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Our Magnum Opus:
Micah's radical vision of Vine & Fig Tree is set forth in great detail in this work, which spans the Bible from Genesis to Revelation:
- The Kingdom: Judgment of the World by the Saints of God
- The Gospel: The Inevitability of Reconciliation
- God's Law: Blueprint for Reconciliation
- The Family: The Machinery of Reconciliation
- The Nations: The Jurisdiction of Reconciliation
- The Garden: Paradigm of Reconciliation
- The Remnant: Reconciliation in Community
These seven themes are the foundation for these soon-to-appear Internet Books:
- Towards a Catholic Workers' Paradise.
- Vine & Fig Tree: Christianity for the Third Millennium
- The Christmas Conspiracy
Newsletter Archives
- Generic Christianity: The Patriarch and the Church
- Garden-Variety Christianity: The Patriarch and the Land
- The Lifelong Disciple: The Patriarch and Education
- The Debt Papers: The Patriarch and Economics
- PATRIARCHY
covering:
Towards a Patriarchal Society
The Patriarchal Society set forth in the Bible and exemplied by Micah's Vine & Fig Tree vision may be described by the Hebrew word "Shalom." Peace, wholeness, Christian conciliation. It can happen; it must happen; it is going to happen.
- Christian Conciliation: A World-and-Life View.
- The Biblical Basis for the Ministry of Reconciliation.
- Lex Mercatoria: The International Non-Governmental Resolution of Disputes
- Getting to the Kingdom
Studies in Patriarchy
- Patriarchy and the Family
- Patriarchy and the Pastor
- Patriarchy and the Lawyer
- Patriarchy and the Criminal
12 Steps to Patriarchy
- The Patriarch Manual
- The Son of Abraham
- Idolators Anonymous: The Co-opting of a Prophetic Movement
- Churchaholics Anonymous
- Archists Anonymous
- Homosexuals Not Gentlemen
- Patriarchy and the Second Coming
- Judaism and the Second Coming
- Christianity and the New Age
- The Most Radical Doctrine of Predestination.
- Miscellaneous
SUMMARIES
Towards a Patriarchal Society
Vine & Fig Tree stands for the proposition that the Bible advocates the elimination of the institutions of Church and State. These publications help show the Biblical basis for a radically decentralized personalist communitarian society.
Micah's vision, from the perspective of an arbitrator/peacemaker.
Vine & Fig Tree advocates the elimination of the State and its "system" of "justice."
This is a book-length exposition of 1 Corinthians 6:1-11, which incorporates the
exegesis and insights of over 35 respected Christian commentators on the
passage. It argues that the Vine & Fig Tree Vision underlies Paul's command to Christians
not to resort to pagan courts.
Lex Mercatoria: The International Non-Governmental
Voluntary Resolution of Commercial Disputes
The idea of eliminating all political systems is met with alarm, even by "tax-protesting" "Christian Patriots." In their crusade against "commerce," they have demonized the Lex Mercatoria, or Law Merchant.
The Law Merchant was a system of non-political, voluntary arbitration of commercial disputes which existed in the Middle Ages. It is evidence that a global obedience to I Corinthians 6 is possible. This book examines the history of commerce before the rise of nation-states and shows that decentralized, patriarchal societies can more efficiently and peacefully carry out the Dominion Mandate than a world dominated by "archist" structures such as the State.
Getting to the Kingdom
The Harvard University Negotiation Project studied techniques of conflict resolution and entitled their study Getting to Yes. While their techniques and insights are valuable, they are but vague shadows of a full-orbed Christian concept of conflict resolution. That concept is presented here. In a nutshell, peaceful co-existence of human beings does not depend on the existence of a well-armed Nation-State or global government.
STUDIES IN PATRIARCHY
The publications above are somewhat "theoretical." The publications below are more "practical."
PATRIARCHY: Christian Conciliation and the Family
Christian Conciliation finds its greatest obstacle in the institutions of church and
State. Would-be patriarchs are intimidated into servicelessness by claims of
authority and professionalism by agents of church and State. All the responsibilities of the Ministry of Reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-21) are given to
"laymen."
PATRIARCHY: Christian Conciliation and the Pastor
Beginning where the volume above leaves off, those who occupy ecclesiastical
positions are given suggestions as to how to equip "laymen" for their task as
conciliators, and how "Priests" and "Pastors" can then themselves move up to
the position of "laymen" and Godly Patriarch.
PATRIARCHY: Christian Conciliation and the Lawyer
Also beginning where we left off with the "layman," the Attorney is shown that he is a king under Christ, with a call to justice. This publication shows how to
turn an ordinary law-practice into a Christian Patriarchy.
PATRIARCHY: Christian Conciliation and the Criminal
Biblical critique of such concepts as Prison, Capital Punishment, and how the Patriarch should bring the message of Reconciliation to those who commit crimes. Theories tested by nearly 10 years of experience with violent and non-violent criminals in a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality.
12 STEPS TO PATRIARHCY
A practical introduction to Christian Patriarchy. How an average, low-grade
American can raise grandsons to be Patriarchs like Abraham, who was respected by kings of nations, was "rich in cattle and gold," and exercised
evangelistic hospitality to over 1,000 homeless people at a time.
A program of Scripture Meditations designed to enhance patriarchal Godliness and
begin the process of personal transformation which will result in a generation
of society-shaping Christian Patriarchs.
Idolators Anonymous: The Co-opting of a Prophetic Movement
An Historical and Theological Examination of the "12 Steps" of Alcoholics
Anonymous, their compatibility with radical Patriarchal Christianity, and the
crippling dilution of the program by demonic "new age" mythology and
trendy pop-psychology.
Most Christians today are addicted to "church membership." A Biblical Critique of
the institutional "church" is integrated with a 12-Step program which moves
people out of churches, back to their homes, and into God's world.
A 12-Step program for "adult children of the State" -- people who were taught that
the State is a "divine institution" and are recovering from its destructive
model of violence, vengeance, and domination from which we have all
learned so much, and have become "co-dependent."
The incredible violent and fascist origins of "The Sexual Revolution," exposing
how we have all been influenced by the "New Morality," how Playboy has shaped how even Christians think about sex, and a 12-step
program to overcome lust and addictive fornication.
Escape From Dominion - The Myth of the "Second Coming"
Premillennialism -- the eschatological perspective which holds that Jesus could
come at any moment to set up a hierarchical rule in Jerusalem -- is held to by as
many as 50- to 80-million Fundamentalists and Evangelicals. The view has infected many mainline Protestants and Catholics as well.
Patriarchy and the Second Coming
Following J. Stuart Russell, this work argues against the notion of a re-incarnation or "second
coming" of Christ and establishment of hierarchical "Christian" kingdom based in
Jerusalem. Shows that "Second Coming" texts which have been misused
throughout church history were intended to strengthen the Apostolic Church
by promising the imminent "coming" of Christ in judgment against statist pharisaism, freeing the Church to re-create Edenic Patriarchy.
Judaism and the Second Coming
Building on the volume above, this publication shows that modern pre-millennialism, ritualism,
ecclesiocentrism, etc., are holdovers from Judaism (specifically, Pharisaism, or Talmudism),
and how Jesus destroyed this religion in A.D. 70. This work has nothing to do with any Semitic people as such.
Judaism is not the only ancient religion which haunts us today. This publication shows how so-called "new age" concepts were invented by ancient opponents of Biblical Faith who sought to cripple and enslave the masses in the service of
archist political and ecclesiastical systems. Modern "new-agers," such as Maurice Strong, are again attempting to enslave Christians to the corporate-political machines of the "New World Order." Christ inaugurated the true New Age, and is overthrowing the old world order which the "new agers" are vainly attempting to resuscitate.
Numerous smaller Bible studies on various subjects are available.
Things The Patriarch Abraham Would Have Supported
Things The Patriarch Abraham Would Have Opposed
Radical Predestination is the basis for radical personal and social change.
We trust the State because we do not trust God.
We are addicted to the promises of men because we do not believe the Word of God.
There really is a God.
Not a "force." God.
The God of Moses, Isaiah, and Jesus is the One, True God.
Man is not God.
Everything else follows.