Sovereign Predestination & The Beehive/Anthill Social Order

Because fallen man does not believe in a sovereign predestinating God, he therefore must find some other mechanism to provide order, and control in the social order. Most commonly he turns to the State to replace God to do the work of sovereign predestination.

The state, being comprised of fallen men, then provides a sovereign predestination that allows for no individuality. The State, as the sovereign predestinating agent commands and requires absolute conformity by all the individuals in the social order. A fallen social order that locks out the God of the Bible as the sovereign predestinating agent, will always create a beehive/anthill social order. In the beehive/anthill social order all Christian conceptions of “ordered liberty” are eclipsed in favor of “Statist order.” Freedom that isn’t licentiousness completely disappears.

This beehive/anthill social order is reinforced by the reality of the demand for a fallen unity in the social order godhead. The idea here is that wherever the god of the social order is located (usually the state) there one will find a uniformitarian impulse since the social order along with the State is acting as god and all gods are one. That oneness will be expressed via the uniformitarian nature of the social order.

This, provides explanatory power as to why social revolutionary behavior will almost always have the impulse towards social conformity. Here we are mindful of the French Revolution with its “citizen” and with its Phrygian cap. Here we are mindful of the Russian revolution with its “comrade.” Here we are mindful of the Chinese Revolution with its ubiquitous “Mao suit.” In all cases this uniformitarianism in the culture is communicating the oneness of the State/social order god.

One sees, thus, that any social order that locks out the God of the Bible will become a beehive/anthill social order. That is increasingly what is happening in the West as we are constantly degraded in our speech, dress, intelligence, habits and ethnicity to a lowest common denominator vulgarity.

Depart from the God of the Bible and the result is social order ugliness led by a immanent State-god forcing all to conform so as to create a beehive/anthill culture.

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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  1. Reject the God of the Bible and another god will take His place. The rejection creates a vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum that must be filled. That is almost always the god ‘State’. No god will tolerate another god–there can only be onew–and so it must by nature destroy any competitor making a sovereign claim. Hence the necessarily anti-Christ stance of our nation.

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