The Kingdom of God is not a Marxist Five Year plan. The Kingdom of God happens wherever people are accepting the authority of The Lord Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God could happen after a Nuclear war. The Kingdom of God may have started in China after it gives up communism. The Kingdom of God may start in the United States or Europe right now. As people accept the Lord Jesus Christ, they may have built society around Kingdom of God values. Christianity is culture. Christians in the Kingdom of God start producing Christian Culture. The laws or rules in a community, they start to reflect Kingdom of God values. This may be a gradual thing.
In the Spiritual or Principalities there may have been concepts. Progressivism would be a concept, a thing, that may have been in the Principalities. Progressivism started with "A City Upon a Hill" John Winthrop in the year 1630. Progressivism, as an idea, it came out of American Churches. Satan was a liar and a thief. Sometime around the French Revolution, men in Christianity, who had positions of authority, they ceded Progress in Christianity to Satan. Progess in Christianity, it ended up in Freemasonry. The Freemasons managed to shift it to Progressivism. Freemasonry has been where a lot of the Mysticism was in Protestantism.
What is Progress? Is Progress "A City Upon a Hill?" Is progress men in girls bathrooms, and Queers for Palestine? Understanding what happened, it is a matter of showing what happened, and bringing it out into the light.
There is a spiritual concept I call "Momentum." Changes in the Spiritual, it may have taken awhile for people to pick up on. People have tended to like their traditions. Jesus Christ with his life death and resurrection, he changed how the spiritual works. The only way to the Father is through the son. Could people come to the Father without the son prior to? Satan was kicked out of heaven, with his angels. These things suggest change. Just in Rome, around 33 AD, it took a few hundred years for people to pick up on the changes. Those changes can happen a lot quicker today with Mass Media. What took hundreds of years before can now take a few generations.
Around Progressivism, there was "Momentum." Given Satan stole something from Christianity, it may have taken awhile for the effect to be seen. Satan, he stole "Progress" in Christianity. It started going "Some other way." There was Momentum there. Momentum may be like a rocket ship in a vacuum. Said rocket ship may need a way to slow down and change course.
What are Kingdom of God values? The Orthodox Christians, they believe everyone in Orthodoxy is in the Kingdom of God. Orthodox Christians over in Greece or Russia or Ukraine, were they building Kingdom of God values or did they stop somewhere? Christian societies value virgin brides. Were people who were supposed to be Christians prostituting themselves to something? The Kingdom of God has particular values.
The Kingdom of God is not a Five Year plan. People choose God. People have Freedom of Choice. Building the Kingdom of God takes time.
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The Question: What exactly is Christian Culture? Is that White European Culture?
Someone like Saint Patrick, he was Counter Cultural in a Christian perspective. Saint Patrick went into Pagan Ireland, and he counter the culture of the pagans there towards building Christianity. Over all Europe, there was a tapestry of different cultures and languages, and this was part of Christendom.
Man built a tower of Babel. God struck down the tower of Babel and confused language. There may be interesting God things in Chinese language and culture that many people haven't been aware of. It is ok to be different. Kingdom of God values are a particular thing.
In building the Kingdom of God, we need men who have a proven connection to God. At some point in time they come together in a Synod, and hammer out the details of what The Kingdom of God looks like, and if something was wrong, it is fixed.
The Chinese, for example, they have tended to be stubborn and arrogant about their own culture. The Marxist in the Communist Revolution help quell a lot of Old Chinese Pagan culture to such a degree that many Chinese would be willing to listen? God has used Non-Christians to bring his judgement, at times, like when he used the Assyrians to bring his Judgement on Israel, or when he used the Babylonians to bring his judgment on Judea, or when he used The Persians to bring his Judgement on Babylon. (Isaiah 45) The Chinese have been anti-Western Imperialism while adopting a Western Philosophy, Marxism, coming from a German Philosopher. Contradictory.
God may have given certain nations certain gifts. It is ok to be different; however, there are certain values that are Kingdom of God values. We should be working to be of one mind. (Philippians 2:2) Christian culture comes from God, and a set of values.
Question: Have you seen the movie "National Treasure?" Did you just clue us into something?
ReplyDeleteI haven't gone down that Rabbit hole, connecting those dots. It stands to reasons there may be interesting things from the Founding Fathers in the Episcopal Church....or clues there.