From The Mailbag — Tearing Down The Simulation/Matrix

 Dear Pastor;

“How do we overthrow the system that is serving as our Simulation/Matrix.”

Hello Evan,

Thank you for the question.

The answer is manifold.

First, folks like Ben Mordecai have to realize that we are living in a Matrix. We will never overcome the Matrix (The Simulation) by thinking that working within the context of the Matrix — by the rules of the simulation — we will overcome the simulation. So, there is the work of awakening people to the fact that they really are living in a simulation/Matrix.

Second, we overthrow the the Simulation by doing all we can to unplug from it. Many people are doing that by prioritizing family life, by raising their children in the fear of the Lord and so not sending them to the Simulation Education boxes. If we cannot raise our children aware of the need, for the cause of Christ, to themselves see the Matrix for what it is there will be no overthrowing the Matrix/Simulation.

Unplugging means also building parallel but not isolated sub-cultures. People have talked about developing a currency that could be used on a local basis. (This is not my strength but I have read some of those floating this idea.) People have talked about building businesses that especially but not solely cater to the needs of a Christian community. By doing so, we could increasingly unplug from the Simulation/Matrix.

Unplugging also means understanding the doctrine of interposition. If, by God’s grace alone, our numbers become sufficient, at some point larger attacks on the Simulation/Matrix will have to be considered. Since, we will not have the support of Magistrates (who are now serving Baal) we will have to operate via the doctrine of interposition as headed by Clergy/Elder magistrates — if we can find any. Much like Elijah interposed himself against Ahab and His priests on Mt. Carmel, so at some point Christian Elders/Clergy will have to rise up to stand against the prophets of Baal as serving our current Ahabs.

Unplugging also means we have to start connecting the teaching of our Catechisms and Confessions with Worldview teaching. Being in the ministry almost 40 years now I have discovered that even people well catechized often end up being normies living in the Matrix/Simulation. In my estimation only a people thoroughly training in Christian Worldview training as combined with the teaching of the Confessions and Catechisms will ever get out of the Simulation/Matrix that we are now living in.

Unplugging also means (and people aren’t going to like this one) departing from the NAPARC/CREC/SBC churches. Certainly, there are some congregations in NAPARC that are healthy, but considered generally, NAPARC/CREC/SBC congregations are the problem. NAPARC/CREC/SBC churches, generally speaking (which is different than Universally speaking) are supporting the Simulation/Matrix system that needs to be torn down brick by brick. In attending and supporting these denominations we are working against the need to get out of the Matrix/Simulation. If we want to tear down the Simulation/Matrix we simply must quit supporting these derelict institutions with their derelict ministers. (Hey guys … if the shoe doesn’t fit don’t wear it.)

Unplugging means a return to God’s Law-Word as the standard by which we live, move and have our being. The Simulation/Matrix we are living in exists because God’s Law-Word (especially in its politicus usus) is being set aside for humanist Law-Word. We see this in postmodernism which teaches, at best, that law-words are community relative. We see this in Legal-Positivism which teaches the Rousseauian idea of the General Will in one form or another. We see this in Natural Law theory that posits that fallen man is not so fallen as to no longer have the ability to even want to live by God’s law. The Simulation/Matrix we are living in will not be torn down until there is a return to the foundation upon which real reality can be built.

We remember the words of Christ that some things only go out by prayer and fasting. I take this to mean that we have to understand that tearing down the Matrix/Simulation is first and foremost a spiritual endeavor and by that I mean we have to see that that which is animating the Simulation/Matrix is principalities and forces. Before unplugging can be successful we have to understand that the Simulation/Matrix is an expression of this present evil age as animated by the Prince of the power of the air. Because of this we must be instant in connecting the dots between the corporeal realities and the spiritual realities that animate them and then we must pray God that He might let us land just one Samson like blow (think Pillars and Philistines) in order to bring the whole Simulation/Matrix down on their heads.

Or we could just ignore all this like good little amillennialists and live in the Simulation/Matrix telling ourselves that this is the way God intends for it to be until He returns.

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. View all posts by jetbrane