Man worshipping man; and man worshipping the state; The institutional church; and the great spiritual reset
By Richard Duke
From below:
“The institutional church is being set aside. For the most part, it is impotent and unimportant—“non-essential,” I believe, is what the church agreed it is.
For the first time in U.S. history—including two centuries before this nation came into existence—fewer than half of the country’s population claim membership in an organized church or even attend the services of an organized church.
We are witnessing the death of the institutionalized church. It’s long overdue.
[READ THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH CAREFULLY. - JRD]
As long as Christians look to government organizations (America’s corporate “churches”), the longer it will take for God to bring spiritual restoration to our land.
[READ THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH CAREFULLY. - JRD]
The pulpits and churches of Colonial America—the churches and pulpits that led the colonies in a mighty awakening of both faith and freedom—were pulpits and churches that were unencumbered and unfettered with the chains of government dictation. Pastor Chuck Baldwin
SEE BELOW: “The Great Spiritual Reset” - Pastor Chuck Baldwin
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We have entered or are entering the fourth turning [death of the institutionalized church, for example] as shows by the book: The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About Americas Next Rendezvous with Destiny
[We have completed the first three turnings. The third turning is an unraveling. JRD]
“The Fourth Turning is a Crisis , a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one.”
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-History-Americas-Rendezvous-ebook/dp/B001RKFU4I
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Murray Rothbard showed that the primary reason that World War I was fought was to place intellectuals and elites (including economists and scientists) in charge of running America and some other parts of the world. In addition, Murray Rothbard showed when and how the social gospel began in America. SEE the following:
World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
https://mises.org/library/world-war-i-fulfillment-power-and-intellectuals
“The social gospel began when the brother (a pastor) of Harry Fosdick, Jr., a well-known pastor, brought in the state to stamp out sin. This was the first "real" act toward American pastors and congregations' worshipping the state (federal government) and relying on government, not God—government/god. Many follow Joel Osteen (his self-help and motivation “soulish” teachings must be ignored), for example, preaches the social gospel. He does preach a form of the social gospel, but the real social gospel is relying on the state, instead of God, which most of the pastors and congregations in America do today, to stamp out sin. In other words, relying on the men (and women) of government to “fix” things and man—a SECULAR RELIGION. Religion that defers to MAN, NOT GOD. This also shows why pastors caved to the covid god. People may not like to hear this, but I am sorry but it is accurate!” (SEE Chuck Baldwin below)
Luke 16:15:
15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Many of the serious authors I have read recently, as well as in the past, agree that most Americans worship the state, materialism, and scientism. I spent many hours studying materialism and scientism (and related subjects), beginning with the words of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. And Pastor Chuck Baldwin and several pastors who passed away, understand the worshipping of the state. [Most people do not understand what is meant by “materialism” but many now see the fake “science” taking place and the fake “scientists” but scientism means more than that. - JRD]
SCIENTISM BELIEVES IN POSITIVISM:
Ludwig von Mises:
“The positivist arrives at his point of view surreptitiously. He denies to his fellow men the faculty of choosing ends and the means to attain these ends, but at the same time he claims for himself the ability to choose consciously between various methods of scientific procedure. He shifts his ground as soon as it comes to problems of engineering, whether technological or "social." He designs plans and policies which cannot be interpreted as merely being automatic reactions to stimuli. He wants to deprive all his fellows of the right to act in order to reserve this privilege for himself alone.
He is a virtual dictator.
As the behaviorist tells us, man can be thought of as "an assembled organic machine ready to run."3 He disregards the fact that while machines run the way the engineer and the operator make them run, men run spontaneously here and there. "At birth human infants, regardless of their heredity, are as equal as Fords."4 Starting from this manifest falsehood, the behaviorist proposes to operate the "human Ford" the way the operator drives his car. He acts as if he owned humanity and were called upon to control and to shape it according to his own designs. For he himself is above the law, the godsent ruler of mankind.5 As long as positivism does not explain philosophies and theories, and the plans and policies derived from them, in terms of its stimulus-response scheme, it defeats itself.”
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Chapter 11. The Challenge of Scientism, Theory and History, Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History" Ludwig von Mises Explains “scientism” the methods of “engineering” people’s lives.
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Open link for book including PDF
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Chuck Baldwin (again):
More (and repeat) from the previous message I sent re Chuck Baldwin (JRD)
As a result of this mass collapse of courageous truth-preaching in the institutional, organized church, God is allowing the fruit of cowardice to grow throughout society.
God’s plan: a “great SPIRITUAL reset.”
The institutional church is being set aside. For the most part, it is impotent and unimportant—“non-essential,” I believe, is what the church agreed it is.
For the first time in U.S. history—including two centuries before this nation came into existence—fewer than half of the country’s population claim membership in an organized church or even attend the services of an organized church.
We are witnessing the death of the institutionalized church. It’s long overdue.
As long as Christians look to government organizations (America’s corporate “churches”), the longer it will take for God to bring spiritual restoration to our land.
The pulpits and churches of Colonial America—the churches and pulpits that led the colonies in a mighty awakening of both faith and freedom—were pulpits and churches that were unencumbered and unfettered with the chains of government dictation.
Before God can again raise up that courageous, independent voice, He must bury the rotting corpse of the enslaved, silent skeleton of these government organizations, formerly known as churches.
Yes, the Covid conspiracy has all but crushed the work ethic in this country. But this—as with everything associated with the phony Covid narrative—could not have happened had not the pulpits in this country abandoned the fearless, uncompromising preaching of God’s Holy Word. The Great SPIRITUAL Reset-Pastor Chuck Baldwin
The Great Spiritual Reset - Pastor Chuck Baldwin
https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4130/The-Great-SPIRITUAL-Reset.aspx
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The following video, with Isa Bajalia interviewing Richard Duke, discusses Nehemiah 5 and inflation (debasing the money, which was silver, and the evil consequences of inflation. The following video also includes a discussion of The Fourth Turning book.
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