Category: Apologetics

 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.

“In this light, the modern habit of translating these texts into the language of ‘leadership’ or ‘male authority’ is a reversion to the very power structures the gospel overturns.”

Rev. Aaron Mize
Ordained Servant Magazine
OPC

Note, the implicit declaration here that power structures are inherently evil. Power structures are overturned so that no power structures (supposedly) remain. Power is automatically evil. Patriarchy and hierarchy are automatically evil because they are power structures.

The dirty secret here is that power structures are an inescapable category. As such if, as Mize desires, we get rid of the power structures of patriarchy and hierarchy what fills the vacuum is matriarchy and egalitarianism as the new power structures. So, hierarchy doesn’t go away but is replaced by egalitarianism that serves as a mask for a rampant Matriarchy. If men do not rule (patriarchy) then women will rule (matriarchy). Somebody has to have the authority folks. If we are going to denounce patriarchy then all that is left to fill the void is matriarchy but as we can’t be obvious we will call it egalitarianism instead.

Next, if the Gospel overturns the power structures of hierarchy that Rev. Mize insists that it overturns then pray tell why all that language in the Westminster Larger Catechism (Q. 124-130) about the duties and sins of superiors, and inferiors? Mize’s own Confession, that he swore to uphold, teaches that hierarchy is Biblical and yet here is Mize insisting that Christ came to overturn these sinful power structures.

And what about the Editor, Gregory Reynolds, who let this bilge be printed? Greg Reynolds is older than I am, for Pete’s sake, and he let this get into the magazine he edits? As far as I am concerned Gregory Reynolds should be ash-canned for letting Mize’s garbage be printed.