21. That we establish a temple

21. That we establish a temple

Can there be difference at all between church building and people building for the Vow People? Can congregation building ever anywhere else embogue than in the building together of a believing people life? Has the difference - even separation, the fencing-off and fencing-in of church and people in reciprocal seclusion - validity at all in the life and thinking of the Vow People?

Comes this fencing-off passion for reciprocal isolation between church and people not from the same direction as from the hatred instigated against the Vow People’s policy of respecting boundaries between peoples and cultures of the past century? Is it also not the direction from which the present fusion between every “religion” on earth comes from?

If so, is the respect of the natural given limits between peoples, as well as the Biblical prescribed limitation against every form of idolatry, abominable heresy; but inexorable “forced” separateness between church and people a merciless Biblical demand? Must the endeavor to “make disciples” of the nations then start with inexorable abolition of “peoplehood” itself? (St. Matthew 28:19)

Is that respecting and maintaining of limits, not far more obeying of the culture calling for guarding and cultivating of God’s handwork? - of which He, God himself, undoubtedly found: “...it was very good?” (Genesis 1:31)and with respect to which He Himself later, for avoiding the loss of the “goodness” of it, scattered the peoplehood since Babel in different peoples “upon the face of all the earth”? (Gen.11: 8,9)

Where and when are church and theology dismissed from co-responsibility, even in the front-line, for the “dressing and keeping” of God’s handwork, which also includes the “scattering” over the whole earth to different and distinguishable peoples, each with its own language?

Wherefrom comes this absurdity of a church that reckons that involvement with the life of a people will soil his hands? What pretends such a church to want to be doing on earth, while he wants nothing to do with the life of a people? May it be that he in reality long ago secretly became a partner to the abovementioned contra-culture actions, a participant to the destruction of peoples, and especially the Vow People’s existence?

There is expensive Vow debt on the account of the Vow People to demand answers on this from Afrikaans churches.

At the contemplation of this, one must bear in mind that also the Vow commitment to the Lord regarding “a temple to his honour” is entered by a people’s gathering on the initiative and under the command of a military commander. The Vow People wants to be church people, and stay, and ever “built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit,” also in the countenance of a misled and strayed church.

If he lets him be carried away by such a church on a road of alienism, as people in his people life of “the holy God of heaven and earth,” he stops being Vow People.

Any believer must constantly keep in mind the awful possibility that an organization who self-confidently calls himself “church,” can sow more evil than good in the life of any people. How much more, and how much more disastrous could it be in the life of a Vow People!

Even the Vow People is not exempted against the threat of “ . . . that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken” (St. Matthew 24:48-49).