Seven Threats of Our Time

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is, first of all, driven by an engine for truth and wisdom and righteousness. He is driven by this. The Noble Male seeks truth, he seeks wisdom, he seeks righteousness. Even to the point of giving up his life in that pursuit. It is not a cold force for righteousness because the second engine in the Noble Male is the engine of grace and compassion. So he pursues righteousness, but he pursues righteousness that is tethered to compassion and grace.

The male here as we mentioned before that the male is built to protect and defend that which is good and beautiful. And he will lay down his life to do so. This is the Noble Male.

has the same two engines, but they are in reverse order. She is driven first by grace and compassion. She pursues it and she pursues it with a vigor and determination. But the grace and compassion is tethered by truth, righteousness and wisdom.

It means that her actions in compassion and grace are bridled by truth, wisdom, and righteousness. And so, her purpose is to nurture and comfort. She is built for this. And she pursues to nurture and to comfort but she does so to nurture that which is good and true and right. This is the virtuous female.

Alright, so let’s look now at

Since his purpose, to protect and defend, has been primarily now focused on himself his desire now is to dominate. He is no longer led in a zeal for truth and wisdom and righteousness, but now the #1 thing that drives him is power and control, power and domination or subjugation.

So the brutish male becomes a beast. He becomes a tyrant, pursuing and defending his own pleasures. This is what we find. We find a brutish male in our culture, for example, in gangs. We find a brutish male in the one who beats his wife. We find it in ISIS and we find it in Eastern Europe today. He is absorbed, in our culture, he is absorbed in drinking, sports, video games. Why? Because he pursues his own pleasure and brutish pursuits.

So what happens then to

Well, she becomes secondary in that culture and the brutish male becomes dominate. She increasingly becomes property and the noble male becomes the toxic male. Grace and compassion are considered a weakness. Society declares to the female that in order to survive in this culture you must become subservient.

We looked then at a culture in which the male rather than becoming the brute,

This is what we see in our culture. Often represented in television shows like: Everyone Loves Raymond, where the male is simply the buffoon. Caring only about himself. The buffoon is depicted often in commercials and TV shows in our culture.

So what happens here when the male lives in a culture that rejects that which true and good and beautiful. He has nothing to protect and defend except himself. Grace and compassion are no longer driving him because he is only acting for himself. The buffoon male abandons his family. He can abandon them physically or he can abandon them mentally and spiritually. The buffoonish male is the male who comes home from work, plops down in his chair, turns the TV on or plays video games all night. Or absorbs himself in all kinds of selfish pursuits.

and I’m submitting to you this is what is happening in our culture. Without truth and wisdom and righteousness the grace and compassion that drives her is no longer tethered to truth and wisdom and righteousness, now becomes an unbridled compassion. I will later refer to this as malevolent compassion, but we refer to it now as unbridled compassion.

In this culture where the male becomes the buffoon he takes on a secondary role and she increasingly takes lead in the family, because he has mostly abandoned the family and she takes the lead in society. And she does so why? Because what has happened here is that "unbridled" compassion has become the prime ethic of the culture. And I submit to you that is exactly what has happened in our culture. Unbridled compassion has become THE prime ethic in our culture. The noble male is viewed as toxic. And society then declares to the male: to be significant, in this culture, you must become more feminine. If he evidences more unbridled compassion he will become more significant. If he evidences characteristics of the noble male, he will be rejected.

This is a culture that does not want the noble male. It does not want the male defending that which is absolute, above and beyond, because we have rejected all of those things. [Our culture has rejected a biblical Christian worldview.]

So this leads us then to what happens in a culture when unbridled compassion becomes the prime ethic in the culture. I’ll refer to it from now on as "malevolent" compassion because I believe it is evil and I hope to show you that.

first of all and what happens in the State when public policy and laws are driven primarily by compassion. I would submit to you that virtually all of the bills and public policy that [are] passed [are] driven by "compassion." But, I would say to you that it is not a good compassion, It is a malevolent compassion. And the State itself, if we go back and think about the difference between the noble male and the virtuous female, the noble male is built to protect and defend. The female is built to nurture and comfort.

If we look at the scripture in terms of the State and read Romans 13, the State also has a purpose that aligns itself with the noble male. The State’s purpose is to punish evil and condone what is good. So that the citizenry can flourish.

Well, the State then, therefore, is first an "act and defend" institution as God has designed it. So what happens to the State in a culture that is tipped toward the feminine side? Tipped toward nurture and comfort? We have the State that we have before us today. It is a nanny State. It is a State in which we demand that it comfort us and nurture us. And we are squeamish about the State making any stand regarding that which is evil and punishing that which is evil. We see that in a lot of things. I wrote an article about the rise in crime and the cause of the rise in crime. It is a moral issue for sure, but one of the things that (exacerbates that)=[makes this issue worse] is a State that is no longer willing to call crime evil.

And to begin to think of criminals more as the victim. And so, when you pass laws, for example, in California, that reduce theft below $1,000 to the equivalent of nothing more than a set of traffic tickets, then we’ve seen the rise of very open and blatant crime. Mobs going into stores, there was a video of a guy riding into a store on a bicycle with a plastic bag, filling everything up that he can and then riding out on his bike between a security guard and either a customer or maybe one of the employees, who do nothing to stop him. That is not the action of a culture that is filled with noble males and virtuous females. It is a culture that has tipped to the nurture and comfort side and it will result in our ruin.

If you take a look at these issues:

defunding the police, soft on crime, needles for addicts, border security, paid not to work, minimum wage laws, welfare programs, transforming the military into a humanitarian service,

every one of them, every one of them, is driven by the prime ethic of compassion. All the arguments regarding securing our borders are always bounded in compassion.

So all of these things are the result of the prime ethic in our culture changing drastically from a biblical understanding of what the State is supposed to do, to be a protect and defend institution. It has now become a nurture and comfort institution. And we are suffering and will continue to suffer from that.

When you look at the church, and maybe because of the time here, I’ll let you do your own thinking about what happens when the church [exists in a culture such as ours.]

Paul said that the church is the “pillar of truth”. The Church that has been given to us is inherently, I believe, a protect and defend institution as well. Yes, it does nurture and comfort that is done primarily by the saints. But the institutional church is to protect and defend. To protect and defend the word of God, the truth of God and declare the truth of God. But when the church now tips to the nurture and comfort institution then we would have a church in which we only want to hear smooth words, comforting words, nurturing words and come into a wonderful environment where we are entertained as we become consumers.

When God created the family, designed the family, it was designed for the noble male and the virtuous female to become one as we read in Malachi. And why did God make them one? Malachi says, because He was seeking godly offspring. And it is the noble male and the virtuous female together in their unity that raises little noble males and little virtuous females.

But when the culture tips as it has in our culture and the controlling female begins to lead them and the family and the culture and her engine of unbridled compassion becomes the prime ethic then what happens is we raise coddled, dysfunctional, adult children. Children who don’t know how to deal with obstacles. They don’t know how to deal with someone who says, "no."

They believe it’s all about them. They’ve been raised as if it’s all about them. And when things don’t go their way they fall into either depression or some sort of emotional turmoil, possibly even suicide.

Even in the sphere of labor we find companies now desperate to signal how “compassionate” it is in a thousand different ways, most of them also unbridled by true wisdom.

Let me close us with a story from a dear friend. When he was young, he had gotten himself onto the wrong path, hanging out with the wrong kind of people and sneaking it all behind his parent’s backs. One Friday night he got caught and was going to have to spend the weekend in jail until he could go before the judge on Monday. He called home hoping his mom would answer the phone, knowing that if he pleaded with her, she would come bail him out. But to his horror, his dad answered. When he told his dad what had happened and laid out his sad story about being in this horrible jail, his dad asked him when he would see the judge and his son said on Monday. And his dad told him, "well, I’ll see you on Monday then." My friend told me that his weekend in jail turned his life around. He is a very successful businessman today with a wonderful wife and family. This wouldn’t have happened under unbridled compassion.

The greatest danger and bottom line, of course, is that malevolent compassion destroys our ability to see evil as evil, both personally and culturally. It blinds us. Sexual depravity is no longer seen through the eyes of wisdom and truth, but through the wringing hands of unbridled compassion. We coddle evil and that which is ultimately harmful to people because we are led to believe it is “compassionate” and “caring.”

Our gates are wide open, but it is the Remnant that understands what true grace and compassion should look like; it understands the truth of God and His righteousness and the wisdom that must be displayed in the midst of this storm.

The notion of “malevolent” compassion is difficult for us because we think that all compassionate thoughts, feelings and actions are good, [always good]. But we need to rethink this. In the beginning, Satan faked a benevolent heart toward an oppressed Eve. But it was all a lie. Judas feigned a benevolent heart for the poor, but the Scripture tells us he really was after the money for himself. The emotion of compassion arises in me when I see a homeless person. But if I give into that emotion without the balance of wisdom and truth, I can act in a way that is detrimental to him. We are inundated with this ploy constantly. Someone is paraded out in front of us, in video or print, and the plea is based totally on compassion[, on emotion]. It tugs at our heart. But we must always balance that emotion with wisdom and truth or we might be guilty of supporting something malevolent.

Let me take a brief walk into our next storm front. And I want to do that because I want to be sure you understand the connection between malevolent compassion and what we’re going to talk about when we talk about our next threat: The Consolidation of Massive Earthly Power.

And what I want us to understand of the link that is important for us to get…​

And I want to be careful here because I’m going to borrow the imagery for Revelation. Not talking about eschatology (the end times), I’m talking about the imagery that is given to us in Revelation of this massive beast. And often times we think of this beast as simply being a state, but the next time we’re going to talk about that we now live in a culture in which the beast is a consolidation of power now. More than the state.

We now have technological and industrial power that can stop you from buying and selling. But what is interesting in the imagery is that there is a harlot that is riding on top of that beast. It’s a strange image. Why is there a harlot riding on top of the beast? What does the harlot represent?

The harlot represent the evil application of the feminine entity. And I would submit to you that we see the same thing happening today. What is the evil distortion of the virtuous female? That distortion that we see is malevolent compassion. Which has become the prime ethic. It drives our laws, it’s driving everything that is going on today.

So that is, I would submit to you, is the modern day harlot.

We need to keep in mind that we are not going to the storm front as Chicken Little crying "The sky is falling, the sky falling." But we’re doing it because we want the remnant of God that is left here to Understand the times in which we live. To have that wisdom. And yes, our gates are wide open. Why? Because we have a vast falling away from the noble male. In our culture, yes, we have brutish males in our cities and gangs and some in our families and so forth, that on a whole we have men who have lost that nobleness of their maleness and they have become feminized. And many men have fall over themselves in order to prove how nurturing and comforting they are.

But it’s we, the remnant of God, that understands what true grace and compassion looks like. We are the ones who can offer to the world around us true understanding of what true relationships are, of what true love is. We understand the truth of God and His righteousness and the wisdom and true love, love that is stedfast and sacrificial that MUST be displayed in the midst of this storm. That why [] were trying to help people understand how critically important it is for us to follow the Lord and to engage those who are providentially around us with true agape love. And that love is base upon truth and wisdom and righteousness. It expresses grace and it expresses compassion as well.

So as I close this almost in the form of a prayer:

May God give us the grace [that we need] to become Noble Men and Virtuous Women[, or to remain noble men and remain virtuous women, in a culture that is trying to rip those away from you] and [may we] raise our children to be the same. All this for the glory and honor of our Lord Jesus Christ.