“Should Pastors spend their time trying to develop a textbook level theory of Reformed political theory that better matches the context of the 16th-17th centuries, or should they disciple their people to live faithfully as exiles in our respective Babylons?”
Rev. Daniel F. Wells
PCA Sycophant
1.) This is amil eschatology. Note everyone is living in Babylon. There is no victory. It is Babylon always all the time.
2.) This is R2K theology. The whole “exile” language is a central theme in R2K surrender theology. The Gates of hell always prevail w/ R2K.
3.) Should Pastors learn their craft in learning to apply Christian theology to politics. R2K always says “NO.” This is because for R2K theology is completely cordoned off from politics, economic, family life, sociology, history, education, etc.
This man should NOT be in the pulpit, just as no R2K fanboy should be in the pulpit. The presence of R2K fanboys in the pulpit guarantees the death of the West since for R2K the world is not our home, we’re just a passing through.
I fully agree. After Moses separated the covenant people of God, ordered them as a holy society and gave them the holy ordinances to live by, he trained Joshua to be his holy successor. Moses then went to be with God in heaven. But the Lord was with Joshua as He was with Moses and the new generation went forth, vanquished all enemies, conquered and possessed the promised inheritance. Our Lord trained His holy apostles, and after His Passion, He was with them a further 40 days teaching them things concerning the Kingdom of God. He then ascended to the right hand of God and gave them a cosmic and global Commission. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The Apostles knew nothing of the “wilderness motif”. They knew only the “conquest of Canaan” motif. There is nothing but forward movement in the Book of Acts.