COLLECTION OF SHORT ARTICLES


The Christian Protest to Global Dictatorship

The early church shunned all forms of violence, respected the authorities and abided by all reasonable laws. They also kept the law of God on worship, assembling together and sharing the gospel and God’s truth, without accepting public or official intimidation. As conscientious objectors, they practiced non-compliance with the evil in the empire, even if it cost them their homes and lives. […]


“Black Lives Matter,” Elitist Hypocrisy and Murder:

It’s common for politicians to play on tensions and divisions within communities to bolster their campaigns and stir up passion and support for their own progress. It is also true that in society certain groups like to keep resources to themselves and shut out those of other races or backgrounds. This was forbidden in the early church, especially seen in the tussles Paul had with many from his own background, when he reached out to include all others as equal in Christ. This matter became very deadly and hurt Paul a lot in the persecution he received. […]


Government

Some people point to the idea of Israel being a theocracy, as if it were an evil fundamentalistic nation, like radical religious nations may be seen today. This isn’t the case. These people may point to some of the severe judgments in the Pentateuch, like when there was insurrection, or to cultic laws that seem strange to us today. [...]


Vaccines, Eugenics, Fascism and the Heavenly Places

The scriptures call them “the rulers of the darkness of this world, the spiritual forces in heavenly places.” This refers not only to unseen spiritual powers but also to the global web of human power. In Paul’s day it was centred in Rome. “Heavenly” means above the daily affairs of normal people, the place of control, where humans struggle for power and influence over others. In the Old Testament, “heaven” served as metaphor for “to rule over.” God is in the highest heaven. He rules over all. The role of the church in the first century was to “display God’s wisdom to the powers,” to renew the way humanity rules, to renew the kingdoms of this world. This is still the church’s role, especially for the sake of our children yet to be born.

In generations past this worldly web of power in regions like Europe existed in the royal families, but through the role of the church in Europe this changed to a degree. Power became more decentralised, the rights of humanity in general were served, and powers became more accountable to the highest power. But this has reversed in the last few decades. There is now a global web of power that is situated in the private sector, in the business and banking sector. These powers have become strong, undemocratic and unaccountable. [...]


The Coup and God's Kingdom

This article describes what I believe to be a coup that has taken place in America and is also taking place in the majority of nations in the world. The article ends with a reflection on the Exodus from Egypt under Moses and Isaiah’s “return from exile” in comparison. 

This coup has been going on for many decades. President Eisenhower described it. He said there was a danger of the military industrial complex becoming so large that it acts in its own interests and not in the interest of the nation. Early American fathers described the same scenario in regard to the rise of monopolies. They called them “factions” and limited the use of patents for this reason. They said patents that extended beyond a few years would give companies such monetary power that they would threaten the government and interests of the American people. They would instead act only in their own interests. [...]


Great Reset or Great Liberty?

With the various crises we have had, the solution has been to pump trillions of dollars into the global economy to keep it afloat. Whether the 9/ 11 attack on New York, the 2008 bank crisis, the current COVID and government enforced lockdowns, the answer has been to flood the economy with fake money to keep prices in investment portfolios and private wealth high.

People are worrying about this. How long can the US dollar maintain such global increases in its supply before losing its value? No one knows the answer, but many people think the dollar will crash sometime soonish. So people are divesting themselves of cash and buying gold, silver or some other kind of fixed asset. They don’t trust the cash and don’t want to hang onto it if it might lose its value overnight. [...]


Depopulation and Eugenics

Just a little on the recent history of population control.

Henry Kissinger’s wrote a top-secret report in 1973 claiming that in order for the USA to get resources from other nations without hindrance these nations must be stable politically, and for this they needed intervention regarding the control of their populations.

The modern history of eugenics and population control is very extensive. There are many well known “think tank” elites who believe our global population should be significantly less than it is and call for radical reduction. Trump recently sacked Kissinger after he has served American presidents since the 1960’s. Many call him one of America’s leading warmongers. [...]


“Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.” (Proverbs 19:17)
To think that God could put himself in debt to you! We live entirely by grace and yet God says he will put himself in debt to us. This is how much he cares for the poor. He promises to look after us when we look after others. [...] 

The truth is that when free speech is banned, that banning is itself contrary to the social good. It is when justice is taken away, when people aren’t allowed to speak, when elite, corporate or political crimes don’t receive the light of day, when whistle-blowers aren’t permitted to speak, that social cohesion becomes threatened. This is very clearly a pre-fascist society, or has it already crossed the line into fascism? [...] 

In the short period of a few years we have gone from a war on terrorism, to a war on a virus to a war on domestic terrorism. Next will be a war on climate change, or a war against “internet terrorism” (hacking), further debilitating our financial mobility and the freedoms of all non-elite business interests. [...]

The 1960’s were the years of great optimism over modernisation. Countries like Australia were linking in with the growing economy of America. Industry was becoming more mechanised. To afford such machinery industries needed to become larger. Smaller industries were bought out and former employees laid off. The welfare state started to grow as government stepped in to relieve the unemployed. The process was seen as capitalism: allowing competition to reform markets so nations could compete favourably on a global level. [...]


Two texts – One message. 
Revelation 19 speaks of Christ coming on a white horse with a sword coming out of his mouth. It is not literal text but speaks of God’s judgment against “Babylon” which was Jerusalem of the first century, which joined up with Rome to destroy the church.
On the larger scale the imagery of Christ coming on a horse with a sword in his mouth speaks of the coming of God’s rule and kingdom into this world. There are many texts about this throughout the scripture. The tabernacle/ temple theme is one of the main avenues through which God’s kingdom comes. The tabernacle was the joining point between heaven and earth. It was where God’s rule entered into people’s lives and thus into the world. [...]

Trump & the Global Elites - It impacts all our nations

The politicization of Covid-19 in America was also designed to bring Trump down, as was the violence committed by Antifa throughout the nation in 2020. Trump has not been found guilty by due process in any of these matters, or in any other matter of law as President. His alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021 riot and “breaking into” the Capital building in Washington has no proof and has not undergone the slightest legal due process, even though a second impeachment was raced through in a matter of days. [...]


I don’t know how genuine the “founding fathers” were in their intentions, but they spoke of these freedoms and the people responded in coming together to gain a victory over British control. The problem with even our own politicians in these circumstances is that they may use the common people for their own prospects. The first Congress convened in the city of Philadelphia and the army gathered there to demand their wages in arrears. Congress refused and asked the governor of Pennsylvania to disperse the rowdy mob, but the governor felt sympathy for the mob’s cause and refused to act. Congress then sought their own independent site, security and finances, and Washington D.C. was eventually established. [...]


When will deliverance come?

Recent international events add even more anxiety to many people in Nigeria and other places, not knowing what the year will bring. The sufferings of many years bring a perspective to current events that is real. In the article below, we dive into biblical themes for assurance that is not empty and vain, directing our response to rebuild with a hope that is powerful. Agriculture is just one area we can implement transforming solutions in this global and economic centralism, which tears the local community apart everywhere. [...]


Many of the things we will speak about in this article were until recently the ideas of conspiracy theories. Now they are being openly spoken about by the World Economic Forum. It is no longer theory. Plans to tag and monitor human beings are unfolding today. CCTV (the monitoring of the public with close circuit television) was introduced by Germany in 1942. Today Chennai has installed 657 CCTV cameras per kilometre. Beijing has 1.1 million installed in the city. The top 10 cities in the world for current use of CCTV are all Chinese and Indian, with the exception of London, coming in at number 4. Once inaccurate facial recognition is up and running with the 5G network, it will also be employed through an expanding CCTV network through the whole world. […] 

Identity politics restricts the way people can speak in a society. It exercises mind control, using social and political pressure to manage the way people think and what they are allowed to learn. Its movements give opportunity for certain political players to arise. Once in power, they further remove social and political freedoms to solidify their control. Actual concern for the identity group they claim to represent is false. It is about their coming to power and then restructuring free and democratic societies. […] 

The creation project in Genesis 1-2 reveals our identity in creation in relationship to each other, especially in the male/female relationship, in which family is nurtured and this self-giving for the weak reveals to the creation the image of God. The coupling in Genesis throughout these chapters (heaven & earth, light & darkness, land & sea, plants & animal, male & female) is a poetic device that reveals our identity in relationships to each other, to the whole. This is the creational holism of Hebrew theology. […] 

From Protest to Bold Gospel Witness:

Over recent years, we have several major protest movements globally. Such as the 'Occupy Wall Street' protest, the 'Climate or Environmental' protest, the 'Black Lives Matter' protest, the "Anti-Lockdown protest, the 'End SARS' protest, etc. 
God has come into our lives through the gospel to build a new temple, as seen in Ezekiel and Revelation. This is a world of decentralized power, where “Pharaoh” does not control the world, but rather a new heart in us all, where we share power and share resources and opportunity with one another. respect for one another overcomes dictatorship and greed. […]

A New Kingdom:

Everything about the message and life of Jesus revealed the nature of the empires we build against others, to secure our personal interests, and how this imposes isolation, exclusion, deprivation, violence and suffering on others as the necessary collateral damage of our own safety. This was not only revealed in the teachings of Jesus, […]

A Theology of Marriage – Presenting the Image and Plan of God for the World:

“He made them male and female.” Here is clear gender intentionality to fill family and the creation. Both gender qualities flow from the same God, but in creation he separated them out, to model a creation built upon serving, complementary relationships. This reflects God’s image: his life-giving service towards creation in Christ. By hating the […]

Aborigines & Australian Conciliation:

Growing up in Sydney in the 1960’s I wasn’t aware of an “Aboriginal problem.” It wasn’t until the late 1980’s, when I began to travel in Australia and stay in homes, that I heard stories of Australia’s history. We often stayed in the beautiful Deniliquin, in Ruth’s parent’s house near the Edward River. This is […]

Apostolic Unity (Creational Life):

A unified Christian witness concerning today’s world When you look back to the Wesleyan/ Booth era you see a more solid Christian witness to social progress than we have today. Sure, they had their enemies too, within the Christian establishments. But the movement had a far more hopeful eschatology than we have today, somewhat like […]

Apostolic Unity – A Unified Christian Witness Concerning Today’s World:

When you look back to the Wesleyan/ Booth era you see a more solid Christian witness to social progress than we have today. Sure, they had their enemies too, within the Christian establishments. But the movement had a far better eschatology than we have today, somewhat like that depicted by N T Wright’s current […]

Atoning for Evil:

There is a form of Christian atonement that seems to miss the mark. It’s the idea that atonement is a legal contract, and therefore since Christ has died there is no ongoing atonement lived out by the church in the world. So, let’s have a brief look at some of the important aspects of […]

Biblical Pentecost:

My first experience with the Pentecostal movement was in the western suburbs of Sydney. This was outside my normal social experience. I grew up in affluent areas in the Presbyterian Church, but in the Pentecostal movement I found a church who lived as community and who studied the scriptures. This was back in the […]

Building Local Sub-Cultures for Global Peace:

The foundation for peaceful and sustainable globalism is local justice and genuine democracy that looks like the cross and resurrection of Christ: self-giving bringing new life to others. Technology, we assume, is our hope for the future. Whether it’s global warming or city congestion we are told that a new technology is coming that will […]

Building a New World | Worship in the Corinthian Meeting:

The purpose of the charismata, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, is to restore integrated, healed on holistic community. His purpose is to transform us into the image of Christ, who humbled himself, rather than sought bigness, to restore the world. Our worship meeting is to reflect Christ’s humility, so the weak are honoured, […]

Conflict and the Environment:

For many years we have been experiencing conflict between Fulani cattle herders and farmers of other ethnicities in Nigeria. A typical kneejerk response is to paint the conflict along religious lines and demonise the other party. Humanity has behaved this way for millennia and resorted to the usual solutions of violence to fix the problems. […]

Cooperatives and the Church’s Economic Witness:

Since the industrial revolution it has been necessary to invest large sums of capital to start up new businesses and to attract the resources necessary for production. In a capitalist society the capitalist (the ones who provides the money) own the assets and the product of the business. Those providing labour are seen simply […]

Cornelius & Homosexuality:

Acts 10 records a massive shift in the Jew’s awareness of the salvation plan of God. To think that the gentiles could be accepted by God was unimaginable to the Jews. In Acts 10 we see this shift in Peter’s awareness, just as Paul’s ministry to the gentiles was about to unfold. The church ushered […]

Creation, Slavery, Technology & Eugenics:

The foundational stories of our cultures matter a lot in our outlook as a people. One of these foundational stories is about our views of creation. Our philosophy around this informs how we think the world functions. The modern view is one of macro-evolution, not that macro-evolution is entirely modern in origin, but is in […]

Encamped Around God’s Jubilee – Ezekiel’s Beautiful New Normal:

A review of Ezekiel’s renewed temple narrative in regard to the church and restoring the humanity, welfare and economics of local community. Becoming followers of Christ, loving our enemies, rebuking the rich, protecting the poor. He finds our lukewarmness distasteful. (Rev 3:16) As I read in a recent article, the Covid crisis isn’t the […]

“Universalism,” they say. We know the scripture says that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek…” But what if we seek to apply this to our relationships with everyone in our communities? Does “in Christ” mean just for those in our fellowship, or does it also mean we should treat everyone the same […]

Human Identity and the Failure of Western Individualism:

The opening chapters of Genesis are vital to the founding of any nation or community. They lay out the nature of God, the purposes of the community within the creation and factors that relate to the identity of humanity and the individual person. They do this in a rich poetic/ story narrative that is also […]

Justice: Return from Exile:

The cross brings to us a distinct form of justice seeking, which we could call the justice of solidarity. It is the nearness of God to the suffering. The incarnation, the humility of God as a carpenter, as a peasant, as a refugee in Egypt, says something to us about our own calling of closeness […]

Left vs. Right, or A Theology of Life:

We found in defeating terrorism that you must win the middle ground, then the extremists are isolated and have no popular cause. A theology of life is necessary for peace. Unless both sides of the left/ right equation are seen to, human life will suffer to an extent that will disturb conditions of peace […]

Our Colonialism | Gross National Product? | Forming new indexes for wellness | Into New Creation:

Colonialism can take many forms. It’s mainly our desire to dominate the world and the things in the world. It arises out of a competitive view of our relationships. “If we don’t colonise, someone else will, and then they will subjugate us.” So, for “God, king and country,” we should win the colonial fight. […]

Patriarchalism and Restoring Justice:

The scriptures were written in our patriarchal cultures. The story of the bible is about God coming to meet with us within our own cultures and incrementally drawing us to his image as we see it in Christ. Christ is how we ought to see God, not through the lens of our own cultures. […]

Rebuilding Democracy, Family & Peace:

The role of monopoly in undermining community, local wealth, health, and our national budgets. Building peaceful globalism by restoring local holism and protective family. And a response to COVID-19. As we have lived through violence for many years, we have begun to see some of the underlying causes. One is the disenfranchisement of youth, […]

Rebuilding Freedom – A Second Reformation:

Just over 500 years ago Europe experienced the Reformation. The nations had been under the yoke of the pope of Rome. The pope controlled all things eternal and temporal, including kings and all their decisions. There are a lot of parallels between that time and today. Let’s have a look at a few. Today global […]

Scriptural Metaphor and the true glory of God:

A lot of the scripture uses metaphors, especially when it describes Christ’s work in the gospel, or God’s judgement. There is a common use of poetic simile to put across a point strongly and vividly. The Hebrew reader of both the Old and New Testaments was used to these metaphors. If we take these […]

Social Economics | Social Agriculture | Moving Forward with Peace:

Peace comes in stages. There is first the cessation of hostilities. After that there is the slow building of relationships, building bridges and taking down walls between relationships. Then there are the acts of restoration, caring for the sick and the wounded in conflict, the persecuted and the widows and orphans, on both sides […]

Sustainability:

I don’t mean sustainable environmental policies. As important as they are, that is not what this article is addressing. I mean the expectation that charity should be sustainable. Somehow this seems to be a contradiction. A good place to start is with Paul’s definition of love. Love gives and keeps giving of itself. It […]

The Forced Sabbath From Coronavirus:

Now is a time that people may be listening. What shall we say? Rebuilding community and rural and agricultural environment: the absolute necessity of God’s sabbath renewing our world before we destroy it. We have been experiencing a forced sabbath on the world. Many of us have been on the constant go, with at least […]

The Irony of Placing our Hope in Technology:

Men in white coats, Silicon Valley startups, the next billionaire and monopoly, new gadgets to solve our problems: our hope for a better tomorrow. Science has been bought out by business and it tells us what they want us to hear and believe. They dress in white like the priests of old, sacrificing the poor […]

Trinity –One Creator, Redeemer God:

A look at Hebrew positions related to the trinity and how this informs our gospel theology for a renewed creation and our discipleship as the church in the world today, especially as God’s peacemakers. How can the Christian vision of the trinity fit into the Hebrew bible vision of one God? I don’t think […]

What do Occupy, Black Lives Matter and Lockdown Protests Have in Common?

Good Governance The task of good government is to see that the weak are protected. The idea that government is to stay out of the way and allow the weak to be trodden upon is a bad idea. It is the job of the strong to protect the weak, to serve in the interests of […]

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