Two Age Model Of Scripture

Scripture clearly teaches a two age model, speaking of this present evil age and the age come. However, this age to come arrived in principle with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ who in His own person was the long promised age to come. Between the first advent of Christ in His life, death, resurrection and ascension and the second advent of Christ the age to come is rolling back this present wicked age as the Kingdom of God’s dear son pilfers the Kingdom of darkness until such a time as the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our Christ. The present wicked age, was the strong man now bound by the age to come in Christ’s victory. The climatic epoch of the age to come awaits its full expression but like a Mustard seed already planted the age to come has been injected as a healing virus into the sickness that is this present wicked age.

As Christians we live between the “now” and the “not yet,” and because of that we are born unto the conflict that is inevitable between this present evil age and the age to come. In the context of this battle we are warriors seeking to bring the authority of the King of the age to come to bear on every area of life and we expect the simpering enemy defending this present evil age to resist us — Christ’s Warriors — at every step as they resist the dawn’s intent to roll back the night.

But …. the dawn has come and the fullness of the age to come will triumph.

Victory is inevitable.

Advent week #1 2025

In His incarnation we confess
The second person comes in faithfulness
Adding human nature to divine
To bear God’s justice as long designed

Rejoice, Rejoice, raise glory, praise and laud
The Son comes for thee, O Israel of God

One person in two natures is our creed
The divine sustains the human as he bleeds
The God-Man by His nature Divine
Bears in His human nature wrath assigned

Rejoice, Rejoice, raise glory, praise and laud
The Son comes for thee, O Israel of God

In fullness of God’s time the Son comes near
Fulfilling what the prophets spoke so clear
That one would come to repair Adam’s fall
To Redeem creation that groans for His call

Rejoice, Rejoice, raise glory, praise and laud
The Son comes for thee, O Israel of God

A King, yet cloaked in a servant’s guise
Binds the strongman to steal his prize
Defeats the Serpent in the desert place
And is anointed God’s champion of grace

Rejoice, Rejoice, raise glory, praise and laud
The Son comes for thee, O Israel of God

Our Prophet, Priest and King He now reigns
Loosening us from sin and guilt chains
Interceding for us still as the God-Man
Let all creation rejoice in God’s sovereign plan

Rejoice, Rejoice, raise glory, praise and laud
The Son comes for thee, O Israel of God

A Word To White Devils Who Have Re-Interpreted Christianity

Canada has the “MAIDS” program which is a state provided suicide as financed by the state. Canada is 65% white yet 97% of those the State is providing suicide for are legacy white people.

Tucker Carlson

Interview w/ Shawn Ryan

The lesson that rolled out of WW II that has been impressed upon the West in a way only second to the necessity to admit that Bagels are sacred, is the lesson that White people must never be allowed again to be a major force in the affairs of their own countries. The evil Notsees were a white country and so white folk cannot be allowed their own country, culture, or civilization. This  mindset explains, in America, the Civil Rights movement and legislation, it explains the Hart-Cellar Immigration act overturning the previous 1924 immigration act. It explains former President Biden using the podium to assert that white supremacy is “the most dangerous terrorist threat” to America. This mindset explains why white clergy are desperate to pack their white churches with non white people. To have a mixed congregation is to escape the sin of being white. This mindset explains why “conservative” denominations have fallen all over themselves in a rush to speak against the evils of their being white. This mindset explains why Christian Nationalism and/or Kinism is so loudly denounced. It is so loudly denounced because CN and Kinism refuse to own that there is something inherently sinful in being white or in whites wanting to commune and fellowship with other whites. This undercurrent of the post-war consensus that “whites are evil,” explains the un-Europeanizing of Europe and so the De-Christianization of Christian Europe as well.

All of this mindset as pushed by the like of “men” like Rev. Drew Popple and Rev. Andy Webb and Rev. Al Mohler and Rev. Doug Wilson, and Rev. Their Name Is Legion, is nothing but a false Christianity where piety is measured in how vehemently one can denounce one’s own people. Piety is now measured in terms of how often one can accuse someone else of “racism,” or “Kinism,” or of being a “Christian Nationalist.” Piety is measured now by how much you hate white people who don’t hate white people as much as you hate white people.

And now comes the pious shibboleth, “But my people are Christians of all races regardless of their race, tongue of nation.” Now comes the Wilsonian like observation that “I have more in common with an old Christian Woman in Timbuktu than I would have with my own mother if she was unbelieving.” Never mind what St. Paul said in Romans 9:3 about his love for his own people.

What will be the evidence of Reformation in White countries?

The evidence will be that white people cease thinking that they can atone for their own sins by hating themselves unto destruction. This self-hatred of they themselves being white as well as their hatred of other white people who don’t hate themselves for being white is explained, at least in part, by believing in a self-atonement scheme whereby they can pay for their invented sins by denouncing the source of those sins. People like Poplin, Webb, Mohler, Wilson, and others advance in holiness in this self-hating white culture by spreading a message of forgiveness unto those who will repent of being white. Want to prove how Holy you are? Stand up and denunciate white people who have no problem being white. Want to grow in esteem in the modern church? Find some poor sap to put into a struggle session before the Elders of the Church.

Now, to be sure white people are sinners in need of forgiveness but they do not need to be forgiven of being white and they do not need to be forgiven for loving their Christian white Fathers and Mothers and they do not need to be forgiven because they do not own a Marxist interpretation of History or they do not embrace critical race theory or that they dare think that Ron Burns and/or Anthony Bradley  and their ilk are absolutely looney tunes.

Evidence of Reform in the West will be seen when we see White churches flourish once again because they no longer think they are closer to God if they manage to be not uniquely White Churches. The evidence of Reform in the West will be when white people quit thinking that somehow their holiness increases if they marry or adopt non-white people.

The only thing that can rescue White people from not only accepting their destruction but also in participating in their own destruction is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Only the Gospel can cure people of the kind of self-hatred that seeks to destroy one’s self in order to atone for their own sins (perceived or real). Only the Gospel can tell white people;

“Look, you don’t have to pay for your own sins (real or perceived). Jesus Christ took on Himself the sins of those who will give up trying to pay for their own sins and thus repent.”

This Gospel needs to preached first in the Churches of the West.

O. Palmer Robertson On The Meaning Of The Death Of Christ

I thought this section by Dr. O Palmer Robertson on the meaning of the death of our Lord Christ to be particularly edifying and enlightening. I hope you find it as comforting as I did.

“The second major moment in which Jesus personally explains the meaning of His death is at the Passover meal. Jesus takes the remnants of the Passover and institutes the ‘Lord’s Supper.’ The Passover lamb was given in substitution for the life of the firstborn male of every Israelite household. Jesus now connects the two rituals by saying, ‘This is my body given for you’ (Luke 22:19). He then took the remnants of the Passover wine and said, ‘This is my blood of the covenant poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins’ (Matt. 26:28; cf. Mark 14:24).

What is Jesus doing? He is explaining by word and by the symbol the meaning of his death. He positions himself in the place of the covenantal sacrifice represented in the Passover celebration.  The entirety of redemptive history up to this point he interprets as fulfilled in His death. As Abraham ‘cut the covenant’ at God’s command witnessed the two theophanies ‘pass[ing] between the pieces’ (Gen. 15:17), so Jesus will allow His body to be torn apart as recipient of the curses of the covenant. As Moses ‘cut the covenant’ at Sinai and sprinkled the people all altar with the blood that opened the ‘new and living way’ into the Most Holy Place (Ex. 24:6-8; Heb. 10:19-20).  As Jesus had earlier presented himself as the ‘ransom for many’ (Mark 14:24; Matt. 26:28). The covenant sacrifice has moved from an animal, to a prophesied ‘servant of the Lord,’ to the Son of God in his sacrificial body. The words of Jesus at the supper reflect once more on the ‘many’ for whom he gave his life as a ransom, the ‘many’ for whom he poured out his life unto death (Isa. 53:12-13).

What more do we need, what more could we ask, to enable us to understand the meaning of the death of Jesus? In these two critical passages of the Gospels, Jesus himself explains the meaning of His death. He points directly to the focal elements of the redemptive processes of the old covenant Scriptures. In the ransom price for the redemption of ‘many’ as well as in the blood of the Passover lamb as the climatic covenant sacrifice for the ‘many’ — in these old covenant images along with his explanatory words, Jesus declares the intent of his death. In the context of the dynamic perspective of the progression of redemptive history, we are not talking in the lingo of a stagnant dead theological system. We are wondering and marveling at a divine plan for the redemption of many, many, sinners from every nation, tribe, and tongue. We are speaking of the crux, the cross, the crucifixion, the consummation of the ages at Calvary. That ‘place’ at Mt. Moriah, solemnly marked  even before Israel’s national arrival as ‘the place’  by Abraham’s offering of his ‘only beloved son’ (Gen. 22:1-2); that ‘place’ mentioned repeatedly in Deuteronomy as the ‘place’ where Israel would offer its sacrifices for decades, even centuries, to come (Deut. 12:5-7, 14, 18, 21, 26; 14:23, 25; 16:2, 7, 11, 15-16; 17:8, 10; 10; 26:2; 31:11); that identical ‘place’ of Mount Moriah where David offering his atoning sacrifice to stop the plague (2 Sam. 24:18-25; cf. 2 Chron. 3:1); that very same ‘place’ where Solomon built and Ezra rebuilt the temple for perpetual sacrifice (2 Chron. 3:1; Ezra 3:8-13); that hallowed ‘place’ ‘outside the city wall’ — it was the very ‘place’ where our Lord was crucified (Hebrews 3:12).

As the poet, though imperfectly, says it:

In the cross of Christ I glory,
Tow’ring o’er the wrecks of time.

And again;

God forbid that I should glory,
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 6:14 KJV)

And again;

I determined to know nothing about among you
except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. (I Cor. 2:2 NASB) …

Do you see the centrality of the cross of Christ? All history flows toward it, and all history flows from it. Give God the glory for the cross of Jesus Christ. From eternity past He planned it. In ancient days he moved all history toward it. From the moment of Jesus ransoming sacrifice for ‘many’ he has advanced history.”

O Palmer Robertson
A New Testament Biblical Theology; Christ of the Consummation – The Testimony of the Four Gospels Vol. 1  – pg. 137 – 139

The Madness Of R2K On The Question Of Christian Nationalism

I.) Rev. Chris Gordon asks;

“Does the Bible require Governments to be Christian?”

Dr. David Van Drunen answers;

“No…. I would say, Jesus does not want nations to be Christian Nations.”

Bret responds,

Yet in Psalm 2 we read God speaking to Magistrates;

Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

I’m pretty confident that this passage is teaching that God requires governments to be Christian or else, given that the idea of Kissing the Son communicates the idea of submission and fealty.

2.) But Van Drunen (DVD) goes beyond that. DVD insists that God does not want (is opposed to) nations being Christian nations. Now, if God does not want something, we would usually say that that something that God does not want is sin. If that is accurate (and I don’t see how it isn’t accurate) then nations being Christian nations would be sin and conversely nations not being Christian nations would be righteousness in God’s sight.

Abounding Grace Podcast
Discussion with David VanDrunen on Christian Nationalism, Stephen Wolfe & Doug Wilson
59:30f Time Stamp

II.) “If you find Nationalism attractive, I’m not on board with you, but go for it. Just don’t slap the adjective ‘Christian’ in front of it (Nationalism) because you then put yourself in danger of 3rd commandment violation by taking the Lord’s name in vain (by) attaching Christ to this and I would say that Christ does not want Christian nations.”

Dr. David Van Drunen

Time Stamp — 59:30f

Bret responds,

1.) Here we learn that to embrace the idea of “Christian” nations is a violation of “Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of The Lord Thy God In Vain.” Conversely, by eschewing the idea of a nation owning Christ’s Kingship, as seen in the laws enacted and Biblical requirements that must be submitted for Magistrates to serve, it must be true that to do so would be to walk in holiness unto the Lord. That is, by not, as by design and pursuit, seeking to have a Christian nation one is at that point being an exemplary Christian living in a Christian nation.

2.) Keep in mind that DVD would use the same reasoning against those who would advocate for Christian families, Christian Law, or Christian Education (to name just a few). In each case and in all cases to use that word “Christian” as an adjective puts oneself in danger of third commandment violation.

III.) “I asked David Van Drunen a question that I believe goes right to the heart of this issue. I asked him what God would think of a nation whose magistrate and people had become overwhelmingly (and sincerely) Christian, and who decided to confess Christ in the common realm, in the formerly secular realm. I asked if God would be displeased with that, and Van Drunen said yes, he thought God would be displeased with that.”

Doug Wilson 
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/the-bozo-over-at-mablog.html

Bret responds,

If God would be displeased with what Wilson describes above the opposite must also be true and that is God would be pleased with a Christian people who decided not to confess Christ in the common realm, in the formerly secular realm.

This in turn means that God is pleased with a realm existing that does not seek to honor Him in all things.

Quite to the contrary we would insist that God intends for all the nations of the world to one day confess Christ – and that prior to His return. This is the promise of Scripture where the Holy Spirit teaches that “Christ must reign until He puts all things under His feet.” Nation would be one of the all things. The last thing the Lord Jesus Christ said was the command to “make disciples of all nations.” If a nation is discipled as unto Christ, thus fulfilling the great commission command, how can that nation not be considered Christian?

R2K consistently denies the idea of Christian nationalism and yet Scripture repeatedly demonstrates that even in the new Jerusalem we find the existence of Christian nations. They come into the new Jerusalem as Christian nations because they were Christian as nation prior to their entry into the new Jerusalem.