The Warfare State

By Rev. Paul Michael Raymond
The Covenant News ~ April 16, 2009

Christianity is in a state of war! Rev. Chris Ortiz points this out in his recent piece in the Chalcedon Report quoting from R.J. Rushdoony.

"We are therefore in a state of war, war between heaven and humanism, war between the Almighty God and the totalitarian state, war between God and the scientific planner, predictors and controllers; war between God and all those who defy His infallibility."

While many mainline Christians hold to a "defeatist strategy" in which the church is destroyed and antichrist wins until the Lord's final return, still others repudiate such notions. Those who hold to the Historical Christian faith, where the Church is the ultimate Victorious Church, taking earthly dominion through the work of a Victorious Risen Christ, militant and triumphant, waiting for the rapture is not an option. Only diligent, consistent and faithful action will do, since the Church has been promised total victory in the confines of history.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn said it well. "…the world has…reached a major watershed in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will demand from us a spiritual blaze; we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life, where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon, as in the Modern Era."

A new "spiritual blaze" is most definitely needed. While the postmodern church has been asleep, hiding behind their pot-luck dinners and religious jargon, the enemy has sown its tares, and as a result, the tares are now beginning to take over the entire Vineyard.

Throughout history the church has always been given two options: Either She could go against the rising tide of secular humanism, or she could be ‘Egyptianized' into the pagan culture of anti-Christ. While the postmodern church should have been seeking to counter the Cultural Revolution of Pagan Restoration, She has embraced it instead. Since Christianity has been reduced to a set of feelings rather than a system of Divine Law and Revelation, victory seems hopeless. Therefore, in order to set this "spiritual blaze" into motion, there must be a return to the God of Scripture, obedience to His Law and its faithful application to all realms of the societal order.

God has given America her very own 21st century ‘Julian the Apostate', better known as Barak Obama. Ironically, this man could not have been elected without the assistance and cooperation of the Christian community, through their ignorance and complacency. In spite of reliable reports that Mr. Obama had forged intimate and unholy alliances with known terrorists, Marxists, socialists, gangsters, anti-Christian Muslims, homosexuals, and corrupt politicians, many in the community of Christ willfully ignored the validity of these accusations and supported him at the poles. On any one of these points Christians should have opted to withhold their vote, since the Law of God forbids any Christian to form such unholy alliances. Voting for such a man is an unholy compromise, since it is a vote against the cause of Christ.

Yet, Obama is not alone in his Marxist tendencies. The Democrats, and many Republicans also share in his worldview, many of whom were put into office by those in the Christian community. There is enough guilt to go around for both parties.

For a moment, let us consider what history teaches about Marxism. To support Marxism is to support the ideology of Lenin's murders, Stalin's Gulag, Mao's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's Khumer Rouge, and every other historical case of shocking crimes against humanity. The machinery of Marxism is fueled by hateful violence, terror and repression, and ultimately ends in the annihilation of tens of thousands of people, all in the name of progress and change.

Today's Christian community is grossly ignorant of these historical events. The secular educators have whitewashed them. This ignorance should not be surprising at all. Since most adult Christians have been indoctrinated in the secularized system of education, they perpetuate the problem by insisting on educating their children in the same, God- hating government schools. This type of ignorance and apostasy is generational. With the Christian's involvement in secular primary, secondary and university education, all of which advocate Marxist ideology, whitewashing its horrors, we now have a community of Christians who are unable to think Biblically.

If the reports of Obama's Marxist passions were not enough to wake up the Christian community to the fearful danger of a ‘Julian Administration', the issues of abortion and homosexuality should have made it crystal clear. Not one professing Christian should accept such an individual as the leader of The United States of America. The community of Christendom should have rejected such a blasphemer out of hand. Yet, for the sake of party, race, the hope of change, the hype of hope, an historical precedence, or simply from a hatred of the prior administration, these so-called Christians turned out to be nothing but hypocrites and traitors to the Crown Rights of King Jesus.

The Obama administration essentially has declared a vicious war against both Christ, and all those that call themselves by His Name. Even many Christians who supported him initially are now finding themselves the target of his wrath. His goal is, and always was, the eradication of Christianity through government policies aimed at solidifying a Marxist, totalitarian, immoral secular statist order. This is evident by his actions to date. It is nothing short of fascism. In only a few short months Americans have seen a myriad of totalitarian executive orders and policy implementations, ranging from government central planning, to the centralization and government take-over of the banking industry, as well as the bailing out of the auto and insurance industries. Through a systematic program of blatant thievery (a direct violation of the 8th commandment), Obama has initiated the largest welfare policy and spending frenzy the world has ever experienced. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been promised as a "rescue plan" to industries that should be allowed to go bankrupt. He has resurrected the death tax laws and other larceny-fueled policies in order to strip, not only the present citizenry of their wealth and dignity, but the generations that follow. Incredibly many Christians still applaud Obama's plan to save the economy by spending money that he does not have, and which he must steal through taxation. In spite of all these things, so many continue to vehemently insist that he will be America's hero.

This administration's wicked passion for more government regulations and micromanaging power is frightening. Even now, there is serious discussion about regulating the utilities of every household in order to be more "frugal" in our energy consummation. According to economist Ned Schmidt, the last time the world has seen this was in Argentina, under the dictatorship of Juan Peron in the 1950's. The Peronists destroyed the Argentinean economy making its currency worthless. In an interview with The MoneyChanger, Schmidt observed, "Their gold was not confiscated. Their wealth was confiscated. First, they took it by inflation and destroyed the value of the currency. Second, they confiscated the bank accounts, converting them into government bonds. Third, they confiscated the private pension systems. The confiscation to worry about is wealth confiscation."

Obama's policies, along with the Democratic Congress, are directly out of the atheistic Communist Manifesto. If that is not sufficient to enrage the people of God (and anyone else with any sense of conscience), Obama has newly appointed an open homosexual activist, Harry Knox to head his faith-based program. While seeking to push through "hate speech" legislation, which would target the clergy, forbidding them from preaching against such things as sexual immorality, our lawmakers are tightening their death grip on what is held sacred by good and decent Americans. According to One News Now, Knox's task is to create a national network for 22 progressive state clergy coalitions across the U.S. It is obvious that Obama plans to enforce a pro-homosexual orthodoxy upon the American people, whether they like it or not. It is enough to make anyone with a moral conscience sick to his stomach. To think that Christians helped effectuate this mess is simply unimaginable. The floodgates of immorality are now open, and the Christian is "fair game" for censorship, intolerance and eradication. There is simply no doubt that the Faithful within the Christian community are headed for some difficult times.

The Community of Christendom needs a logistical plan of action, and the implementation of it through a networking of faithful, diligent, and courageous leaders who are not afraid to sacrifice their time, fortunes and "sacred honor". We need to discuss, and then actively apply Biblical solutions to these pressing issues. With all that is available to us through the medium of technology, we ought to be ashamed for our negligence, which has brought us to the predicament we are at present. It is time to awake out of our slumber and form intellectual action committees, and logistical workshops, galvanizing and equipping Christians to take the fight to the enemy.

Barak Obama entered a new world of Christian disorder and impotence during his campaign. It was a time of frustration over the myriad of legislative confusion and corruption. It was, and still is, essentially anarchistic. This was a good thing for him since anarchy is naturally weak and the people embroiled in an anarchistic culture welcome a despotic totalitarian ‘nanny state'. Obama's beast was well organized, and thus it was able to influence the ignorant, fearful and faithless – and as a result won the American presidency. However, as Toynbee observes, "But then there is the Christian Church…a factor to be reckoned with. It may have to undergo martyrdom in the future world-state, but as it compelled the Roman world-state in the end to make at any rate formal submission to Christ, it might again, by the way of martyrdom, conquer the world-state of the future."

The Obama Administration plan is doomed to fail, as is Obama himself, since he has shaken his fist at the Almighty in bold defiance. His policies will bring about anarchy in our time. Anarchistic societal orders are, by nature, weak, and easily influenced, provided there is a well-ordered organization ready to take the reigns of power. That organization is not an institution but a people, a righteous community of Christ-honoring souls who understand and know how to apply the Law of God to every facet of life. Pro Rege!


Rev. Paul Michael Raymond
Pastor of The Reformed Bible Church In Central Virginia @ Appomattox;
The New Geneva Christian Leadership Academy;
The Institute For Theonomic Reformation
Contact: pastor@hisglory.us


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