The Archetypes of the Christmas Conspiracy



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The Seven Archetypes of

The Christmas Conspiracy

Repudiating The Modern World

of

Secularism, Humanism, Anti-Family Sex, Hedonism, Autonomy, Totalitarianism, and Mass Death

The true meaning of Christmas has been obscured by the consumerism, materialism, and militarism of the American Empire. The State, along with its institutional yes-man, the church, profits from ignorance of the message of Christmas. The Church-State hybrid does not want you to know about The Christmas Conspiracy

While the true meaning of Christmas can be found throughout the Bible, a prophecy of Micah is particularly illustrative, and Christmas Conspiracy co-conspirators are fond of it:

|And it will come about in the last days |Victory: The Inevitability of the Conspiracy |

|That the mountain of the House of the LORD | |

|Will be established as the chief of the mountains | |

|And it will be raised above the hills | |

|And the peoples will stream to it. |Catholicism: The Universal Appeal of the Conspiracy |

|And many nations will come and say, | |

|"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD | |

|And to the House of the God of Jacob, | |

|That He may teach us about His ways |Law: God's Law vs. Man's "law." |

|And that we may walk in His paths." | |

|For from Zion will go forth the Law | |

|Even the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem. | |

|And He will judge between many peoples |Peace: Beating the State's Swords into Plowshares |

|And render decisions for mighty, distant nations. | |

|Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares | |

|And their spears into pruning hooks; | |

|Nation will not lift up sword against nation | |

|And never again will they train for war. | |

|And each of them will sit under his |Family: God's Central Unit of Society |

|Vine and under his fig tree, |Garden-Land: Reversing the Stalinization of the Farm |

|With no one to make them afraid. | |

|For the LORD of hosts has spoken. | |

|Though all the peoples walk |Community: Man is not an Island |

|Each in the name of his god, | |

|As for us, we will walk | |

|In the Name of the LORD our God | |

|forever and ever. | |

|"In that day," says the LORD, | |

|"I will assemble the lame, | |

|I will gather the outcast | |

|And those whom I have afflicted; | |

|I will make the lame a remnant, | |

|And the outcast a strong nation; | |

|So the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion | |

|From now on, even forever." | |

|Micah 4:1-7 |Learn as much as you want — |

| |Our interpretation of this passage in |

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Christians dedicated to extending the reign of King Jesus and overthrowing the demonic Empires of the world are inspired by seven archetypal ideas in Micah's prophecy which make up The Christmas Conspiracy:

Victory | | Catholicism | | Law | | Peace | | Family | |Garden-Land | | Community

1. Victory: The Inevitabile Triumph of the Conspiracy

2. Catholicism: The Universal Appeal of the Conspiracy

3. Law: God's Law vs. Man's "law."

4. Peace: Beating the State's Swords into Plowshares

5. Family: God's Central Unit of Society

6. Garden-Land: Reversing the Stalinization of the Farm

7. Community: The Extended Family welcomes the lost and lonely

Clicking on any of these archetypes will begin a chain of links which flesh out each theme, showing the Vine & Fig Tree vision for life in Christ's Kingdom.

In 100 words or less, Micah's prophecy teaches us about:

|Victory |1. The Kingdom: Christ established it at His First Advent. |

|Universality |2. Catholicism: He promises that it will spread across the globe, and will be universalistic, |

| |including all nations, all peoples, all races. |

|Theonomy |3. God's Law: This global spread of Christ's reign will be in terms of obedience to Biblical Law, |

| |which is Christ's Standard of Love, Justice, and Holiness. |

|Pacifism |4. Peace: Biblical Law teaches attitudes of virtue and service; when mature, these qualities beat |

| |"swords into plowshares." |

|Patriarchy |5. Family: Rightly related to those who gave us birth. |

| |Rebellion against the natural authority of parents and elders gives rise to tyrannical, |

| |"paternalistic" institutions. |

|Agrarianism |6. Garden-Land: Militaristic industrialism is then replaced with contentment and a harmonious |

| |relationship with the land. |

|Community |7. Community: Christians do not practice "rugged individualism." The "nuclear family" is culturally|

| |sub-Biblical. Living in extended-family communities, Christians exercise dominion and resist the |

| |pressure of worldly peers spouting the myths of the pre-Christian "principalities and powers." |

Let us take apart Micah's prophecy theme-by-theme. We will see the overall theme of global-human-Divine Reconciliation emerge.

Stated in broad propositions, Micah's prophecy teaches us about:

1. The Kingdom: Christ established it at His First Advent.

      Micah says man was created in a Garden, "the Mountain of the Lord." We rejected God's Providence because we wanted to "be as gods" (Genesis 3:5). In our poverty, we sold ourselves to the demonic slave-traders of the polis.

      Jesus paid the price necessary to "redeem" us (buy us back) from the slave-traders. Satan has been bound. By destroying this slavery, Christ established His Kingdom. If we accept His gentle yoke, we escape the harsh taskmaster of addiction to sin. Christ's plan is not to "rapture" His people, but to empower them to "overcome" sin and the demonic State. He is not "coming soon" to establish an Empire in Jerusalem.

      Churches preach defeat, slavery, impotence, and self-centeredness. "Shepherds" paralyze and castrate "the sheep." Liturgy and rituals replace dominion. Spontaneous obedience to the Blueprints of Life is muzzled by "doctrinal" diversions.

      Politicians legislate dependence and serfdom. Flag-waving replaces dominion, vengeance replaces mercy and "voting" soothes the conscience.

      The Media tempts us to self-worship. Meditation on God's Law is crowded out by "entertainment." Mousketeers graduate to cocaine.

      Yet whenever the Gospel has been believed and fleshed-out, culture has blossomed. Science, the arts, schools, hospitals, "justice, mercy and faith," are the products of Christ's Kingdom.

      Christ has established His Kingdom. Find out more.

2. Postmillennialism: It is a global Kingdom; a New Earth.

      Jesus promises that His Kingdom will spread across the globe, and will be global, or universalistic, including all nations, all peoples, all races. Though the "dominant culture" only reluctantly admits it, Christianity has leavened the loaf, and the dough is rising. "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah 11:9)

      Churches teach that everything is getting "worse and worse." Reforming lives and nations is thought to hinder the "return of Christ." Sectarianism and ecclesiocentrism is their sorry substitute for a Christianized Earth.

      Bureaucrats stalk the borders to keep "illegals" out. "My country right or wrong."

      Christ's Kingdom will grow to cover the planet. Find out more.

3. Law: Man's law will be replaced by God's Law.

      This global spread of Christ's reign will be in terms of obedience to Biblical Law, which is Christ's Standard of Love, Justice, and Holiness. We do not adjust our interpretation of the Bible to fit our culture; we reconstruct our culture according to the Blueprints of the Bible.

      Churches teach that "we are under grace, not law." They still enforce their own laws and traditions, but not God's. The rates for shoplifting, perjury, adultery, divorce, and abortion are as high in churches as among non-Christians. Governments seize billions, murder millions, destroy continents; churches are silent.

      Judges assert that law and justice are "culturally relative." All cultures are equal — except Christian culture, which is "oppressive". It becomes politically incorrect to condemn massive human-rights violations in so-called "left-wing" dictatorships.

      Biblical Law will reconstruct human society. Find out more.

4. Peace: "Swords into Plowshares."

      Biblical Law teaches attitudes of virtue, reconciliation, and service; when mature, these qualities beat "swords into plowshares," disarming the heart of the individual and the polis. Decentralization replaces institutionalization.

      Churches support wars, bless bombs, cheer executions. When institutionalized violence is approved by the pulpit, it is practiced by the people.

      Non-violent Christians follow the Prince of Peace. Find out more.

5. The Family: Home of God's global Shalom

      The Family is the root and center of Kingdom growth -- overthrowing the violence of the State, abstaining from the sycophancy of the Church. Vine & Fig Tree means a return to Biblical Patriarchy -- and then new growth in terms of this family-centered paradigm.

      When families begin exercising independent dominion, the "shepherds" question their loyalty to the church. Inquisitions keep would-be patriarchs docile and "submissive."

       Leviathan is at war with Jefferson's "yeoman farmer." Free men of independent creativity and political skepticism have been replaced by consumer zombies easily managed by the State.

      The Christian Family will abolish the Church-State hybrid. Find out more.

6. Garden-Land: Return to Eden

      When families put Biblical Law into practice, militaristic industrialism is replaced with contentment and a harmonious relationship with the land.

      When Christians attempt to live debt-free, church finance boards call them "unrealistic" and "impractical." Industrialist peonage is nurtured.

      The Federal Reserve Board rewards debt, impersonalism, and cut-throat competition.

      Ecological destruction is a result of polluted hearts.

      Christian Patriarchy will restore Edenic conditions world-wide. Find out more.

7. Community: The Extended Family

      Just as we were adopted into the Family of God, Christians extend their families, bringing in the solitary and abandoned. Christians do not practice "rugged individualism." The "nuclear family" is culturally sub-Biblical. Living in extended-family communities, Christians exercise dominion and resist the pressure of worldly peers who spout the myths of the pre-Christian "principalities and powers."

      Modernist church hierarchies pressure Christians who question birth control, HMO births, mass-schooling, and Secular Humanist degrees. Christians who practice hospitality, sanctuary, and home Bible-study threaten ecclesiastical monopoly.

      The nuclear-armed State is no less hostile to the decentralized provision of social wholeness.

      The Creeds say "I believe in the Community of Saints." Find out more.

Let us take apart Micah's prophecy theme-by-theme. We will see the overall theme of global-human-Divine Reconciliation emerge.

I. The Kingdom:

Judgment of the World by the Saints of God

And it will come about in the last days

That the mountain of the House of the LORD

Will be established as the chief of the mountains

And it will be raised above the hills

Micah 4:1

Many Christians are not participating in The Christmas Conspiracy because they believe that they must wait for Christ to come to earth a second time. The Old Testament Prophets foretold (and Christ's Apostles confirmed) that the Messiah's Kingdom would be established when the following had taken place:

1. Satan is bound and his power to deceive the nations curtailed (Revelation 20:1-3).

2. The Eternal King is enthroned upon the Throne of David (Psalms 2 and 110).

3. Believers are anointed as priests and kings to reign and rule with the Messiah (Isaiah 61:6; 66:21; Revelation 5:10).

Christ accomplished all these things at His First Advent. NOW is the time to begin fulfilling our mandate (Genesis 1:26-28) to exercise dominion under Christ.

The New Testament clearly states that Jesus lived, died, and rose again in "the last days" of the Old Covenant order. His last act under the Old Covenant was the destruction of the Old "House of the Lord" (Matthew 24) and the establishment of a new House, a new Mountain (Daniel 2:35,44; John 4:21,23).

Christ accomplished all these things at His First Advent. NOW is the time to begin fulfilling our mandate (Genesis 1:26-28) to excercise dominion under Christ.

The Christmas Conspiracy Extends Christ's Kingdom

Explore First Archetype: Victory

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II. The Gospel:

The Inevitability of the Conspiracy

And it will come about in the last days

That the mountain of the House of the LORD

Will be established as the chief of the mountains

And the peoples will stream to it.

And many nations will come and say,

"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD

And to the House of the God of Jacob,

Micah 4:2

We sometimes decide whether or not to follow Christ based on whether it's popular. We don't want to be "different." We should realize that what is important is the long-term, and in the long run, Vine & Fig Tree Christianity will be "mainstream." "Fringe" today; mass movement tomorrow.

Optimism: The Gospel ("Good News") is predestined to succeed.

What is the Gospel? Is "Vine & Fig Tree" a "new gospel"? NO! It is the True Gospel! It is the "Good News." The Good News is victory. "The Gospel" is the predestined success of "The Christmas Conspiracy" (Galatians 3:8).

Catholicism: The entire planet -- all races, all cultures, all languages -- will be governed by Christian principles.

Roman Catholicism: A Contradiction in Terms. Ecclesiocentrism: racism; statism.

Postmillennialism or Apostasy? Why postpone "the Rapture" by working for Global Reconciliation? Man's work of reconstruction is backed by the Power/Promise of the Spirit.

The Great Commission vs. the Wimp Commission

Hal Lindsey: Passé Prophet of the Wimp Gospel

Appendix: A Scripture Checklist of Conspiratorial Success

The Christmas Conspiracy is Rooted in Sovereign Grace

Explore Second Archetype: Catholicism

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III. God's Law:

Blueprint for Overthrow and

Reconstruction

And many nations will come and say,

"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD

And to the House of the God of Jacob,

That He may teach us about His ways

And that we may walk in His paths."

For from Zion will go forth the Law

Even the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Micah 4:2

The whole Bible -- including the Old Testament -- is God's Law-Word.

From Moses to Malachi, God sets forth an unchanging standard of Justice, Mercy, and Faith (Matthew 23:23). When faithfully taught and obeyed, observance of the Law of God mends the torn fabric of life. Bringing our lives under the total jurisdiction of Christ is the key to social renewal, not reforming the lives of others through the impersonal violence of statist bureaucratic regulation. Biblical Law is God's pattern for peace, justice, and harmony.

Theonomy vs. Autonomy

The Comprehensive Scope of God's Law: Every Area of Life, Every Activity

Obedience in Life pleases God more than Ritual and Sacrifices in Church

A Slave's View of Law and Politics

Legal Obedience and the Gospel

Theonomy in Christian Ethics

Liturgy vs. Law

"Spirit" vs. Law

Law or "Fruit of the Spirit"?

Galatians 5:22-23:

But the fruit of the Spirit is

1. love,

2. joy,

3. peace,

4. longsuffering,

5. gentleness,

6. goodness,

7. faith,

8. meekness,

9. temperance:

against such there is no law.

"Love" vs. Law

The Impossibility of "Legalism"

Living Faith

The Origin of Greasy Grace

Getting in Touch with Your Feelings

Emotions in Psalm 119

The Christmas Conspiracy is Grounded in Law

Explore Third Archetype: Law

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IV. The State:

The Enemy of Christmas

For from Zion will go forth the Law

Even the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between many peoples

And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.

Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares

And their spears into pruning hooks;

Nation will not lift up sword against nation

And never again will they train for war.

And each of them will sit under his

Vine and under his fig tree,

With no one to make them afraid.

For the LORD of hosts has spoken.

Micah 4:2-4

Christ is the Prince of Peace. His vassal-subjects must be committed to Peace.

This means loving even our enemies. This means going to the cross.

Biblical Law teaches us to pray and work for peace: personally, locally, globally.

The State was invented to replace Pax Christi with Pax Cain, Pax Nimrod, Pax Pharaoh, Pax Babylonia, Pax Romana, and Pax Americana. "The Christmas Conspiracy" is a conspiracy to crush the "New World Order" into powder (Daniel 2:44).

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: The State is institutionalized violence.

Obedience to Biblical Law will eliminate "the State." Justice is altruistic, not adversarial.

Jesus Christ was executed as a threat to the "New World Order." His followers must be prepared to be punished as "anarchists."

The Glory of God, not the Glory of the "Fatherland"

Militaristic Industrialism or Decentralized Harmony? Swords into Plowshares

The Christmas Conspiracy is the Discipling of the Nations

Explore Fourth Archetype: Peace

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V. The Family: The Nursery of Global Reconciliation

For from Zion will go forth the Law

Even the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between many peoples

And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.

And each of them will sit under his

Vine and under his fig tree,

With no one to make them afraid.

For the LORD of hosts has spoken.

In the Garden of Eden there was the Family. There was no priesthood, no State.

All human beings are created in families. Patriarchy is an inescapable concept. If the Christian pater does not train his family in the Ways of Peace, he will be oppressed by a "paternalistic" State.

The Institutions of Church and State are unBiblical. They reflect rebellion against God's Law.

The whole history of man as recorded in the Bible is the history of sinful rebellion against society as created in the Garden of Eden, and the construction of institutions based on coercion and violence. It is the history of Politics vs. Patriarchy.

Not Priesthood, nor Statecraft: The Family is God's Central Institution.

Training Ground for Morality, Forgiveness, Self-Discipline, Competence.

Obedience through the Family eliminates tyranny, protects property.

Institutions such as Church and State were formed in rebellion, not faith.

The Christmas Conspiracy Is the Product of the Home

Explore Fifth Archetype: Family

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VI. The Garden: Paradigm of Reconciliation

And it will come about in the last days

That the mountain of the House of the LORD

Will be established as the chief of the mountains

And it will be raised above the hills

And each of them will sit under his

Vine and under his fig tree,

With no one to make them afraid.

For the LORD of hosts has spoken.

"The Mountain of the Lord" is a reference to the Garden of Eden.

The original Garden had the following characteristics.

10. Fellowship in the Presence of God

11. Springing forth like rivers of water

12. Flowing from a mountain plateau

13. Producing abundant vegetation

14. Decorated with precious jewels

The Life of Man was characterized by the following:

15. A Mandate to Exercise Dominion

16. over a Fruitful Garden

17. gaining Knowledge

18. in Harmony with Nature

19. enjoying the Freedom to Glorify God

20. in a Family-centered life

21. lasting many healthy years

22. as Stewards over the creation

23. Planted Securely on the Land.

In general, each of the characteristic Blessings of the Garden and of Man's Life in the Garden are reversed as man rebels against the Lordship of the Creator. We see the anti-parallels:

Instead of God's Presence

Separation, "Hell on earth," alienation

Instead of water

Thirst

Instead of the Mountain

a desert Valley

Instead of the Botanical Garden

a Wilderness

Instead of Precious Stones

Clay, wood, stubble, asphalt

The Life and Nature of Man are also ruined by Man's rebellion

Instead of Dominion Man

Neanderthal Man

Instead of a Garden

"The Concrete Jungle"

Instead of Knowledge

Mythology

Instead of Harmony with Nature

Conflict, Pollution

Instead of Freedom to Enjoy and Glorify God

Economic Scarcity

Instead of The Family

"Singles," "Careerism"

Instead of Long life-spans

Sickness, Death

Instead of Unmolested stewardship over land

Serfdom, slavery, IRS liens

Instead of Stability

Wandering

|"Deep" Creationism vs. Evolutionism / "Deep Ecology" / Fascist Genocide |

|Dominion vs. Domination: The Model of Christ or The Survival of the Fittest? |

|Culture vs. Commerce: Salvation by Grace or by the Machinations of Man? |

|Agrarianism vs. Industrialism: Covenant Blessings or Humanistic Idolatry? |

Vine & Fig Tree is a movement to restore Edenic conditions throughout the globe.

The Christmas Conspiracy Embraces All of Creation

Explore Sixth Archetype: Garden

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VII. The Remnant: Reconciliation in Community

Though all the peoples walk

Each in the name of his god,

As for us, we will walk

In the Name of the LORD our God

forever and ever.

"In that day," says the LORD, "I will assemble the lame,

I will gather the outcast And those whom I have afflicted;

I will make the lame a remnant, And the outcast a strong nation;

So the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion

From now on, even forever.

Patriarchal Communities: Beyond the "Nuclear Family" and "The American Dream."

The Weak and Illegal: Standing Against the Principalities and Powers

Perseverance of The Saints in Community

Encouragement from Believers vs. Social Peer Pressure

Social Darwinism vs. Personalism

The Christmas Conspiracy Creates Community

Explore Seventh Archetype: Community

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"A Christmas Conspiracy FAQ."

A word to "Feminists."

Vine & Fig Tree advocates "patriarchy."

If that strikes you as offensive and threatening, you should explore the rest of this site. You will find that your definition of "patriarchy" was given to you by the very institutions opposed by Vine & Fig Tree.

In our experience we have found two types of people who might classify themselves as "feminists." If you hate men and children, and hope to arm yourself with the violence of the State in order to bring about your vision of social order (a socialist system of gun-wielding matriarchs), you will definitely be challenged by Micah's vision of Vine & Fig Tree. On the other hand, if politics, guns, condoms, and shouted slogans don't interest you, you are probably in the right place.

Our definition of "patriarchy" differs from many who oppose that term. Our vision is that of the Prophet Micah:

24. A decentralized, state-less, borderless society

25. where parents are faithful and love their children

26. who are disciplined to live their lives according to "the weightier matters of the Law: justice, mercy and faith" (Matthew 23:23)

27. in whom the desire to serve others is greater than the desire to protect self (Mark 10:42-45) and swords are beat into plowshares

28. leaving all as owners of property, and careful stewards of it.

We are pacifists, anarchists, and anti-institutionalists; not defenders of the "patriarchy" denounced by some feminists, but defenders of the "traditional values" opposed by lesbians and other "progressives."

Q. What kind of "patriarchy" can exist in a context of anarchism, pacifism, and decentralism?

A. One you should explore with an open mind; open to ways of thinking which are so old, they appear new.

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