Righteous. Dominion.
The only true virtues are the combination of hot virtues and cool virtues. Things like prudent courage. Or courageous prudence.
The true virtue is not a moderation of the hot and the cool. It is not lukewarm. It is a synthesis of the two where each is enhanced. Ice cold bravery. Hot, unrelenting calculation.
The true model of manhood will be an archetype that combines the two. Or a combination of two archetypes.
Every man a holy pirate king.
Or every man a priest and a king. (Thanks, Zen.)
Or righteous dominion. (Thanks, Joseph.)
What is it about us, how could we misunderstand righteous dominion for so long? How is it that I didn’t understand the plain meaning of that passage of scripture until late last night while musing in the bath?
Holy. Pirate King.
Priest. King.
Righteous. Dominion.
So Joseph tells us that we need righteous dominion, and the conclusion we all drew was to avoid dominion altogether because then we wouldn’t risk unrighteous dominion.
False. Wrong. Wrong. You can’t get the good by trying hard to avoid the bad. There was an episode in the Garden of Eden that makes that clear.
You will never achieve righteous dominion if you avoid dominion.
The Word says that when Christ comes again in power the saints will be caught up to meet him in the air.
There are blazing angels among us, his commandos, who masquerade as our neighbors and friends. They will unmask and rise to meet him. That is what the Word means.
Evangelical Christians have given us a fake and stupid version. The “Rapture,” when people who were ‘good people’ suddenly vanish.
That is not how it will be. It will be an unmasking. There is a phrase among some on the online right that is wiser than they know. They talk about ‘revealing someone’s power levels.’ That is what it will literally be. The blazing angels among us will reveal themselves.
It is your task to be one of those blazing angels.
Burning with righteousness. Aflame with dominion.
E.C.
June 22, 2021
And perhaps we will find that those who spent their lives creating gardens or building their communities through dedicated service or resolving conflict are among the greatest, though they get little worldly acclaim. They are the ones who make their small plots of Zion flourish and grow into the kingdom of God.
seriouslypleasedropit
June 22, 2021
E.C., strongly seconded.
But this whole post gets as strong an endorsement as I know how to muster.
Bookslinger
June 22, 2021
A minor quibble to an excellent post. Not all Evangelicals and Pentecostals believe in a pre-tribulation Rapture. The more serious ones believe close to what we do, that the Rapture is the same thing as being “caught up”, at the 2nd Coming, after 3.5 years of tribulation. Everyone, or at least the living mortals, basically comes back down and wipes out the bad guys, or zaps them from the air (nor sure on that detail, myself) and then begins the 3.5 years of clean-up.