A Jezebel Among Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qUnnSu1Dno

I had heard of this woman (Lauren Boebert) awhile ago, but I never imagined she professed to be a Christian. She's best known for her open carry lifestyle – she's almost always armed (this talk being a rare exception) and has made a big deal about her gun-friendly restaurant in Colorado. Riding the wave of fame, she then used her 'charms' to get herself elected to congress.

Nor would I have imagined that a woman so immodest in her dress and carriage would basically preach a sermon and (it would seem) the audience (both in person and online) loves to have it so. This is modern Evangelicalism. Such figures appeal to Evangelical women who are crypto-feminists and for certain types of men that find an indecent woman like this to be attractive.*

If this wasn't bad enough just in the set-up and assumptions behind what is taking place – then there's the content.

Ideological chaos and confusion reign in her message. In addition to the typical pronoun confusion of Church and America (listen to her blasphemous closing 'prayer'), the Second Amendment is sacrilegiously referred to as 'sacred', and the liberty spoken of is not the liberty from the bondage of sin found in the New Testament, but Enlightenment liberty, libertarian autonomy, and self-indulgence. She speaks of gospel liberty but then through a flawed exercise of mutatis mutandis the liberty of the Gospel becomes civil-libertarian liberty and empowerment.

America is 'exceptional', another concept that has no basis in Scripture, 'made to glorify God', a dangerous covenantalizing of the American polity and culture. She draws a direct analogy between the United States and Israel – also failing to acknowledge the non-covenantal state of modern Zionist Israel and thus falling into theological Judaizing on multiple levels.

What a strange time – Evangelical Christianity which poses as conservative has been blended with both Right-wing ideology and elements of theological liberalism. For in the person of Boebert we find a liberal feminist that is hostile to New Testament doctrine, ethics, and polity, and yet presents herself (and indeed believes) that she stands for old time orthodox Christian doctrine and traditional values. Watching her performance it's safe to say there's nothing traditional about her.

What a sad lost soul. She thinks that her gun-themed restaurant is some kind of ministry. She all but admits that it's a gimmick, tart-girls with guns – but instead she argues that patrons come to experience the 'life of God' and are not just filled up (via burgers) but filled up supernaturally. I literally cringed.

This is functional apostasy. This is straight out of Judges – everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. They claim they represent Christ and build His Kingdom but they live as though He were not on his throne. They seek their own path by their own means and fed by their own desires. They do what they want and demand that God blesses them.

Remember in Judges and later in the Northern Kingdom, the people still claimed Jehovah as their God and identified themselves with Him. But they did not follow Him and thus they fell into idolatry, Judgment and condemnation. They lacked faith as exemplified by their disobedience.

This woman is a Jezebel, her speech is full of sacrilege and even blasphemy. The god she serves is a creation of her own design, her servant meant to serve her desires and her considerable ego.

The only gospel she really knows is the baptised worldliness of Dominionism though I doubt she knows the doctrine by that name. Her god and kingdom are that of mammon, her scripture a hodge-podge of Bible, FOX, and American myth.

Given her open Christian profession and her association with neo-fascist militia groups, and the January 6 coup attempt, the full import of her message and her goals is something every Christian must reject and oppose. Of course we oppose the Democrats but the ideology and faction associated with the likes of Boebert and Trump is not an option. Be faithful and don't sign on to evil so that good may come. Let the Babylonians (like Boebert) build their Babel crowned with a cheap tarnished cross. They are dead already.

The fact that this ignorant and evil woman is in the US government, and is being put forward as some kind of Christian leader – is nothing less than a Satanic shot across the bow. She is a Jezebel teaching God's people to sin and fall into idolatry – a thorn in the flesh of the Church.

But what slick packaging. There's just enough eye candy and truth in her message that her ability to deceive ranges far and wide. I marvel at it all and where things are at – that the Evangelical movement would not just fall for this but drink it up. It Judgment and a form of strong delusion.

We need to be clear. The Democrats are indeed evil – as are the Republicans. But with Nancy Pelosi, what are we talking about? What kind of threat does she represent? She might take some more tax money. She might make you add extra insulation to your house, or when you buy a car it might have a bunch of extra irritating stuff that costs money. She's make immoral stands but apart from some irritations and encouraging lost people to act and behave as well, lost people – she doesn't really represent any serious threat to the Church – that is along as you haven't confused the Church with America. She's evil but it's one kind of evil. Only those who are invested in the system and entangled in the affairs of the world will really be bothered by her and the other phony 'Leftists' in Congress.

The evil represented by Boebert and other 'Christians' like her is far more serious, threatening, and dangerous. Her message is anti-Christian but it's one that can fool Christians. She teaches people to sin, pursue evil, and hate the good but as Christians follow her lead, they will think they are serving Christ. She stands for the gospel but it's largely a false gospel and one buried under doctrine and ethics that completely undermine its truth and its claims. Unlike Pelosi, she is an actual threat to the Church. Her evil is of a different kind but in spiritual terms it's far more sinister and dangerous. Counterfeit Christianity is always more dangerous than paganism. Even the New Testament spends more time warning about false teachers than it does the lost world.

The stage is being set for a new chapter that can only be described as dark. But God is faithful and our eye is ever upon the eschaton.

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* You can be assured (regardless of what she might say) that Sarah Palin doesn't like this. This woman is a derivative of her image and persona and yet will be far more appealing in the Trumpian context. With women like Boebert entering the scene, Palin has little chance of re-establishing herself. They don't need her.