This & That

1.) Today I learned that there are NAPARC clergy who are inching towards trying to drag a few known office holder supporters of Rev. Sam Ketcham into a ecclesiastical judicial process. These clowns are not going to give up until they are able to silence all opposition. Of course the purpose of all this is put fear into anybody who is part of NAPARC to keep them from the overturning the egalitarian/feminist structure that NAPARC has become.

Personally, I find this to be excellent news overall. Sure, it is bad news for the chaps that they are trying to incriminate but overall it is good news because the harder these clergy nincompoops strive to “shut it down” the more the Kinist movement (which is nothing but historic Christianity) is going to spread.

I’m sorry NAPARC but as Mr. Universe says in the film Serenity;

“They can’t stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.”

2.) Yesterday, I was chatting with a friend who lives in a different part of the nation. He has been looking for a church to attend that is Kinist friendly. He tried one out for awhile, he told me, and decided he would gently inquire with the Pastor about their views on racial realism. The Pastor, it turns out, was decidedly egalitarian and anti-Kinist. However, along the way the Pastor rabidly inveighed against your humble Iron Ink host. And this in spite of the fact that I don’t know this Pastor from Adam.

It seems, I have to face up to the fact that I really am, as Jerry Falwell used to say, a “pucker up or duck” kind of guy. People, when they hear my name either want to punch me or kiss me. (I promise you … I am certain it is more of the former.) A friend reminded me today that this was all good news since it means my message is getting out there.

Look, if people really want to shut me down and shut me up, all they have to do is to take the two anthology volumes that reproduce thousands of quotes on racial realism from the Early Church Fathers forward to about 1950 or so and explain how it is that all the Church through the centuries have been racial realists. Then you have to tell me that they were all, like me, “racist.” Then you have to explain how it is that all these “racists” are not going to be in hell.

3.) There have been “Christians” throughout Church history who have been egalitarians. These “Christians” we’ve normally referred to as Anabaptists. Prior to the Anabaptists they were called Cathari (also known as Albigensianism). These folks also embraced the idea that hierarchy and distinctions were sinful. After the Anabaptists there were another group in England that were egalitarians. These were known in history as “the Levellers.” The one thing these each and all have in common with the modern Reformed (NAPARC) church is the desire to flatten out all God ordained distinctions. So, the folks that snarl and bite at me and my mates might be referred to as modern day Cathari.

4.) Take encouragement my friends from the fact that just prior to the Reformation of the 16th century it was the case that the clergy were a despised class because they were so utterly worthless. Of course exceptions existed and God raised up these exceptions in order to bring transformative Reformation. Remember God delights in taking the things that are not to confound the things that are. Our God delights in using the weak things of the world to bring down the strong. Our God delights in using the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. Those that are holding the line are a small minority. Those that are clergy who are holding the line are an even smaller minority. Yet, these are the kind of situations the Lord Christ delights moving in that it may be seen that He gets all the glory. If I had to assess our situation now, apart from my undoubted catholic Christian faith, I would say it is totally and utterly hopeless. However, as a Christian I know my Church history and I know that the Lord Christ can flip the script overnight. That is what I pray for daily and I pray that I might be found faithful until such a time that the Holy Spirit works to the end of giving us Reformation and renewal.

The numbers in the conservative church in the West are against us. We are a decided minority. However;

Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world … or the false church.

Anti-Christian Nationalism

“Christians” are now chanting;

“Anti- Christian Nationalism,
Lord to thee we bow
Savior of our destiny
Thy name be hallowed now”

But heed ye not their ravings
To thy King now be true!
For Anti-Christian Nationalism
Is the “Kingdom of the Jew.”

Keep your Nationality
His and mine and thine
Be not driven headlong
Like Gadarene swine.

Know ye well, the enemy
of Christendom of yore
Anti Christian Nationalism
Our great Babylonian whore

Worldview Thinking … Social Order …. Principalities & Powers

“The idea of unity so possesses itself of man, and is sought for by him so universally, that if he thinks he has found it, he readily yields himself up to repose in that belief. Nor does he content himself with the discovery that nothing is in the world but a creation and a Creator; still embarrassed by this primary division of things, he seeks to expand and to simplify his conception by including God and the universe in one great whole.”

Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy in America”

Fallen man is hopelessly Unitarian in his theology. He is forever looking for the unity of the godhead and having taken man as god, all individual men must submit to this denial of the Creator-creature distinction. All of this explains how it is that the State almost uniquely ends up being god walking on the earth. Fallen man, having denied the Creator-creation distinction looks to the state to provide the Unitarian God it requires and having found that God in the state all must be compelled to serve the state in order for the humanist godhead to have the requisite unity that divinity always requires. Thus slogans are born such as “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” When the Creator – creature distinction is denied the State, more often than not, is assigned the status of the imminent God (true transcendence having been lost) and having the status of the imminent God all the subjects (formerly citizens) must be as one with the Unitarian godhead of the State in order for the state to achieve apotheosis.

All of this follows like water running downhill. If a people eliminates the God of the Bible from their reckoning the inevitable eventual conclusion will be what is described above. However, all of this is not absent a spiritual reality. We are not talking about merely ideas here though obviously ideas enter into all this. We are also talking about principalities and powers. When the social order has evacuated the God of the Bible, embracing instead itself as its own unitarian God spiritual realities begin to exercise their muscle. Having locked God out of His rule — having made the heavens bronze and the earth iron — the power from below begins to reveal itself. Man’s evil thinking becomes consistent with the reasoning and work of the power from below. The social order is inverted and good becomes evil and evil becomes good. This was seen to have happened in the Weimar Republic. It was seen to have happened during the French Revolution as a brief familiarity with the Marquis de Sade’s work testifies. It is happening now in our social order. We have denied the Creator – creature distinction, we have joined the unitarian God-state in a creaturely oneness and the effect is now that we have let loose the demon horde upon ourselves as witnessed by our seeking to remake ourselves in the image of our creaturely demon god. Children are being sexually maimed via surgical techniques. Sodomy and Lesbianism is now mainstreamed and rampant (paging Rick Grenell) children are routinely sexually trafficked, the elite (as the Epstein files reveal) are Lizard people with no souls.

There is a danger of reading the times in a fashion that only traces out the ideas without realizing that behind the implications of bad ideas is a spiritual reality — principalities and powers — that rabidly hate those creatures who still retain the image of God that those spiritual powers likewise intensely hate. Hating God, they hate all creatures and so strive to pull down any social order that isn’t a reflection of the hell that they themselves occupy. Yes, ideas have consequences but both ideas and consequences are not spiritually neutered. There is a spiritual component to Worldview thinking that must be taken into account. It is not the case that we are only seeking to snuff out bad thinking. We have to realize behind that bad thinking is a Screwtape and a Uncle Wormwood that has an interest in breathing out bad thinking.

Yes, the denial of the Creator-creature distinction has great ramifications for a social order but those ramifications are being pursued by a malevolent consciousness to the end of destroying as many image bearers as possible.

The Hoi Polloi

We are the hoi polloi
They often call us “fools”
But what do you expect
We went to public schools?

Kennedy was killed
By the magic bullet pristine
Later found in mint condition
On a stretcher at the scene

The Lusitania was for passengers
And was an Innocent of war
It was not carrying contraband
Despite ordinance on the ocean floor

We are the hoi polloi
They often call us “fools”
But what do you expect
We went to public schools?

All the roads were closed
Out of DC that fateful night
Except the very one
Booth used for his harrowing flight

The Federal Reserve was born
With the Titanic ship disaster
The Opposition to the Fed
Were Guggenheim, Strauss and Astor

We are the hoi polloi
They often call us “fools”
But what do you expect
We went to public schools?

9-11 was an awful tragedy
An act that required requite
But Jets don’t typically burn
With the signature of Thermite

Pearl Harbor found us sleeping
A victim of the Japs
Never mind FDR knew
And designed that installation’s nap

We are the hoi polloi
They often call us “fools”
But what do you expect
We went to public schools?

Epstein was well connected
With a list of the Who’s Who
He blackmailed all the goyim
In service of the Jews

The Clergy in the Church
Play the role of Keystone Cops
They retain all the value
Of a pig rolling in its slop

We are the hoi polloi
They often call us “fools”
But what do you expect
We went to public schools?

A Few Words On Dispensationalism & A Book List

 

“[i]f Higher Criticism is the error of the Bible-disbeliever, “Dispensationalism “, as it is called, is the error of many a Bible-believer.”

O. T. Allis
Professor Princeton/Westminster
Semitic Philology

The stew that was Dispensationalism not only arose from the odd teachings of Edward Irving and John Nelson Darby as systematized by Scofield, Chafer, Ryrie, Pentecost, and others, it also folded into itself revivalism, common sense realism, Keswick and Holiness teaching, Pentecostalism, with additional contributions from prominent Lutherans (Seiss), Reformed (Chafer, D. G. Barnhouse), many Baptists (Vance Havner, John MacArthur, Jerry Falwell, W. A. Criswell, etc.), and of course the Brethren movement from which it arose. These various strains often jostled with one another for supremacy but in the end they all adopted one variant strain or another of Dispensationalism. Indeed, more than a few have argued that R2K is merely another variant of Dispensationalism and has been skewered by being called “Reformed Dispensationalism.” R2K certainly bears the mark of retreatism that was characteristic of Dispensationalism. R2K, also, like Dispensationalism divided the world into “worldly” (R2K’s common) and Spiritual arenas. Finally, R2K, like all Dispensational models emphasized covenantal discontinuity as opposed to covenantal continuity.

What few people know is that D. L. Moody used Dispensationalism as a tool to reunite a fractured nation after the War of Northern Aggression. Moody, who was hardly one to be overly concerned with theological systematization, used Dispensationalism as a tool for sectional reconciliation arguing that as Jesus was coming back at any moment previous disagreements between warring Christians should be put aside and the business of saving souls should unite us all. In such a way sectional recriminations were set aside for the greater work of soul saving.

In many respects then Dispensationalism has been the religious glue that kept America together since Reconstruction ended. It also served as the means by which we have been enslaved by Israel. Dispensationalism so emphasized the ongoing integrity and necessity of Israel that all of World History was changed because of Dispensationalism’s errant premise that Israel remained God’s earthly chosen people and that all Christians were duty bound to bless Israel upon pain of divine retribution.

A Few books that will forever cure you of Dispensationalism;

John Gerstner – Wrongly Dividing the Truth
O. T. Allis – OT Prophecy & The Church
Gentry/Bahnsen – House Divided: The break up of Dispensational Theology
Hummel – The Rise & Fall of Dispensationalism
Steven Sizer – Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church
Steven Sizer – Christian Zionism
O. Palmer Robertson’s – “The Israel of God”
Allison Weir — Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel
Giles Corey – The Sword of Christ____ 

Charles Ryrie in his 1965 book seeking to bring Dispensationalism up to date wrote that the main distinctives of Dispensationalism were

1.) The distinction between Israel and the Church
2.) Literal and plain hermeneutic

3.) Overall point of history was to glorify God

Ryrie’s first essential fails to take into account that OT Israel was the Church in its cocoon stage. Ryrie failed to understand that God is eschatologically done with Israel as a nation-State. Modern Israel is irrelevant to God’s ongoing macro plan of redemption or eschatology.

Ryries second point requires asking the question, “By what standard.” All Protestants who believe in the inerrant and inspired and infallible word of God believe that Scripture should be read via a literal and plain hermeneutic. However, reading the Scripture via a literal and plain hermeneutic looks very different when somebody sane does it as compared when a Dispensational comic book theologian does it.

Everyone agrees w/ #3… we just don’t agree with how the Dispie thinks history is going to glorify God.

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It’s startling how big a part eschatology and teleology plays into one’s theology. Indeed, I don’t think it would be too much to say that one’s eschatology is the engine that drives all other sub areas of systematic theology. Tell me a man’s eschatology and I’ll tell you his soteriology, ecclesiology, anthropology, etc.

I’m reading Hummel’s “The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism” now and Hummel makes the point that the reason that what he calls “new premillennialism” was able to take hold in the states is because people’s attitudes about the future were altered by the War of Northern Aggression and the desire for reconciling white people North and South. The new eschatology allowed the previous postmills to create a dualism that allowed them to be optimistic about the church while being agnostic about the world. If agnostic about the world there would be no reason to not embrace Yankee versions of reconstruction. The price that had to be paid for this “reconciling theology” though was the surrendering of the postmil eschatology that had previously been held widely in the Reformed Church in America. If Jesus was coming back at any minute then there was no need to see all of life needing to conform to God’s revealed law Word. The job at hand was to get souls saved. The job at hand was not to shine the brass on a sinking ship (the world).

Also, what is interesting here is that Plymouth Brethren theology (Darby) became owned by Baptists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians alike as filtered through their particular flavor. So the Plymouth Brethren eschatology owned the day without the Plymouth Brethren denomination reaching any kind of ascendency. Still, the AnaBaptist flavor of the Darby Plymouth Brethren doctrine leavened the whole denominational landscape in America resulting in Prophecy conferences, Bible Colleges peppering the landscape, and the rise of the Missions Movement.

I keep thinking as I read this … “Ideas have consequences.”

Also, I am beginning to understand some of the leavening effect that remains inasmuch as there is a good amount of Plymouth Brethren hermeneutic that remains in R2K