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THE LORD OF LONGSUFFERING,
PRINCE OF PEACE, CHRIST OF COMMAND
Eternal Basis of Prescription, Inscription, Description but not Conscription
The Conspectus, Configuration and Competence of Command
"Indeed I have given Him as
a witness to the people,
a leader and
commander for the people, "Isaiah 55:4
Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
June 2011
ISBN 978-0-9870886-9-7
Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson
PREFACE
In this volume, we see the Christ who is the Lord of Longsuffering, not merely patient, but filled with a beautiful compassion as in Isaiah 42, where He does not break the bruised reed, yet also the Christ of Command, for He does not abdicate in order to be compassionate, or populate heaven with hell, in order to be accommodating. What would be the good of that ? for if hell came to heaven, its dissident ingredients would merely belch in the face of beauty, contrive in the face of kindness, precisely as you see it in the end of the millenium in Revelation 19-20, where in the midst of such peace, plenty, compassion, such a law and presence of God, of Him who died that we might live, despite our infirmities and complexities and evil calamities, there is a new revolt. It is as in Isaiah 26:10. "Let grace to be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness, he will deal unjustly."
If in repentance he finds the Lord, well; but without this and repentance, regeneration, so it has become. Patching the perishing tyre does nothing good.
Present in man is the idea of man the commander, the leader and the witness. It is found for example in Ezekiel 28:9. You see it especially clearly at the academic level in Ch. 2 in the case of Professor Leowontin, and his philosophic prescriptions to limit science to his religious philosophy. Science in tow ? This has long, in this area, been the fact for the majority of scientists, scrubbed and brushed, painted and clothed in the robes of unruly intrusion of personal ideas into empirical science, till the fraudulent character of the scientistic substitute for science has become as apparent as Leowontin attests so solemnly! He put it well.
Nor is this all. The entirety of value-oriented, creation-oriented, society-oriented, psychiatry-oriented is so infected with blind, reality-exclusive fatuity, that its manifest failure in practice is like the long replaying of an old-time tune, with modern jazz-time elements added, that failed long ago to attract any but heady zealots, and has been dead for decades. It just goes on, regular in its theme, odd in its concepts, incurable in its cacophony.
In this fabrication function of man in the 21st century, desiring a dream with all the intensity so well known to Israel as in Jeremiah 23, where they could hardly step over each other in the blather and lather of false prophets, unreal, incorrect, predicting peace when war was at hand, filled with their own thoughts when God was at hand, that the prophet trumpeted this word from the Lord in that day, so like our own:
"For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard His word ? Who has marked His word and heard it ?
"Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury -
a violent whirlwind! It will fall upon the head of the wicked.
The anger of the LORD will not turn back
until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly."In these latter days, towards the end of our epoch (Answers to Questions Ch. 5), we do indeed consider its perfection, for the earth is crammed with precisely this, discordant deviationism from the Lord. It continues ...
" I have not sent these prophets, but they ran.
"I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
But if thy had stood in My counsel,
and had caused My people to hear My words,
then they would have turned them from their evil way
and from the evil of their doings."
However, though some turn, as with Jeremiah in Israel, so with many in this present world, they are told, but they do not turn; and multitudes are they who in defiance of reason and revelation alike, trumpet but their own nasalised nihilistic, unrealistic programs, implacable, irreconcilable, alien to truth, impervious to the empirical.
It is precisely as foretold in II Timothy 3-4, Romans 1 at its end for THE end of the Age, when the symptoms of alienation from God become most malignant.
In this volume, in view of that, we continually present the view of Christ the Saviour, the Lord of Longsuffering but the Christ of Command, whose purity does not allow incompetence, or foster folly, but whose longsuffering does foster the blowing gently on the sparks, in case any may yet come before it is too late, and the last spiritual rasping of the dying breath of this misled Age, comes in its absurd pretensions to meet face to f ace with reality, the most blasting blow of all.
CONTENTS
CONSIDERATIONS OF CREATION
AT THE TRANSMISSION-RECEPTION LEVEL
CREATION BY COMMAND
THE PHILOSOPHIC OCCUPATION OF SCIENCE IN RELIGION,
AND OF RELIGION WHICH EVEN NAMES CHRIST
It is never the same in occupied territory.
THE SOCIAL ASSAULT ON CHRIST
Confusing Christ
with Another
is Like Confusing a Credit Balance
with a Dead, Red Debt
June 8, 2011
THE INDEFENSIBLE MISALLIANCES
CONTRARY TO CHRIST
AND HIS IRREPRESSIBLE GIFT
AND IRREPLACEABLE POWER
Isaiah 32-34, Proverbs 14:34
THE MIGHTY ROCK, HIS SHADE AND SPIRIT,
THE BLESSED ASSURANCE
...
CHAPTER FIVE
THE INDEFENSIBLE MISALLIANCES
CONTRARY TO CHRIST,
AND HIS IRREPRESSIBLE GIFT
AND IRREPLACEABLE POWER
Isaiah 32-34, Proverbs 14:34
PART II
In Chapter 4 above we considered the background in Isaiah 31 and the message in Isaiah 32. Now we move to the second part of the survey of Isaiah 32-34.
We have been looking for Isaiah 32, at
THE MIGHTY ROCK, HIS SHADE AND SPIRIT,
THE BLESSED ASSURANCE
...
Isaiah 32-34
We now gaze, in Isaiah 33, at
THE MORAL FIRE, THE NAVAL HEADQUARTERS
AND THE COMING CONSUMMATION.
LOVE AS MOTIVATION
LAW AS INCITATION
TRUTH AS INCRIMINATION and
ACTION AS IMPLICATION
Evangelising versus Quiescence
and Missions verses Moping
Excursion: Review of Alien Aspects of Calvin's Teaching
FOUNDED ON THE BIBLE,
PURGED FROM DISRUPTIVE ERROR
as in Ch. 6,
THERE IS A TIME OF PROSPERITY
FOR BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS
SO PRAISE THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD!
His Word does the Works of Wisdom,
just as it traces the Ways of Wit in Creation's DNA
EXCURSION ON RELIGIOUS DIRECTION IN AUSTRALIA
THE PRIZE OF THE PEACE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
APOLOGETICS, APOLOGY AND REPENTANCE