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.

NAPARC & CREC As Over The Falls

The phrase is “over the falls,” as in, “that person is beyond redemption – they are over the falls.” It communicates that someone is beyond hope. I use this phrase often. I think the Federal Government is over the falls. I think Government schools are over the falls. I think Seminaries in the US are over the falls. I think R2K is over the falls. I think that Evangelicalism and Reformedom is over the falls.

One example of the latter is the MAPARC (Marxist American and Reformed Churches) – formerly known as NAPARC (North American Presbyterian and Reformed churches). The MAPARC churches have repeatedly demonstrated that they are of their father the devil with their ongoing witch hunt to go after clergy (and soon to be Ruling Elders) who hold to the same convictions that their North American Presbyterian and Reformed Church fathers held.

We have to extend this jeremiad to the CREC as well. Just a couple days of go I was shown a clip of a CREC Church service and sermon in Hell, Michigan (apropos) wherein the Pastor said (paraphrasing here); “If you are in this congregation and you are hiding your Kinism, I invite you this morning to practice your athletic skills and sprint to the door and don’t come back.”

It has gotten to the point that folks, that if you’re financially supporting a NAPARC or CREC church that is financially supporting their denomination you are financially supporting the work of Hell. God’s people must come out of these Marxist egalitarian nests. These congregations and denominations are anti-Christ.

Find here the latest NAPARC abomination. The Allegheny Presbytery of the RPCNA threatens to sue Sam Ketcham. Do keep in mind that scripture forbids Christians taking one another to “secular” courts. Of course, the RPCNA’s response to that objection would be to say … “We excommunicated Ketcham. He’s not a Christian.”

So… my most recent evidence is Rev. Ketcham’s reporting that NAPARC has sent him a letter threatening to sue him;

“My former presbytery has threatened to sue me for $150,000 if I show you the recording of the trial at which they excommunicated me.

Why are they so afraid the public might see this trial recording? Because evil is done in darkness. Truth is done in the open—John 3:19-21. (It is a very good audio/video recording btw).”

This is just the most recent proof that NAPARC is over the falls. Folks, it is time to pull out of these denominations. It is time to start new works, mindful of how badly denominations have worked for the last 100 years or so. All of this will not change until the NAPARC and CREC denominations are hit in the pocketbook. They are not going change by reasoned argument. They are not going to change by producing 1000s of pages of church history. Most importantly, they are not going to change by Scriptural arguments. Why?

Because they are over the falls.

Look, I’ve said this before on Iron Ink, but I will say it again here. What the argument between Athanasius and Arius on the Deity of Christ was in the third century … what the argument was between Luther and Cajetan on the issue of Justification by faith alone in the 16th century is today what the current argument is between the Marxist egalitarian Reformed and the Biblical Reformed. It’s that important. If the church follows the Marxist voices the visible church will become an institutional and established anti-Christ church. NAPARC and the CREC will become in the US what the The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is currently in China – a mere organ of the State and/or a egalitarian cult that has more in common with Mephistopheles than it does with Jesus Christ.

Abandon ye all hope who enter into a NAPARC or CREC church.

What Kind Of Christian Nationalism Are We Aiming At?

“There is no question of ever accepting Nazi representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria from Nazism … We reject uniformity and centralization. … Catholicism is anchored in our very soil, and we know but one God: and that is not the State, or the Nation, or that elusive thing, Race.”

Kurt Schuschnigg
Chancellor – Austria

Prior to Anschluss – 1938

Chancellor Schuschnigg was one of those chaps who was pro-German but anti-Nazi. Schuschnigg believed Austria to be a German state and he believed Austrians to be Germans. He was Chancellor atop a the rightist Christian social party.

Schuschnigg’s view above offers an interesting insight into Christian Nationalism. No one would have accused Schuschnigg of not being a Christian Nationalist. However, Schuschnigg (like the Chancellor before him who was assassinated by the Nazis) held a particular kind of Nationalism that was at vast variance with the National Socialists in Germany. That variance was so vast that Schuschnigg labeled it an “abyss.”

Now, part of the abyss was accounted for by the fact that Austria was Roman Catholic and Schuschnigg believed that the Germany he resisted was primarily Prussian Protestant. Schuschnigg rightly understood that a Roman Catholic people and a Protestant people can never mix. (The Nazis solved this by creating a “gottgläubig” category.)  Gottgläubig  was a Nazi religious term for a form of non-denominationalism and deism practised by those German citizens who had officially left Christian churches but professed faith in some higher power or divine creator. By creating this category the Nazis were able to make the Germans Nazis first and Christians second. In conjunction with this the Nazis created a Reichskirche and appointed Ludwig Müller as the first Reichsbischof (Bishop for the Reich). The role of Müller was to keep the Churches in line with serving the Party.

Now, it must be said here that the Churches at this time in Germany were, generally speaking, not historically orthodox . The Protestant churches had been shot through with Liberalism and a creeping Barthianism. Bonhoeffer, and Niemoller, for example were both trained at Seminaries that were anything but orthodox. Niemoller himself, had been a supporter of the rise of the Nazis for quite some time before re-thinking his position.

So, the Christianity in Germany was slammed together under one Nazi umbrella. This Nazification of the Church and the whole German people was to the end of what Schuschnigg lifted his voice against. In this Nazification was the aim of uniformity, centralization and the turning of the State/Party and Race into a God (idol).

However, it still remains the goal to have a Biblical Christian Nationalism. All because unbiblical expressions of Nationalism might exist, doesn’t mean that a Christian nationalism that is characterized by unity in diversity among one distinct people, and as governmentally decentralized can’t be championed. A Christian Nationalism that understands Biblical  jurisdictionalism/subsidiarity should be the goal of every Biblical Christian.

Also, we should add here that it is possible to prioritize one’s ethnicity/race without lifting one’s ethnicity/race above God as an idol. Schuschnigg writes of “that elusive thing, Race.” However, keep in mind that Schuschnigg wasn’t living in the multi-cultural/multi-racial hell that we are being forced to live in. Race, is not quite so elusive when you’re part of a people who are being sought out to be replaced.

This kind of statement needs to be made because I have been privy myself to chaps who want to make some kind of hero out of the Austrian Corporal. I have been privy to men who speak in glowing terms about National Socialism. This reveals a profound misunderstanding of history. The mustachioed Schicklgruber was no hero. Yes, we can cheer them for fighting the Bagels (who declared war on Germany first) but they hardly provide a role model upon which a Biblical Christian should aspire.

The creation of “Positive Christianity” by Germany in order to give a generic (neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant) theology provides one example as to why a Biblical Christian can not be a supporter of a renewed National Socialist Kingdom. In 1937, Hans Kerrl, the Reich Minister for Church Affairs in Germany, explained that “Positive Christianity” was not “dependent upon the Apostle’s Creed”, nor was it dependent on “faith in Christ as the Son of God”, upon which Christianity relied; rather, it was represented by the Nazi Party: “The Führer is the herald of a new revelation”, Kerrl said. No lover of Jesus Christ could ever embrace such a monstrosity.

By all means let us pursue Christian Nationalism. By all means let us vigorously practice the Ordo Amoris. By all means let us ora et labora with the purpose of ending the “White Replacement”project. However, we must not fall into the thinking of C. S. Lewis’ Dwarf character, “Nikabrik,” from Lewis’ novel “Prince Caspian.” Nikabrik, as you will recall, becomes so desperate to win out against the evil Telmarines that he calls on black magic to summon up the evil White Witch in order to deliver old Narnia from the Telmarines. Nikabrik’s pursuit is a warning against embracing past evil in order to fight off present evil.

The Protest Filed Against An OPC Overture by Ruling Elder Andrew Duggan

MAPARC (Marxist American Presbyterian and Reformed Churches) are at it again. Recently the OPC, feeling left out for not being as Marxist left as the RPCNA, ARP, and PCA, had a Presbytery file an overture that said; “Racists bad… We Marxist clergy good.”

There was one Ruling Elder named Andrew Duggan who was having none of the Marxism of his OPC Presbytery.  Duggan filed this protest with the Presbytery. This will mean that the powers that be in the OPC will be going after RE Duggan.

“I the undersigned respectfully protest the action of the Philadelphia Presbytery of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church in approving the following overture:

‘condemn without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics and…call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.’

The Scriptures referenced in the grounds do not support or teach a doctrine of broad equality. Acts 17:26 can no more be teaching an equality of nations by virtue of being of one blood than the equality of men and women who are also of one blood, and in marriage are one flesh. Furthermore neither 1 Corinthians 12:13 or Galatians 3:28 by including “bond and free” a necessary unequal relation with other men and other Christians cannot support a universal relation of equals vis a vis the 5th Commandment. Furthermore Galatians 3:28’s inclusion of “male and female” cannot serve as the ground of equality, which are by creation not equal, as the Apostle Paul elsewhere uses the superiority of men based on the order of Creation, Adam being formed first to establish the reason why women are to remain silent in the church. The logic of these grounds are the same as the enemies of the Gospel use to ordain women in their “churches”. Furthermore this condemns our fathers in the Faith and of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church most notably J Gresham Machen who not only privately expressed his segregationist views in a letter to his mother, but expressed his view of White Supremacy in his article “Mountains and Why We Love Them” published on OPC dot org.

‘There, in that glorious round spread out before you, that land of Europe, humanity has put forth its best. There it has struggled; there it has fallen; there it has looked upward to God. The history of the race seems to pass before you in an instant of time, concentrated in that fairest of all the lands of the earth. You think of the great men whose memories you love, the men who have struggled there in those countries below you, who have struggled for light and freedom, struggled for beauty, struggled above all for God’s Word.’

The superlative of ‘humanity has put forth its best’ speaking of Europe can mean nothing other than White people. This overture goes beyond the teaching of the Scriptures and our secondary standards, and binds the consciences of our members officers and church courts contrary to the Liberty we confess in the 20th chapter of our Confession of Faith.”

Accordingly I respectfully but most forcefully protest the overture to our General Assembly.”

Andrew P. Duggan

An Ode to Sage Tea; With apologies to Joel Barlow

Quatrain 1a

I sing the bitter I know, the taste I meet
My enduring of the potion my taste buds greet
The bitter of Sage Tea. Come dear mug
Flow down my throat, and serve as drug
The herb within thee, still angry at being picked
Come work thy magic and this illness evict
Thin my phlegm with thy noxious taste
And leave no malady that might be traced

David Irving; A Noticing Historian

“Judea as an enemy did not yet bulk large above Himmler’s horizon. He had excluded Jews from his elite SS as racially inferior, but he did not yet recognize the Jews as a noisy and virulent opponent of National Socialism.

He should have paid them more attention. Seen from the relative tranquility of the Twenty-First Century, the Jews of Europe figure disproportionately on each side of the Twentieth’s balance sheets of cruelty, both as perpetrators and their prey – as torturers and tortured, as murderers and victims. They had been comprehensively expelled for hundreds of years from many countries, including the most civilized. Although comprising barely 4% of Russia’s population, Jews were at the forefront of Moscow’s 1917 revolution. By the end of 1918, Jews filled 457 of the 556 top Bolshevik posts. Speaking to a Jewish audience in 2013, President Vladimir V. Putin himself mischievously underlined that eighty-five percent of the first Soviet government were Jews.

Perhaps they seemed far away. Far beyond Germany’s eastern horizon, the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Ilych Lenin, himself of concealed Jewish origin, had fashioned this rootless, fanatical racial group into the most ruthless arm of his dictatorship. Jews had taken over leadership of the feared Cheka, the ‘All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage,’ ever since Lenin set it up by decree in December 1917. The Cheka and its unlovely successors, GPU and the NKVD, established outposts, largely officered by Jews, throughout the Soviet empire, a practice which would continue long after the coming water. Jews had notoriously provided the murderers who had cruelly ended the Romanov (Czar) dynasty. One Jew signed the warrant, and handed it to another Jew to execute; a Talmud student and Cheka agent carried out the actual killings, with two others. They shot, bayoneted, and bludgeoned to death the former Tsar, his wife, and their five children with their staff in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) one night in July 1918, then pillaged the bodies and attempted to burn them.

Published statistics showed that in 1934 Jews dominated Stalin’s security apparatus; 38.5% of its senior officers were of Jewish origin. Often they had Germanic names, which they as often concealed – Kamenev was born Rosenfeld, etc. A historian, Sever Plocker, also a Jew, estimated that these Jews were responsible for twenty million deaths. While their fellow-travelers in the West turned a blind eye, Lenin and Stalin preferred to rely on Jewish interrogators, executioners, and judges, as Plocker found. Genrich (Heinrich) Yagoda, the founder of the NKVD, alone had ten million lives on his conscience. He was replaced in 1936 by Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, a five-foot-tall Gentile who had taken a Jewish wife, Yevgenia Feigenburg. Yezhov came to an unfortunate end. His accomplice Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich outdid even him, while Leonid Reichman, the NKVD’s chief interrogator, would deservedly enter the annals of Red Terror. All were Jews. ‘Many Jews,’ summarized Plocker angrily, ‘sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution – and have blood on their hands for all eternity.’

Neither Himmler nor Heydrich had yet taken into account of this Jewish element of Bolshevik history. In Heydrich’s papers, now partly housed in Moscow, we find that for five years after the National Socialists came to power, he ranked the Catholics, followed by Protestants and freemasons as Germany’s most dangerous enemies. Judea – das internationale Judentum – come only seventh.”

David Irving
True Himmler – p. 299-300