day no. 17,202: Christendom is dead; long live Christendom

“The West is dead. Long live the West.” — Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

The West is Christendom. While much of it is apostate, none of it is abandoned. Many have tried to destroy it and some, like Balaam and Balak, have tried to get it to destroy itself. The latter has been a more effective method than the first, but neither will succeed. God has promised that the gates of Hell will not prevail and that His Church will continue to march down the aisle until her wedding day at the end of time.

“Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Resurrection rules the world. He is seated, but His seeds keep growing. As they die to themselves, falling like grains of wheat to the ground in faith, they are by grace regenerated. The Lord is landscaping and the leaven continues to conquers the lump. 

Nero: this is the end of Christianity,

Diocletian: this is the end of Christianity,

Muhammed: this is the end of Christianity,

Voltaire: this is the end of Christianity,

Nietzsche: this is the end of Christianity,

Darwin: this is the end of Christianity,

Marx: this is the end of Christianity,

Freud: this is the end of Christianity,

Liberalism: this is the end of Christianity,

Feminism: this is the end of Christianity.

Communism: this is the end of Christianity,

Secularism: this is the end of Christianity,

“Men have spoken too soon in claiming that the world has now entered a post-Christian era and we have been fools to believe them.” — Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope

The future is Christian.

“Strictly speaking, there will never be a post-Christian era, because there will never be an era post-Christ.“ — Toby Sumpter

Christianity will never end and there will never be anything after Christianity. Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father patiently destroying all of His enemies save death. Once every last enemy has been rallied under His feet, He shall stand again and come to judge the quick and the dead and put an end to that last enemy when death itself is thrown into the lake of fire.