New Covenant Patriarchy

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

The Nature of the Battle for New Covenant Patriarchy

It is surprising how real the demons were in Jesus’ ministry.  He was always casting them out and they were always fleeing before him.  They are just as real today.

You cannot understand the nature of the battle for New Covenant Patriarchy until you understand that the forbidding of marriage, whether of the Roman Catholic kind (celibacy for priests on up) or the Protestant kind (one wife at a time only for everybody), is a doctrine of demons.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Polygyny will often elicit demonic responses from those who are under the influence of these demons. I refer to these people as monogamaniacs - 'Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; an insane person.'

Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Nothing less than the full armor of God will protect you as you foray into the battle.

6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

This is what Christ did when he faced the demon possessed in his day.

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.

So you want to be a New Covenant Wife

You can be one no matter what your circumstances are.  God’s Law is the key.

Being married is a lot like being a citizen of a country.  You are under the laws of the civil government.  But since this is God's world and we are all breathing the air He made, whether you believe that or not, we all under His Law.  It is His, He made it, and He gets to make the rules.  So the civil government can make lots of laws but we are to obey them, "In the Lord."  The same applies to wives; they are to obey their husbands in the Lord.

What does this mean?  First of all, obedience does not mean, "work to rule," which is to drag your feet and only conform to the letter of the law and do it all with a bad attitude.  Rather, obedience means to enthusiastically conform yourself to the character of God and to His ministers (people He has placed in authority over you) wherever they are in line with His LawWord.

That brings us to the other crucial thing which is that we must know God's LawWord so we can discern whether the laws, rules, demands, and regulations given to us are "In the Lord."  To a husband, this will have the effect of having a wife who is an enthusiastically, obedient, dream wife when he asks a godly thing of her and one who is disobedient and impossible to move when he asks of her an ungodly thing. 

He will then have two choices pressing in on him to choose one or the other. 

a) He can bring his character into line with God's character (as expressed in His LawWord) or  

b) He can depart from her and reject God's character (1 Cor 7:15)

This is the same with every authority relationship we have in life whether in marriage, the church, the state, or otherwise.

In marriage, the husband who chooses a) will be more of a patriarch and blessings will be sure to follow.  The husband who chooses b) will soon excommunicate himself out of the godly wife's life and she will be free to marry again, "In the Lord."  He will have proved himself to be no husband, cultivating and protecting all that he was entrusted dominion over, but a tyrant who lives for his own sake and by his own laws rather than for God's sake and by His Laws.

So the study of God's LawWord (theonomy) brings progress in sanctification and joy in our Christian lives and in the Kingdom of God.  This is why God says over and over again in Scripture that we are to learn, obey, and teach our children God's laws, statutes, judgments, ordinances, regulations, and rules when we get up, and go to bed, and go in the car, and write little reminders of His law on Post-It Notes on the fridge door, the door-posts, on our wrists and wherever they will be in front of our eyes.

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 had finally died, the Soviet 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

So you want to be a New Covenant Patriarch

Christ is the mediator between God and man. But what is the mediator between man and man? Is it a philosophy of some kind, a set of rules we discover over time? Is it the state as the "collective expression of the common good" (how about those bamboozle words to befuddle the despised masses)? Is it whatever you decide, or convention, or church canon law, or what? What governs how we are to deal with one another? What are the terms by which we are to interact and cooperate and judge one another in matters of right and wrong?

What does the Bible say?

It says that God's LawWord, the enscripturated Christ, the Torah, is to be the mediator between man and man.

So why have we not had (practically any) Christian polygyny for the last 1600 years or so?  Because we have not had a strong enough awareness of God's LawWord as our mediator between man and man.  Think about it.  Where do you find the most intense relationship in your life?  With your spouse.  You deal with him or her on a daily basis, and know each other intimately. The more personal and intense and intimate a relationship is, the more it needs to be regulated by Torah written on the heart.

Many marriages fail because of the lack of submission to God's Law on the part of one or both parties.  Imagine that you had a man husbanding several wives.  The number and variety of intense relationships goes up dramatically.  Without a strong foundation of knowledge in, and submission to, God's LawWord the potential for conflict goes up exponentially with each new wife.  This is why many patriarch's wives would bring their maids into the marriage.  An authority structure was already in place and the potential for conflict thus was mitigated.

Therefore, if you as a man want to be a successful patriarch: you must become a student of Scripture and a believer in the validity and ongoing relevance of all of Scripture.  You must become a theonomist. 

You must stop dispensing with parts of God's LawWord and forsake Dispensationalism.  You must become a presuppositionalist.

You must quit trying to guess God's timing on things and start studying the things revealed.  You must stop worrying about the future and trust in YHVH's providence. You must become one who seeks His rule in every area of life.  It starts with you and your family. 

You, as the Patriarch, are to be the teacher of God's Law to your wives and children.  Students learn first by example and then by principle (doctrine).  Model proper respect for your authority by respecting the authority of God's LawWord. Teach submission to your will by demonstrating your submission to God's will.

The Holy Spirit is moving to bring God's people into an understanding of the realities of God's Kingdom and what it will take to get us there.  Praise God!

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).

Scripture Index for Man & Woman in Biblical Law

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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.