What is the Real Meaning of
Easter?
Focus Text: Vine and under his
fig tree,
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 story of the Bible is "paradise lost" and Paradise Restored.
The blessings God promises in Deuteronomy 28 are (on the surface) primarily agricultural.
Would you be willing to live for hundreds of years in the Garden of Eden with a community of sanctified people . . . but no cell phone?
Agrarianism vs. technology
"Salvation" in the Bible means the restoration of the conditions of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1-2)
- But Man's goal and purpose is to build the Garden into the City of God. (Revelation 21-22)
- Is "Industrialism" possible without the sword (police and military) of "the State?"
- What kind of industrialism would emerge in the absence of "False weights and Measures" and extortion-subsidies?
- Will we have "agrarianism" or "technocracy?"
- Who gets to decide for you?
- Who gets to decide for hundreds of millions of people?
Studies in Mutualist Political Economy: Industrialism vs. Decentralism -- The Role of the State
Agrarian Man vs. Industrialist Man: Political vs. Economic Man
Pierre Joseph Proudhon: Agrarian Jurisprudence
Environmentalism
Compare first three chapters in Genesis with last three chapters in Revelation: Edenic imagery - Garden of Eden / City of God
Wilderness vs. Garden: Garden = Order
Audio
- "Salvation" in the Bible means the restoration of the conditions of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1-2).
- But Man's goal and purpose is to build the Garden into the City of God. (Revelation 21-22)
If you grow your own food, you have safe, nutritious food even when the "supply chain" breaks down.
If you don't grow your own food, you're dependent on food that must be stripped of nutrition so that it doesn't spoil as it travels vast distances and sits on the shelf at Walmart.
Living off land depends on owning the land. Therefore Agrarianism is related to Property.
