They had only one. We have a whole herd of Golden Calfs.
I wonder if the hottest parts of Hell are reserved for churches that preach pop culture as a substitute for Scripture.
This whole transgender business–which must be weeded out, uprooted, cast into the abyss–would never have been possible without go-along-to-get-along churches. The Church of What’s Happening Now, as Flip Wilson used to say.
It has to stop happening. See Psalm 2 for further instructions.
As I was wondering why there’s so much weird and creepy nooze out there, these days, I visited the Chalcedon website and encountered this essay by Mark Rushdoony:
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/todays-revolutionaries
It’s because so many of our (ahem!) intellectual leaders have fully embraced Evolution, in all its Darwinian glory, as Nature’s Way. The world is constantly changing: therefor we and our institutions must also change, sometimes frantically, just to keep up. Because constant change is necessary for survival in a changing world. “What you and I see as destructive,” Mark writes, “they see as progressive.”
And presto–our civilization turns into a drunkards’ fire drill.
The only good news is that Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world today: Christ’s Kingdom being built one brick at a time, and always building.
There are an awful lot of people out there who want to Change The World, usually in ways that leave them luxuriously ensconced in seats of power while the rest of us try to live with the consequences of their socio-political experiments.
“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the LORD shall have them in derision.Then shall He speak to them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure.” –Psalm 2: 4-5
Once upon a time–upon many occasions, actually–the world’s smartest, richest, most powerful people got together to devise ways to make themselves even richer and more powerful; and Science was their maid of all work. As for all the rest of the people on the planet–well, there were too many of them anyway.
As the leaders carried out their plans, there were many, many little problems and potential problems too insignificant to be noticed, too much long-term sacrificed for the short-term, too many unimportant persons not listened to, signs and warnings missed, and way too much in a hurry to achieve everything they wanted all at once.
(“He that sits in the heavens will laugh; the LORD shall have them in derision” –Psalm 2: 4).
And so these Masters of the Universe plunged headlong into disaster, having turned away from every sign along the way.
It didn’t have to be the dinosaurs; they made that choice. God uses tiny, insignificant things to overthrow things that are huge, gaudy, and impressive. Small omissions in the program doomed Jurassic World. And King Sennacherib of Assyria lost 180,000 of his troops one night when a plague, a germ, swept his army’s camp. What master of the world could have calculated for a thing like that?
The dinosaurs always get loose. The computer always glitches. The germ mushrooms into a disaster. Someone always forgets the spare key.
So it’s been for thousands of years. It seems we never learn.
Yeah, let’s have more Pride Month. What could possibly go wrong?
Scanning the nooze this morning, I felt a need to revisit Psalm 2–which also brought this 1871 hymn to mind, Christ Shall Have Dominion.
It’s getting bad out there. The ungodly are running wild, nothing seems to restrain them. But God is watching carefully, and here’s where the psalm comes in:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (Verses 1-4)
The Lord is laughing at them–at their vain words, their pretenses, their schemes for a global government with themselves in charge. They are nothing. They are pygmies who call themselves giants. The Lord will give His Son, His anointed, all power in heaven and on earth; and He will break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
We must not lose heart! Christ, not they, shall have dominion. This is what we as Christians must believe. God will keep His promises, every last one of them. He has blessed us by allowing us to enter into His labors with Him. We may fail from time to time, but He will not fail us.
When will that happen? We don’t know; God knows. There are Christian men and women not yet born who will do great things. Our job is to do what we can and never, never, never give in to the wicked.
And when God stops laughing, let the wicked beware. Christ’s Kingdom is already among us… working, working, working… for and until He regenerates His whole creation.
They have their reward.
It’s a very simple thing to understand: either the Bible is God’s word, or it isn’t. And if it is not, then we don’t have God’s word.
I’m happy to report that my “liberal friend” mentioned in the post has made real progress since it was written. I don’t think he believes anymore that his church outranks God.
R.J. Rushdoony made a lot of enemies by writing about “churchmen” who refuse to honor God’s word. Or even recognize it as His word.
But as our Lord Himself said, “They have their reward.”
As long as we’re not usin’ ’em…
I wonder how far they’ve got with this business, since I posted this five years ago.
The idea was to create a human “interface” with computers so that somebody at a keyboard somewhere could delete someone else’s thoughts… and also insert thoughts that Big Brother wants you to have.
You put the right thoughts in, you pull the wrong thoughts out; you do the hokey-pokey and you shake it all about…
This is supposed to appeal to us, somehow?
As for the antidote: see Psalm 46. Come to think of it, Psalm 2 also applies–big-time.
Lately I’ve been thinking there’s more and more frivolity among the “Science” community: an awful lot of truly trivial thinking. Anybody else see that?
(Thanks to Susan for the nooze clip)
It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves –Psalm 100:3
Well, this is the kind of nooze that makes me want to just throw up my hands and dial 911 to God. “This is too much, Lord! Please rescue us!”
https://rumble.com/vqbm0t-transhumanists-want-to-digitize-your-babys-brain.html
The Smartest Idiots In The World want to take the human race back to the drawing board for a do-ever, this time by themselves instead of God. There’s this NGO called “Welcome Leap” that’s received tens of millions of dollars’ worth of funding so they can do experiments like “the Thousand Days Project”… in which they experiment on babies to see if they can tailor brain development to mean technocracy’s needs.
Oh, they do love the Pandemic! Why, you can build a whole technocratic society on it–absolute rule by Smart Idiots! You go from mandating universal “vaccines” to quickly cooking up rNA “therapy” for every disease you can think of–all right away, all at once, none of this old-fashioned waiting around for a long term to see the long-term effects. Bill and Melinda Gates have put up some of the dough for this, so it’s got to be good!
And while we’re all getting, ahem, “vaccinated,” that would be a good time to implant microchips in us for whatever reason The Great God Science thinks is a reason.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh (Psalm 2:4)… and when He’s done laughing at you muttonheads, watch out.
I am beginning to understand our present era as a purposeful campaign to separate the human race from its Creator–and that that’s precisely what the whole “transgender” movement is about.
We can’t at the same time be “as gods” and be creatures created by God. So The Smartest People In The World exhort us, seduce us, or force us to throw off the bands and cords of creatureliness so that we–or rather, they–can be as gods: just like in Psalm 2:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (V. 1-4)
They set up idols–the state, and Science–demand that we bow down to them, and teach us that there is no God… and get awfully mad if we don’t believe them. The governor of Oregon wants to “eradicate” us. Fake President Biden says Christians are “like terrorists.” They hate us for God’s sake, and hate God for ours.
See through the scam: when they say “earthly paradise through Science and global governance,” they mean the whole kit ‘n’ kaboodle piled onto the plebs’ backs. When they say “be like God,” they mean they will be as gods and anyone who dares dissent will not do it again. It’s all for them and nothing for us. Not that we want anything of theirs! It’s all be poisoned.
The insane public policies that we endure today are all designed to estrange us from God, from one another, and even from ourselves.
And that, I think, is the lesson of the Book of Daniel.
The handwriting’s still on the wall, but self-deified dolts can’t read it.
The self-styled “masters of the universe,” who think they’re gods because they bought some corrupt politicians–“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision” (Psalm 2:4).
The higher they rise, the farther they will fall. Each day brings them closer to judgment.
Jesus Christ is king, and King of kings. The right is His alone.
Requested by Phoebe: Crown Him with Many Crowns, performed by the students of Fountainview Academy.
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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. –Psalm 2: 1-4
Do you like knowing there are self-anointed philosopher-kings, would-be rulers of the world, walking around out there with way more power than is good for them–and certainly more than is good for us!: to whom we are, at best, ignorant peasants who must be “managed” for our own good: managed by them, God help us?
And consider them well. Mark Zuckerberg’s a twerp. George Soros is a living fossil. Bill Gates has things wrong with him. Xi Jin Ping is just a villain. We are to be ruled by… these? God forbid.
Now they’re paying court to King COVID, who is to give them undreamed-of power over an undefended public. COVID ‘n’ Climate Change give them license to do anything they please.
This is a thing we should not have forgotten: only God, and only God’s law, can make us free. Rulers who have not placed themselves under God are only predators. They are no better than termites, eating up the house that shelters them.
Turn to God, and He will turn to us.
But we have gone very, very far astray…