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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

New Covenant Patriarchy and the Two Dougs

How Reconstruction got squelched and how it will be revived again.

Building on the work of Cornelius VanTil, the world's greatest modern philosopher, RJ Rushdoony developed Christian Reconstruction, a family oriented understanding of Biblical Law and authority.  While it took him a life time to publish and explain it, it took only a few years for some of his early followers to repudiate his central thesis regarding the family and start to counter Rushdoony's growing influence. After all, how could the family be the foundation for a revived Christendom when it was so small and weak in every way. Instead, they reasoned, we must build on the church as the only institution capable of standing up to the state.

So the Reconstructionist camp split in two as epitomized by Doug Philips (www.visionforum.com; www.visionforum.com/hottopics/blogs/dwp/) continuing with Rushdoony's family orientation and Doug Wilson (www.christkirk.com; www.dougwils.com) spearheading the idea of a renewed church as our best hope.  Doug Wilson requirements for membership include a statement that the member will do whatever the elders tell him to do.  It is missing the clause "within the bounds of Biblical Law".  So he gives the "King's X" to the elders of the church.

Despite the family orientation of the Doug Philips camp, it is compromised by a lack of courage, conviction, and strength in the face of the demonic doctrine of monogamania and thus gives succor to a septic form self-righteous personal piety and the essence of feminism, the demand for exclusivity. Submission to husbands and fathers is predicated on the man's obedience to the first commandment of feminism, "Thou shalt have no other wives before me for I am a jealous wife, visiting wrath upon anyone who dares suggest otherwise unto the third and fourth circle of his associates."

With the claim of exclusivity, a wife thereby declares her independence from her husband's authority.

The Christian Patriarchy movement (not to be mistaken with the New Covenant Patriarchy movement) has real problems with the doctrine of authority as taught by RJ Rushdoony. What they do not understand is that all authority is derived authority or it loses legitimacy.  Jesus is the supreme authority (All authority in heaven and on earth is given unto me) and he delgates authority to whom he will.  Governments (civil, church, familial, school, business, and most importantly, self) wield legitimate authority only insofar as they are within the bounds of Biblical Law.  A husband's authority stops where injustice starts. A wife has every right to appeal to Biblical Law against all who perpetrate an injustice in her marriage.  Furthermore, divorce is a gift from God that enables a spouse to separate her self from an evil marriage partner.  Furthermore, men are always soley responsible for their thoughts, words, and actions in regard to women's appearance and cannot legitimately impute their guilt onto women.  "Thou art the man!" as Nathan said in 2 Samuel 12:7.

When a man claims independence from YHWH's authority he declares himself to be the exclusive authority, deciding for himself what is right and wrong. Judgment is then inevitable. The Holy Spirit refuses His presence and power and the rebellious man is left to the authority of Satan and dominion is kept from him.

So the Doug's better get it straight: submit to God's definition of marriage and justice or prepare to suffer the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15ff.

Tom Shipley and New Covenant Patriarchy point the way forward with a renewed doctrine of marriage, of man and woman in Biblical law. Without this doctrine, authority in the family is turned upside down and distorted. Since the family is the foundational institution of society getting this doctrine right is essential to the reconstruction of society in terms of Biblical Law.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

New Covenant Patriarchy and 'Be Fruitful and Multiply'

Where are we in the storyline of history from the vantage point of Jehovah?  While we cannot know the timing of things future, Scripture does give us the big picture.

When man sinned in the garden he did not escape what he was put on earth to do. He just has to do it with the burden of the curse on his back. So what are we, Abraham's seed by faith, here to do? We have to have dominion over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply. Not just anybody is so commanded, but the faithful, from Adam (Gen. 1:28) to Noah (Gen. 9:1) to Abraham (Gen. 17:5) to Jacob:

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; Genesis 35:10

Now is the time of generation for the regenerated.  We must be obedient to this mandate.  This is why we are here.

And a word for the leaders of Russia, Italy, Japan, and other countries: If your country is under the curse of demographic disaster, repent, be washed by the blood of Christ, and conform your laws to Scripture and encourage godly patriarchy. This will cause health and growth to return to your country.

Monday, December 17, 2007

New Covenant Patriarchy War on Terror

There were once two cities that were terrorized by God.  Not only did their two biggest buildings fall down but every building came down in a rain of fire and lava and ash.  Everybody was wiped out.  It did not have to happen.  Just ten men could have stopped it - not just any men but a particular kind of men.

Here is the whole story:

Genesis 18:20-33
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.  And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.  And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?  Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:  Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?

And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.  And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there.

And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.  And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.

And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.  And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.

And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.  And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.

And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.  And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. 

Genesis 19:24-25 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;  And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

So there you have it: for the lack of 10 good men we have the complete destruction of two cities. 

The moral of the story: Make sure you have at least 10 righteous (full of rightness) men in your city or county.  It can make all the difference in the world.

But what kind of "rightness" are we talking about here?  God defines that himself in His Law summarized by the Ten Commandments.  And to make sure we understood what those meant he gave us hundreds of minimum case law applications of those 10 commands.  Minimum case law applications means that if the law holds for this minimal case it certainly holds for even greater cases.

Here is an example: You shall not steal.  A minimum case law would be: Do not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.  We can safely say this applies to greater cases such as: do not neglect to pay the pastor of your church who ministers to you. 

It takes a lot of understanding of God's word to know what rightness consists of and then you have to apply it in practice to actually be righteous.  And if you can't do it you had better hope there are ten men in your area that do.  Because those 10 men may be all that stand between you and divine judgment, a truly terrible thing.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

New Covenant Patriarchy and Relationships

Relationships with other people make us richer. Well, I should qualify that. Those relationships based on God’s Law make us richer. Those that are not make us poorer. All the relationships where all the parties to the relationship are in accord with God’s LawWord are win-win relationships. It is in this respect that I will use the terms lawful and lawless.

People become hermits and loners when they have been hurt too many times by lawless relationships.  Healing is needed and is available through Christ who bore the consequences of our lawlessness on Himself so we could be restored into a meaningful relationship with God.

People who are lawless find themselves quite lonely when they engage in lawlessness and thus destroy any meaningful relationships they have. The items in a garbage can are likewise meaningless in their relationship to anything else.  They no longer have a place or function in service to others.  This is hell.

The way of life and health and peace is one of meaningful service to others as ordered and regulated by the Guide to Relationships we know as the Bible.  This Guide will tell you how you are to relate to those who don't live by it as will as those who do.  It will tell you how to handle any type of relationship by giving you core principles (the Ten Commandments) as well as examples of how to implement those core principles (the case laws).

To bring home to your life just how this works you need to continually review the Guide in the light of those relationships you are involved in with your family, fellow church members, friends, and co-workers.  All of these reflect the most important relationship in your life, the one you have with God.  You have to get your relationship with God straight before anything else is going to get straightened out.

There are a huge number of aspects to our relationship with God but some are so fundamental that they deserve special consideration here:

1. Authority/Subject - I am the Lord your God Exodus 20:2a - Being under lawful authority (as opposed to being under a lawless tyrant) means being under God's authority.  You may safely discount the authority of anyone whose authority is not based on submission to God's authority.  A rapist may coerce his victim to do his bidding but that does not make him her husband.  The state may make laws and regulations that fill many new volumes each year but that does not make it God.  God is the author of creation and history.  We are his subjects.
   
   
2. Rescuer/Hostage - which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Exodus 20:2b - Our God is the one who rescues us from the criminal gangs who tyrannize us (coerce us lawlessly).
   
   
3. One/Many - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3 - God insists that He is God alone, the ultimate and singular source of authority.  Thus we live in a universe, not a multiverse.  We are many but God is one.
   
   
4. Jealous/Unconditionally Trusting - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God Exodus 20:5 - God names Himself Jealous, not that He is insecure, but that He will not share us with another.  Will a husband share his wife with another?  Neither will God tolerate any allegiance to competing authorities or competing loyalties.
   
   
5. Judge/LawBreaker - visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Exodus 20:5 - This means households where 3 and 4 generations are affected by the evil of the fathers who hate God.
   
   
6. LawGiver Redeemer/Covenant Keeper - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Exodus 20:6 - The order of God makes for a blessed realm where His citizens love and obey Him and thus enjoy peace with each other.

As our relationship with YHWH, our loving father, is healed and whole we spread healing to every relationship in our lives. 

Sunday, March 18, 2007

New Covenant Patriarchy and Children

Children are the forgotten victims of the abandonment of YHWH's Law regarding marriage.  Being made in the image of God we long for a Father.  God our Father created us this way and thus gave children an earthly father to be a picture of their heavenly Father.  A father who does not abandon them, who models self-government, honor, honesty, truthfulness, giving of himself for his family, moral and religious leadership, courage and strength.  In other words, a man who cares for his family according to YHWH's LawWord, a fixed and unwavering, predictable standard of right and wrong, external to himself and to which he is accountable.  (A man our humanist culture is incapable of portraying.  At war with YHWH they are also at war with His image in man.)

Women who find themselves widowed or abandoned must not deny a father to their children just because the only good ones are already married.  Neither should they let the state or church convince them of the doctrine of demons (1 Timothy 4:1-3) that forbids marriage.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

New Covenant Patriarchal Creed

1. I believe that Jesus Christ is the incarnation of the Law of God, the walking Torah of YHWH, and the source of all definition, purpose, and meaning and that the Law of God is the Character of God writ large in the Scriptures for our benefit.

2. I believe that the Law of God as contained in the Law, the Prophets, the Gospels and the Epistles, that is the Holy Bible, is eternal and unchanging and always fully in force, witnessed to us by the Holy Spirit, and is the ultimate source of all authority.

3. I believe that Jesus Christ came to save us from the condemnation of the Law and to reconcile us to the Law as our way of sanctification and as the mediator between man and man, man and creation, and man and all aspects of life.

4. I believe that the Law of God in every particular reflects and defines the character of Jesus Christ and that we cannot know who He is outside of the Law.

5. I believe that Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the Love of God and that Love is the Law of God put into action, transforming it from a dead letter to a living force that reflects God's Will.

6. I believe that Jesus Christ will come again when the entire world is brought into obedience to His Law.

7. I believe that no institution can have any legitimacy except that it is  founded on the authority of God's Law and maintains itself in conformity to it.

8. I believe that the LawWord of God is whole and self-consistent and that any statements within it that appear to conflict are human errors in translation or hermeneutics.

9. I believe that, like Jesus Christ, I too am to be the walking embodiment of God's Law and so will endeavor to learn it, love it, and live it and teach it to others.

10. I believe that the Law of God is a gift from God to those who are reconciled to Him through Jesus Christ and that it is the key to the promises and blessings of Scripture, a sign of His grace to us, and that obedience to it is a privilege.

Thursday, May 19, 2005

New Covenant Patriarchy and Successful Relationships

Within God’s Law, relationships are easy.  Initiating them is easy and keeping them healthy is easy.  Why?  When everyone knows and obeys God’s Law there is harmony and peace.  Seeming conflicts are easily resolved and just become avenues for greater understanding.  When someone falls outside of God’s Law he or she is easily restored and is better off for it.

This is all not only possible, unlike the impossible promises of peace and prosperity from the world, and true, unlike the lies of the modern day Pharisees, but inevitable if we are bound by the LawWord of God through faith in the power of the resurrection of Christ, faith given to us by the work of the Holy Spirit.

Out in the world we may be as sanctified as ever but we can still have failed relationships with people in business or in some public venue, even in church, although hopefully somewhat less there.  But when it comes to marriage we must be sure not to marry those who live by some other law or principle or center than God's LawWord, with Christ as our center.

Thus, given the context of God's Law, of heartfelt theonomy, there is no possibility of broken relationships, but only ever greater maturity and understanding.

Friday, January 28, 2005

New Covenant Patriarchy in Context

The list of problems of life under Satan in our time is getting stinkier and longer and deeper into the realm of "I just can't take it anymore."  Having, almost universally, in the church and out of it, decided that God's Law is the last thing we could want in our lives, God is granting our wish and letting our will be done.  As eagerly as preachers dish-out pap against "the Old Testament's rules and regulations," so have congregants lapped up the idea that Jesus came to save us from God's Law - except, you know, the moral laws, that is those parts of the Old Testament we all agree are moral, as long as we can place limits on them ("so don't label me an anti-nomian!").

What awaits these escapees from the God's Law are the curses outlined in the last two thirds's of Deuteronomy 28.

For those of us who love God's Law and see it as a manifestation of His character, it is a wonderful gift and the key to all the blessings of God that we were made to enjoy.  With Christ having fulfilled the Law we are never condemned by it because He has put us on the right side of the Law and it is now our friend, our delight, and the object of our study all day long.

Certainly, we have not "arrived" at full mature obedience, but we are always working on learning, and understanding God's Law more and more and changing our thoughts, words, and actions to conform to it.  As we become more mature, however many generations that takes, we will at last reap fully the promises written about in Zechariah and Isaiah, and the abundant blessings of first third Deuteronomy 28.

So, while those who despise God's Law, in part or in whole, are focusing their energies trying to escape the inevitable curses of God as they overtake them and pursue them, continually bursting their bubble-fantasy world of rebellion against the God who made reality, we will be pursuing His will, His definition of right and wrong, and His values, all the while being more and more pursued and overtaken by His blessings, health, peace, and salvation.  Biblical patriarchal polygyny is just a part of it.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy and Maturity

Could there be anything sadder than the infantile, pathetic, and schizophrenic hostility to God’s Law demonstrated by Christian churches today?

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Why New Covenant Patriarchy and Why Now?

Is New Covenant Patriarchy some kind of burning issue with people so that we need a book about it?  Why care about it?  And isn’t this the wrong time for it?  It just upsets some people to even bring it up.

The problem of course it that it does not really matter if its a burning issue with people or not.  What matters is whether this is an issue with God.  If He thinks it is important then it is and we had better pay attention.

Now, with about half the children in the U.S.A. being raised without a father in the home we have a problem.  These children need a father figure who will model the Fatherhood of God to them.  The single mothers (mainly abandoned wives) need a husband who will model Christ, the Bridegroom of the Church to them.  Mess this up and God will make you contemptible before all the peoples.

We have messed this up and are contemptible before the peoples.  Christians are the door-mat of the anti-Christian culture around us.  There is no difference between secular and church going people when it comes to statistics like divorce and abortion.  Something is seriously wrong and broken.  We have an Achan in the camp (Joshua 7:10-11) and as a consequence we are pathetically weak and vulnerable to our enemies.

God's people hear his voice and respond.  So it has been with me on this issue.  If God opens the Scriptures and shows you something based on a sound exegesis and hermeneutic how can you not respond?  The things revealed belong to us and our children.

Our current Christian culture is one that gelds men.  When a highly competitive and top performing man becomes a Christian he soon falls to a lower state as he is gelded.  Where are today's equivalents of David's mighty men who could single handedly fight and kill 300 Philistines in one day?  We have a girlie-man church.  Men as well as boys need a damsel to win, a beast to slay, and an adventure to fulfill.  They need to be fruitful and multiply, and have dominion. These come as commands as well as gifts to covenant keepers.

But there is a larger issue. God's commands, plus the world he made, plus we His people (people who have ears to hear and submit to His commands) represent a system that models His character and glory.  That is why we are to think God's thoughts after Him, say His words after Him, and do His actions after Him.  This system is like a engine that produces glory to God.  An engine is a system designed by a genius (in this case God) to be run by idiots (in this case us, His people). 

If you were to open the hood on your car and see a part that you could not really understand what it did, and it bothered you somehow, you could just pull it out with a few simple tools.  Then, when the engine did not work and lost its power you should not wonder why should you?  You have messed with a part of the engine.  You might complain that you left the rest of the engine intact and just got rid of this one onerous part that you did not like.  Well that is not how it works.  Taking off half the parts of an engine would not leave you with half the power but none at all.  In fact you cannot take out any part without messing with the system and compromising it.

Thus is the system of God, His kingdom.  The pieces of the engine must all be put into place according to the manual before it will run properly as promised.  God's definition of marriage and living it according to his commandments is not a trivial matter.  The time to get it right and back in its place is now.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy and Love

Confusion reigns in the hearts of Christians when it comes to understanding what the Bible means when it talks about love.  The good news is that its a misunderstanding that is easily corrected.

Law and love are often put at odds with each other in the preaching we hear.  "Doctrine is important but love is more important." God is not at odds with Himself.  He is in total harmony in all He does and says.

Let us put some passages next to each other here:

1 Corinthians 13:2 I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge, and I may have faith so great I can move mountains. But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:13 So these three things continue forever: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

The definition of love is simply putting God's Laws into action.  If you order something from a catalog, then the order if fulfilled when the item is actually delivered to you.  When a command of God is actually kept then it is fulfilled.  When you think it and say it that is not good enough.  When you actually do it then it is fulfilled, then it is turned from a dead letter into living love.

If you know what it means then, yes, love is the answer.  If you want to know how to love someone you must be a student of God's commandments and you must apply them to your relationship with that person.

Now what commands is God talking about?  The only commands the New Testament writers had were the 10 Commandments and their case law applications in the Law and the Prophets of the Scriptures.

Christ has reconciled us to Himself and the commandments of God by lawfully giving himself to be executed in our place. Thus he treated us lawfully even while we treated Him lawlessly. Having thus fulfilled the meaning of the sacrificial system, we obey the law connected to the sacrificial system when we believe in Him. The rest of the commandments stand waiting to be put into action by us.  There is no other way to abide in God's love than to believe in Jesus and obey His commandments as found in all of Scripture.

Monday, October 18, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchal Husband

Easton’s Bible Dictionary defines husband thus:

Husband
i.e., the “house-band,” connecting and keeping together the whole family. 
A man when betrothed was esteemed from that time a husband (Matt. 1:16, 20; Luke 2:5).
A recently married man was exempt from going to war for “one year” (Deut. 20:7; 24:5).

From the KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon:

to marry, rule over, possess, own

1. (Qal)
   
   
   
   1. to marry, be lord (husband) over
      
   2. to rule over
   
   
2. (Niphal) to be married

owner, husband, lord

1. owner
   
2. a husband
   
3. citizens, inhabitants
   
4. rulers, lords
   
5. (noun of relationship used to characterise - ie, master of dreams)
   
6. lord (used of foreign gods)

A man is a proper husband who binds his household to the covenant LawWord of God in the same way that God husband's us by keeping us, His brides, in His covenant, His economy (law of the house).

This concept is so fundamental and reflective of God's economy that no society can exist without it.  The husband led household economy is the engine upon which all other instutions and economies rest and gain their life.  When the last grandfather raised in terms of this concept has finally died, the Societ Union collapsed.  The husbands raised to be fairly close to our definition of new covenant patriarch created a dynamic nation that rose to lead the world, these United States.  Now that we are fast becoming a nation of godless gelded men (metrosexuals) we are also fast losing our preeminance.

Friday, October 08, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy and God's Program

So what have we got here. God makes this absolutely fantastic creation, hugely complex and wonderful, with order and beauty unimaginable. He makes man, of all the creatures, to be lord over the whole of the rest of creation. Its a big job and a high honor but he gives us everything we need to do it. The main thing we have is Himself to save us from the death sentence under and enmity towards His LawWord, which is His character writ large. With Christ we are reconciled to God and are now free to be the lords of creation under Him, that is, in enthusiastic conformity to His will and character.

This is what men want from women; men want their wives to be in enthusiastic conformity to their will and character.  If the man is not himself in enthusiastic conformity to God, then his rule is no longer benevolent but tyrannical.  Likewise if the woman decides she will not be in subjection to her husband then being under a righteous husband will seem tyrannical and intolerable.  If both despise Christ and remain in rebellion against God as the ultimate source of authority then God places them both under Satan who destroys them thoroughly thus clearing the way for God's Kingdom to be worked out in history.

That is the program.  Now we just have to get with it or get out of the way.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy vs. Monogamania

The outcome of this battle is sure but not the timing.  It may take generations, even centuries to defeat the power of the monogamaniacs.  Their power is built upon 1600 years of false teaching and the twisting of the clear meaning of Scripture.

Why is it so important to the enemy that a man does not provide for and faithfully serve (as Christ served us) more than one wife at a time?

Strict monogamy serves to compromise the authority of men and to effectively geld them in their own marriages and homes.  Like a Border-Collie is born to herd sheep so are godly men born to have dominion, be fruitful, and to multiply.  It is the same compromise to say to a general that he may only have one colonel, or to a rooster that he may have only one hen, or a stallion one mare.  It stifles all their god-given instincts.  These instincts are compromised in man by his sinful nature and further by this sin-born man-made restriction on the number of wives a man may have.  When a man is redeemed and his nature reshaped by the Holy Spirit through the preaching and teaching of all of God's LawWord he still finds he cannot be fully what he is meant to be.  In our monogamaniac culture he is then put under the severest temptation to immorality.  This is all highly desireable for powers and principalities who at war with God's order.

What of women?  They are made by God to be the wife of one man and to help him in his calling.  As it is many woman cannot find a man to faithfully husband them.  They go through multiple men or do without.  When they do have a man he is often only half a man, a girlie-man.  They just hope he does not get more pedicures than she does or spends more time on his hair.  Girlie-men (aka. metrosexuals) do not have dominion given to them by God.  They cannot protect you from Osama or Obama and they will not go into a burning building to save anyone. The monogamaniacs create this situation and then lament the lack of real men. Or worse they may settle for a male-lesbian, a misandric baptised feminist, a man who thinks a compliment by a man to a maid is the equivalent of verbal rape. 

Monogamaniacs have been taught that there is a single pre-ordained principle that all else must conform to: polygyny is the prime moral evil.  They approach Scripture with this principle firmly programmed into their genes. Naturally, their reaction to even the broaching of the subject of polygyny is one of horror and revulsion with a very strong instinct to pick up the nearest movable object, or even a gun if it is handy, and to dispatch it in the direction of the offending party.  The shrillness of their mania knows no bounds as they pronounce damnation on all who will or ever have dared practice such evil, including all the patriarchs of Scripture.  If such a strong response could be triggered by say, abortion, that vile practice would be expunged from our society in a matter of days.

Thus the exponent of new covenant patriarchy must go into the fray fully aware of the likely response, which may be life-long and bitter regardless of the exemplary quality of the man's character.  He must be fully armed with Scripture and know his apologetics (defenses) on this issue by rote as the attacks, when they come, will be fast and furious.  It would not hurt to have a thick skin and a means of escape nearby as well.  I would suggest a helmet but that might be awkward.

We must persevere, however, due to the command of Scripture to take dominion, be fruitful, and to multiply (Gen 1:28) and to give every covenant woman a covenant husband (I Cor 7:2).  Anything else is a doctrine of demons (1 Timothy 4:1-3).

Friday, October 01, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy and Authority

Authorities must respect each other and pressure each other to reform when necessary.

Patriarchs are the authorities in their households. When their authority is undermined by the church or state or other institutions then all authority is hurt since the home is the training ground for the rest of life. To say that a man may not have more than one wife is like saying an employer may not have more than one employee, or a general may not have more than one colonel, or a rooster may not have more than one hen.  It is undermines authority and God's created order.

Likewise, when those under the authority of a patriarch are never given an example of proper submission to that patriarch, especially by his wife (wives), then the household is in a state of upheaval, rebellion, and disorder since her authority over the children is thereby undermined; it is hellish to that extent.

To restore patriarchal authority it is first necesary that those in authority place themselves in proper submission to authorities that are over them.  The ultimate source of authority is God's LawWord.  Thus an authority is righteous when it is in harmony with God's LawWord.

Satan has authority granted to him by Christ (to whom was given all authority and power) to rule over those who are in rebellion against Christ and His LawWord.  This includes Christians to the extent that they continue to live double lives of real confession and some righteous acts but continual adherence to Lawless practices and values as well.

To escape the domain of Satan and his tyranny you must not only believe and practice God's LawWord but you must take a public stand for the rule of Christ in every area of life thus putting pressure on the other authorities to reform themselves to their proper Biblical role of service to those under them.  In doing so you and your family and your other realms of authority will be held blameless by God for the iniquity of the rebels around you.  You will then be transferred to the domain of Christ and His blessings will overtake you.