A note on the Kline book

I was wondering if you or anybody reading it is getting much from my summary notes of that Kline book:

http://electofgod.blogspot.com/2006/05/god-heaven-and-har-magedon-meredith-g.html

It may require too much previous background knowledge and understanding of covenant theology to begin with. Yet the overall structure of the biblical events it outlines I find to be strikingly clear and on-the-mark (and rare, i.e. not found anywhere else).

I sense this book is a capstone, of sorts, for me with theology. I wrote a note in a paper journal to the effect that what this book describes on the macro level a person has to do on the micro level -- which is what the Work is all about.

I can still explain covenant theology to a deeper level than Kline even does, but he is coming close. He just doesn't want to get too blatantly close to sounding 'esoteric'... Though for an orthodox minister and theologian he has entered that realm pretty fully in parts of this book.

But my main point here is: if you are leery of jumping into theological study because it seems like a million different competing schools and things, it's not. You can find the on-the-mark truth. You just have to start with complete readings of the Bible, which is the rare starting point, but the necessary starting-point.

It is practical, when you see it in its purity and see the macrocosmic level of it all and then can apply that 'seeing' and understanding to your own microcosmic level. I.e., for instance, as Kline identifies 'antichrist crises' as a universal phase of the great process the Bible records you can see that within yourself as well when you approach your own microcosmic eschatological end time event. All the rebellious 'I's and personalities within you rise up and fight back en masse. That is the battle for Har Magedon internally. Har Magedon being the term for God's Mountain of Assembly -- the summit of that mountain. It is within as well.

I will fully adopt this mountain theme for the way I see all of biblical narrative and doctrine (and it's biblical anyway). But this mountain theme, or metaphor, and reality, is so powerful, notice how we use it naturally in various ways when we come to truth on our own? It also carries within it blatantly SPIRITUAL WARFARE. Which systematic theology skips over as subject matter. Because it's more in the realm of practice -- where Work knowledge and effort resides.

So I feel I have it all now with this work. (That's not a silly statement just because I've 'read a book'. The subject matter of this book is the deepest and most epic that exists in mainstream biblical theology: classical covenant theology and all that is carried within that.)

I just read an old book where 'British' as a name means 'covenant people'... (I known that for awhile and have written about it, but I just came across it again; it's a book that gets into Kelts and Saxons and their origin and all that.) I mention this because 'covenant' has practical meaning. 'Christian' means 'consecrated one'. Annointed one.

The Doctrines of Grace are part of it. They represent all the 'top down', difficult to accept, teaching about yourself that connects you to what is above rather than what is below.

The main thing to get all this: read the Bible complete, once, three times, seven times. Just do it. Then learn pure biblical doctrine (Calvinism, covenant theology). Then practice it, which requires Work knowledge (or school knowledge). Having Work knowledge already means you have it all; or the means to get it all.

Notice I would always use the metaphor of climbing a mountain, or 'summit' or something similar regarding the 2nd conscious shock (I even drew a diagram about that)? That mountain is Har Magedon within. It's a battle. Holy War. Temptation and triumph, or failure.

Practically, aside from the very practical matter of doing the Work and increasing level of being, you can take this doctrinal knowledge and use it to SEE the world and events and what is happening (the various phenomena of evil, for instance). Objective knowledge. Subjective knowledge and objective knowledge is the goal. Understanding. Being able to attain the summit and not failing (2nd conscious shock)... It's all practical.

And the complete program is collected in the Bible; pure doctrine (epic covenant theology); and the Work. (Of course the Homeric epics as a high, universal language help greatly along the way...)