Christians blamed for conspiracies: Anarchist Edition! (ft. James Corbett)

James Corbett and Gilbert Aldama discuss anarchy, and why God isn't on the side of compliant Christians

What you missed…

• James Corbett joined Gilbet Aldama on his show ‘Freedom From Rulers’ last week to discuss anarchism as a mentality and a hope for the future. The episode was titled “The TRUTH About Government, God, Laws, Anarchism, Democracy, Morality, Human Rights and Royalty with James Corbett”;

• Corbett was born and raised in Canada but moved to Japan over a decade ago and has been making a living as an online watchdog for 14 years;

• Corbett and Aldama both argue that nation states do not need to exist, that there should be no lawmaker class, and that the biblical notion of God appointing ruling authorities is outdated and illegitimate;

• Aldama implies that Christians are complicit in government abuse because of the biblical teaching that ruling authorities are appointed by God and therefore we should submit to them;

• Corbett said the Apostle Paul was actually being subversive and anti-government in his letter to the Romans, that he was arrested for being subversive, and implies that the proper Christian stance should be much closer to anarchist;

• Corbett also suggests that “maybe God is an anarchist” due to 1 Samuel 8.

In this article I will be responding to The Corbett Report’s James Corbett from the perspective of The Winter Christian; this means contextualizing the discussion in the landscape of a pending global crisis and tribulation for Bible-believers.

Churches are being burned down across Canada. Anarchists think that Christianity is an obstacle to revolution, reform, and reparations.

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Does God appoint government?

Let’s begin with the teaching of our Lord when he was being interrogated:

(John 19:10-11) So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

Aldama cited this as something American Christians use to legitimize obedience to the government. Personally I’ve never heard anyone make that argument, but I have a feeling the anti-Christian (ie. antichrist) crowd doesn’t much care what Christians actually teach. Jesus could have meant that Pilate only has authority because it was given to him from “above” in the Roman Empire (ie. the Senate or Caesar) not necessarily from God. However, if we assume Jesus is referring to God giving Pilate his authority, what does this imply? Only that one man in the Roman government was given authority to mess with Jesus. There is no universal application to all governments based on this verse alone.

The other passage Aldama pointed to is indeed commonly cited by Christians as proof that we need to obey governments generally. It’s Romans 13:

(Romans 13:1-7) Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. … Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

This confirms that there is divine appointment of authorities in general. Corbett and Aldama are dead wrong about this, and I’ll explain why this is ironic later.

Paul says that authorities are appointed by God to reward good and punish evil, but this is only half the story. Paul knows that God appoints rulers for more complex reasons than to make the world a better place. Here he emphasizes the virtue of government and commands believers to “submit” because he is making a point about Christian priorities: we are not supposed to deplete our energy trying to reform the world, and we are not supposed to become terrorists to overthrow corruption. Jesus never broke the law, and he did not even suggest that his followers should try to subvert Roman authority—even knowing that Rome would execute him unfairly.¹ Talk about setting an example!

In the first century, there was a movement of Jewish “zealots” who had been trying to pick a fight with the Romans by assassinating officials. Paul was condemning them and distancing himself from them by writing to Christians this way. He teaches that we should work within the margins of whatever society we are in to serve God, knowing that the authorities will continue to be in power for as long as God allows them to stay there. If we submit to government and do the minimum requirements to be tolerated (ie. paying taxes and staying out of their way), we can accomplish much more than if we are at war with the government. The Jewish zealots were the ones who ultimately provoked the Roman Empire into destroying Herod’s Temple, gutting Jerusalem, and banning Jews from Palestine, proving Paul 100% correct.

Paul’s captivity

In their discussion, Corbett and Aldama point out that Paul was in Roman captivity while he was writing, as if that proved he was a subversive anarchist who was trying to fight the Roman powers. This is a laughable argument; so totally backwards that it shows no understanding of scripture at all.

We know exactly why Paul was arrested, and it was because of an anti-Christian Jewish conspiracy to falsely accuse him and have him killed. He was in captivity because he was awaiting trial based on these accusations, not because he was persecuted by the Romans or caught being subversive. Paul gave a speech to the governor and almost persuaded him to be a Christian! He certainly was not guilty of trying to subvert Roman authority. In fact, Paul used his Roman citizenship and knowledge of Roman law in order to protect himself from the Jewish cult! If there is any lesson to be learned from Paul’s story in regard to civil obedience, it is that Paul’s obedience to the government allowed him to peacefully write letters to the churches and greatly expand the Christian scriptures. He was treated well by the Romans and allowed to have visitors.²

Yes, God empowers evil empires

In my short educational booklet on the Beast System I go even further in showing proof that God is the one who institutes and supports evil empires in order to accomplish His prophetic plans for the world. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever (if you study the Bible honestly) that God is the one who plans, summons, and enables major geopolitical powers. These kingdoms have wrought havoc on humanity and oppressed millions. Yet, on the other hand, they also innovated many things that would prove vital for the spread of the Gospel, such as spreading a common language, creating road networks, mail delivery systems, and more efficient production of books. God uses Satan to further His own plans; this is nothing new.

These empires are called “beast kingdoms” in Daniel and are compared to terrifying predators with an appetite for growth and territory. These beast kingdoms began with Nebuchadnezzar II of Neo-Babylon (the lion kingdom), where God showed that, if He wants to, He can instantly remove the sanity of world leaders and cause them to become like deranged animals who wander the fields and can’t even think like a human anymore (see Daniel 4). Thus, world rulers are fully in the palm of His hand, and their success depends on Him. Nothing that these empires do is betraying the mandate given to them by God, in the same way that Satan himself is tolerated and given authority over the kingdoms of the world. Secularists can seethe and cry about this all they want, but it’s simply the reality of the world.

The role of these kingdoms is to be totalitarian, to unite mankind against Jesus Christ, and to put up a fight against the Kingdom of God, which is already victorious in the spiritual realm, but will eventually be victorious in the material world when Jesus returns, too. This is a mystery not appreciated by Christians, which is why they don’t teach it in church. Most Christian churches preach a fairy tale version of the Bible where we can change the world and make it a better place if we just pray and do our best. They aren’t comfortable with prophecy, so they don’t acknowledge an inevitable global (apparent) victory of Satan over the church. They’ll skip right by it with the Rapture theory or some other gimmick.

Acceptance as complicity

Christians are meant to accept the stark reality: this world is fallen, sinful, and already judged by God and scheduled for destruction (John 12). There is no turning the ship around. Nothing stops this train.

Secularists don’t want to accept it. They believe in the power of humanity over prophecy, not the power of prophecy over humanity; this is what makes them Humanists. And by the way, Humanism is the Mark of the Beast, which is why it shares the “number of Man”, which is “666”, which I have explained before. Anyone who thinks they can save the world is going to join the antichrist crowd, blaming Bible-believers for why their attempts to avoid the inevitable will only backfire and lead to more chaos, evil, and deception. As the Green Rider (ridden by Death itself) takes over and begins the depopulation, everyone will find their own excuse for why Bible-believers are responsible.

Bible-believing Christians are not only innocent of the global conspiracy itself, we are the #1 protectors of sanity, decency, and honesty in the world. We condemn and expose the evil, and we do it way better than a secularist ever could, because we don’t have our eyes closed. Our solution is the only solution, because it targets the only problem that can be solved. It’s called the “Good News” for a reason: because all the other news that pretends to be good is actually poison.

We accept reality. There are evil networks who invade and conquer every institution, including the ones we’d like to think are the best. Today humanity is finally seeing it, thanks to Jefferey Epstein, P. Diddy, and the slow revelation that everyone in power is a blackmailed puppet of various intelligence agencies and cabals. It’s not just that human nature is sinful so nothing can be perfect, but that there is a very real and concrete satanic conspiracy to plunge mankind into darkness and eliminate all truth from the world. Every Christian is a conspiracy theorist by the very fact that we believe Satan is the ruler of this world, pulling the strings at the highest level of worldly power. This is why we are the spearhead of truth, piercing through false hope and false solutions with biblical facts and direct solutions at the very lowest level: that of the individual soul. But ironically, we will be blamed for the conspiracy we are fighting against spiritually, because the Humanists don’t want to focus on souls, they want the fight to be political, material, or systematic. They don’t want God’s plan to unfold.

One of the most common accusations against Bible-believers is that we aren’t sufficiently aggressive in our “fight” or “resistance” or whatever empty word they use to describe their own ineffectual crusades. Greg Reese said the same thing months ago, blaming the state of the world on Christians being passive and weak—compared to himself, I suppose? As if creating fearmongering videos and promoting Theosophy is some kind of brave assault on the root of the problem.

Somehow, even though the Humanists haven’t done a damn thing to overthrow the corrupt powers or somehow improve the direction of the world, they see themselves as being heroic saviors of the masses, while the Christians who do better research and have a deeper impact on the hearts of listeners are considered complicit. The day may soon come when there is a global crisis met by a universal “call to action,” when all the Humanists rally to try to save the Republic (or pray to the UFOs, or whatever the psyop ends up being) and true Christians will have no part in it. Then, when things go bad, they’ll have their excuse to point the finger at us.³

Delusion as solution

I said I’d explain why it’s ironic that Corbett and Aldama don’t believe God appoints worldly authorities. By denying this simple truth, they open themselves up to the delusion that they can find a solution to prophecy, and thus stumble directly into the hands of the conspiracy, which is all about providing false fears and false hopes. If they accepted that God does appoint authorities, and that we can’t change the world, they would stop clinging to silly notions like anarchy, and start seeing how beautiful and free life still is in the modern world, despite the evil rulers. They are obsessed with politics and trends, and not focusing on the daily work for the Kingdom, where we have constant wins when we put in the effort. They get angry at the “sheeple” who conform to the “statist” mentality and accept the status quo, but they themselves are like lost sheep, without a shepherd to protect and guide them to safety—or to be less metaphorical, they don’t have a church community or the Holy Spirit to comfort and guide them. They pride themselves on being radical and willing to think differently, but they’re following an old braindead stereotype of the anarchist from over a hundred years ago, which has never worked, and never will.

The Anarchist’s paradox

Now let’s get into why anarchy itself is a dumb political ideology even without the religious reality to expose it as ineffectual, or without the conspiracy being the hidden master behind it.

1. Anarchy has no path to victory

2. Anarchy is a vacuum

3. Anarchy is unenforceable

4. Anarchists are always hypocrites

Now I’ll briefly explain each of these.