New Covenant Patriarchy

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Demographic Problem Requires a New Covenant Answer

Friday, August 07, 2009

Lambs and Lions vs. Wolves and Dogs

I was all set to write on this topic and found the good fellows at: http://www.righteouswarriors.com/controversial/article8.html has already done a fine job of it.  So I am referring to their article here.

Clash of Cultures

     The polygynous pattern is found throughout Scripture, whether talking about the husband (head of the household) and the wives, or Messiah (the head of the assembly) and the body of Messiah (also referred to in Scripture as the bride of Messiah). Symbolically, when Messiah comes for His bride, does it mirror a monogynous (one to one) or a polygynous (one to many) relationship?

     Messiah is also referred to in Scripture as the Lion of Judah. He is also known as the Passover Lamb. But whatever term is used, you'll find a parallel to polygynous creatures. A pride of lions is formed by one male lion, several female lions and their cubs. The males will fight one another for possession of the pride, but only one of them gets the females. Lions are highly polygynous and sociable, with the females harmoniously grooming one another as part of their social activities and suckling one another's cubs. A male lamb, when mature, becomes a ram. Rams also compete for the flock. The winner gets the ewes.

     In Matthew chapter 10, Yahushua said, "See, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves". Wolves are always referred to in Scripture as depicting evil, and wolves are fiercely monogynous and highly exclusive. The dominant male and female will not allow the other wolves to mate.

     The reason that we in the West have such a hard time accepting what the Scriptures clearly say on this matter has to do with the nature of Roman and Greek thinking in relation to marriage. The culture of Western Civilization teaches us to live in a state of "serial monogamy", where a person, male or female, can marry, divorce and then remarry as many times as desired. The offshoot of this type of thinking is, of course, anti-marriage. Having more than one wife is simply not acceptable in Western Civilization, but fornication, divorce, adultery, promiscuity, sodomy, pre-marital sex, orgies, mistresses, cohabitation or living together - these things are acceptable, expected, and in many ways, encouraged in our culture.

     A major cause of our marital and social decadence is inherent in the pagan Roman and Greek philosophy that there must be only one wife at a time and that she must be exclusive. It's that simple. There can be no other, for she has exclusive possession of her husband, and this exclusive possession of him inherently and subtly gives her the right into almost every aspect of his life.

     In the Scriptures, you are either married or unmarried. ... The reason polygyny is so vehemently opposed by so many believers is not, I suspect, because they reject it as Biblical, but because it represents a "clash of cultures". Whatever the West is, it is NOT Hebraic, it is Greek. By gaining a better understanding of Elohim's Word, we find ourselves returning back to our Messianic or Hebraic roots. Once we accept what the Tanak and the Messianic Scriptures say on this subject, instead of what people may think about the subject, we are invariably forced to accept polygyny as a valid form of marriage.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Unintentionally Single Girl and Biblical Law

Bad doctrine and the culture war have combined to frustrate many godly Christian women in their desire for a husband. The bad doctrine is not just an inherited thing that is ignorantly perpetuated by well meaning leaders and theologians, it is intellectually protected by these men even when they have been shown the truth, such is the lack of character in our civilization - this a major cause of the crisis we find ourselves in. The culture war is between the culture of Scripture and the culture of baptized feminist humanism. 

WORLD magazine's article Single and stuck? highlights the problem of those women who were raised as god-fearing Christians wanting marriage but stuck in singleness.  They want to fulfill the normal desire of every young girl to have a husband and a family.  But where are the faithful righteous men that are supposed to come calling asking father for their hand, competing to rescuing them from a life of barren singleness? Sadly, they cannot look to Scripture because, seemingly, the question is not addressed there.

Where in Scripture is the role model of the single woman who finds herself without a husband?  You would think there would be at least one godly woman somewhere in Scripture who finds herself in an age of apostasy (of which there were plenty in the Israel of Bible times) with few prospects of ever finding a faithful, godly, single man?  Even WORLD asks, "But what if there are more Christian women desiring to be married than there are men wanting to be married?"

It seems God has missed something here.  Either that or we have.

Let's look at this logically for a moment: God commands us to be fruitful and multiply.  God makes you a women in today's world. You want to obey God and reap the blessings of that obedience - a husband to obey, serve, and have as a covering protection, and children to raise for God's kingdom. But there are no godly single men to be had.  We then must ask, "Is God providing, as a Provident God, a way to obey Him?" 

Of course.  God is a loving God who has provided a way, demonstrated in His Word, practiced by His saints, and provided for in every place and every time in history.  What is unusual about our particular view of Scripture is that we have, theologically and culturally, decided that we know better than God how marriage should be defined, what constitutes right and wrong, and who our source of law should be, and what parts of His Word we will and will not take seriously.  This all makes it hard for us to look to His Word when looking for answers because we have, a priori, discounted His providential order for marriage as irrelevant to us.

God is, in fact, very pro-marriage and has provided a godly husband for every godly women who wants one.  Only the one He has provided for you might just not be single.  The very best ones are not.  They have proved themselves to be godly men by the fruit of their lives.  They obey and teach others to obey God's law.  They are faithful to their wives and give them loving leadership, expecting their wives to submit to them as they submit to God's LawWord.  They are Christ like in their faithfulness to God and in their kindness to the needy and strangers, orphans and widows.  If they know God's law and obey it they will also be willing to take more than one woman under their wing.

Yes, under God's law, any woman can have any man for a husband, so long as they are equally yoked.  All men are available. All women under 60 years of age are expected to be married and serve God by serving a husband.  All women who can have children are expected to be married and obey the command to be fruitful and multiply. 

To the unintentionally single girls: Thus for you to find a good husband you must be able to discern which ones are obeying God law and which ones just talk a good line, telling you what you want to hear. To discern which is which you must become a student of God's LawWord. When you have spent a year or two reading and studying Biblical Law let your father know and tell him to contact the man you can then recognize as a godly man.

To the fathers of unintentionally single girls: You have a part to play in helping your daughters fulfill the command of God to be fruitful and multiply. A godly daughter will remain under your authority until you transfer that authority to a godly man. She should not have to do this alone. You are better equipped to tell a rotter from a godly man. Look around: has God provided a good man for your daughter? And do not rule out a man just because he is already married. And do not waste too much more time. And provide her with a dowry and ask for a bride price (roughly 10 ounces of gold or 600 ounces of silver). A good man will not balk at this.

To the would be suitors of unintentionally single girls: Its time to exercise your sanctification and get in good spiritual shape for the challenge of being a true believer of God in a apostate age. There is no culture of belief around you to teach you the ongoing validity of God's LawWord. But you have the Scriptures and there are able teachers available if you search for them.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Torahnomics

How to apply God’s LawWord to the economic crisis we face.

1. Deut. 28:1-14 If we obey YHWH's directives, regulations, ordinances, rules, laws, statutes, and judgments, being thoroughly bridled to His way in every thought, word, and deed, then we will be blessed and prospered in every way imaginable. But we know we fall short, even as saved people, so what can we do? Look to Galatians 6:2. If we will bear one another's burdens, within the bounds of His LawWord, then we will have fulfilled the Law of Christ and thus become eligible for those promises. This is the law of substitution. See Charles Williams (of the Inklings) for more on this long unappreciated truth.

2. Malachi 3:10 We must tithe according to His LawWord. This includes the disposition of our tithe:

a) to the Levites (that is those who teach and labor in correct understanding of YHWH's LawWord),
b) to the poor, widows, orphans, sick, and strangers in our land and
c) for the celebration of YHWH's feast days which would require us to reform our calendar (you will know you are on the right track when you have a new moon sabbath).

When we do this we are assured, as a matter of actually testing YHWH Himself (the only time we are allowed to so test him) that he will bless us, regardless of the current economic climate, to the point of heaped up, pressed down, and overflowing riches.

3. Matthew 6:33 If we will seek His Kingdom and the rule of His Law as our first priority, He will make it His concern to add to us all the good things that ungodly people normally seek as a priority.

Greater clarification on all these does entail a study of Biblical Law. The best teacher available to us for this purpose is R.J. Rushdoony. His books and audio lessons are widely available and easily accessible.

Thanks to AJ for this article.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

David and the Girls

David, son of Jesse, was a godly woman’s dream. 

Why?  How was it that so many women wanted to marry this guy, even when he was a hunted man living in exile, even though he already had a wife and then even when he had multiple wives, they wanted him?

Some how they had decided that a piece of David was worth more than all of a lesser man, and certainly better than an ungodly man.  In the case of Abigail, her ungodly husband became so distraught over his wife’s service of hospitality to David and her thinking so highly of him that he became stupified until God killed him.  Then she jumped at the opportunity to be David’s wife. 

Why?

Consider what should a godly woman want in a man if she could have the very best.  Now if she wants what an ungodly woman would want, like riches and good looks and so on, that is nothing noteworthy.  But what should she want in a man that would be different from what an ungodly woman would want?

A godly woman should want a godly man, a man after Yahweh's own heart, a man who says to Yahweh, "Thy will be done" and does it.  A man who empties himself of his own will and submits himself in enthusiastic conformity to Yahweh's character as revealed in His Word.  A man who loves Yahweh's LawWord and thinks, says, and does it and teaches others to do the same.

Why submit yourself to a man who is not himself submitted to Yahweh?  Do you hope to change him?  Only the Holy Spirit can change someone.  We cannot force this.  Scripture states very plainly that we are not to be unequally yoked.  You must not lower your standards and hope for the best.  Rather you are to be as true to Scripture as possible and throw yourself at a godly man, even if he is already married, and ask him if he will allow you to take his name for yourself and let you be his woman and the mother of your children (Isaiah 4:1) even if it means providing for yourself without the benefit of a dowry.  

Be like the godly women of old (1st Peter 3:5,6) who called their husband lord.  If you cannot imagine calling a certain man 'lord' or 'master' then don't marry him.  Don't initiate a marriage in disobedience!  What good can come of that?

Imagine contremplating moving to another country.  If the laws of that country are so onerous and the government so tyrannical or there is just plain lawlessness and chaos or some hellish mixture of the two why would you want to move there?  If you could move to a country where Yahweh's LawWord reigned supreme and the leader was a servant of God ruling in terms of Scripture would that not be the way to go?  Read Deuteronomy 28:1-14.  Good things come to those who obey Yahweh and no sorrow is added with it.  Trust Yahweh and obey Him; do not trust those who forbid marriage (a doctrine of demons) in the Lord.  Monogamania is, at its root, demonic.  Do not trust those who try to get you to lower your standards and destroy your hope for a godly husband.

Friday, January 25, 2008

New Covenant Patriarchy Discussion Group

I would like to add to the declaration that biblical polygyny is biblical and holy in the sight of the Lord.

In reference to David, a man after God’s own heart was declared righteous before the Lord. If we believe that the Holy Scriptures are of God and pure (Psalms 12:6-7) then we must submit our thoughts to what the Lord declared concerning David when stating: 1 Kings 15:4-5

Nevertheless for David’s sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem.

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from ANY thing that he commanded him ALL the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Now we must ask ourselves is God ignorant of David’s sin of “polygamy” or was God fully aware of David’s 18+ wives even to the point HE gave them to David for a blessing? If God declared David followed ALL His commandments except with Bathsheba and Uriah then how could David be against God’s will in having multiple wives?

Brother Eric

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Nature of Authority and Manhood

Authority has a one-to-many structure as part of its nature.

If this natural structure is denied it, the authority withers and becomes impotent and twisted and will no longer provide its function or lend vitality to those in it.

Can you think of any authority anywhere in history that was not based on a one-to-many relationship? A sergeant has many corporals; a corporal has many privates; a captain has many officers; etc.  There may be many circumstances where an actual one-to-one relationship exists with only the potential for a one-to-many. However if this potentiality were ever denied then the authority aspect of the relationship would be made impotent.

This in fact is what we do see in monogamy only cultures.  The authority of the man in marriage is made impotent as he is denied this potential of being chief of many.

Augustine said it most eloquently: "For by a secret law of nature, things that stand chief love to be singular; but things that are subject are set under, not only one under one, but, if the system of nature or society allow, even several under one, not without becoming beauty. For neither hath one slave so several masters, in the way that several slaves have one master. Thus we read not that any of the holy women served two or more living husbands; but we read that many females served one husband, when the social state of the nation allowed it, and the purpose of the time persuaded it: for neither is it contrary to the nature of marriage. For several females can conceive from one man: but one female cannot from several men (such is the power of things principal) as many souls are rightly made subject to one God."

When authority is being stolen from the realm of the family by church and state, then we see the motive for the virulent opposition to the natural authority of the husband in his marriage.  This results in the weakening and destruction of many families causing untold societal ills, but this cost is gladly born by the usurpers in exchange for the ill-gotten authority gained.  Do not expect to see the restoration of that authority sanctioned by those who stole it.  When you understand this dynamic then you will also understand the attacks on polygynists of any kind where humanism is the reigning religion.

When those who say they believe in God's LawWord act on it, then God will restore Biblical marriage and husbands and wives will escape those who are destroying their marriages and families.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Men Ahead of Their Time

All of history has been predetermined by God and is working out his design, like a plant that is growing from a seed into its full flower and fruit.

Thus when we read Scripture we are seeing God's vision for that design, a world ordered according to his law as proclaimed, prophesied, and exemplified by the great patriarchs and prophets and apostles of Scripture, and fully embodied in the Messiah.

We are seeing, in them, the future, where men will deal with each other according to God's Law, reflecting His character toward one another and toward others and the world around them.  We must study these men and what they wrote in order to become like them, to respond like they did in similar circumstances.

Since all history is the unfolding of such a society, where all relationships are intermediated by God's LawWord, the men of God in Scripture were in fact living out the future, our future, in their time.  We must do the same in our time.  In fact, only that part of ourselves that has been conformed to God's character, as written in Scripture and exemplified by Christ, will survive into the new heavens and new earth.

So do not cheat yourself of future glory by letting yourself be misled as to the importance of making God's Law your study all the day.  Do not give credence to the idea that faith is somehow opposed to obedience.  Moses, the Law Giver, was, as Hebrews 11 says, a man of faith.  In fact it says this over and over again.

So we, by faith, must reflect God's character through obedience to His LawWord in its every detail, and beg God's forgiveness when we fall short, always upholding the holiness of His Law regardless of how lowly we hold ourselves in comparison.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Judgment Day Scenarios

What will you get called up on the carpet for?

Okay, project yourself into the future when you are face to face with God on Judgment Day, where we have to give an account for every idle word, and thought, and action.

God is looking at you and your life is flashing before your eyes and he says either ...

a) "What were you thinking, taking my LawWord so seriously!  I did not mean that you should obey all my commandments as written.  After all, they were for the Old Testament times (thank you Marcion for making that distinction), the Hebrews, not for saved New Testament Christians!  Look how embarrassing you made my Scriptures to be in the eyes of decent folk with your talk of Biblical polygyny, reforming the calendar with Biblical holidays and Sabbaths and getting rid of perfectly functional weekday and month names.  Not to mention wearing tassels, not trimming your beard, abstaining from unclean food, condemning sodomites and so forth. Don't you know that only moral laws, as defined by a consensus of church leaders, are still valid? You are an intolerant person who has misrepresented Myself.  Go to hell!"

or

b) "What were you thinking, taking my LawWord so lightly? I gave you My commandments as written and Christ to reconcile you to them so you would obey them and reflect My Character thereby. Where the signs and seals of the covenant changed with the coming of my Son into the world, I made this manifestly clear. What made you think you could pick and choose those commands that met with your approval and disregard the rest while adding some of your own? I made you quite aware of some areas of your life and culture that needed to be changed to bring them into line with My LawWord and you weighed the cost of acting on that knowledge with the cost imposed by My enemies and chose to ignore Me.  You then refused to support those did take a stand.  You even taught others to disregard many of my laws. You will be the least in my Kingdom."

Which of these two do you suppose is more likely?  Should you take all of God's Laws very seriously and risk a) or should you blow off God's more embarrassing Laws and risk b)?

I cannot imagine a) ever coming to pass, although this is apparently what a lot of my fellow Christians think will happen to me, while something like b) is quite likely what most church leaders will face. 

What will you do as a teacher of your children?  Will you teach the ongoing validity of all of God's Law or will you take the easy way, the way of the prevailing culture you happen to be a part of?

This is what I want God to say to me:

c) "Well done, good and faithful servant.  You fell short of my Law but you were not at war with it.  You were imperfect in your understanding of many of My Laws but you loved them and did not teach others to disobey it.  When I made you aware of areas of your life that needed to change to be brought into conformity to My Law you counted the cost and chose to fear Me above man. When you started to worry about how you would make it you remembered to pray to Me and trusted Me to provide for you. You laughed at the scorn fools heaped upon you and counted yourself blessed to be counted worthy to suffer reproach for my Name's sake. You were never ashamed of me or My Law and neither am I ashamed of you.  Take your place of honor in My kingdom."

Friday, December 09, 2005

Socialism and Bad Theology vs Women and Children

It is becoming clear that much of the world’s misery and poverty are directly associated with the misguided war on the family.  This takes place first of all within modern Christian society doing the exact opposite of what God requires of those who would practice pure religion.

It goes like this: a man with a legal wife and children finds another woman and builds a relationship with her. Nothing new here, it is simply nature taking its course. But society, in the form of churches, governments, and other institutions, refuses to recognize or condone this relationship. The man is ostracized if he is open about his 2nd wife and the children he has by her. He is not allowed in church and civil law is against him. He wants to maintain the relationship but he is forced to do so furtively and, under enough pressure, may reduce time spent with the 2nd wife and their children, or abandon them altogether.

The 2nd wife and her children become objects of pity for well meaning do-gooders, who have the same attitudes that hurt or destroyed her relationship to the man in her life. She is now dependent on handouts and welfare. She may be able to hang on to her children but in many cases she is too destitute to do so. She is left bereaved and childless.  She is a victim of the war on the family by the forces of socialism and its misguided Christian allies.

You can see her and her children in late night commercials where a do-gooder will ask you to help feed and house them.

Why not just let her have her husband and the children have their father and stop the war on the family?!

The same goes for the woman who finds herself widowed and her children fatherless.

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."  James 1:27

For a church to support a widow she must be 60 years old.  Yet we are still required to look after her and her fatherless children.  This is best done by letting a man, even if he is already married, give himself to her as a husband and to her children as a father.  We believers must keep ourselves from being polluted by the world's perversion of marriage and practice pure and faultless religion.

Monday, March 14, 2005

Working the Delta

The Delta is that difference between the standard God has set for us in His LawWord and where we actually are in our current state of sanctification.

The standard God has set for our sanctification is not to be confused with our salvation which is already perfectly achieved and guaranteed to believers by the resurrection of Christ.  The standard is God's character: holiness, righteousness, knowledge, and dominion - in other words the communicable attributes of God - as set forth in His Law.  We are to grow in each of these areas as long as we are alive.

Getting there from where we are is what I call Working the Delta.