Jumping off a Cliff
We are told in Matthew 5:45 that God “maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the just…” Both blessings and curses work their way through a social and economic order.
For many years the West has lived off the blessings of a once deeply-rooted Christian ethic. My whole life I have heard that we are spending our “Christian capital” and I am now a senior citizen! It now appears our bank account is dropping so low that more than Christians are noting the alarming degradation of our culture. Over sixty years ago, my father began pointing out elements of our society that reflected a downward spiral, a flight from God’s reality that Cornelius Van Til called an “integration into the void.” Today, it is not hard to hear prominent voices advocating our further descent. The degradation around us is the curse of rebellion against God. Too often we think of God’s curse as His specific and targeted retribution; most often God’s judgment is a direct consequence of man’s sin. In other words, when you jump off a cliff, God does not have to point His finger at you and pronounce a curse on your folly. The consequences of such folly are built into the physics of God’s creation. This is just as true in the moral sphere as it is in the physical. Fighting God’s built-in rules and parameters is going to result in our hurt.
When my father began his writing, he highlighted the folly of our humanistic educational system because he saw where it was going. As the years go by, we witness the increasing failures of humanism. In one area after another we have “jumped off a cliff.” As I write, the consequences of a century of government spending and the creation of fiat currency are becoming evident. Inflation causes a decreasing purchasing power that hurts “the evil and the good…the just and the unjust” alike.
The problems we face are systemic because we have been on a foolhardy course for several generations. Don’t blame them all on Biden, and don’t expect to resolve them in the next Congressional or Presidential elections.
We have built a house on sand so it is doomed to collapse. Christian Reconstruction is about building on the rock, Jesus Christ, His Lordship, His Kingdom. That Kingdom will not only survive, it will prosper. We must all continue to proclaim the claims of our King.
Topics: Biblical Law, Culture , Economics