Your Preacher & His Preaching Habits; McAtee contra “The Godless Coalition”

I’ve come to call them “The Godless Coalition.” I’ll not insist that every piece they publish is abhorrent or that some can’t be helpful. I will say however that just as one doubtless can find good food in the garbage dumpsters behind 5-star restaurants but still might decide better food sources are available so one may be able to occasionally find salutary articles in “The Godless Coalition’s” archives but why would one bother to search when there are so many other better sources available?

This piece was brought to my attention by an Iron Ink reader and friend.

Expect Less (and More) of Your Pastor in Addressing Current Events

And it’s just about what you’d expect from Kalergi Clergy who graduated from R2K Westminster Seminary California.

You can read it if you like. I’m just going to give a few observations on a few of the points that the article hits in order to eviscerate this anti-Christ thinking and that in order to provide some help to people who smell the foulness of this reasoning but who may have a hard time getting their arms around how to point out the source of the foul oder.

1.) The article argues that your Preacher is doing you a favor when he doesn’t preach on social issues like abortion, sodomy, trannie-ism, birth control, governmental deceptions of the highest order, the impact of a policy that will end in a disappearance of borders, or Magistrates who command wicked behavior. The reason your Preacher is doing you a favor for not preaching on those things is that he has more important things to preach on and your preacher has limited authority as to what he can speak to, besides… God really has no “thus saith the Lord” to speak on these types of issues.

The problem here is that

a.) This presupposes that Christ is not an all-consuming sovereign King.  The mind of Christ made known in Scripture from Genesis to Revelation doesn’t legislate on the kind of issues mentioned above. Per this R2K thinking Jesus came to save your soul, grant to you an individual if abstracted personal piety that has zero impact on public square issues. This is called “sanctification.” This denuded Jesus is the Jesus that your Preacher needs to be bringing to you every week.

b.) This presupposes that Preachers are not set apart to aid God’s people in taking every thought captive to make those thoughts obedient to Christ. The congregation instead, by way of silence in the pulpit, is allowed to conclude that God doesn’t have a word to speak on let’s say Marxism, Critical Race Theory, Existentialism, Romanticism, Intersectionality or that Uncle Frank is now Aunt Francis. All that is irrelevant as long as people can articulate the doctrines of Justification, Imputation, Regeneration, and give solid reasons why the third use of the law is no longer applicable.

Please understand, I am in no way saying that Justification, Imputation, Regeneration, Election, or the Ordo Salutis are unimportant doctrines or even less important than some of the other issues mentioned. What I am saying is that your Preacher needs to be speaking to both.

As an example … As a Preacher I can say; “Because we are Justified by the work of Christ so that our guilt is now taken away, we no longer should be a people who are laden by the false guilt that the race pimps seek to laden us with in order to manipulate our behavior by promising to rid us of guilt if we will only vote a certain way. Because we are Justified and have had our sin and guilt imputed to Christ we are not a people who accept notions of false guilt that are always being pushed on us as a means of our destruction.”

See… I just delivered a word on Justification with an appropriate application as it fits a contemporary issue. Other examples can be easily multiplied. If your  Preacher can’t do that then find another Preacher.

2.) Your Preacher has a limited message that must point you to Jesus.

The problem here is

a.) This presupposes that Salvation is only personal and individual and not corporate. While it is certainly true that any Preacher worth his salt will remind God’s people that Jesus is the only relief and cure for sin and sinners. People must be reminded constantly that Jesus Christ is their righteousness before the Father and that we rely solely on His mediatorial work to have Peace with God. However, all of that does not negate that pointing people to Jesus also includes helping people to answer the question, “How Now Shall We Live to Please God,” as a community. To preach the answer to that question from the pulpit is pointing people to Christ.

b.) The presupposes that theology is NOT the Queen of the Sciences. Everything we encounter in our lives comes to us informed by a theology that corresponds to the Christ or corresponds to some false Christ. When Preacher refuses to speak to the kinds of issues that the TGC eschews then the Preacher by his neglect is allowing his people to be pointed to some alien Christ who is not Christ. Every issue comes to us as an expression of some theology. If the minister is not preaching the mind of God on these issues he is a false shepherd.

3.) Your Preacher isn’t responsible to make sure his congregation has a shared world and life view because that is too much to expect. Your Pastor isn’t called to referee every dispute among Christians.

The problem here is;

a.) If you Preacher doesn’t give a “thus sayeth the Lord” on (as for example) “how feminism is an attack on Christ,” or “how cultural Marxism in the Church creates a different Jesus,” or ” the danger of the Great Reset as the next attempt at Babel,” etc. then what your Preacher is communicating is that God doesn’t have a “thus sayeth the Lord” for movements and theologies that have as their intent to cast His Messiah off His throne.

b.) It is true that your Pastor isn’t called to referee every dispute among Christians. It is also true that your Pastor is called to tell you that God, long ago, has solved disputes that Christians may be arguing about today.

I agree that the Minister should speak to local issues when warranted. I agree that a minister only has so many hours in a week but I would remind people that the Preacher’s primary work is prayer and ministry of the Word (Acts 6:4) and that others must take up other perceived clergy responsibilities so that your minister may excel in what he was set apart to do. Preachers are supposed to understand Christianity as communicated in God’s Word and then are to understand the times and know what must be done in light of that understanding and then are to Preach like their hair is on fire so that some may be saved though singed by fire.

It is my prayer that people would flee from the kind of Preachers who take seriously the counsel offered in this “Godless Coalition” piece. I’m sure the author has good intentions. I’m also sure good intentions pave the road to hell.

Rev. Brian Lee Getting Out of His Lane

“America’s original sin is rebellion. No matter how justified you might believe the American Revolution was, it ultimately comes down to the claim that the authority of the King was unjust, and therefore no longer worthy of submission.”

Rev. Brian Lee
United Reformed Church Minister
Historically Challenged

The only thing this quote tells me is that Rev. Lee has never studied American History. The Colonists did not rebel against the Crown but rather drew a line in the sand regarding the Crown’s violating their Charters (Political Covenants) with the Crown. If anyone was rebelling in the run-up to the American war for Independence it was the English Crown.  The worst that can be said about the Colonialists is that they were rebelling against the English Crown’s rebellion.

The English Crown was rebelling against the Political Covenants that spelled out the responsibilities and privileges of both sides entering into political covenant via the Colonial charters. This is why, in the Declaration of Independence, the list of grievances is present. The Colonialists were saying to the Crown, “You have rebelled against our Political Covenants and because of your rebellion and breaking of the covenants we no longer, as before God, are required to keep our commitments to our responsibilities as articulated in the original covenant documents.”

 

Of course,  Rev. Brian Lee doesn’t know this, and just like all the historically illiterate he sees America’s original sin as being rebellion and goes on to warn against our rebelling against the Masked, and social distanced mandates and pleads with Christians everywhere to kiss the arse of all wicked magistrates as they require us to break the 6th and 9th commandment, (and often the 8th) be wearing face diapers. Lee has more respect for the word of Magistrates than he does the word of God.

It is interesting that Lee would do this, since as an R2K lover, he is of a crowd who is forever saying that, “Ministers need to stay in their lanes.” This means that Ministers, per the R2K crowd, shouldn’t talk about history (among other things) since that is not their lane. But here is Brian Lee doing just that — recklessly careening into the lane of Historians and writing about something he doesn’t know Jack Squat about.

Lee may intend well (who doesn’t?) but his theology at this point is anti-Christ.

You Will Have To Fight For Your Old Normal

Imagine all that Stalin, Hitler, and Mao did to make their social orders command and control social orders. Now realize that what you are currently living through in the Great Reset is more of a move towards social order control than the three of them combined could have ever dreamt of in their wildest dreams. What we are living through RIGHT NOW makes Orwell (1984, Animal Farm), Huxley (Brave New World), Bradbury, (Farenheit 451), Vonnegut (Harrison Berergon), and every other dystopian view of the future look like child’s play.

We are living, through the attempt to regulate via a command and control system, the standardization of the whole freaking world — including human beings. Via the mRNA treatment (erringly called vaccines) human beings are set to be standardized by a biological operating system being downloaded and encoded in their DNA. This standardization of human beings is much the same type of thing when the record industry standardized itself by agreeing that all LP’s would run at 45 rpm. What you are living through right now intends to turn each and every one of you into universal cogs that can be changed out to serve the same purpose.

What we are living through right now is man’s assault on God part gazillion. This is fallen man’s attempt to ascend to the most high. This is fallen man’s final storming of heaven. Man will, via the high command of the Elites, be his own god, and humans, by the design of elites will use other humans as just another planetary resource like copper, or oil, or natural gas.

Your whole future as a free man and woman depends upon you resisting the State and its every command — from face diapers to social distancing, to gathering restrictions, to a refusal to be treated with the mRNA operating system download, to business openings to whatever the State brings down. You must resist. If you don’t resist your future will be one of the hewers of wood and drawers of water.

There is no returning to normal unless you refuse this “new normal” This new normal is completely contrived and unnecessary. This new normal is committed to a universal income, social credit personal control, and surveillance existence. As the Great Reset meme goes, “You will own nothing and be happy.”

2018 James White & Anabaptist Reasoning As Fighting Against Cultural Marxism

“Concepts of “whiteness” or “blackness” are DESTROYED by the radical equality of every sinner’s need and Christ’s perfect provision. Our identity is NOT determined by our ancestors—we have been transferred out of the kingdom where such relationships rule and divide.”

Dr. James White 
Twitter feed –05 May  2018

Now it is entirely possible that Dr. White has changed his views since 2018 on this subject. One can always hope but as this quote stands it is difficult to understand how White’s position is an improvement upon Duke Kwon’s view which White is seeking to overturn.

The Reformed position has always been that grace restores nature but here White is telling us that grace destroys nature. Once someone is converted they may well be no longer left-handed…. they will not need to deal with familial traits like anger. It seems once coming to Jesus, God makes us a blank slate for Jesus to write on.

While no one would disagree that our identity (either unconverted or converted) is not absolutely determined by our ancestors. No one would disagree that once being in Christ our identity is altered. Our affections are changed incrementally. Our evaluating situations are incrementally changed. Our thinking is changed incrementally. However, one does disagree that after conversion we become a human being unrelated to the human being we were before conversion.

To see how utterly foolish White’s quote is, consider what it looks like when we just alter it slightly with an alteration perfectly legitimate;

“Concepts of ‘maleness’ or ‘femaleness’ are DESTROYED by the radical equality of every sinner’s need and Christ’s perfect provision. Our identity is NOT determined by our sexuality —we have been transferred out of the kingdom where gender identity rules and divides.”

If this ideology were followed before this generation, there would only be one race today: meaning it is new theology.  Christians have had two thousand years to eradicate all the race distinctions: how are we just getting around to it? This is Anabaptistism redux. This is James White type logic.

But we are not done.

“We cannot look back upon ethnic histories when speaking of our relationship within the one body of Christ.”

James White
Anabaptist Extraordinaire

Why could we not equally say,

“We cannot look back upon family histories when speaking of our relationship within the one body of Christ.”

If we said that it would be Taps for covenant theology. Methinks White is being consistent here with his anabaptist presuppositions.

Or what about saying,

“We cannot look back upon our gender histories when speaking of our relationship within the one body of Christ.”

There is more from Dr. Gnostic

“The renewal that is the reality of true Christians is one that obliterates social, ethnic, and historical connections.”

So… when I am saved, per White, my relationship with my Mother and Father are obliterated.

How can this man not realize the Gnostic tarbaby which he as embraced?

We end with this one from Dr. White,

“We who are opposing this very American, very sociological, but (we believe) very unbiblical movement (Cultural Marxism) do so because we see it requiring a new paradigm, a new way of interpreting the entire gospel message.”

James White

Honestly, if White is the Dudley Do-right coming to the rescue of the fair damsel in distress that fair damsel is hosed no matter if the evil Snidely Whiplash (Duke Kwon) keeps her in his possession or whether Dudley Do-right “saves the day.”

There are very few good guys in the Reformed church today.

Christian Anthropology And Its Implications For 2021

Romans 3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

10 As it is written:

“There is none righteous, no, not one;

11 There is none who understands;

There is none who seeks after God.

12 They have all turned aside;

They have together become unprofitable;

There is none who does good, no, not one.”

13 “Their throat is an open [d]tomb;

With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;

“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;

17 And the way of peace they have not known.”

18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become [e]guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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We hope to take this step by step this morning. First we want to deal with what the text is doing. We will from there consider the text as informing our Confessions. Then we want to see how the text informs the Worldview category of Christian anthropology. Then we will deal with some ancillary issues connected to this doctrine.

Here we read to St. Paul’s great peroration, by means of quoting from OT texts, touching the sinfulness of fallen man. It is concluding statement drawn from all that he has set forth starting in Romans 1:18. From that point forward Paul has labored to make the point that all men, regardless of classification or nationality are guilty sinners before God.

If we were to work through this section we would see that from Romans 1:18-32 St. Paul has made the case that immoral man is characterized as guilty sinners before God. In that section Paul teases out some of the immoralities of the ancient world and declares their odiousness and sinfulness before God.

When we get to Chapter 2:1-16 we see that man who thinks of himself as moral man does not escape the reality that he is a guilty sinner before God.

In Chapter 2:17-29 St. Paul points a finger at the religious Jews and tells them that they too stand as guilty sinners before God.

The whole thrust of this section is to convince every mouth of its sin that it may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

It is from this section and other sections of Scripture like this section that the Christian doctrine of Anthropology or “the doctrine and nature of man” comes from.

Per this section Christians have insisted that man, in terms of his nature is sinful… or evil … or if you prefer “fallen.” The Scriptural doctrine of Anthropology is that man outside of Christ will always demonstrate his appetite for that which is wicked. Fallen man left to himself will always go from bad to worse.

This is the testimony of Scripture that we find here in Romans 3. Man is, by nature, evil.

Of course this Christian Anthropology based upon the witness of God’s Word has been placed in our confessions and catechisms.

For example the Westminster Confession of faith, relying on texts like Romans 3 teaches,

Section 2.) By this sin, they (Our first parents) fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,(1) and so became dead in sin,(2) and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.(3)

(1) Ge 3:6,7,8; Ecc 7:29; Ro 3:23 (2) Ge 2:17; Eph 2:1 (3) Tit 1:15; Ge 6:5; Jer 17:9; Ro 3:10-18

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Section 3.) They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed,(1) and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.(2)

(1) Ge 1:27,28; Ge 2:16,17; Ac 17:26; Ro 5:12,15,16,17,18,19; 1Co 15:21,22,45,49 (2) Ps 51:5; Ge 5:3; Job 14:4; Job 15:14

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Section 4.) From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,(1) and wholly inclined to all evil,(2) do proceed all actual transgressions.(3)

  1. Ro 5:6; Ro 8:7; Ro 7:18; Col 1:21 (2) Ge 6:5; Ge 8:21 ; Ro 3:10,11,12 (3) Jas 1:14,15; Eph 2:2,3; Mt 15:19

    In our Christian anthropology we then learn that fallen man is born

    1.) Guilty
    2.) Without original righteousness
    3.) A corrupt human nature

    Insert Rabbit trail

    As a brief rabbit trail here let us add that Anthropology is an inescapable category. Either one will own a Christian Anthropology or they will embrace a humanist anthropology. If one embraces a humanist anthropology the doctrine of sin does not go away but is redefined in a humanist direction. Instead of God’s Word being the standard for right and wrong, normative and aberrant, good and bad behavior man becomes the standard.

    The unbeliever will still typically talk about “sin” or “wrong,” or “aberrant” but they use a different standard to define those realities. They will use the standard of some humanist yardstick. For example today the humanist yardstick for “sin,” “wrong,” or “aberration” is some behavior that violates some extra-biblical code.

    On this score RJR has noted,

    “Sin is being defined in terms of crimes against humanity, not against God, and the very obscene and wicked men like Michael Luther King, which was his real name, are being exalted as though they were saviors. When churchmen are doing this, certainly the principle of the Man of Sin is very powerful within the church.”

    ~ Rushdoony

    “Paul’s Prophetic Discourses”

    You see if we will not define sin per God’s revelation then we will allow our enemies to define sin and when God’s enemies define sin they craft it so that Christians are the ones who are always guilty of their humanist sins. It is Christians who are guilty of humanist sins of racism, hate crimes, and blasphemy.

    End of rabbit trial

    So, before the rabbit trail we were talking about how it is that fallen man is born.

    Let us take these briefly one by one

    (1) Guilty

    Our anthropology informs us that as man enters into this world he enters as guilty before God.

    This idea of guilt, in the way we are using it here, means because of our union with Adam man (Romans 5) is under obligation to render satisfaction to God’s justice. It means that man deserves punishment.

    Man is born guilty
    A debtor to God’s law
    Delighting in his flaw

    Theologian A. H. Strong wrote “Guilt comes because of what we have done personally or in Adam – it is a consequence of disobedience – ours or somebody elses.

    So, a Christian anthropology teaches that sin is antagonism to God’s Holy Will. Guilt means the obligation to satisfy God’s outraged Holiness.

    We see that in the text this morning. Consider vs. 19

    19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become [e]guilty before God.

    (2) Man is not only guilty but he is born w/o original righteousness

    That is the whole tenor of the passage in Romans 3. Look at it again and remember that it is a peroration – a synopsis of the points he has made up to this point.

    Review passage

    Over and over we read of the absence of original righteousness and the presence of positive evil. What we are seeing in the text is not some kind of disease or sickness such as we too often label sin today. What we are reading is a nature … a disposition. As fish find water to be their home man apart from Christ finds sin to be their natural environment.

    (3) Man’s Nature is thoroughly corrupt

    We call this in our language “total depravity.”

    This corruption means that all of man is vitiated. Man according to his will, reason, and love is corrupt. All of man’s faculties, passions, and powers of body and soul are corrupt.

    This corruption means that there is no spiritual good in relation to God w/i the sinner at all but only perversion resting in one degree or another.

    So, this is our Christian Anthropology and if this is our Christian anthropology should we be surprised to find that men conform to it? Can we really be surprised when we learn that fallen man once used 50K US Soldiers in Operation Desert Rock in a series of military tests in the 1950s aimed at understanding the effects of atomic radiation on ground troops. In total, over 50,000 U.S. soldiers were exposed to 69 radioactive blasts.

    So this is our Christian anthropology and if this is our Christian anthropology can we really be surprised to find that men conform to it? Can we really be surprised when we learn that fallen men once the US Government took 600 black males w/ syphillis and told them they were being treated when in fact they were merely being observed so that the natural history of untreated syphilis” in black populations could be discovered.

    Two examples. I could spend an hour giving more. This doctrine of Christian anthropology requires us to believe that fallen man is capable of anything. Of anything. Fallen man is capable to creating a false pandemic in order take over the world. Fallen man is capable of using mRNA treatment to download a biological operating system so as to control man by tagging him so that surveillance and finance are easily monitored. Fallen man is capable of being sinful enough to want to turn 99.9% of the world’s population into cattle to be controlled.

    Now… here me. I’m not necessarily saying this is true, though if I was a gambling man I’d be pushing all my chips in the middle of the table. What I am saying is that as Christians, with

    1.) Our Christian anthropology
    2.) A Christian understanding of fallen man’s record in History
    3.) Lucifer’s hatred for mankind

    We should find these kinds of things hardly beyond the pale of being believable. My understanding of Christian anthropology requires me to believe that fallen man is capable of anything… ANYTHING. And all the more so when his fallen-ness is combined with finance, power, and opportunity.

    So… given this is our Christian anthropology why are Christians so gullible… so credulous?

    Well, I think part of the reason is that we tend to believe that everybody is like us. You sitting here today, and most of the people you know – believer or unbeliever – have been influenced by the Christian ethic. You don’t have power plus money plus opportunity and you can’t imagine people being wicked on the scale of adenchrome, comet pizza, and Epstein’s pedo Island. You just can’t imagine anybody being that wicked because you think people are just like you. Fallen people are not just like you. There are lizard people out there and their name is legion. People with no conscience. People with no sense of remorse. People with no sense of shame or guilt. People completely absent the notion of God. Lizard people.

    Nietzsche called them the ubermensch … the men who were beyond good and evil. The Supermen who were responsible to give us a new ethic in a new world since God was dead.

    You have to return to Romans 3 and read it again. Fallen man is capable of any and every wickedness you can imagine and that all the more so when his social-order & culture is fast deteriorating and moving away from its Christians moorings. What … do you think only primitive Aztecs and Zulus are capable of astonishing wickedness?

    So, this is Christian Anthropology. Our doctrine of man. This is one premise upon which all our theology is set. And since it is so fundamental it is a premise that is constantly under assault. It was under assault in the 1st inaugural address this last week. I wonder if you heard it if you listened to the address. There was the attack, in all its glory, on Christian anthropology.

    (1) “This is a great nation and we are a good people.”

(2) “We can make America, once again, the leading force for good in the world.”

This is the talk of Utopians. All Utopians believe this horse hockey. Believing that man is basically good they then can launch into their sociological projects designed to help man be as good as he can be. They can begin to “social-engineer” man.

And social-engineering means for many of the Davos Crowd transhumanism. The World Economic Forum Billionaire groupies are pushing this great reset which includes this attempt at transhumanism.

Now remember we are talking about man’s sin nature. We have looked at Romans 3. We have considered the confessions. We have defined this idea of fallen man’s sin nature in our theological language.

And now we are considering what all this means concretely. And what we are saying now is that fallen man is more than capable of seeking to social engineer mankind so that he crosses an evolutionary marker and becomes transhuman … human but more than human.

It is all there is the literature. There you find Huxley in his BNW telling us about those responsible for creating the different categories of humans needed for varied tasks.

Huxley caught the transhumanism in the birthing process. In BNW birthing became depersonalized with the use of machines and surgically removed ovaries, which are kept in incubators, to produce fetuses, who are then stored in jars on conveyor belts. These conveyor belts have been engineered to move at 33 1/3 centimeters an hour so their journey along the belt is completed in 267 days. Along the way, they are subjected to X-Rays to kill off the weak. The fetuses are also given chemicals according to there caste to condition them.

Our transhumanism today runs along different rails but it is still animated by the same anthropology. Man has determined that God is absent so man will be his own God and create a transhuman that is not only socially engineered but is also biologically engineered. It’s already happening in China with their system of social credit. Why would you think it would not come here?

You have to understand with our anthropology we understand that for the unbeliever that there is, as the text says, no fear of God before their eyes. Because there is no fear of God before their eyes they believe that all things are open to them. They become their own God. When they are considered as the Technocratic Oligarch crowd that we are dealing with their assumption as God is to see humans as a resource to be managed just like oil, or coal, or copper. Men are not to be free but are to be in bondage to the elitist technocrat. If the technocratic Oligarch believes that humans would be better managed if they were all chipped and part of a central data base then all humans will be chipped.

There is nothing wrong with this since it is the best way to manage the resource called humans. We have to understand that once man has no fear of God before his eyes then there is nothing that is out of bounds in terms of behavior.

Look… either we believe our Anthropology or we don’t. If we believe it then it is easy to believe that Government heads like Pharaoh would throw babies into the Nile river, easy to believe that Government heads like Nebuchadnezzar throw people alive into furnaces because they won’t bow down, and easy to believe that Government heads like Herod would slaughter the innocent just to try to kill Jesus, and Government heads will be more than happy to go all Transhumanism in their Great Reset NWO project.

Conclusion

However, man’s sinfulness is not the final word. Christian anthropology is answered by Christian teleology. We believe that the Kingdom has come and that evil men will be overcome. We believe that Christ having defeated the enemy in His work on the Cross intends to defeat the Fagins and the Raskolnikovs, and the Madame deFarges and the Edward Rolles Westons of the world.

Evil men don’t get the last word because our teleology of the Kingdom reminds us that Christ shall reign until he makes all his enemies his footstool. Victory over wickedness in time and space history is inevitable.

We are reminded that even when evil men wax for a period of time that though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. We are reminded that even when evil man wax for a period the Lord God Omnipotent reigns and that His Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom which will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

So, we are aware of the reality of our Anthropology but we understand that in Christ victory at the Cross he is now the Christus Victor who triumphs over all enemies. And we triumph in him.