Anarcho-pantelism

For most modern Evangelical Christians, their job is to spread the Gospel or the Good News. The modern church takes this role from what is called the Great Commission, which is encompassed in the canon Book of Matthew, Chapter 28, verses 16-20:

18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

I have bold-faced two words/phrases here: nations and the age. In some Bible translations, these words are translated as “everyone you meet, far and near” as well as other similar phrases. It is the common translation of “all the nations” that gives the modern Christian the thought that the end of the age won’t occur until everyone has heard the Good News, so they continuing preaching the Gospel — the Great Commission.

For the anarcho-capitalist, though, we believe that the end of the Age occurred. The “age” in this case means the Age of the Old Covenant that God made with Abraham. We believe that Christ’s second coming had occurred though in 70 AD with the fall of the Great Temple and the vanquishing of the Jews by the Romans, and the fall of Nero Caesar soon after. Christ wasn’t talking to Christians forever, we believe. He was speaking directly with His followers at the time of his Resurrection — calling on them to prepare for His second coming.

When Christ talked of His second coming, He did so in very particular words:

Revelation 1:3: God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its message and obey what it says, for the time is near.

Revelation 2:16: I am coming to you quickly.

Revelation 3:10-11: “Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. I am coming soon.

And on and on. In Revelation, we see that Christ said he was coming quickly about 10 times — and the words were written as letters to the Early First Church that congregated during His life and Resurrection and soon after. Modern Christians take these words to heart as still applicable 2000 years later, but Anarcho-Pantelists don’t believe that Christ was a liar — we believe that He meant what He said.

Christ’s second coming would bring with it the end of the Age — the end of the Old Covenant of Laws and Commandments and Judgement and Seperation — a complete reconciliation for all men with the Loving God. Up to the point of Christ’s return, it is acceptable that Christians would want to follow His desires to tell others about His quick and imminent return, but why would He say quickly if He meant 2000+ years later? Even Christ told His early followers that He was returning while some of them were still alive, as we see in the canon Book of Matthew, Chapter 16, Verse 28: “And I tell you the truth, some standing here right now will not die before they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.” To believe that Christ will come while some of His original followers were still alive either means He has yet to come — and some of those followers are over 2000 years old, or modern Christians are not realizing that they missed the Second Coming.

It is obvious that Christians will say that Christ could not have come because He didn’t come again as they were expecting. Why, then, are these millions of Jews still waiting for their Messiah? Because the Messiah did not come as the Jews had expected — just as Christ would not come a second time as Christians were expecting. This is a God that works in mysterious ways, and for Christians to think they are “smarter” than the Jews who are unaware does not leave me believe that God would not work the same way for the Christians who are righteous and fear-inspiring rather than loving and humble.

So has the Gosel and the Good News been preached to the People? In Romans 10:18, we read:

But I ask, have the people of Israel actually heard the message? Yes, they have:

“The message has gone throughout the earth,
and the words to all the world.”

It would seem so. Had the Good News been spread to all the world? To the Anarcho-Pantelist, this was never a requirement — all the nations did NOT mean the entire world, just the particular area that Jesus would return to and overthrow the disbelievers. Even Revelation doesn’t say that ALL disbelievers would be destroyed or cast into “Hell,” instead it shows that a great number would — and again it never says all the disbelievers in the entire world, just in that particular region.

The Great Commission was a very important task for early Christians before the imminent second coming of the Messiah, in their lifetime. But it is illogical and unbelievable that Christ would lie about His quick return, and it is also illogical and unbelievable that Christ would lie about some of His early followers still being alive when He did. We Anarcho-Pantelists believe He did tell the truth, and return to vanquish sin, and return to end the Old Age of God’s impossible Commandments, Laws, Judgement and Expectation for man.