23 March 2023
Take the Black Pill. Human life is expendable; it's the Covenant that must live.
If you don't understand that, then you have no idea what Jesus said, nor the prophets nor Moses before Him. His greatest victory was the Cross. We must be crucified with Him. This is why Daniel's pals faced the fiery furnace with equanimity. The worldly outcomes did not matter. What mattered was faithfulness to the Covenant. It's claims trump all others in this world.
Every day, I encounter people who loudly proclaim that they must do their part to save civilization. They say things like, "The future belongs to those who show up." There is an answer: Eternity belongs to those who carry their cross. The future is not worth having.
No matter how you define it, the term "Black Pill" represents the perception that there's no point in trying some things. Look at 1 Corinthians 7. Toward the end of the chapter (vv. 29-35), Paul lays out the case that making a ton of babies is not that important to the future of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Lord takes from the existing pagan population those whom He will; those are your babies. The issue is spiritual birth, not building a huge population. Yes, we will do our best to train up our children in the ways of the Lord, but there is more than one kind of child in this train of thought. The focus is on spiritual children, the harvest of souls. We don't need to focus on spreading our DNA, but on spreading the eternal truth.
Among most of the so-called Christians I know today, they struggle to twist the meaning of 1 Corinthians 7 to avoid the Black Pill outlook. Those are churchians who are not identified with the Covenant, and often reject the notion of an actual binding covenant. They consider themselves Americans first; they drape the US flag over the Cross. The American flag has become an idol representing a false god. They are determined to save the country, but spare little effort to breathe life into the Covenant.
Their "gospel" is simply Enlightenment deism with Bible verses printed on the outside. The core of deism is that there is no faith, only the mental discipline of believing. Thus, religion is merely whatever seems reasonable. The idea is that religious belief turns out to be good for the world, never mind why. But reason cannot bring you to genuine faith. Faith is invasive and makes the most unreasonable demands.
The political chaos in America is not our fight. America is doomed by God's own hand; the political Black Pill is good medicine. And the idea of getting married and building a godly family is prophetically unrealistic. What that means is that marriage must be a miracle. Very few men and women will be chosen for that task; the vast majority will not find a worthy covenant partner. For the most part, marriages you attempt to build will collapse or even explode, destroying any hope of raising a godly family. This is what Paul was dealing with in his time; Jews were attacking their faith and Rome was about to come down on Christian religion. It was a very bad time to become entangled in building a household, and it's that time again.
We don't face direct persecution, but we also have far less freedom to share the gospel in the first place. It's a very bad environment for proclaiming the Covenant. Life isn't difficult enough to shake people loose from their comfortable idolatries. That kind of tribulation is coming, and it's going to hit us, too. Our testimony will be in how we handle the same overwhelming sorrows that everyone else faces. If you aren't getting ready to to ride out the storm, then you are failing the Lord.
So, with Paul I say, go ahead and try to remain stable in your current situation. Don't worry about that kind of stuff. Stop strategizing about the human context and your next move; take what comes. The circumstances are going down the tubes, but you don't have to get so entangled with this world that you go down with it. Just carry on with the assurance that your Lord is watching and planning to use for His glory. In due time, He will tell you what His glory needs from you, and you will receive all the strength you need to make whatever sacrifice is demanded. Remember Abraham who did not fear to offer his only son on the alter at Mount Moriah. If God chooses to preserve your family somehow, that's a blessing. If God actually requires a sacrifice, that's also a blessing.
Exploit the current circumstances for His glory, and let Him worry about the outcomes.
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