Liberating Planet Earth

Chtit and Liberation
heart, soul, and mind is where all bondage begins, It is bondage
to sin. Any other form of liberation has a chain attached to it — a~
chain leading back to the original tyrant, Satan.
But a chain is inescapable. Man is not autonomous. He does
not operate under his own law (auto = selfi nomos = law). He is not
self-sufficient. Tbe is no lzfe without an ancho~ and no anchor without a
chain. We serve one of two masters, Jesus said: God or Mammon,,
meaning the world’s principle (Matthew 6:24). Men need to wear
the yoke of Christ, which is light (Matthew 11:29-30). For a man
to pretend that he needs no yoke and no chain is to throw away
the key that unlocks the iron cuffs of sin.
Marx ended the Communist Man@to (1848) with these words:
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have
a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES,,
UNITE!” He was wrong, yet his language was correct. Proletarians
have nothing to lose but their chains to sin; so does everyone
else. But to throw off one set of chains in the hope that no one
will ever place chains on you again is to believe a lie: it is nothing
more than exchanging iron chains for brand-new steel chains,,
with spikes in them. Each “new, improved” set of chains gets
tighter in the history of the progress of sin. Each set gets bloodier.
It is time to proclaim Christ, the liberator of the earth, andl
Christ the liberator of the nations, for it is Christ, and Christ
alone, who liberates the individual from captivity to sin. It is the
only liberation worth dying for, because it is the only liberation
that gives true life.
The Battlefield
The battlefield has been cosmic. It has involved heaven andl
earth. But today, it involves mostly the earth. Jesus Christ has
come to earth, has lived, died, and has been resurrected on eatih.
The war in heaven is over. Satan no longer confronts God face to
face, as he did in the fist chapter of the Book of Job. He has been
cast out of heaven since the days of Christ.
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they
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