Liberating Planet Earth

86 Liberating Planet Earth
for its own survival. Like the Canaanitic cultures ofJoshua’s day, the
end is in sight for the modern, messianic, welfiwe state economies.
They have recapitalized their envy-driven, guilt-ridden citizens.
Summary
We see in the fmily a war between Satan and God, between
the rival forms of the covenant. It is imperative for Christians to
abandon the religion of humanism. It is imperative that they fulfill
their responsibilities as members of a covenantal community.
It is imperative that they see to it that their old people, as well as
their young people, are not in any way dependent upon the services
of a declining welfare state. To become dependent on such
an institution is to become a slave. Worse than that: it is to become
dependent on a master whose resources are almost spent.
When men and women honor their fathers and mothers – financially,
spiritually, and institutionally — they will have begun the
painful but mandatory journey out of slavery. They will have
begun to amass family capital for yet unborn generations.
We must recapitalize the state. The alternative is for the state to
recapitalize us. If we are dependent on the state for its support,
we are necessarily fostering the decapitalization of the family. The
jirst and wial step in &capitalizing the state k to cease calling forfavors
from the state. It is to create alternative, voluntary, Biblical institutions
that will replace the pseudo-compassion of the messianic
state. If the covenant communities refise to accept this challenge,
then they will see their capital dissipated by the spendthrift managers
of the humanistic state.
In summary:
1. The covenantal promises of God are collective, not always
personal.
2. Honoring parents produces longer Iifespans for most people
in a society.
3. Longer lifespans can produce a growing population.
4. A growing population is a tool of dominion: “Be fruitful and
multiply.”
5. Parents possess a God-given, limited, but institutionally