Lux Lucet

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Sampson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.  Women received their dead raised to life again.

• Hebrews 11:32-35

The passage above falls toward the end of Hebrews chapter 11, a portion of Scripture we sometimes call the faith hall of fame.  That’s not a bad title to give Hebrews 11.  After all, it recounts example after example of men and women from the Old Testament who trusted in the Lord, that is, they believed God’s words, serving as his witnesses. 

In vv. 32-25, the author of Hebrews is wrapping up his review of faithful Old Testament saints, quickly passing over a few names and giving examples of their accomplishments.  In some cases, it’s fairly easy to discern who performed which of the acts mentioned in the passage.  In other cases, it’s not so clear. 

One aspect of the deeds mentioned here is that they are not necessarily works we would always think of as acts done in faith.  In our own day, many people, perhaps even some Christians, would think of them more as acts of bravery or some technical know-how than as acts done in faith.  I’m talking here of such works as “subduing kingdoms,” “becoming valiant in battle,” and “turning to flight the armies of the aliens.” These are works that many would consider more in the realm of secular public policy than anything Christian. 

But as Christians, at least those who have a proper understanding of God’s sovereignty, know, there is nothing that happens outside of his will.  There is nothing independent of God.  There is nothing that is truly “secular” as some would use that word, as if there are some matters that are not subject to God’s decretive and preceptive will.

I say this because one of the besetting sins of contemporary Christians – and I’m talking here about people who claim to believe the Bible, not secular humanists dressed up in Christian clothing – is to suppose that they can adopt the world’s tactics to fight spiritual battles and hope to win.

One example of this is how some Christians have tried to push back on Darwinism by arguing, not for Biblical creation as set forth in Genesis 1, but for “intelligent design.”  They will try to undermine Darwinism not by using the Bible, but by employing scientific arguments only. Now there’s nothing wrong with using scientific reasoning as ad hominem arguments to show where the Darwinists are inconsistent.  For example, one can argue that the fossil records do not show t the gradual changing of one species into another as Darwinian evolution supposes took place, but rather sharp breaks where entirely new species seem to appear ex nihilo (out of nothing).  This undermines the atheistic, secularist arguments for evolution and it’s entirely proper for Christians to bring up this argument as well as other such arguments.

But if all we do is rely on scientific arguments to make our case, then we’re not going to win the fight.  Some want to tell Christians “Keep your Bible out of the public sphere” as if only scientific arguments that are supposedly “neutral” are acceptable, while “faith-based” arguments are unacceptable.  All arguments are “faith-based” in the sense that they rest on certain assumptions, first principles, called axioms.  Science, for example, rests on the notion of the general reliability of the senses. 

Uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth has always changed in uniform ways and that the present is the key to the past[1] – is another scientific axiom.  But this has not always been the case.  According to National Geographic, before 1830, “scientists subscribed to catastrophism,” which posits that the features we see on the Earth came about as the result of sudden change.  As Christians, we believe in a Biblical form of catastrophism.  As the Scriptures teach, God’s work of creation is his creating all things out of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six [literal 24-hour] days, and all very good.  Likewise, we hold to Noah’s flood as recorded in Genesis 6-9.  But try bringing these Biblical arguments into a modern secular university, and you’ll be laughed to scorn. 

And yet as Christians, these are the very arguments that we must make if we are to “turn to flight the armies” of the atheist scholars who are destroying our nation. It should be noted that the people who want to tell you that one species can change into another are the same ones who want to convince you that men can change into women and women into men.    

In the end, there are no secular battles.  There are only spiritual battles.  And this brings me to the main reason why I have written on immigration the way I have.  I have framed it as a fight between the Antichrist, globalist, New World Order (NWO) of the Roman Catholic Church-State and the Biblical, Protestant Westphalian World Order (WWO).  It is a battle between a false church with a false gospel that saves no one and the true church of Jesus Christ that preaches the true gospel of Justification by Belief Alone and all its implications such as political and economic liberty.  Understood this way, immigration is not some secular issue to be argued about using secular arguments, that is, arguments divorced from the Scriptures, but a spiritual battle to be fought by spiritual means.       

The Apostle Paul enjoined Timothy to “fight the good fight of faith.”  The battle over immigration is not some battle that Christians can pursue as if it were a matter of making conservative political arguments “to own the liberals.” Even the representatives of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church-State understand that this is a spiritual battle.  Read the arguments Rome makes for its immigration socialism.  The most important Roman Catholic document on immigration is the 1952 Apostolic Constitution The Emigrée Family of Nazareth. In it, Pope Pius XII attempts to argue that the example of Joseph taking Mary and Jesus to Egypt to avoid King Herod’s persecution is the model for “every migrant, alien and refugee of whatever kind.”  According to Rome, when we see millions of illegal aliens pouring across our southern border, we really are supposed to see Jesus and his family.  This is all a lot of nonsense as I’ve discussed elsewhere.[2]  Rather, it is a Scripture twisting attempt by Antichrist to convince the unwary that the Bible supports theft and world government, when, in fact, it does not.    

In Ephesians 5:11, Paul writes, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”  Rome’s immigration policies of mass, nation-breaking welfare migration is an “unfruitful work of darkness,” and, therefore, Christians are under obligation 1) to have no fellowship with it, that is, we are not to promote it, and 2) are to expose it, or as the King James reads, “reprove it.”  And how do we expose Rome’s lies about its irredentist, unchristian, immoral theory and practice of immigration?  We reprove Rome from the Word of God.  We fight, not as secularists, not as conservatives, but as Christians. 

Jesus said, “Apart from me, you can do nothing.”  The long string of theological and political defeats suffered by American Protestants over the last 100-plus years tells us what we should have known all along.  If we keep sheathed our one offensive weapon, “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,” not only will we continue to lose every battle, but we will also deserve to lose. 

[1] “Uniformitarianism,” National Geographic, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/uniformitarianism/, accessed 2/18/2024.

[2] “Antichrist’s Illegal Alien Assault on America,” by Steve Matthews, https://www.trinityfoundation.org/Podcast/TFR%2025.Antichrists%20Illegal%20Alien%20Assault%20on%20America.Final.mp3, accessed 2/18/2024.

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