07/20/2024
The "blood and soil" mantra is a false hope. It is a perversion of the true hope found in the gospel.
"Blood and soil" is rooted in death, by default. It is an inversion of Eden. It is a return to the "Sheol" of the old covenant. It is simply a lie designed by Satan to keep people's eyes off the only way life can be had -- the heavenly life that is the only way to inherit the earth/cosmos.
This perverted desire for "blood and soil" is to seek "rootedness" in the "fleshly-earthly" (demonic), as James warns us in his epistle:
//James 3:15 ESV
[15] This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.//
This is the reason the associated fruit is pride, false love, and every work that James described:
//James 3:16 ESV
[16] For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.//
The way to true life, is to have ones rootedness in heaven; one's citizenship in the city that is descending to the earth.
From our perspective, we must resist this lie, and be willing to lose our life--citizenship in this world--for the life found in Jesus Christ alone; in the Spirit. We must renounce our "blood and soil" ties to this world:
//Matthew 10:34-39 ESV
[34] “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. [35] For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. [36] And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. [37] Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. [38] And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. [39] Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Also see, Luke 14:26-27)//
Though this is the opposite of "our natural affections", it is the wisdom from above. By following our Lord Jesus Christ, we receive a heavenly family/kingdom, in which, we become "rooted" in the life-giving "soil" beside the river that flows from Christ's throne. This is the only way to have a true inheritance.
The lie of Stephen Wolfe's "Christian" Nationalism, is to separate the "two" kingdoms as if this world is not redeemed by "rooted-life", right now, in the "coming Kingdom" of the Beloved Son of our Father. By desiring a "blood and soil" rootedness according to our "natural affections", Satan keeps us under the power of death, which he lost in the death of Jesus Christ (the only blood that matters), and in His resurrection as the new humanity (the only family that matters), and His ascension to heaven; bringing the souls waiting under the alter (old covenant blood and soil) to heaven with Him -- the place we too, by the Spirit, are also seated-rooted.
From this place of life, we the true Christians, declare the only life there is to have; redeeming/inheriting the earth.
- Terry W. West
