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The Great Reset: Charting the Way Forward

From the back cover—

The Biden presidency, in tandem with the global elites and the COVID-19 pandemic’s convenient segue into the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Great Reset of 2021, represents cultural-Marxism’s usurpation of the West’s institutions—of its legislatures, courts, universities, media, and corporate boardrooms.

The lead-time of God’s mercy has expired. So, how must the church respond to this? And how will she navigate the new cultural and political terrain?

The Great Reset: Charting the Way Forward by David Orton provides the answer, outlining five resets that the church must undergo to equip her to be both the demonstration and proclamation of God’s government to the world. Only then will the nations discover the biblical blueprints for their dilemmas.

This will instead prove to be God’s Great Reset.

There are five resets the church must undergo:

  1. Partisan politics for the politics of the Kingdom,
  2. The myth of neutrality for a cultural gospel,
  3. Experientialism and false prophecy for the Scriptures,
  4. Tribalism and sectarianism for apostolic unity, and
  5. Eschatologies of defeat for Christ’s victory in history.

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“The Great Reset: Charting the Way Forward”

From the Preface—

This booklet was written with the thought of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January 2021 under the banner, The Great Reset.

This conference represents the world’s most powerful elites – politicians, royalty, government bureaucrats, academics, economists, conservationists, public health experts, Big Money, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Media, and Hollywood celebrities – seeking to recreate the world in their own image.

With the West’s rejection of her Christian past she has also denounced the cultural and social substructures that have provided her freedom and prosperity. From the Enlightenment onwards, for some 300 years, she has pursued other gods. As we negotiate this first half of the 21st century, the full harvest of her apostasy from the personal, infinite God is coming to maturity. We have sown a wind and are reaping a whirlwind (Hos 8:7).

Nevertheless, God’s judgments are redemptive. Regardless of Western man’s rebellion, he still lives in God’s world. No matter how much he pursues his utopian dreams – attempting to recover Eden without God – recreating the world through his own fiat word, he comes up against the world as it really is. All facts stubbornly remain God-created facts. There is no escape. God’s image in man and creative imprint in the world are inerasable.

Through God’s providence and predetermined plan, the West will ultimately awake from her delusion. Reaping the consequences of her rebellion – economically, societally, and psychologically – she will come to what Cornelius Van Til calls “epistemological self-consciousness”—to the realization of the incoherence of her belief-system and that it bears no relation to reality. Autonomous-man’s intellectual precommitments when extrapolated do not comport with the way the world is. His precommitments and his fiat decrees of anticipated utopia instead lead to the abyss. God’s judgments enforce reality.

But for this “epistemological self- consciousness” to occur, the church, as the pillar and ground of truth, must first come to hers. That the same precommitments, even for the church, lead to the same abyss. Forsaking modernism and subjectivism she must return to the verities of “the faith once for all delivered to the saints”, to historic biblical orthodoxy. To the absolute and inerrant God whose word is clear, sufficient, and unchangeable—providing the wisdom and laws for man’s prosperity in God’s world.

The good news is that Christ’s resurrection and ascension have secured the beachhead in the enemy’s territory. And now through his church the invasion has begun. Despite momentary setbacks no satanic authority can, nor will, withstand the advance of God’s Kingdom in the world. Christ’s rule and law-word will prevail in history, outworking in a new worldwide Christian civilization. To this end this booklet is dedicated.

From the Preface of the Great Reset: Charting the Way Forward

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21st century Western man is now living in the moral debris of the 20th century experiment—the experiment of messianic statism – Marxist, Fascist, and now secular Humanist – with its rejection of God in Christ as the genius of the Western cultural heritage. Spiritually, morally, and financially bankrupt the West has now exhausted its options. 

Our message despite the historic failure of humanity, including the church, is one of certainty and hope. God has a purpose for history and for nations—for their governance, prosperity, and peace. God’s plan for the planet is more than adequate for its crisis. Lifemessenger is committed to speaking a prophetically pertinent word to church and culture.

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