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The spirit of the Mosaic law is opposed to the modern radicalism of woman’s rights; a radicalism, which boldly avows its purpose of ” subverting the existing order of society and dissolving the existing social compact.” Moses did not favor the manhood of woman. “Unto the woman he said, … thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”95 Paul interprets this precept when he says of women, “It is not permitted to them to speak in the churches, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.”96 He speaks in the very spirit of Moses, when he says, “The man is the head of the woman;”97 “wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands;”98 “Adam was first formed, then Eve.’99’ Man has a mission, and so has woman, to which the wisdom that never errs, has adapted the bodily and mental constitution of each.

Man’s mission is to subdue and till the earth, to cultivate the mechanic arts, to make roads and dig canals, to carry on commerce, to encounter the perils and fatigues of war, to institute and administer government, to be the shield of woman in moments of danger and sudden alarm, in a word, to perform the rough business of life,—that which requires physical strength and endurance.

Woman’s mission, while it has no less of dignity, is very different from this. It is to be the light and joy of the house [43] hold, to nourish and train the immortal children within its precincts, to mold the whole mass of mind while in its most plastic state, to fill the throne of the heart, to be the priestess in the sanctuary of home, to be the comfort and support of man in seasons of sorrow and of suffering, to move in the realm of ignorance and want, to shine, to cheer, and to bless in all the varied ministrations of sympathy and love, from the cradle to the grave. What purer, nobler, holier realm can she desire? “The true nobility of woman is to keep her own sphere, and to adorn it.” 100

Friedrich Engels,

Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

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As was said last week, by the standard of wisdom as set forth by Scripture we live in a culture of fools. One only has to look at the Theology that is being embraced in much of the Reformed Church today. Whether it is new-Calvinism with its antinomianism, or whether it is Radical Two Kingdom Theology with its abandonment of the public square, or whether it is Federal Vision with its surrender of justification by faith alone or whether it is Cultural Marxism masquerading as Reformed Christianity we are in a difficult situation in order to find wisdom in our Reformed Churches. And because that is true it makes it very difficult to find wisdom for us as individuals as families.

Sermon Teaser
July 14 Sermon — 2012

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The coming of God’s Kingdom is ALWAYS in the context of the elimination by God’s Kingdom of all other contending Kingdoms. God’s Kingdom comes through His judgment on all other Kingdoms. The inauguration of God’s Kingdom then spells the salvation of all those Kingdoms that were overthrown when God’s Kingdom superseded them.

Sermon Teaser
July 2014

The implication is clear. If Governments impress tyranny upon a people and do not govern justly, as God counts “just” then those disordered governments are NOT ordained by God, and God’s people, out of fealty to the Lord Christ, do not owe said governments fealty.

Finished …. Igor Shafarevich’s, “Socialist Phenomenon”

Finished …. Anthony Sutton’s, “Skull and Bones”

Almost finished … R. J. Rushdoony’s, “Chariots of Prophetic Fire”

Made good progress in David Hall’s “The Genevan Reformation & the American Founding.”

RJR’s book is great as a kind of devotional for the lives of Elijah and Elisha.

RJR gives insights consistent with what you find elsewhere in RJR — to wit — the warnings against Statist control, the development of the antithesis in the life of Israel, Observations about the dangers of syncretism, and what it means to be a “Throne man.” Very good

Shafarevich’s book is a must-read if you want to understand what we are living through. Shafarevich connects the dots between atheism as a belief system and socialism as the incarnation of atheism into a social order. Shafarevich lays bare the irrationality of socialism and in a treatise that is worth the price of the book. He spends time exposing how socialism is popular among those who think only as animals (intuitively) as opposed to those who think like humans (using reason). A fantastic book and if one were to combine this read with Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists,” and Toledano’s “Cry Havoc,” and Von Mises “Socialism,” and Hayek’s “On the Road to Serfdom,” one would have a pretty good working foundation on the worldview that is our greatest enemy in our time.

Anthony Sutton’s book made me realize again how deep the wormhole goes. Much of what we get from the thin crust media is 100% spin. The next level isn’t much better with what we get from the court historian publishing houses. Sutton documents the role of the Skull and Bones order in the US and World History. Sutton re-emphasizes that most of the conflict that we see in our times is purposely created as part of the dialectic between a manufactured left vs. right that has as its goal the result of a New World Order. Read in conjunction with other Sutton books, Carol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope,” and books like “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” “The Zionist Factor,” “Behind Communism,” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” one begins to realize that the need for heaven-sent Reformation is far greater than any of us could possibly be aware of. Good book.

Hall’s book is the antidote for the disease that Sutton names. Hall describes for us how Liberty-minded Calvinism is and he traces the impact of Calvin’s thinking on the creation of the West and especially the founding of America. Quoting numerous sources Hall probes how and why genuine Calvinism has always revolted against those who revolt against the Lord Christ as King. This book should be read in combination with Witte’s “The Reformation of Rights.”

This book explodes the myth that R2K thinking is Calvinistic in the least.  Hall has done us a real service with this work.