Gordon Interview Of Wolfe – VII

“The whole paradigm of the new covenant seems put us in that Babylonic exile state until we reach the new heavens and the new earth.”

Rev. Chris Gordon
Interview w/ Dr. Wolfe
Time Stamp 34:45f

Yeah… I think this is horrid theology. This theology has lost the capacity to realize that with the advent of Christ the age to come has arrived and as such the Christian life is not described as one of being constantly in Babylonic exile though there are times when the exile motif is indeed experienced more acutely than other times.

The Scripture teaches that

3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. 4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses.

“The Scripture teaches that we have been translated from the Kingdom of Darkness to the Kingdom of God’s dear Son whom He loves.”

For Gordon and the R2K ilk their eschatology is all “not yet.” They have zero capacity to think of the nowness of the Kingdom. For Gordon and R2K the Christian life is all one of Babylonian exile. There is no sense that because of the redemption granted in Christ Christians can bring redemption to every area of life and so find God’s will done on earth as it is in heaven.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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