority (God) they’ve made the oath mean nothing. Its whole purpose of being spoken aloud or written down was to hold the doctor accountable. Just as a witness swears an oath on a Bible or Qur'an in a court of law. The modern version now uses equivocal religious language like covenant and God but it is merely religious window-dressing on a contact that has no true morally binding undergirding. It is literally Jesus' whitewashed tombs.

Matthew 23:27 ~ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.

A version of the new Hypocritical Hippocratic Oath as follows:

“I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug. I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery. I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure. I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.”

So therefore, someone, please...explain or justify these abortion doctors’ actions. The deceptive but false statement that an abortion doctor is doing the abortion in benevolence or for the benefit of the patient is only taking into account the welfare of one of two patients. It only takes into account the mother that seeks the abortion. The child in the womb has no say, no confidentiality in the matter (nor usually the father either). The taking of the child's life is not being taken as an 'awesome responsibility' nor is that life being approached with 'great humbleness' or an 'awareness of... the frailty' of human life. The child's life is being approached with compete insensitivity and casual disregard of that life's worth. There is no justice here. This of course violates the right of life to the child. The abortion itself is often initiated and performed on the child by either (1) poisoning or (2) dismemberment. Both cause harm and both violate even a liberal interpretation of the modern oath let alone the old oath as it is clearly doing harm.

As stated, by appealing to themselves as their own highest authority in the oath mankind then makes themselves only accountable to themselves. This means that the highest authority that governs doctors isn’t their conscience or God, a morally perfect being. The appeal is to the lex terra or law of the land. In this way the doctors have sidestepped the ethical trap they create for themselves by using the original oath. Just as government has removed God from Government making government God, so too medicine has removed God and supplanted themselves in His rightful place. They can then immorally appeal to Roe vs Wade in absence of God.

Abortion doctors or purveyors of this type of slaughter cannot really adhere to the true original life preserving Hippocratic Oath because they are in direct contradiction to it in multiple principles. So, they changed the wordage. They changed the rules to the game to make themselves morally god and allow themselves to act as gods in God’s stead. The very thing that the new oath actually speaks of and wishes to avoid…making a single person their own moral authority accountable to no one. Hence the need of the oath in the first place. They changed their moral obligations to nothing and thereby make the revised oath worthless and contradictory.

In truth abortion doctors are still in violation of their own modern oath. How? They’re not to play God. In taking a life that is perfectly healthy and deeming that life not worthy to live...how else can that ever be construed as anything other than playing God? All this to say something I’ve said before. Abortions are barbaric and a horrendous wrong perpetrated on the most defenseless members of society…even though many wouldn’t even consider them human let alone members of society. 

The Bible is clear, we are all a person at the point of conception (Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139:13-16, Psalm 139:13). A unique creation. Life begins at conception. Morally and ethically there is no way around the Biblical language or the language as written in the original Hippocratic Oath. Abortion that is not performed with the understanding it is saving the mothers life is a murder and unethical taking of life. Medically unjustified abortion and euthanasia are a violation of both the Bible and the oath. A person who performs an abortion is neither Biblical, moral or a doctor. They deny God in their oath but act as Him in His stead. In the very acts they're perpetrating they reveal themselves to be anything but Godly. They reveal themselves to be godless hypocritical monsters. They claim to preserve life but do just the opposite (Romans 1:29). The very definition of hypocrisy.

Go Ahead and Jump...

I generally don’t write to make other people happy. I write because I’m compelled to. Something usually moves within me that spurs a thought. Just as a musician is inspired, so am I. I often make the leap from thought to writing to capture that inspiration. It’s a gift I was graced with a long time ago that I’ve needed to continue to practice, cultivate and refine. Just like a musician hones his skill on his chosen instrument and a singer exercises their voice to keep things in tune.

In my writing, one thought becomes another and an entire train of thought begins to take shape like stringing notes together to make a melody or symphony. Today I wanted to look at mortality and the transient nature of humanity. One moment upon another strung together to create a lifetime. A person's life being a series of events. I wanted to look at the limited window of time we have in this life and how we utilize it. I suppose it has a lot to do with the passing of Eddie Van Halen yesterday. We’re fragile creatures actually. Not just our bodies but our minds too. 

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 2 Corinthians 4:7

Hearts break too. There are quite a few broken ones today. Obviously, not literally but perhaps spiritually. We gain, and like yesterday, we lose. Our minds and out bodies. They say its just chemical reactions but Christians know it’s also something more than the sum total of chemistry and physics. Chemistry and physics might explain the complex interaction of a man shredding a guitar. The electricity in the guitar and blood that flows in the veins of the artist. Ye all this doesn’t explain the structure and exaltation of the transcendent lyrics (ideas) and the soaring solo on an instrument (feeling). The music or poetry is a product of a soul given flight. It is an instrument to illustrate its existence. Just as a paintbrush allows the painter to capture an essence from deep within. Just as the preacher exults in the exposition of the Bible to his laity. It is the Spirit driving behind it all.

I’m not a musician so I didn’t look up to Eddie. He wasn’t a hero of mine. Instead, his death is more of a reminder that as I age, more and more of the memories and events that filled my childhood and adulthood are fading off. Dying off. A series of musical notes coming to an end. They’re literally becoming history. I did love Van Halen’s music. I am pretty sure it played a huge part in my love of Hard Rock. My first albums were VH’s Women and Children first and Boston’s debut on 8-Track (yeah, I’m dating myself). But its more than that today. It’s a reminder that we are all on borrowed time. Every day is a gift and a grace of God. Just like the gift of writing appropriate words for articles or playing music. If not for God I we would have no true eternal purpose. None of us would. If not for God we would have little value. Yet the Bible reminds me daily that God valued us so greatly that he would take on the attribute of humanity so that there would be an ability to actually allow himself to die too…so that none of our deaths would be in vain. That our actions would have purpose.

Too often this fact is missed. We measure by the worlds measure of worth. It is at this exact juncture that we totally get it wrong. When we don’t succeed by the world's standard, we feel we have failed. That is why our feelings can’t always be trusted. Sometimes we need to reason and understand that our gut feelings could be wrong or not match the facts. Sometimes we don’t even have facts. Sometimes we need to rely solely on faith/Spirit. That is why we are to be in the world but not of it. One foot here and one foot beyond. It’s as if the world expects us to measure our worth based solely on how much we make an impact in this world. Nothing could be farther from the truth. There are some who will make no indelible mark whatsoever by the world’s standard but by God’s standard and the spiritual… mountains will be moved. Others will move a generation on earth yet in God’s economy in the spiritual the needle barely budges off of the zero.

We all started as broken vessels capable of carrying a message of immeasurable worth. A damaged/deformed instrument capable of a miracle if we would only let God work through us. Ironically not unlike a hybrid monster of a guitar that inspired a generation of believing and non-believing guitar players alike. A guitar that was a merger of two different flawed creations merged into one. I truly appreciate the irony that some of the most awesome sounds in my library of music could come from such a monstrosity of an instrument. Eddie’s Frankenstrat. A hodgepodge of parts making a new improved creation. From it came some amazing sounds. In a way we are very much like Eddie’s guitar. Horribly flawed and disfigured but capable of being something completely profound and beautiful. A new creation entirely. Something more than the sum of its parts. God using us all as instruments regardless of how flawed we are.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are...1 Corinthians 1:28

Common grace falls on all including Eddie. Was he saved? I don’t know. That’s a measure and relationship with God (or lack of it) that I was not aware of. I do know that many that are saved were affected in a profoundly positive manner by Eddie’s and Van Halen’s music. Therein is the catch. God gives common grace to all so that others can benefit and appreciate the gifts they were given by God. Eddie was certainly gifted. Does every piece of an artist’s work glorify God? No. of course not. As I've already said, we're all flawed. But some of it did. Sometimes directly other times indirectly. I see it in the tributes given by other rock and metal guitarists that specifically glorify God and Christ in their music. Not the least of which were the tributes from Stryper’s Michael Sweet and Bill Menchen of Final Axe, Seventh Power, etc. It is in these instances where I am doubly blessed due to God’s grace in Eddie's playing. It had a positive effect on others still glorying God. From Van Halen to Stryper to me writing this article to you reading it.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. Ephesians 4:7

From one instrument to another to another in an unbroken chain...doing unto other as you wish done to you. It’s a chain enabled by grace. Passing the grace on. We all benefit from God’s grace even when some don’t realize it or if they refuse to acknowledge that grace and their gift is from God. In this way believers can benefit from the common grace given to all...even non-believers. It is efficacious grace by which all are saved in Christ. Yet common grace helps pave the path to efficacious grace. Without which none would be saved.

And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8

Believers and non-believers alike play into the narrative. We see this every day. Eddie Van Halen’s death is another reminder in a long line of reminders of what is actually important. We can’t ever lose sight of the fact that we may or may not be destined for greatness here in this world by the world’s standard but it is all history when we depart. No, we need to realize that we are all destined for greatness when we accept what Christ did for us in rising from death. What really matters is what lies after when we shut our eyes for the last time here. How did we live? What choices did we make? Did we do the right thing(s)? Its about what God thinks not what men think.

We’re all part of a greater plan that none of us can see from ground level. We think we see clearly but we only see dimly and in a distorted reflection. There is a day coming for those who will believe that will allow them to soar like the guitar solos of a once great rock virtuoso. I honestly believe that a piece of that victory is captured within the music that was a product of God’s grace. 

For those that don’t believe I can only offer this. Sometimes, logic and reason can only take you so far. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean something doesn’t exist. God, grace, love, a gift of music. Things that exist but cannot be seen or empirically proven. It requires something more. A gift of grace to accept things in faith. Sometimes you just need to make Søren Kierkegaard’s Leap of Faith. Accept that some things do exist without provable empirical evidence. A leap of faith.

Sometimes you just need to Jump.

There's Something Happening Here...

It’s called a Color Revolution. We’re in one now. It was and is an idea and method used by the United States to cause political change in other countries. It is what amounts to the standard technique for promoting “regime change” in targeted nations that are a direct threat to the United States or one of our allies. It is no longer relegated to second or third world countries. It is currently being used here in the United States.

There are two primary organizations that disseminate the funds to various Regime Change projects: The International Republican Institute, affiliated with the Republican Party, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, affiliated with the Democrats. Both organizations carry out the same type of activities. In truth it accentuates the fact that on matters of changing the political dynamic of the rest of the world, there is a lot more bipartisanship in the US than people are inclined to think. It is interesting though to realize that an entity with political ideologies has essentially turned it on the United States itself to try and bring down conservativism and any other political ideology that now stands in its way of their ‘ideal’ 'woke' republic. I will note that although there is no specific evidence indicating that democrats are directly funding civil unrest it is clear they have not denounced them outright or in some cases denied they were even happening (Jerry Nadler). 

Actions once shared between Democrats and Republicans to achieve political ends in other countries for American interests are now been turned like weapons inward in a form of cannibalizing democracy on its own representatives and citizens (Matthew 7:1-2). Progressives fail to understand (especially from the lesson of the French Revolution) that the revolt will not stop with the intended victims. It will spread system-wide and engulf them also just as it did to Maximilien Robespierre in the FrenchRevolution in 1794.

Other non-government organizations (NGO) such as the Open Society Foundations invariably pump money into the latest Color Revolutions, for reasons that are often more commercial than strictly political.  We need only follow the money. After 9/11 regime change fever swept the foreign policy establishment or both Bush's and Obama's administrations, and anyone who even looked sideways at the US became a target. By the later portions of 2010s this had grown to include the conservative and libertarians in the US Government. By default, their supporters fell under that umbrella. This of course is still being supported by those that have a vested interest in the success of the Progressive political platform.

As a way to quickly brief one’s self on what a Color Revolution is I will refer you to Revolution techniques used on a large scale in the former Soviet Union in the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia or the 2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Hence the moniker ‘Color’. Color revolution movements generally became associated with a specific color as their symbol. Another resistance movement not identified by a color but using similar stratagems to cause regime change was the Arab Spring in the early 2010’s which led to, among other things, the Syrian Civil War.

Participants in a color revolution mostly use nonviolent resistance, also called civil resistance or disobedience. These of course always have the potential of escalating to violence or even death. In the case of BLM, it has done just that with the help of Antifa. Such methods as demonstrations, strikes and interventions have aimed to protest governments or organizations like police forces and paramilitary forces seen as corrupt and/or authoritarian. These protests are done under the guise of advocating for democracy even though they use socialist and fascist subterfuge. They built up strong socio-political pressure for change. In so doing they create or foment dissent. The color revolutions are notable for the important role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs: Open Society Foundations) and particularly student activists in organizing creative non-violent resistance.

The commonly understood pattern of a Color Revolution was outlined by Michael McFaul a Stanford academic who served as Ambassador to Russia in the Obama Administration. He identified these seven stages of successful Color Revolutions.

1) A semi-autocratic rather than fully autocratic regime

2) An unpopular incumbent

3) A united and organized opposition

4) Ability quickly to drive home the point voting results were false

5) Enough media to inform citizens about the claimed falsified vote

6) A political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest electoral fraud

7) Divisions among the regime’s coercive forces.

In most but not all cases, massive street-protests follow disputed elections or requests for fair elections and led to the resignation or overthrow of leaders regarded by their opponents as authoritarian or totalitarian. In truth the color revolutions tactics are Machiavellian. The irony is that most of the rest of the world recognized it was the United States that stirred this unrest. Now it is being used against us and the Chinese and Russians are aiding its spread through social media propaganda. Especially interference in elections. Just as the CIA has been complicit in overseas operations. The United States electorate is already in question and this will be a pretext to violence.

We should recognize that this is what is taking place in the United States as I type this on the eve of the 2020 election. There is more on the line here than who becomes the next president. Organizations like BLM and Antifa are keeping the unrest going until the election for reason. It is the reason the COVID-19 crisis was overhyped without the data to back it up. They know the media has a large swathe of people convinced that Trump will handedly lose to Biden. There is almost universal denial of the fact that rally after rally of pro-Trump supporters are turning out en masse just as they did in 2016. It again is being ignored by most media and the narrative that Trump is in a two-digit hole are being broadcast. All the polls show this.

Yet, there is a poll from the Cato Institute showing that large portions of the electorate are being coy and silent about who they will vote for (the silent majority) because they fear reprisal if the tell the truth. Unofficial polling and much of my own research leads me to conclude that this is shaping up to be similar to the 1968 election when Richard Nixon won on a campaign of 'law and order' after the late 1960’s erupted into a mass of protests and civil unrest. The same as we see now. Same as we saw in 2016. 

Amos 5:13 ~ "Therefore, the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil."

Yet this is not the 1960’s. People are far more radicalized. Some of the radicals of the 1960’s and 1970’s are involved with current unrest too like domestic terrorist Susan Rosenberg. She’s on the on the board of a company Thousand Currents group, which handles the intake of donations made to Black Lives Matter. Furthermore, Alicia Garza, one of three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter national organization, has repeatedly talked about how convicted cop killer and wanted domestic terrorist Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, is one of her main inspirations. This is the organization calling for defunding the police. One would think that this would be a blatant bias and immoral conflict of interests.

But we don’t care about the past in the United States do we?

As we’ve seen in the media, those protesting have an ideological agenda and might have college degrees, but it is clear they are far less educated. An even smaller percentage of them understand history and are aware enough to grasp what history teaches about violence. What it teaches about Revolution like that of the French and Maximilien Robespierre. I fear that because most have not been taught proper history many will zealously repeat it. The irony being that not once will they realize they are repeating history since they didn’t understand and study what it must teach them to begin with…or they wouldn’t have even revolted. All the signs for Revolution are manifesting themselves right now in society.

Proverbs 24:21-22 ~ Fear the LORD and the king, my son, and do not join with rebellious officials, for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?

Man's heart is inclined to violence (Mark 7:21). History has shown this ad nauseam. Every new generation thinks it's better than the last and believe this time will be different. This time they’ll get it right. It is that exact denial, arrogance and ignorance that propels the revolution. The only difference between many of the second and third world countries Color Revolutions and the United States is the people. Specifically, a heavily armed people. The sheer volume of arms at the disposal of the American Citizens that wish only to live in peace as the Constitution promises them. The ‘silent majority’ is also the ‘well-armed majority'.

That ‘well-armed majority' are now seeing radicalized politicians (political organizations) attempting to deny them their Constitutional rights. They see a large contingent of youth and radicalized educated elites/academics leading those youth into a fight against ‘the man’ or ‘the system’ that is ‘oppressing’ them. They view any that would support that law-abiding populace or any within that ‘law and order’ system to be their enemy. That includes the ‘silent well-armed majority’.

This is going to get ugly after the election (if not before). A Biden victory emboldens the radicalized elements because they've already received little reprisal or punishment for the rioting and violence we've already seen (Ecclesiastes 8:11). A Trump win reaffirms what the radicalized already believe about an authoritarian regime ruling over them which will be further aggravated by a belief the electorate was compromised. Either way, this is leading to a conflict. Just how bad remains to be seen. As a liberal friend said to me today, “Hopefully our better angels prevail.” I hope so too but the road we are on is a path to violence and war.

There’s something happening here…and what it is…is unfortunately perfectly clear. For whatever that's worth. What a Christian needs to take away from this is simple. God is sovereign. All things work out according to His overall plan.

Genesis 50:20 ~ You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

God providentially guided all the events of Joseph’s life and everyone else’s also. There are no stray events or rogue agents in God’s overall plan. Joseph chose not to respond in-kind or violently to his brother’s past events which had been intended to harm him but responded with tact and kindness like a true leader. The sequence of deceptions that causes this family so much suffering finally comes to an end when Joseph chooses not to take revenge on his brothers (lex talionis). In this short passage we are left with three takeaways leading into stormy November elections.  

(1) We need to leave all the righting of one's wrongs to God as best we can (Romans 12:19; 1 Thessalonian. 5:15; 1 Peter 4:19). 

(2) We need to see even in man’s malice that through God’s providence HE can even use violence to a righteous end. We need to do our best to not repay evil with evil but with forgiveness (Luke 6:27). 

(3) Not only should we attempt to forgive but we should show compassion when understanding is not possible. Ideally these are possible. Perhaps not probable but we should at least try to limit damage done. Retaliation or defense should be a means of last resort. See link below for may own local electorate being called into question.

(1) Memory Sticks Used to Program Philadelphia Voting Machines Were Stolen from Elections Warehouse-The Morning Call, Allentown PA

Spiritual Bellwether: Leading A Horse to Living Water

It is rather noteworthy that the creation was designed in such a way so that the beasts of burden specifically a horse can teach us so much about what it is to be human. To be a Christian human ruled of things innately that make us better people. Better leaders. Better husbands and fathers. Better wives and mothers. Better children. Better soldiers. Better workers. It should not be a surprise then that both a man and a horse are made by the same Creator. The Creator that left the same signature of His work in both. A God who would give man dominion over the horse yet man could still learn from them (Genesis 1:26). Lessons to be learned from horses include its judicious use of strength, ability to restrain or unleash that strength or most amazingly its ability to turn that power into wordless grace. The latter being strikingly human in its characteristic. Characteristics that of late are completely absent in society and are sorely needed in it.

Wild Horses around the world, and even domestic horses to a more limited extent, have a structured herd hierarchy. This hierarchy is vital to the herd for survival, social cohesiveness, and successful rearing of the young. The structure is somewhat simple and has been in place for thousands of years. It is instinctual social structure, that even domesticated horses in small groups who are pastured together adhere to. There are many things man can learn when studying these beautiful creatures.

A typical wild horse herd consists of an Alpha stallion, Alpha mare, Beta mares and perhaps a Beta or Omega stallion (remembering that wild male horses are not neutered naturally), Omega mares, and lastly the very young, whose status has not yet been defined. Strikingly like a Biblical human hierarchy. A hierarchy created to fulfill certain roles for the good of the community. For the continuity and completeness of the community (Titus 2:1-15).

The Alpha stallion “owns” the herd is the herd’s guardian and protector. It is a born leader. Naturally inclined towards aggressive traits to fulfill its role as the Alpha male, a protector, defender and sentinel. His herd usually consists of 2 to 21 mares and their young. He protects the members of his herd from being “stolen” by other stallions or other threats and will move his herd while keeping them together. We see cohesive family unity. A protective father. A nurturing mother. Dependent but obedient children. The Alpha stallion typically sires the foals and must constantly fight to maintain his position of Alpha. His reign (forgive the pun) lasts for approximately of 2 to 10 years. Eventually, he will age, tire and be replaced by a younger, stronger stallion. Just as there is a generational changing of the guard in humanity (Joshua 1:1-18, 2 Timothy 3:10-17).

Here also we see that there are multiple alpha males as there are also beta males. The beta males are not leaders. It is expected that the younger will eventually take up the mantle and responsibility of the aging elder sentinel. Just as Moses to Joshua and from Paul to Timothy. Betas become Alphas and Alphas become betas. A dynamic but structured system of renewal. The competing stallion may be from another herd and wants to steal the Alpha’s mares, or he may be from a herd of bachelor males. Fights between stallions are very aggressive and can lead to horrific injuries or even death. Although brutal, this challenge is for the good of the herd. Once and Alpha male can no longer fulfill his role as protector and sire though strength, vitality, and intelligence, he must and will be replaced. In a way the same happens in humanity. When a elder becomes too infirm they should retire and allow those better able to lead the ability to lead. This also includes if a person discredits of disqualifies themselves through poor or unethical behavior.

In humanity we see a similar dynamic. Minus the unbiblical connotation of polygamy inherent in a comparison of a stallion and multiple mares there is still a lot of biblical principles taking place about structure, family and roles. Again, this shouldn’t surprise us as God created both the man and the beast to function similarly. If only for horses to teach humanity proper societal and family roles. Roles that are slowly disappearing from the modern world because of redefinition of community, family, gender, etc. In addition we now we have fatherless homes and a society encouraging men to be effeminate. Not a state of renewal but dismantling or disfiguring. 

The Alpha mare is typically an older and wiser mare. Not a female given over to impulsiveness and thoughtlessness that would endanger itself or the herd carelessly. A stable mature female capable of fulfilling the role apportioned to it by God. The role of the Alpha is to lead her herd to water and good pasture (Psalm 23:2) and to keep order among the other mares and young. The human female in the home and in society does the same. She helps provide the physical and spiritual subsistence necessary for not only herself but also cognizant of the society at-large (the herd) (Proverbs 31). She also determines when the herd should move to drink.

Drinking at a water source makes the herd vulnerable so her decision when to drink is important. She is not only a nurturer, protector but also a leader. While the Alpha stallion will more likely move his herd by herding them, the Alpha female moves them by simply leading by example. When she moves off, the others will follow her. In this way she is a bellwether. Like a human female she is the good influence on her family which would therefore extend into society at large as community is the sum total of its constituent parts...families. She moves them through quiet example, the stallion through power and might or countenance / bearing. Again, we see the male and female role common in both species. Same ends, different means. They are to complement one another not necessarily compete. Humans could learn a needed lesson here physically and spiritually.

The Beta mares and Omega mares make up the bulk of the herd. They give birth to and raise the young. Beta and Omega mares keep a vigilant eye out for danger and will alert the herd of any threat. Although they appear as a disparate and aloof herd in a field the reality is they’re a loosely knit community of similaer mind. Together but still free to move individually and express themselves as God made them all unique...like people. Conversely, they will band together to protect the young by putting themselves between the threat and the foals.  They will fight to the death if necessary to do so. A village. A tribe. A herd. Call it what you wish. Different names but very same things.

A Beta or Omega mare may foster the foal of another mare if she succumbs to illness or death (widows and orphans). Together the mares will form tight groups in the winter or other foul weather to keep the herd warm, rotating and necessary so no one must remain on the outside of the protective group to take the brunt of the cold. If the situation arises, a Beta mare may temporarily take up the mantle of Alpha mare if the Alpha mare cannot perform her role at the time.

The Beta mares will always test the Alpha mare for her fitness to maintain status. Just as iron sharpens iron a woman should always test the spirit with not only strangers as a protective measure for her family but also those in her immediate community. Her home. Her church. Women and mares are not to be doormats. They need to be sentinels of the sentinels. They need to come alongside the Alpha males and assist (Ephesians 5). The need to come along other females and teach (Titus 2). Leadership is not some lone endeavor. It is a community function that assumes the leader will lead others. A true communal social dynamic.

The mare challenges are not brutal like the fights between stallions. They are more of a test of personality dominance. Although they may bite and kick, the goal is not to grievously injure the other mare because mares are vital to the survival of the herd. The Omega mares or young stallions are often newcomers to the herd or lack the endurance or personality to lead. Just as young human males pose particularly thorny issues when put in leadership roles too soon. They may eventually rise through the ranks in time or they may remain in this status. Their role is just as important to the health and the integrity of the herd. Omegas may be bullied a bit by the higher-ranking horses. 

They will not be the first to drink or eat and will not lead, or be followed by the herd. It is interesting to note though that with the loss of herd members or division, it is not uncommon to see an Omega rise to be a Beta or Alpha quickly. Repeatedly we see structured proper roles illustrated ad nauseum in the herd. I wish I could say the same of human society, human community, and human church. It is the sad fact that many in human society are either abdicating roles or usurping proper roles. We are really beginning to see the negative impacts of this jockeying of the proper community/communal order on the nation (and world). Our broken communities are starting to reflect the broken families that undergird the current failing system. A system in rebellion or revolt against itself if a form of spiritual suicide.

Male foals (colts) will often be driven from the herd by the Alpha stallion upon reaching young maturity. Just as young humans must eventually take on the roles of an adult and put away the things of their youth (1 Corinthians 13:11-12). This is important to prevent inbreeding. These young males will often leave the herd and form bachelor herds. As they finish maturing, they may attempt to start a herd of their own by stealing mares from an Alpha stallion or obtaining young mares who have left their mother herd to start a new herd. If bold enough, a member of the bachelor herd may challenge the Alpha stallion for dominance over an entire herd. Some may become a herd member as a lower ranking horse if he does not challenge the Alpha stallion or try to dominate his mares. Some stallions may stay in bachelor herds for life.

Female foals (fillies) may stay with their herd throughout their life but often will leave their mother herd to join a different herd or start a new herd with a bachelor stallion. Again, this is important to prevent inbreeding and may give her a better chance at achieving a higher rank. It is interesting to note that the rank of the herd members can quickly change depending on circumstance. If a higher-ranking member is lost, another will quickly assume the higher role. If the herd is divided, the herd will quickly rearrange ranks so that the Alpha, Beta and Omega roles are fulfilled. It is vital to maintain the hierarchy. The herd is at risk both physically and mentally if the roles are not defined and maintained. Therein lies the biggest lesson for humanity. Unity of purpose, rules/laws, roles and hierarchy need to be maintained from the smallest social unit to the largest.

This includes the individual companionship of two in a friendship or marriage. It includes the family unit or the father, the mother, and the children. It is communities the sum total of properly structured families. All are given a role and a place on a hierarchy (Ephesians 5:21-Ephesians 6:4). This includes all the potential interactions in society/community. There is a place for each in a hierarchy and unified structure. There is a role we all must fulfill and that can change throughout one’s lifetime based on circumstance just as the herd. To some will be allotted a leadership role. To others a subordinate role. To some will be allotted the role of protector, warrior, or sentinel and to others to be protected so they can heal, to teach and to nurture. Some will even be given gifts or gifted for certain tasks. (Acts 6, Romans 13, Ephesians 4, Ephesians 6, 1 Cor.12, etc.). 

It makes sense then that neither the herd nor society will wish to manifest things destructive to their well-being like criminality, anarchy, wanton violence and chaos unless absolutely necessary. We live in a structured world under a God of order that gave us law. When that order is rearranged, the laws ignored or society is thrown into chaos it is not of God. We could learn a good commonsense lesson by merely leaning over the rails of a pasture and watching the horses.

In truth this isn’t brain surgery. It’s commonsense. It’s horse sense. Look to the horse you of a godless generation. Consider its ways and be wise! Just as a I can lead a horse to water I can show you how it all fits together perfectly with Scripture but until you drink of living water (John 4:14) yourself you're only going along for a joyride.

[Thank you to R. Tudor for the knowledge of horses in this post. This was a collaboration.]

Alpha Males Aren't Misogynists

It’s not misogynistic to be an alpha male. Nor is it misogynistic to believe men are created to fulfill certain roles that only a male could and women are created to fulfill roles only women could. Men’s roles that are specifically geared towards strength, aggression, protection, etc. Women’s roles that are specifically geared towards childbirth, nurturing, stylistics, aesthetics, etc. It’s not misogynistic…its Biblical. Read Proverbs 31, 1 Corinthians 11, 1 Timothy, Ephesians 5.

I feel compelled to throw this post out there because of the chatter I’m getting through comments and private messenger telling me I’m being ‘unloving’ in my delivery. That I am showing no impression of Christ or the Spirit in my life. The same allegations that have been haunting and lingering near me since coming into the faith 20 years ago. The same denunciations that are leveled against some of my brethren who are very Godly men that speak of God and from Scripture with authority and conviction. What Bible are you good folks reading? Not the one I’m reading apparently.

Statement: As of right now I'm not a pastor. Many misunderstand the purpose for many of my posts and this blog in general. I do not believe most understand the majority of my satirical Facebook comments either (tongue-in-cheek). What my intent was when I started this blog 10 years ago is the same as when I post zingers in Facebook today.

(1) Address an unbiblical issue.

(2) Provoke people to engage the Scriptures.

(3) Allow them to see why its unbiblical.

(4) Educate how the issue or they themselves are not aligned to Scripture.

(5) Show in Scripture what the correction is.

(6) Let the Scripture test their constitution.

(7) Teach that the uneasy feeling they have isn’t me. It's the Spirit convicting them of sin.

(8) Explain the need to repent.

(9) No matter what, provoke thought.

(10) Occasionally a residual effect is that I annoy people with my tone/words. Admittedly, I am a flawed sinner. Things don’t always come out right the way I intended. Oh well.

I need to clarify. I am what is considered a New Testament prophet, not a pastor per se. I identify the problems by comparing them to the Bible then point to where the Bible solves them. At times in a biting way to make an indelible mark in someone’s mind just as John the Baptist did. The New Testament prophetic voice is not like the Old Testament prophet in which I foretell the future because God revealed it to me. I am not a soothsayer nor would I ever claim something so ridiculous. Instead I teach by pointing to the problem and then pointing to God. Prophets and pastors can be teachers, but prophets aren’t necessarily pastoral, and pastors aren’t necessarily prophetic.

It took me a long time to understand this about myself and what I was supposed to do with it. It took men greater than I in the faith to show this to me. It took a while to accept. It took even more time to learn how to use the prophetic toolbox. The tools in it were nothing like I had seen before. There weren’t a lot of great examples to study or emulate. I literally needed to make straight the paths alone with God. I don’t wish this on anyone. It’s a heavy burden to carry. Like the burdens of the Old Testament prophets but with half the insight and even less respect than they received. 

I see the sin. I speak the truth but few listen to what I tell them Scripture says. The only two times people have really heard has been recently as the world spins into the void or when people are dying. The true path of the prophet. Alienated and always convicted. I'm always about 10 degrees out of phase with the rest of the world. But I digress…

I identify the problems provocatively. I state things bluntly. At times it is aggressive…challenging (but not angry or deliberately antagonistic). If I cannot get you to realize you’re not aligned with Scripture, then I cannot show how you’re missing the mark of holiness. If you don’t acknowledge you’ve gone astray you’re condemned. I am not telling you that you are wrong because the Bible will do that on its own through the Spirit. Without conviction there will be no compulsion to correct or seek repentance. You’ll remain in sin. I therefore failed in my job as a NT prophet. The nasty feeling you get when you hear the truth of Scripture aren’t my words, you are being convicted of your sin. Please stop confusing the two. I always end up getting a bad rap because of this. I’m actually a nice guy. A bit strange at times, but nice.

As for the 'unloving' label I've been charged with I'll say this. I leave no stone unturned. I've occasionally been told my post were antagonistic and showed no love of Christ whatsoever. My response is usually, “So allowing people to live in their error and sin, condemning them is loving?”

Always bludgeoned for my ‘unloving’ delivery. It is this desire for beta-male cardboard cutout behavior that has been coming out of the church for the last 20 years. It is the spineless approach to the world that has allowed the culture to believe it can steamroll and disrespect the church. As if I am ‘unloving’ I am somehow less Christian and embodying Christ. This is the very same approach to perceived ‘proper’ behavior that has effeminized the Church into having no courage to confront the world instead of conforming to it. A castrated male badgered into submission by its female congregants and wives. The very people who are not obeying their roles in the complementarian view of church authority and letting men be men. I have no time for that dissimulation in the church. Just teach the Scripture and you will have a vastly different image of the male role. 

I do not subscribe to the 'unloving' statements. It's just the Devil with a foothold in the church working through quasi-feminists to silence the Gospel when delivered with conviction. Conviction is nearly always misunderstood as anger nowadays. Yet it is the surest sign in a biblical church that the preacher is being driven of the Spirit. The irony is not lost on me either . People would've never survived the sermons of people like Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, B.B. Warfield, etc. The conviction these men would’ve instilled in todays listeners would’ve gutted the modern-day listener and had them running for the doors screaming. They didn’t water down the Gospel or the harshness of the message of the cross and sin. 

Nor do I. 

In truth those saying these types of things are trying to silence the speech that is causing the conviction that they feel. People don’t like being told they’re wrong. They do not like the feeling the conviction of sin gives them. So instead of accepting the truth and message of Scripture they attempt to silence the messenger. That is exactly what they did to Jesus Christ to the point of nailing him to a cross.

Nearly 100% of the time the people that are telling me I am not delivering the message ‘in love’ are female or beta, effeminized men. In truth they are not reading 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 properly. The roles of 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 are being flipped on their head. This sounds misogynistic but that would accuse the Scriptures of being misogynistic. Far be it for me to do that. In 1 Corinthians it specifically shows different roles and encourages a complementarian view of gender. It does not show a mixing or merging of them. Men are not meant to be weak, they’re to be meek. Weak means I can’t. Meek means I can but choose not to. There is a difference between angry and emphatic. Men can be nurturing but it is better if they take an alpha leadership role as it fits their nature better. Men aren’t maternal. They’re paternal. I protect. I tell the hard truth. I provide. I hunt. I feed. I give knowledge. I raise boys to be men. I don’t expect women to understand because they’re women. Frankly, I don’t expect men lulled into the culture's castrating effects to understand either. The roles are clearly outlined in Scripture. 

I knew my recent posts were going to tear a scab off a wound. Little did I expect many would criticize me as robustly. Unlike 10 years ago when I said things like this and acquiesced due to uncertainty when confronted…I now stand staunchly against attempts to undermine and silence the Biblical view. I know I am standing on hallowed Biblical ground. I will not fold like a house of cards to try and appease a church that has fallen away from Scripture. A church that has swung its doors open to embrace the culture instead of sending the church into the world to be salt and light. The culture that is coming into the church is not only godless, it is in absolute chaos due to a lack of knowledge. Ignorant because of a lack of Godly leadership just as in government. A culture where men have abdicated their roles as leaders, providers and protectors and become patsies, victims or predators.

I'm done listening to unbiblical cultural dogma being rebroadcast by an apostate church. A majority of which are now embracing heretical theologies like Social Justice Theology, Liberation Theology, Feminist Theology, New Age Gnosticism, Universalism, etc. It has misled both men and women and scrambled the role of men and women. It's redefined complementarian roles in favor of egalitarianism or the belief that not only can women do anything men can do but men are to act like women. Nonsense. It’s not toxic masculinity its godless immorality. I am going back to the traditional ways where men were men and women were women.

If not God's (my) people will perish for lack of knowledge.

Cultus Politicus: Acolytes of Anarchy

The media and politicians are making monsters of heroes and making heroes monsters at every turn. I’ve had my fill of the lies. This started as a Facebook post but took on its own life. As I said, "The exact moment violence, looting, killing or vandalism breaks out they cease to be protesters and become terrorists, thieves, murderers and vandals." These rioters/vandals are merely the right arm of political ideas. A physical manifestation of the same malevolent spirit. If political leaders do nothing to stop the chaos then they are the chaos. They are of similar malignant spirit.

Start calling criminals criminal. We can't defeat and enemy if we can't identify it. The radicals are practicing what is called dissimulation in a time of war. It is done today by equivocating or deliberately mislabeling things or using alternate meanings to words that vary depending on political ideology. This goes farther than just words. Dissimulation is also now being done with images. Videos are being edited and whittled down to show only what the ideologues want you to see. Dissimulation is deliberate lying to conceal true motives, feelings, or beliefs or pull things completely out of original contexts. Dissimulation's goal is to confuse of the truth. It is malicious behavior meant to gain a tactical advantage. It can also mean hiding ideas under a false appearance in plain view; concealment by feigning. Pro-Choice. Planned Parenthood. Social Justice. What is being concealed? Truth. I also believe a hostile takeover of the United States or an attempt to bring it down.

The manipulation have been institutionalized in media to sow misinformation and reap fruits of chaos. Republicans can use the stratagem but it's the stock-and-trade of Progressives in governments and academia. People believe they’re reforming the system. In reality they’re tearing it down. The reason I type this is because it mimics something particularly religious. Specifically, a doctrine in Islam called al-Taqiyya. It is this similarity I examine because of what it tells us about Progressive Liberalism and others of their ilk. In fact, it will show how it is also used by BLM, Antifa and organizations like SPLC and Planned Parenthood. All of which radically departed morality and Judeo-Christian ethics years ago. I'll show you how all these groups have turned into de facto religious entities, specifically…cults.

There’s a difference in Islam between ease of prayer (darura) and necessity of it in the Qu’ran (called tayseer). Sharia has a dualistic principle when it comes to being under jihad and needing to lie or use dissimulation (al-Taqiyya). When Islam cannot practice Sharia for fear of persecution/death, Islam allows itself to relax its demands. It is called ‘darura’ which means “to make easy”. When environments do not allow sharia to be used Muslims are not obligated to pray five times a day and can eat pork. In other words, on a whim, Muslims can decide that which is required can be become optional without fault, apparent contradiction or hypocrisy (in their eyes). It is institutionalized deception approved by an authority figure to gain a political end. Even if that end is death for their cause.

We see similar methods of Progressives. They use a double-mindedness (James 1:8) when applying rules and laws to those that do not align to their political ideology. Yet, they do not apply the same rules to themselves. Progressives see themselves as being on some form of quasi-religious social mission but they don’t see the religious aspect of it. They view themselves as acting on higher moral and ethical authority, just as Islam does. Instead of Allah as their god it is the State. The same applies to Black Lives Matter. Same as Antifa. Same as SPLC. There are believers (of progressivism in all its forms) and then there are the political kafir/infidel who they view as opposing them. These 'infidels' are often conservatives and/or Christians. Also stereotyped and referred to as the ‘good old boy network’ or old rich white dudes. 

Most agnostic/atheistic democrats would never admit that they pursue their ideologies with religious fervor. What else do you call it when someone acts in emotion, absent corroborated or even relevant facts? They often act solely on what they believe? Acting solely on how they feel things should be? Personally, I call it emotive religion. When these beliefs turn deadly in the form of violence…I call it cultic. A cult being a social group defined by unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal.

When you try to institute philosophical non-Christian beliefs into institutionalized law of a nation (lex terrae) what you do is canonize sin. Immorality turns into canonized murder in the form of legal abortion. Sexual immorality canonized in the law becomes legal adultery, same-sex marriage or polygamy. When you try to canonize normalized sexual acts with a child it becomes legal pedophilia. When you try to institute Islam into the Constitutional law within the United State…it becomes Sharia and a Caliphate. You see where I am going with this. Sin not only becomes normalize...it is applauded. We literally worship a Golden Calf.

We see similar tactics when it comes to the BLM organization and Social Justice. You cannot speak out against it. The tide of public opinion will turn on you viciously. Having no challenger it becomes emboldened as a sort of de-facto law of public opinion. No dissent is tolerated. This is literally the definition of a dogmatic cult. In fact, it's the same type of actions used when Catholicism was instituted as nationalistic religion by Constantine. It is the same mindset we saw with Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. The acolytes in media exacerbate this problem supporting only one view…the radical one. There is no balance. The illusion of choice is feigned to pacify the masses into believing they have any control. These are the tactics that Islam uses when pushing Islam and the same tactics used when BLM pushes radical Social Justice.

BLM comes as a duality. They protest/riot for racial justice but the underlying political philosophy is what steers the ship. In Islam the religious Islam is steered by political Sharia. With BLM and other Social Justice organizations like the SPLC the religious face is based on 'Social Justice' but the cultic underbelly is Marxism. What is worse is that there is a secondary religious element of Liberation Theology embedded in the Marxist BLM. A theory they gleaned from Central and South America. The founders even acknowledged their links to these Marxist Liberation Theology underpinnings.

Just as Sharia lays out the strategy for assimilation of a infidel nation like America. So too the Marxist philosophies in BLM. Here is where Antifa enters the picture. What BLM lacks in political sway Antifa propagates via violence and intimidation. Antifa uses the same types of Fascist and Marxist tactics they claim to hate. Again, we see dissimulation. These groups work together as strange bedfellows as they seek the same end which is cult-like obedience to tearing down the system and rebuilding a new world order. 

They don’t care if they are practicing a form or agnostic/atheistic al-Taqiyya. They don’t care if they are seen as hypocrites. They don’t care if people die. That is because they believe religiously (cult-like) in 'the cause' and that the cause is morally superior. All other worldviews be damned. That is nearly an exact definition of a supremacist. All facts be damned. A belief their actions are justified is all that matters. All means are acceptable if they can achieve their ends. Just like BLM. Just like Islam. Just like the Progressive Liberalism. 

The Progressives, BLM, Antifa and Islam all claim they want freedoms according to the 1st Amendment. The truth is they only want these things for themselves. The rules only apply in one direct. Those whom believe they view as morally and intellectually inferior. Most religions and organizations are basically live and let live…but not the aforementioned groups. Once their views are institutionalize in the Lex Terrae, they will stifle all dissent. They don't wish to have a conversation. They only want to silence dissidents.

We’ve seen it in every land Islam becomes a majority in for 1500 years. The land is subjugated to Sharia. We’ve seen it in every country Social Justice has taken hold in: Venezuela, Cuba, etc. BLM is just another name for this Social Justice. Critical Race Theory becomes the rally cry but underneath Marxist Liberation Theology rules supreme. We’ve seen every city Antifa infiltrates becomes bedlam: Portland, Seattle, New York, etc. We’ve seen the social fabric unwind in every city Progressives take charge off: San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, New York City, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc. Failed philosophies entrenched in power. They’re like a tick that burrowed so deeply that you risk other infections unless you take some of the surrounding tissue. If not the disease spreads.

If you resist you're labelled bigot, racist, homophobe, misogynist or Islamophobe. By not meeting this head-on and fighting back they we accommodating the radicals instead of fixing the problem. In reality we’re letting the parasite poison its host slowly killing it and draining its life. In reality Islam views you as dhimmi. BLM view you as a form of racial dhimmi. The democrats view you as a political dhimmi. Merely religious or political tools to gain them control. It is parasitic.

Those that appease believe they’ll be able to reform and bring them around to their point of view. The appeasers are being used as a means to an end. If appeasement actually worked Islam would’ve assimilated into Western civilization over a millennium ago. Marxist Liberation Theology would’ve been assimilated into the orthodox church and politically everyone would’ve become agreeable centrists. That’s not what happens. Everything drifts to rebellion. Just as man does against God. These systems not founded in Biblical underpinnings inevitably fail. They give way to poverty, injustices and an elite ruling class. An aristocracy (Progressive Liberals) …or a kleptocracy if you prefer (Republican). We’re being ruled by lunatics and thieves. The Republicans are no better when they make a career of politics and line pockets with gold. In truth the very same religio-political dogmatism can easily be conducted by ‘conservatives’ and often is. One needs only to research ‘The Family’ and Douglas Coe. Meanwhile the middle-class dies and only two classes remain. The Proletariat and the Bourgeoise. A preclude to a revolt.

We need to allow history to be a teacher here. Sharia cannot be reformed. Islam views the US Constitution as subordinate to the political authority of Sharia. The Democrats cannot be reformed. They’ve routinely viewed themselves as above the Constitution. They seek to rewrite the Constitution not interpret it. Even the deceased Progressive champion Ruth Bader Ginsberg often sought to overturn or reinterpret the Constitution rather than abide by it. The BLM Marxist and Antifa seek only to tear the system down completely and build it over in their image. The Republicans are content with the status quo because it fiscally benefits them. They too are progressive, just more subtle and patient about it. In truth Republicans are now Kennedy Democrats. Few of them wish to be or can be subservient to the Constitution. 

Let that sink in.

Article 6 of the US Constitution says that the Constitution is the highest law of the land and cannot be subjugated to any other legal code. It is the rudimentary claim of Sharia and these other worldviews that it will be the highest law of any land until all are converted, enslave or killed. The Democrats have repeatedly shown their desire to rewrite the Constitution and history. If we say or believe that Islam, Marxist BLM, Fascist Antifa or the postmodern philosophies of Progressive Liberalism is working within the framework of democracy…we deceive ourselves. They cannot coexist under the Constitution. We’d be a kingdom in conflict with ourselves. More specifically we’d be a divided nation. Which is exactly why we see horrible division in American society. The Bible tells us a house divided cannot stand. These philosophies are completely incompatible with the US Constitution.

The pseudo-religious behavior of the secular organizations is the most troubling. At least Christianity and Judaism is put in check by a divine authority. Secular organizations behaving as a cult-like entity have no internal restraints therefore all things could be permissible. That is the definition of anarchy. When they pursue their ideology in blind faith absent any firm substantiating facts this cult-like fervor leads to self-destructive pandemonium. The conservatives? They just seem to be going along for the ride. In the end, politics and religious zeal for a man-made system will not save the world. Not even the US Constitution. Neither can political activism pursued like crazed knights on a holy crusade. Only Christ can do this. Everything else is compromise and chaos. Smoke and mirrors.