06 July 2024
On the one hand, we expect human ambition to strive for realization of ideals. We expect people to seek leverage to gain something they imagine will be good in this world. Every human has their own notions about the way things ought to be.
On the other hand, we know it's all a waste of effort and resources. All is vanity. It can be worth doing some of it by the Covenant, but otherwise it is futile.
Nothing -- absolutely nothing -- in Christ's teachings justify human ambitions for this world. He repeatedly turned away from using human leverage and human goals, from the Wilderness Temptation to the Cross and after. More than once, a whole army of people were on the verge of forcing Him to become an earthly king, and He escaped. To the day He died, His closest associates never understood this.
Jesus did not come to take this world from Satan's hands, but to forcibly insert the Covenant into a wider human existence across all nations. It is not a political covenant, but something rooted in the Unseen Realm. Satan didn't lose his general control over this realm; he lost people. Jesus did not come to fix this world's ills but to save the people.
I've said it before: In general, the Old Covenant still works. Not the specifics of that culture and people, nor the time and place, but the general thrust of living in a feudal tribal covenant community. If someone wants a human condition that escapes the worst of human ambitions, all it takes is a commitment to establish the foundation of the Code and adhere to the boundaries. It would still reap God's favor, but expectations must be tempered by His wider plans for this world.
God has made it clear that He expects us to do this as church bodies, not as nations. Still, what matters here is that the Law of Moses reflected the fundamental nature of Creation itself. Outside the Covenant, God is not directly involved in anything humans do. Human failures are preprogrammed into the fabric of reality.
Your actions must adhere to a covenant purpose in all contexts. For anything outside the Covenant, we are just going through the motions to avoid unnecessary conflict with human ambitions. There is already too much conflict that is unavoidable. Living by the Covenant puts us at odds with the world; Jesus warned that would always be the case until this world ends. Meanwhile, we must learn how to balance our convictions and the Covenant.
This world rejects our Lord and us. We have no obligation of loyalty to anything in this world. None of the values and claims of common cause apply to us. Protecting people we care about is one thing; the claims of social or political loyalty are another. Systems of human government and human society have no claim on us. We have no tribe but that of Christ. And I've already made clear where the boundaries are for that; it excludes organized religious bodies that do not adhere to the covenant model. Those are merely one more expression of human ambition.
You may still act according to human need, but not because it's a need. You act because it's an expression of divine mercy driving through your convictions. We make no reference to any outside reckoning, only what glorifies the Lord and His Covenant. We make no common cause with any human social or political ambitions.
We teach that Satan holds feudal rights to this world, and that includes control, via his allies on the Divine Council, of all human political activity outside the Covenant. There is no possible way to generate any political solutions to human problems. Any noise about saving people from bad government is a lie from Satan. There can be no good or valid human authority outside the Covenant. It's all satanic; he owns it all and he always wins in human politics.
This is what clearly distinguishes us from the alt-right community with which we are often associated. We generally aren't recognized as a separate voice. The term "alt-right" simply means that we aren't mainstream. And while the contents of this post are nothing new, I grow weary of people trying to drag me into their debates on politics.
Let this statement stand as a point of reference.
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Jay DiNitto
"This is what clearly distinguishes us from the alt-right community with which we are often associated."
One way to put it, using their terms, is that we offer one of the biggest black pills as well one of the biggest white pills in existence.
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