Bottom line on Michael Heiser

I'm officially out-of-patience with Michael Heiser. You can't write multiple books and do 10,000 interviews and still come across as hazy as to what you believe or what you're trying to say unless you are engaged in dishonesty with a motive to want to shift a theological Overton Window. I.e. unless your desire is to lead people into heresy, either because of hate, or because of academic vanity and stupidity.

Heiser is not a Trinitarian. He also doesn't believe in original sin. He adopts an anti-Trinitarianism so as to free himself up to believe his heterodox soteriology.

I.e., he's a very typical liberal academic theologian.

No where I've seen will he describe God in the Creator/creation divide context. He will say (using a thousand different words and angles of approach) that there are many gods, but one god is the top god - by degree.

In effect he denies there is a creator God. Maybe he thinks the universe created all the gods, including the god who is the top god by degree.

He uses his insights on the spiritual war between Jesus and the fallen angels (which are valuable) to cloak his heterodoxy on the Trinity and sin. Insights, though, which he got from other writers and theologians in the early 2000s. Meredith Kline (God, Heaven and Har Magedon) and a more general readership writer Gerald McDermott and his book God's Rivals being two of them.

Heiser's manner is another giveaway. He gets angry when confronted. He belittles people whose views counter his. He speaks as if what he is saying is a slam dunk and people just refuse to see it because they're afraid, etc. This is all evidence of bad faith argument, and a troubled conscience as well. As in his conscience gives him trouble because he's being dishonest.

An exchange on evil

S. writes regarding antifa and antifa types and their backers, Marxists, globalists, deep state, etc...

"In regards to the evil that is taking over the world, it's like the people doing it are dead asleep yet they have super-natural help. It's really quite obvious that they do."

Me:

"Just the fact that they adopt the attitude that we're in THEIR world. They're on the inside, we're on the outside.

More subtly, we're guilty and they're righteous. That links them to Satan and the fallen angels. It's all in my esoteric posts on the law. Satan uses the law to accuse and press our guilt. As if he and his followers are innocent, but for now he's the Prince of this world."

S.:

"Yep that just pretty much sums it up exactly."

Order

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A few months ago I raved about a book titled the Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk. If you guys didn't immediately buy it I understand.

Buy it now. Read just the first chapter (it's relatively short). The subject is order. It's not the same as law.

Order is two things: it is personal, or moral order (inside us), and it is social order.

We need a thorough understanding of order to see where the enemy has been attacking us. It has been an attack at a much more foundational level than we've been aware of.

It's funny because you can identify the two centers from which the attack has emanated. Washington, D.C. and Hollywood. No surprise, but see it this way: Washington, D.C. has attacked our social order while Hollywood has been attacking our internal moral order (our mind and soul). The beast and the false prophet directed by the dragon, or, Satan himself. Translate all that to your nations.

The subject of order is as big as the subject of worldview. It is necessary for subjective and objective understanding to know this subject.

This book by Kirk is the ideal teacher. Then he lists numerous books for each chapter.

We who know Work teaching and have biblical understanding have been delinquent in getting understanding of the chaos we see around us. Yes, much if not all of it has been caused by big money buying orchestrated anarchy, nothing organic, all astroturfed, yet the effect is the same. An attack on order, personal and social.

This study takes one into the sophisticated depths of political science, philosophy, religion, economics, law, warfare, etc. The Kirk book is the best place to start. (It is not just about America, it translates to all nations.)

For instance, we witness all the gender confusion and attack on the reality of gender and we see it as cultural Marxist anarchy, attack on mores, etc., but this book written in 1974 mentions all this about gender - seemingly prophetically - but gives a deeper, classical explanation for it in the context of order. You have to read it.

If you don't understand something you are irritable towards it. If you understand a thing it doesn't mean you agree with it, but you won't be irritable regarding it, or in a constant state of freaking out, or just dissonance.

Understanding order makes you turn your attention to figures like Solon or Lycurgus who had to create order out of disorder.

If the parts of the fact of recurrence about recurring back in time to play a conscious role are true (a theme that also exists in Grail legend, where the knights leave the higher realm to go down to be a king in the lower realm) then part of your education is to understand order.

It's a big book. Over 500 pages. But it is readable. Kirk had the reputation of being able to write engagingly.

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When you see all this in the foundational context of order you immediately see the only solution. It is war.

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This is why trying to deal with these phenomena through law is so pathetic. A coup attempt is an act of war. Bankrolling sedition is an act of war.

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Here's a basic thing to know about order.

Thomas Hobbes wrote the Leviathan. It has a popular reputation of being about totalitarianism. But it's really about how to maintain order. He thought the only way you could stave off bloody nature in the natural world and fallen nature inside humans was to have an authoritarian government. So he was for good order, he just thought there was no other way than authoritarianism.

Montesquieu accepted Hobbes read on the situation, but he disagreed that authoritarianism was the only way and proposed the concept of limited government. America's founding fathers fell in with Montesquieu and created a system of limited government, which works.

Ideally order is something that evolves via trial and error and tradition and mores that develop over time. It was like that in America. The colonial era to the Constitutional era, plus what Americans inherited from Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and London, created our order. It also has to be adapted to geography and what not. Also the particular economic situation of a country. And the people have to carry that order within them. You can't overwhelm the order with mass immigration from countries that don't carry your order within them, or can't even.

The order of your nation is like first principles. Wars are fought over first principles. When your social order and your moral order are being attacked you are already at war.

People who attack a nation's order usually do it from the position of not a rival order but from an ideology. Order is not ideology. Ideology is inverted religion. It is shallow. It is adopted by the dumbest and worst of a society (think Communism, Fascism, Anarchism). It has power if a nation is not good at defending itself from internal attack. A nation can be great at defending itself from external attack and absolutely retarded at defending itself from internal attack.

These are all my notes just jotted down extempore...

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Plutarch's Lives really is a massive work on the subject of order. The very first life is Theseus who goes across the landscape and rids it of all the criminals that were controlling everything. That is establishing order. Then you have lives of actual kings who handed down laws to establish a people and a nation.

It really is as simple as kicking ass on bad guys and trouble makers. In all nuanced ways. I mean, when Americans were carrying out the Indian wars they were doing the initial business of laying down the foundation of order on which laws and freedom could be built. The same thing will probably now have to be done with Muslims who the enemy in D.C. brought into the country with the sole goal to destroy the American order.

Slow walking, slow-motion world tyranny...nothing stopping it

We're on a slow-motion train ride to world tyranny.

When you step back and look at the caliber of people having their victories over normal Americans (and normal people around the world) and having their victories over rule of law it's easy to see it's Satan's demented army using his power and his spirit.

Blatant child fuckers/killers, blatant traitors, blatant criminals, and only about 10 or 12 percent of us can see it all. The stupidity among the followers of Satan's shit show is remarkable, but I think it's transcended by the stupidity among people you would think would know better.

Many are called. Few are chosen.

So it's apparent we're going to have to go down into Satan's hell pit of world tyranny before any intervention by God.

I'd say people will finally rise up and take care of business, but I look at myself and how powerless I am to do anything. How can I expect others to do anything?

And if it's providential that this must happen before the Second Coming that makes the situation seem even more dispiriting.

I guess, as Christians, real Christian, were still supposed to stand against Satan and not acquiesce to his shit show. I suppose that means also separate ourselves from anything that has gone over to the Beast and False Prophet and the Dragon himself. That could be a church, a school, a government agency, a media company, etc. Family even.

Now since I've black-pilled, watch it all turn around starting tomorrow. Nah, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, soon! look out! soon! just around the corner! it's all going down! ...

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Now I'll take the other side...

This is what made me a mediocre investor. (My investing career actually finished in the green, I should say, in my defense.) Allowing myself to be effected by all the noise and not focusing on the signal.

The shit-fingered imbeciles doing all this are really very small in number. Yeah, there seems to be a depressingly large group of normals who buy into it all without actually burning anything down, but let's forget about those brainwashed idiots.

All of it, as well, is being magnified by a mainstream media that has seemingly one hundred percent gone over to the dark side. In fact, they seem to be the most zealous of Satan's dupes and imbeciles in all this.

How do we emulate Jesus in all this? It has to be Jesus as spiritual warrior that we are to emulate. Jesus clearing the Temple.

How about walking around with a gigantic fuck you attitude towards anything that looks or smells like the devil's army?

How about some good, old fashioned consummation era prayer? "God may you exterminate these minions of Satanic disease now. In the name of Jesus Christ may anyone in league with the Beast burst into flame and howl into hell for eternity. Now. Holy Spirit, may You lose your patience and litter the streets with the rotting flesh of all fascists calling themselves anti-fascists."

We have to admit, there does seem to be more of the evil side that we ever imagined. I've said that pedophiles, for instance, seem to be Satan's largest stealth army. The ease with which young people join ranks with the most obviously evil people on the planet is disappointing. And for the rhetorical Jiu-Jitsu of fascists calling themselves anti-fascists, I mean, oh my God, who wouldn't fall for that?

Kill them all, God. Now. We've had enough of this shit. Our patience is tapped.

I'll continue to absorb the word of God into my soul. I'll attempt to be awake as possible, and to fight my original sin level ignorance more and more, and to strengthen myself to consciously suffer like my Savior before me, and wait on the Lord and His timeline...

Our souls are our vineyards

"Our souls are our fields and vineyards, which we are every one of us to take care of, to dress, and to keep. They are capable of being improved with good husbandry; that may be got out of them which will be fruit abounding to our account. We are charged with them, to occupy them till our Lord come; and a great deal of care and pains it is requisite that we should take about them. These fields and vineyards are often in a very bad state, not only no fruit brought forth, but all overgrown with thorns and nettles..." - Matthew Henry, from his commentary on Proverbs 24:30-34

Many seminary educated Christians are taught that we are to do nothing to improve ourselves. That such efforts are needless works that accomplish nothing towards salvation. This is the eternal nursery, no-effort doctrine of establishment Christianity.

They are taught, and they only think in terms of the pre-regeneration state of fallen man.

Once regenerated, though, by the word and the Spirit we are *able* to make efforts. It's part of our progressive sanctification. In that Puritan quote above you see it.

Efforts don't apply to our justification or our definitive sanctification, those two things God accomplishes 100%; yet progressive sanctification is a project involving both the individual Christian and our Triune God.

God-reliant effort, as J. I. Packer put it in his Concise Theology.

This is where I talk about the language of the Work found for the most part in the book Fourth Way by Ouspensky. It's ancient knowledge and practice. Ancient psychology, if you will. New Testament psychology, if you will. Though with nothing of the idiocy of what passes for psychology in this era called the modern world. Psychology is not even a word that captures all of it. Progressive sanctification might suffice (if leftists hadn't hijacked the word progressive).

To cultivate our souls as vineyards we need language to be able to see what we're doing and have to do. We need language to see things we can't currently see within us and without us in the world around us. Things remain an invisible enemy that control us until we are able to shine light on them and get control of them or eliminate them. New language is needed to shine that light.

Fourth Way, or Work, teaching is called esoteric Christianity, but that just means practical level Christianity. It's not for everybody, but it's available to anybody. Establishment Christianity is astonishingly shallow and polices its environments by calling anything outside its circle of comfort or above its level of understanding "gnostic." Gnostic for them being a word with a very wide and ill-defined pejoritive meaning. Cathars were the Puritans of their day (cathari is Greek for pure, or the pure ones, the same pejorative the Reformation era Puritans received from the establishment Christianity of their day). The people who exterminated the Cathars wrote histories about them saying they were gnostics, justifying their genocide. This has fooled, perhaps willfully fooled, church historians and establishment Christianity to this day. It didn't fool Calvinists like John Owen, though, interestingly.

So you need the foundation of regeneration by the word and the Spirit. You need discernment of the Holy Spirit. There is wheat and chaff in everything. Only the Bible is pure wheat. You also need the foundation of sound doctrine. The Bible and sound doctrine. Reformed Theology, five solas, doctrines of grace, classical Covenant - Federal - Theology. Maybe some worldview analysis to see how New Age teaching goes against truth as found in the word of God so that you can discern and distinguish between Gnostic/New Age teachings, Fourth Way teachings, and biblical teaching.

In any event, find what you need to cultivate the vineyard of your soul.

Context

I've talked about it over the years (the way I talk to myself), but now I'm starting to see how powerful a thing *context* is.

[This post will be taken wrong. I'm talking about POWER in seeing something in TRUE context. Not just seeing something in some different made-up context. The three example below are weak. I'll leave them, but they're weak. A good example I'm talking about is going through the Grimm's tales and finding the context of each tale. Because it's not spelled out. The 12 Dancing Princesses. It's about the afterlife, but it doesn't tell you that explicitly in the tale. You have to find the context. (And only the Ralph Manheim translation which is absolutely literal will bring that context out.) Something like seeing people being commanded to kneel currently. The context is bow your knee to the Beast system. Nowhere is that stated, but it is the CONTEXT.]

Three examples.

1. You see it in sexual phenomena. The same equation (sexual scenario) in one context is blah, yet in a different context it's heightened erotic crazy energy. Whether mental or real life. An attractive woman on a nude beach is one thing, but then you notice it's your attractive neighbor and suddenly you're like "Whoah, oh my God!!!" Different context.

2. You have total disgust for a drug addict outside the window of a restaurant you're dining at. Then an angel whispers in your ear: she was given up by her mother when she was five. Spent her childhood and teen years in eleven different not very good Foster families. She was let go at sixteen after commiting a petty crime. She only knew guys who were on the street doing drugs. Her worldly environment, the same one you live in, is purely Satanic, and she had no protection from it.

3. You're reading the Old Testament for the umpteenth time. It's ho hum. Same old. Suddenly you start seeing new context as you read the old narratives, and it gives new meaning. It connects with history (Hillary and Jezebel, for one example), real life (seeing Trump hold up that Bible like Athena holding up the Aegis in battle[to use the Homeric epics]), your own individual life (like reading that Moses had a unique education, and thinking of your own connection with a unique education regarding Work teaching), etc... Infinite examples.

The point though is how *powerful* context can be, when pondered and used with discernment in the service of truth and understanding.

Dante and a Christian's life

There's an interesting parallel between the life of a Christian and Dante's Divine Comedy.

The Divine Comedy has three parts, Hell, or Inferno; Purgatory; and Paradise.

I can see a direct parallel with an individual Christian life.

A Christian is born a fallen being in a fallen world. I.e. born into a real sort of hell. It's all we know, so we don't even see how hallucinogenically bad our situation is, and the world around us is.

Then a Christian is regenerated by the word and the Spirit. Born again. This parallels the idea of Purgatory (which is not a biblical concept, but I'm just going on how Dante uses it). As a regenerated Christian we can still sin, but we now also have the ability to not sin as well. We find ourselves in an in between state from total inability (ability to sin; inability to not sin) and the glorified state where we will no longer be able to sin. So it's a kind of purgatory in that we are in a state of tension, perhaps a kind of de-toxing from our previous fallen state (reformulating relationships, for instance, loving our previous enemies, getting understanding of our environment, other people, using new discernment that come with the Holy Spirit, etc.).

Then, of course, comes the glorified state where we have a glorified body in a new glorified heavens and new earth. Paradise.

What is interesting in this parallel is we go through these levels in this life. Well, we do have to physically die to get to the glorified state...

Faithful reactions to the so-called problem of evil

W. of Canada (via Australia) writes: "I have to admit I have been struggling with thoughts of a God that allows children to experience torture. Knowing first hand of the Love that emanates from ever fiber of His Being I can't fathom that He would have a hand in those acts."


This is all suffering, sin and death. The result of the fall.

There are basically three *faithful reactions* to the so-called problem of evil:

1. Who are we, the clay, to question the Potter on anything? God kills too. He can kill your soul (something humans can't do). He's sovereign, and we are yet responsible for our acts.

2. In ways we can't see good is brought out of evil acts.

3. Knowing God is good and just means we can be content that whatever happens ultimately is good and just. There is suffering before glory. After the fall there was always going to be suffering, sin, and death.

Infants and children are not just caught up in moral evil (torture, murder, abuse, etc.) but are also caught up in natural evil (accidents, earthquakes, disease, etc.). We get born into a fallen world. Just not dying naturally in infancy use to be the first great obstacle for any human being.

Bow your knee to the Prince of this world

The context of all this kneeling is they are being told to kneel to Satan. Some willingly oblige.

Girding up...

Bring it on, eh? [this was an email, I'm talking about demonic onslaught]

I should be able to handle myself in such dark onslaught. Not like I haven't experienced it all before.

Watson says, or some other Puritan because I've been reading them all, when you die angels escort you through the demonic realm, which apparently you have to navigate through to get to heaven.

I think people should call themselves Puritans if they're school Christians [school, or, order Christians, hard to define quickly; basically Christians who desire and have rare school knowledge, like Fourth Way, if one is able to connect with it].

In Greek Cathar means Puritan. Same epithet. Same calumny. Cathars were numerous in Southern France then got exterminated by the RCC [Roman Catholic Church]. And their secular forces. Can you imagine the scenes of tragedy and horror? Women, children, men slaughtered. The children's faces? "What's happening?" Children tortured. The world doesn't know. God knows. God sees. The victors, or 'victors', then write the histories. "Oh, the Cathars were most ungodly! Did you hear? Blood drinkers and child defilers, and the lowest, most evil lying heretics!" When in fact they were similar to the Puritans who emerged later, reformers, Bible believers, and rather good at living life.

This was repeated all over Europe. One asks, with reverence, why did God allow? I say that after the fall there was always going to be suffering. There is suffering before glory. And the Bible talks of martyrs. Shows them in the book of Revelation. Satan is the Prince of this world. He controls this world. Reform must be stricken out. What side are you, me, we on? These events separate the wheat from the chaff...