01 January 2011

The Great Commission, Dominionist Style

Dominionism embraces the The Great Commission of Matthew 28, the message of Redemption provided by Christ for those who are born again and have a saving faith in His person and work.

But, because they also believe the Cultural Mandate of Genesis 1 is still in effect and unmodified, the Church, or at least individual Christians have an EQUALLY important commission.........to take Dominion over the earth.

Some of them will openly use phrases like: the gospel is not enough........



They come very close to basically proclaiming there are two gospels.....a redemptive mission for the church and then a social/cultural mission for Christians to transform the world, the Common Grace order.

The more extreme wing of Dominionism wants to establish not only Sacralized states and societies but specifically wishes to bring them under Mosaic or Mosaic-type laws.

I've written elsewhere about how the Mosaic law provides a picture of Christ as Redeemer/Reconciler but also with the so-called Judicial and Penal penalties He is also depicted as Christ the Judge. Moses provided a comprehensive picture of Christ's roles.

The Church is tasked with revealing Him as Redeemer with the promise that He will come as Judge. The parallels today in this New Covenant era to the Old Covenant civil penalties are not laws made by Common Grace states like America....Israel wasn't an example, a picture for modern states. Israel was a type or model of the Church, the Church in the Old Covenant. Our parallel today would be the Church excommunicating someone.....spiritual death and destruction for those who refuse to repent.

The Church's commission is to bring the Gospel of hope to the nations (those Satan can no longer deceive, since he's bound)....and with the message of life comes the threat of death. When Christ returns, if you're not a Spirit-bearer, if you're not born again....then Christ doesn't come as Redeemer, he comes as Judgment.

The Old Testament system portrayed Christ's dual mission that we see in the 1st Advent and then in the 2nd.

Dominionism is often referred to as a form of Triumphalism, they believe the things which the Bible teaches concerning the victories of Christ at the 2nd Advent will and are to become reality BEFORE he returns and establishes (not a literal Kingdom based in Jerusalem) but the New Heavens and the New Earth....the True Jerusalem.

Dominionism thinks part of it's role is to bring about an earthly manifestation of the Triumphal period.....Heaven.

They believe the Church working in concert with the state fulfills the dual role. Church and State as a joint project build the Kingdom of God.

The problem is, now you have the Church preaching the message of redemption to a lost world, and and for the more extreme Dominionists....when the world doesn't accept it and presses on in their wickedness, then the task of the Church is to command the state to exercise Christ's office of wrath and judgment.

It's hard to preach a Great Commission when you're killing off those who have refused the message. Again, it's very strange that Calvinists who rightly don't believe man has the natural ability to CHOOSE God would embrace this.

Keep this in mind as you read this piece. Also take note of the Biblical references and how they are making use of them. The distinction between Old and New Covenants is erased, and Israel is treated as any other nation. I've argued in other posts that their treatment of Israel amounts to a sort sacrilege....treating the holy as something common. That can work the other way as well.....treating something common (like a modern nation) as holy.

Not all Dominionists go to this extreme as you'll see in this piece. Theonomy is a more hardline, but frankly more consistent form of this error.

This greater Dominionist school of thought I argue was exactly the same idea-set that brought us Medieval Christendom, the Roman Catholic Empire......some will openly state they wish to return to that, just make it a Protestant version.

I've also written in other posts that I believe the Bible is warning the Church against this very thing. When the Church embraces another gospel and works with the state to build the Kingdom....what you get is Babylon, the same kingdom that shows up every time man tries this project.

So, enjoy....laugh and weep at the same time. And if you think it strange, then you'd really enjoy how some of these people treat the Sermon on the Mount. I think its needless to say, they don't understand it, but it's interesting how they take so many of the statements of Christ and then someone make them say the exact OPPOSITE of what he was teaching.


Homosexuality is certainly a sin, an abomination, but our job as the Church is not judge those are without....Christ will judge them. We are to proclaim Christ, command them to repent In The Name of Christ (the Church does this, not the state), and in the meantime we are to be compassionate, for if we understand Grace, we fully grasp that if it were not for God we could very well be in the same bondage of sin.

Here's the link to the actual website, or you can read it here.

Put Homosexuals To The Sword


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By Jim Rudd

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The Covenant News ~ June 7, 2006

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Civil officials have a God ordained duty to execute sodomites.



The word of God commands, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (Lev.20:13).



Have we not been taught that homosexuality is an abomination (Lev.18:22). And those who engage in homosexuality are so vile that their very presence defiles the land and its inhabitants (Lev.18:25-28).



This sodomite defilement brings eternal damnation upon all who approve of homosexuality (Rom.1:32, 13:2) and brings God's righteous judgment of punishment and death on the society as a whole (Gen.19:24-25, II Pet.2:6).



The Magistrate, in his proper role, "beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil" (Rom.13:4).



Since Magistrates have such a sure Biblical mandate to protect the innocent people in society by using the sword to execute sodomites (he that doeth evil), why then, are Christians encouraging civil officials to ignore the commandments of God concerning homosexuality?



Where does it say in the Bible, "If a man lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, you shall pass a Marriage Protection Amendment"?



Such legislative efforts make the commandments of God of no effect, and Christian men involved in these efforts should be ashamed of themselves for engaging in pharisaical deceit against the ordinance of God in front of His people (Matt.5:17-20, 15:7-9; Rom.13:2).



Back in 2003, when the Supreme Court issued an opinion against Texas sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, Republicans started pushing the idea of a "Marriage Protection Amendment" as a solution to the "gay problem." As we now know the amendment idea is not a solution but a red herring used by crafty politicians to distract Christians away from obedience to the commandments of God concerning homosexuality. It is a political trick used to lure the Church into a humiliating situation of begging the State to "defend marriage" while allowing civil officials to circumvent their God ordained duty to administer Justice upon sodomites!



When the Supreme Court rendered its Lawrence opinion, every U.S. Congressmen from the state of Texas should have issued an Indictment of Impeachment to have the Supreme Court Justices, responsible for such an abomination, to be kicked off the bench for sexual deviant behavior under Article III Section. I of the Constitution. Across the nation reprobate federal judges sit on the bench at the behest of our U.S. Congressmen and U.S. Senators.



America is a cursed nation (John.7:49) and "defending marriage" does nothing to cut off the curse. The marriage amendment does nothing to protect the people of the United States from the wrath to come-because of homosexuality. The word of God commands that sodomites are to be executed, and God gives our civil officials the sword to do the job. Until our civil officials turn from their wicked way by administering Justice, we can only be judged with the most depraved pagan nations in history:





"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" (Jude 1:7).





If you hate your children's guts, then do not teach them how to administer Justice in the land (Eph.6:4). Just sit back and let the lawless be damned (Matt.7:21-23).







Preaching points:



Lev.20:13 -- If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.



Lev.18:22 -- Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.



Lev.18:25-28 -- And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.



Rom.1:32 -- Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.



Rom.13:2 -- Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.



Gen.19:24-25 -- Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.



II Pet.2:6 -- And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.



Rom.13:4 -- For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.



Matt.5:17-20 -- Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.



Matt.15:7-9 -- Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.



Rom.13:2 -- Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.



Lev.18:24-30 -- Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.



John.7:49 -- But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.



Jude 1:7 -- Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.



Eph.6:4 -- And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.



Matt.7:21-23 -- Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.





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Healing Homophobia



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Preaching to Sodomites





Jim Rudd

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