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Abjure
Some thoughts about being fully and richly set apart for
Kingdom service
The following is a republishing of
Wonderful Matters blog posts
from March 2011. I consider they represent a bit more of an
articulation for the merits of abjuration from Caesar's domain,
which is really just Cain's Legacy manifest quite authoritatively
and legitmately in the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy. It begins with
more of an economic justification for such a commitment.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
I've been so consumed with and subsequently
exhausted from work and home and family running-around-with that I
just haven't been able to post much here recently. But sometimes I
see something that just cries for me to say something about. Since
I'm still pretty tired I can slip it in here quickly.
Today I caught
Caroline Baum's blog-like piece
about the "benefits" of the Japanese earthquake/tsunami disaster.
She initially makes a great point about how things like earthquakes
are actually bad for economies in spite of Keynesian minded
pontificators blapping about how helpful they are -- you know,
providing jobs to get the rebuilding going and all that.
She quotes Bastiat, and it seems anyone who
channels Bastiat is worshipped as a prophet with the most sublime
wisdom of some sort. The oft-quoted truthism she references is the
one about broken windows. If you remember, it is his refutation of
those who say broken windows are good because they provide window
makers with gainful employment. Bastiat posits that we just can't
know what good would've come if we could've used the resources to go
to other more productive items.
My question
here is,
what exactly are those other items?
My
refutation of the considerably flippant "Well we could've planted 57
bazillion trees with that money" is that
Everything is window rebuilding by its very nature.
If you're
going to go off and plant 57 bazillion trees with the wonderfully
available funds not used to repair serious glass damage because some
dingleberry stickball batter couldn't hit the ball in fair
territory, aren't you then
still
spending resources to do the metaphoric "window rebuilding"? Aren't
you indeed working hard to alleviate the "barren landscape" problem?
Or the "stale air" problem? Or the "unsightly skyline" problem?
Or how about "We could've educated 219
gazillion kids with that money"? Aren't you then trying to take out
the ignorance problem? How about just not having ignorant kids to
begin with?
"Harumphh," some people might say. "You're
making light of the earthquake and such awful events that really
hurt people." No, on the contrary, I don't like there to be
earthquakes either, especially if they are going to hurt people.
Thing is, God made a world that requires
earthquakes to move stuff around for whatever reasons He needs. Yes
people may die, but then what? Have you repented and made your peace
with Him by the blood of His son? Then you have nothing to worry
about because by His love He has you in His grip no matter what
happens.
And if you
complain that some -- well,
quite a lot
-- of the bad things are done by evil people, then what are you
going to do about
that?
Do you have it
in you, or, perhaps
Him
living in you to go change that? To love someone else with His love
so they'd be less likely to do evil things?
Furthermore, what do you do if you're bopping
about when all around you there is suffering from earthquakes? Or
people breathing nasty air? Or people doing foolish things
because they didn't listen in class?
The fact is
window rebuilding is
all
that people do when they live and work and breathe throughout each
day they walk the earth. If fires happen firefighters put them out.
If people get hungry bakers make bread to eat. If cars get smashed
up a car body guy is there to patch them up. Even if you're sitting
on the couch snoozing you're repairing cells that will soon be
getting your body to do something that really is, essentially,
Rebuilding something in a fallen, broken world.
I guess the
real question from that is, what are you doing that for? And
who
are you doing that for? Ahh,
there's
a question for you. Do you know who that is?
Or
Who
that is? (with the cap there, if you didn't quite see it there...)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
This is kind
of an addendum to my last blog post,
"Everything is Window Rebuilding." I
took issue with Caroline Baum's remark that earthquake's are bad for
an economy, not because they aren't, but because
everything
that anyone does is about repairing something.
The Jewish
mystics even had a term for it,
tikkun,
and it is a certain truth that the world around us is broken,
battered, beaten, and in dire need of an expert handy man.
The problem
with the concept of tikkun
is simply that there are two types of handy men in the Yellow Pages.
One is sitting in a modest throne room in some presently little
known location processing all the information the World System
gathers to better manage the sin of the inhabitants he is charged
with constraining. This often requires extraordinary deceit and
calculated murder, and it always involves grand acts of provocation
for the most proficient implementation.
And it can never be anything other than human
sacrifice.
This is why all the Caroline Baums and
Frederic Bastiats given over to the World cannot fathom how broken
windows happen, and what precisley is the best solution to the agony
they cause. The first handy man can only smile at you and employ
lots of bleeders to patch it up a bit.
What about the second Handy Man?
He's the One who shed His own blood so that
the window may be completely replaced.
There's the difference. It is the most
profound difference of anything there is a difference for. That
sounds kind of odd, a bit melodramatic, yes, but it is true.
Here's a good look at the distinction.
In my newspaper today was an article about
the budget impasse in the state's legislature. Some Republicans are
being criticized for joining the enemy, the Democratic governor, and
one of those lawmakers offered these words.
"Everybody's got to bleed a little bit."
I can't see how someone sworn to Cain's
service can't mean precisely what he says in the duty of enforcing
the World's precepts. Everyone without Christ will do or be a victim
of human sacrifice. The burglar smashing through the window is as
natural an occurance as a 9.0 temblor and massive tidal wave. It
will always happen in a world by people who can't help but get
bled or make others bleed.
I found a very interesting passage in the
Bible that confirms this prescription. It really captivated me --
Psalm 124 was the one. It is simply an affirmation that God is the
one who protects anyone. In this instance "...when men rose up
against us [and] would have swallowed us alive."
So what is it that God is protecting one
against?
There is no question.
It is
human sacrifice.
Christ has already made it so those who are
His, who have been put "on His side" (see the Psalm), do not have to
bleed except by the self-sacrifice they readily make by His love
-- crucified with Him, yes, but also with His power to overcome the
evil one and thrive gloriously with Him.
The World System hacks off parts of everyone
who looks to it for moral and spiritual guidance with the pretext
that "Everyone's gotta bleed." Fear, bitterness, and privation
follow.
The Kingdom and all that God possesses
is guaranteed by the measure of Christ's blood for those who want to
revel in it and draw others into it with His bountiful charity. Joy,
contentment, and abundance reign there.
This whole blog and webzine endeavor is all
about encouraging people to leave be those in the World System
whereever they are, the legislators and pundits, the generals and
pontificators -- leave them to bleed dry everyone whom they're
ordained to, and do so by completely jettisoning all those
significations that they are their lords -- the 501c3 non-profit
incorporations, the W-4 tax liability commitments, the voter
registration rolls, the usurious debt contracts, the Social Security
identifications, the guilt-driven tithing obligations -- all of
them.
Get into
community with other truly devoted Christ followers, pray and
fellowship and sing hymns and do this with great abandon, and then
get serious and pool all your resources so you would generate great
increase of the Kingdom in your very midst right
now.
Really, look
in your Bibles, go ahead, look there -- see where it says
anywhere
that worship communities and
anyone
in them must be
contracted with Caesar
in any way
for those in that community to work hard, provide for loved ones,
and grow in Christ.
It is simple, really. If you choose
to stay in the World, you'll just be bled some more. That's all.
Friday,
March 25, 2011
If you pay even the slightest attention to
current events, you may have caught sight of an unprecedented
incident. It was announced on a Friday afternoon, a time notorious
for rapt inattention when most are speeding out of the office to
hook up the trailer and head to the river. Even if you did catch it
you'll see that any significant meaning will be seriously muted by
the divinely ordained power of the order. It always is for such
occurrences.
The ho-hum story was the
Jesuits' record payout of
some $100+ million in a settlement over sexual abuse claims made in
the Pacific Northwest.
You'd think something like this would
thoroughly discredit the Roman Catholic Church, but sadly, most will
rationalize it away with casuistry having to do with their
respectability in at least paying those seduced into their
convenient prostitution. There's always a good reason, and the
Jesuits are best at coming up with good reasons. They run the World
System and are experts at all forms of murder and deceit. Do you
actually think this isn't small potatoes for them?
For the benefit of a world full of reprobate
sinners, it is very good that the Jesuits are so good at what they
do. They run the Agency of Cain's ecclesiastical division where they
can best use the weapons of psychological terrorism to achieve their
ends. For those who refuse to come to Christ and find their
righteousness in Him, they are truly the next best thing.
This story
is a fine pretext for addressing an interesting book that is getting
some press called
Endgame
by John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper. It is a penetrating look into
what the global debt crisis is really all about. I admit I haven't
read it, but from the various punditry and scattered author's
remarks, I get the idea that the conclusion is that we all just need
to pay attention and shape up and get with fixing our borrowing
addiction.
Yeeeah.
A while ago my cousin shared a George Carlin
YouTube video on Facebook. I was curious and watched the three
minute or so clip, and it was one of those times when Carlin really
says what's what. In it he does his best schtick in speaking of the
power the banks, brokerages, corporations and whoever else
financially high and mighty have over everyone.
As those in the audience watched him with
that goofy smile on their faces, you know the one, it says "We all
think you're really funny even though you're telling us what
benighted slaves we all are and, hey, we are laughing on the inside
because we can sure relate to that!" Carlin concluded with this
essential truth, rather ferociously delivered I might add:
"They
own you."
Oh. That's
nice. While it is indeed true, my cousin regrettably joins
bazillions of others gushing "You tell it like it is, George!" and
they all gird the intractable presumption that the only way to
change things is to challenge the owners. Revile and rail and rant
loudly in their faces,
that's
the solution.
What folly.
Everyone
without Christ is like those sexual abuse victims in the Oregon
Province. It is not just that they own you, they're
paying
you to stay slaves, and you keep gleefully lapping it up. You like
the fine meats and wines of Egypt, and if you were so blessed to be
liberated from that slavery and spend a couple days in the desert,
you'll predictably whine to God. When He graciously drops manna from
heaven to abundantly care for you, you scrounge for more even when
it turns rotten in your hands.
The only end game to all the awfulness of the
World, from priest sexual exploitation to harrowingly overwhelming
debt burdens, is to abjure the realm all together.
Get out
of it.
It is the only end game that counts at all in
the very end of all the ends World pontificators say are the ends.
The virulent debt crisis is only the most pronounced economically
visible symptom of a planet full of wicked people doing human
sacrifice to the joy of the Society. Don't want to be a part of it
anymore?
Get your
ass out of it.
Don't
complain to anyone who's just going to keep you a slave. Don't
remonstrate against the firmly legitimate duties of the Jesuits to
form the minds of those who administer the head-cracking hegemony
-- the legislators, bureaucrats, bankers, ministers, educators, and
journalists -- all of whom are figuratively ramming their genitalia
into your orifices and paying you nicely to do so. Yeah, if you
don't want that anymore, it unequivocally requires -- as colorfully
explicit as it is -- you
getting your ass out of the way of their you-know-whats.
But it only counts if you hightail it to the
One Who Liberates. He said Himself that you can proudly rid your
soul of one demon, but if you don't replace it with His Spirit many
more demons just as wretched will fill the vacuum. The World has
millions of spirits festering and spewing out of the hearts of
millions of slobbering value extractors, all of whom want you for
dinner. A lot of them even look a lot like Jesus.
Heaven has the One Alternative. The One --
there is Only One.
Do you put your faith in Christ?
Then mean it
and live for Him, letting Him love you, then loving others and
telling them the truth about things and providing what you can for
them with grace and kindness and compasion. Furthermore make your
devotion to Him exclusive by working with others to prayerfully and
studiously abandon all the commitments and obligations you have with
the Agency,
as well as all the benefits you get
from them.
And as you
gather with other followers of Christ, nurture an insightfully firm
knowledge about
the true meaning of the Roman Catholic Church.
Don't do anything with it
except to understand it.
It can't stop sodomizing itself and any who enter its sphere of
influence, which is very wide and insidiously diverse. It does what
it is supposed to be doing and has been doing it for millennia.
As you
abjure, trust
Him -- really.
You don't think the God of the Universe would bring you the most
complete fulfillment in whatever He knows is best for you? You don't
think He'd empower you to pool your resources (which are His
anyway) so you could have all the nice things you have now, if not
more? You don't trust a God who created the heavens and the earth to
take care of you for everything you'd ever really need or want, in a
rich vibrant community of others who love Him and love others?
Really?
One reason you may not trust Him like that is
because the Jesuits have taught you quite well not to. That's cool
though. As long as you give consent and keep eating at their table
you'll remain under their hypnotic power -- remember, quite
legitimate by God's design for those who simply will not bend the
knee and call on His name. Look at the fourth chapter of Genesis to
see more of what I'm talking about.
But if you want the true, real, most
rapturous freedom there is, the only way to get it is to
Abjure.
And don't look back.
All that matters is you taking The Shepherd's hand, and looking
forward to the Kingdom He longs to enjoy with you.
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