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There is a standard by which we judge our efforts at constructing the Kingdom of God. It is the Bible.
Specifically, God's Law. (All of Scripture is Law, because all of Scripture is breathed-out by God, who is our Lord, and every utterance of a Sovereign is to be respected and obeyed by His vassals.)
The Bible makes up the blueprints for the building of the New Jerusalem, the Kingdom of God. These Blueprints were drafted by the Master Architect. We are to follow the blueprints as servants and laborers, but God gets the glory. As Calvin put it:
As soon as we acknowledge God to be the supreme Architect, who has erected the beauteous fabric of the universe, our minds must necessarily be ravished with wonder at his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power.
Rushdoony has written that God's Law is God's Plan for Victory and Dominion. God's Law commands us to build the Kingdom of God, and tells us exactly how to do this. God's Law both commands and promises success in building the Kingdom of God.
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Such Promises ("blessings") are found in our fourth text: Leviticus 26 (see also Deuteronomy 28).
Obedience to God's commandments brings blessings,
specifically, the blessing of peace.
Peace
means freedom from the initiation of force or threats of violence by others. Since archists
are those who employ violence as a means to an end, "peace" means "freedom from archists."
The Bible distinguishes "workmen" from the "horns" of power (Zechariah
1:18-21), and if we work to build God's Kingdom and do not become archists,
God will keep those nasty archists away from us:
Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please the LORD,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.