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The Emerging Processes of Civilizational Decline and New Birth

The Emerging Processes of Civilizational Decline and New Birth

Bill Collier October 24, 2021 0

Withdraw, regroup, and rally! This is how, according to Arnold Toynbee, a new civilization emerges from within an old civilization.

Ironically, the pioneers of the new civilization are usually a fraction of a small minority of people who still admire the original spirit and ideal of the old civilization. These pioneers withdraw and firm their own inner, alternative, and parallel communities that seek as much as they can as much material independency as possible from the structures of the old and dying civilization.

Put more simply, often the new civilization’s initial champions are actually trying to save the old civilization. They are withdrawing inwardly from the now alien sociocultural and socioeconomic system that, to them, is almost like a foreign occupation. The present system, to them, is a result of some form of hostile subversion of their civilization and their efforts are aimed at preserving the heart and soul of their civilization’s best features and ideal.

One who studies historiology, the inner and cyclical logic of human history on the rise and fall of countries, national peoples, and civilizations, realizes that we live in an age where all the world’s major civilizations, especially the West, are entering a stage of decline. This stage is the era of moral and spiritual depravity, confusion about fundamental facts of human existence, destruction of the social fabric provided by things like faith and family, and, as this proceeds and the population are dumbed down, the rise of a Caesar.

Many, including those who seek to save the old civilization, focus on the decline and fall as it is emergent. The truly awakened and enlivened focus instead on that which must follow, knowing that the new will build upon the best elements of the old but also transcend that old civilization’s highest achievements.

We live in the a time of decline and fall on one hand and genesis to new dawn on the other hand. Most people are only tangentially aware of the decline and fall, rather fewer are even vaguely aware of the new dawn. But the princely families, and please don’t take this analogy too literally, of the new kingdoms which will exist after the new civilization emerges will arise mostly from the noble few who both see and act on the vision of a new dawn.

If you want to be among the princely families, if you want to secure noble standing for your progeny (both biological and spiritual), then you need to be among the vanguard of people who adopt the new civilization in its ideals and principles. This is the urgent call of the hour: to choose and adopt the new paradigm and participate in building the alt parallel structures of the new civilization.

It is admirable people are trying to save the West and their ongoing work is still essential insofar as it actually sowes the seeds of the new civilization.

For us Upadarians, saving the West is not so much our focus as preserving the best elements and ideas through their inspiration for the new civilization, whose ideals and principles will go further, in a positive way, then the high-water mark of the old civilization.

Loss of economic opportunity, higher prices, lack of supplies, woke cancel culture depravity, being canceled, and increasing authoritarianism are SYMPTOMS of the collapse of culture and the replacement of the organic social fabric with a top-down hierarchical system of absolute control. If we wish to PRESERVE the core ideal and the values we associate with Western Civilization in its prime, we must consider the path of deliberately creating a new form and expression of nationhood as the vanguard people of a new civilization.

The new paradigm honors those from the past, it is a continuum of advancing human civilization, and those who adopt it have the best chance ever to escape the baneful effects of the decline and fall of Western Civilization. As Western Civilization is either present all over the world or deeply influential, its translation from a civilization whose arc of progress is toward universal freedom and prosperity to one whose arc is a return to archaic authoritarianism and corruption it will cause upheaval and ruin all over the world!

The quicker the new paradigm is adopted and the more prevalent it becomes among the people, the easier will be the transition and the less pain those lands and/or national peoples will experience.

Sometimes our rhetoric about the old civilization may seem like a refutation of Western Civilization. We refute the present state of that civilization, we reject a paradigm that must lead to debauchery, loss of our social fabric, loss of freedom, prevalence of poverty, and the emergence of a Caear figure.

Atomization of the individual, destruction of kinship and community founded upon faith and mutual self-reliance, the redefining of the marital household outside millenia of marital orthodoxy, libertinism, “woke” cancel culture extremism, corporate-government collusion that enriches the few at the expense of the many, pitting groups against each other, and all the such are betrayals of the best ideas and the spirit of Western Civilization!

All these things are piling up on each other to create an unsafe, unhealthy, and anti-freedom environment which the average person who still respects the ancient orthodoxy will increasingly struggle to navigate and thrive within. Essentially, it gets to a point where if you stubbornly refuse to betray your sacred beliefs and values you will not be able to thrive in this system or you may be canceled and utterly ruined.

The natural instinct to fight, to try to turn back the clock, or to somehow overturn the powers that be through the election of your own heroic leader, will tend to lead many down rabbit trails that go nowhere.

In the original spiritual experience of the First Founder of our spiritual nation, the pathway envisioned was similar to that described by great historians like Toynbee.

Toynbee described this withdrawal to regroup and rally among the pioneers of the new civilization as the only viable response to the emergence of Caesarism.

The First Founder foresaw the emergence of an intentional spiritual nationality adopted by people as individuals who then form groups and associations, namely a reconstitution of the ancient extended multi-family household kinship community (oikos). These become a globally-distributed commonwealth and sow the seeds of a new civilization whose ideals are adopted by other national peoples and even by landed sovereignties.

Perhaps then this was no coincidence as the First Founder was not aware of any of these historians or the concepts and principles of historiology.

We should then look to the future with a positive point of view, albeit with a strong awareness of the dangers that confront us during these unstable times. We should realize that in embracing a new nationality as the vanguard people of a new civilization that we are also preserving the best things about the old civilization and carrying them into a more glorious future.

Pictured: what an Estate for a kinship group of around 3-5 marital households and connected single adults might look like as the new structures of the new civilization come into physical being.

BUILDING AN INTENTIONAL CITY – Riqueday City, USA

BUILDING AN INTENTIONAL CITY – Riqueday City, USA

Bill Collier October 1, 2021 0

We envision building an “intentional city” called “Riqueday City, USA” as a haven for freedom, justice, and equitable prosperity in a self-sustaining and mutually beneficial society. This city won’t be in one single location, but, rather, it will be distributed WITHIN the communities throughout the greater Twin Tiers area straddling the PA/NY border.

Riqueday City, USA would be a distributed city, privately administered on a free market basis by an area chapter organization for a Christian mutual benefit and refugee support society. It will likely evolve into a city of over 100,000 eCitizens with over 15,000 acres of land distributed in parcels ranging from .25 to 1200 acres distributed here and there among the communities of the greater Twin Tiers.

This city would be 100% self-sustaining for all basis life needs in an eco-friendly way and have its own internal economy based on a fair and equitable free market with an emphasis on participory ownership, cooperatives, mutual assurance, and entrepreneurialism.

Riqueday City, USA will be a refuge for people seeking sanctuary from abuse, life-controlling addictions, racism and bigotry, persecution, war, famine, and corruption. Facilities to minister to people in crisis, asylees, and other refugees would be distributed throughout with local chapter communities serving them and integrating them into society.

The end-goal for Riqueday City, USA is a free and pluralistic society of equals with liberty and justice for all and without favoritism or prejudice. eCitizens, called Upo, would all be considered equal, precious, and valuable human beings created in the image of God.

The builders and administrators of this intentional city will be drawn from among individuals who are called to become peers of a globally-distributed spiritual nation called Upadaria, whose core values and way of life were forged in the Biblical precepts and Kingdom Essentials of historic Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy.

While the primary stakeholders of this distributed intentional city will be drawn from these peers, the city will serve fellow peers of our spiritual nation, fellow Christians in the service area, fellow freedom seekers, people in need of refuge, and all of our fellow citizens regardless of race, religion, or anything else.

Building Freedom Is A Dramatic Lifestyle Change

Building Freedom Is A Dramatic Lifestyle Change

Bill Collier September 30, 2021 0

By Bill Collier- Withdraw from the endless sounds of shrill partisan propaganda and focus on whether or not YOU will build freedom for yourself and your family even in an authoritarian woke cancel culture ruled by corruption and greed. The constant and seemingly forever long train of abuses, lies, and violations of basic human dignity and common decency only serve to keep you transfixed to the distractions and unaware of how close you are from exiting the trap.

You can build freedom. You can actually have the joy and benefit of being part of a culture and a community of people whose values and beliefs are affirming to you, to your own dreams, and to all the things you hold dear. Being AWARE of how the external culture is becoming a cesspool and of the unethical machinations of its corrupt ruling class, as evidenced in the diarrhea of blazing sensational headlines, is somewhat necessary. But being aware of your options and your own power is essential.

While we by no means desire to or advocate abdication of the field of political battle, we recognize that, at present, we have to find gaps for freedom in an environment where the political field is dominated by totalitarians and will not change soon. We have to continue to work toward political advocacy and activities that get the best results while finding new ways to increase our inner strength and wellness through unilateral actions taken with like-minded fellow travelers.

Our approach outside of the political is to build freedom unilaterally between people, one and two then three and more, until entire parallel structures, like economic exchanges or health care systems, can emerge from such creative energy. The gathering, clustering, and cohabitating of like-minded people whose spiritual, social, and cultural convictions are compatible and who nurture and support one another is how we will build freedom unilaterally.

When the surrounding culture is controlled by the few at the expense of, and in opposition to, the sentiments of a significant plurality to a majority of the people, then, beyond merely hoping to reform politics, one must consider the necessity of parallel, alternative arrangements. The old adage “politics is downstream of culture” is only true in a healthy society, of which ours isn’t. But as much as politics is controlling culture in our country today, and as much as political engagement is needed every day, we can use known legal carve-outs and gaps for freedom to unilaterally create alternative or parallel cultural and other arrangements based on our shared Judeo-Christian values.

This is not withdrawal and isolation or ceding politics to the Caesars, the totalitarians. This is both, and. This is also building a socioculturally healthy and materially self-sustaining “army” that can take political activism to a new level and eventually begin to actually DIMINISH the totalitarians in government and in the corporate world.

Going to political war with a political activist core that is materially subservient and dependent in relation to your adversaries, the totalitarians, is a formula that can only produce disappointment and defeat.

To build freedom requires a lifestyle change with an initial primary focus on becoming materially independent of every structure your opponent controls OR taking those structures back. How we spend our time and money and who we spend these things with and toward what ends has to radically change in ways that will likely initially be very inconvenient and tough. Building a local group, community, or network who have a strong organic cohesiveness that comes from deeply held values and a strong shared identity won’t be easy at all.

But such a dramatic rethinking and reprioritizing of basic things like how you spend your time and money and with whom is the only way to both shield yoursef from an unfree culture ruled by totalitarian loons and to build back a stronger and more capable freedom movement that will eventually run the totalitarians out of power. If all over America in every County a core of, say, 100 families united around a set of beliefs and values and a shared identity that affirmed freedom based on Judeo-Christian values then these little cadres of freedom builders would begin to dominate local and then state and then national politics.

Our focus is on building a core of freedom builders in every county in this country who have a strong shared identity and way of life that renders them economically powerful and culturally influential. Being able, as a community of around 100 or so adults in some form of shared identity and way of life, to meet your basic human needs and even prosper more than everyone else is the best way to build a political bloc capable of defeating the totalitarians.

On one hand, we generally share this idea with everyone to use it. On the other hand, we propose a unique form of nationhood, basically an intentional nationality or ethnicity based on ideals and not race or ancestey, that will provide a ready-made form of organic cohesiveness through freewill participation alone. Building intentional community, even where community members don’t cohabitate on one single piece of real estate, is best where there is strong organic cohesiveness, which a form of intentional adopted ethnicity (nationhood) provides.

The genuius of this approach is that it can begin within you and then with one and then two or more local friends who begin on the basis of finding ways to become as materially independent as possible using only the assets, resources, and skills you presently possess.

The difficulty is that for this to work without creating cultish behavior or top-down hierarchical control the barrier to full stakeholding participation is that this new shared identity, and the beliefs and values it represents, must be adopted freely by each stakeholder. Eventually, if your distributed intentional community grows and starts having successes, people’s initial skepticism and close-mindedness toward your effort, and especially the shared identity, will decrease.

(Note: “distributed” in “distributed intentional community” simply means that instead of living on one piece of real estate members and their properties are distributed throughout an area.)

One small group we are building has begun by assesing our resources: what do we own and what can we use and who or what outside of us, but friendly to us, can we tap into. The goal is to ensure as much as we can that everyone can sustain themselves no matter what the totalitarian loons do to try and control us. The barrier to entry for the stakeholders, as opposed to other participants who connect as friends and allies, is the adoption of a shared national identity based on the Biblical concept of spiritual nationhood.

Only in time will people see that this barrier to entry isn’t as high as they think and that this shared identity already aligns with anyone who truly desires to follow the traditions and lifestyle of a culture that is rooted in historic Christian moral, ethical, and doctrinal orthodoxy. It is a necessary and Biblical thing within God’s blueprint for human civilization that diverse forms of nationhood, as opposed to universalism and a Tower of Babel approach to “Chistian Unity”, be used to organically create such self-sustaining communities of people.

Whether you use the device of “intentional nationhood” as the basis of your shared identity, the important thing is that you have a shared identity that provides a strong organic cohesiveness that doesn’t require top-down control in order to maintain it. If you attempt to build a self-sustaining distributed intentional community without organic cohesiveness three outcomes are likely: it will fail through division, it will become top-down and controlling, or ot may adopt cultish behavior.

How you spend your time and money and who you spend it with will have to change. Your focus should become alignment with like-minded people with the intent you all, together, both become self-sustaining and perpetuate the kind of cultural life and norms that nurture your own faith and beliefs. Devoting more time, money, and resources to these local people for mutual profit is an intentional act of resistance against the freedom taking loons.

If you examine your life, you are already making choices and spending time, money, and resources on people and things of no benefit to yourself or your passions. People waste hours a day on social media and spend thousands of dollars per year lining the pockets of totalitarian corporations. Change these things and divert your spending of these things to local people whose values you share and you will begin to be more and more personally free, prosperous, happy, and politically powerful.

Forget The Majority, Building Freedom Through Intentional Nationhood Is Our Right and Duty

Forget The Majority, Building Freedom Through Intentional Nationhood Is Our Right and Duty

Bill Collier September 26, 2021 0

Majorities in many countries are voting away freedom and ushering in a sort of democratic Caesarism and cancel culture extremism that are aimed at destroying religious freedom, especially for Christians and Jews, but really for everyone. We propose a peaceful and ambitious response using the vehicles of national identity and religious freedom, recognized under international law, to assert our rights to build our own parallel structures on the basis of that identity and our religious convictions.

Our response to the growing Caesarism is to use a form of nationhood that will insulate us from these freedom-denying trends and that will perpetuate and protect freedom for future generations.

By creating a “nationality” as an ethnic group or national people, based on a shared faith, we have a ready-made and established vehicle for asserting our own sociocultural and socioeconomic life that is reocnginzed under international law for all peoples and that can become the basis of creating new parallel structures which perpetuate and protect our way of life.

Through a modern adaptation of the ancient extended multi-family household community (Oikos), based on this intentional nationhood, we have a ready-made local structure for transmitting a Christian culture and way of life for multiple generations even in an un-Christian sociocultural setting.

Understand this and understand it well: ONLY the vehicle of “ethnicity” allows us this opportunity to assert our rights to self-determination under international law. Only the claim to be a unique ethnicity, which organizes as local kinship communities, shields us from all attempts to violate our sacred rights to build communities and structures for the primary benefit of our fellow Peers. Only this status as an ethnic group allows us to preserve our unique way of life on sociocultural grounds, not on the grounds of individual rights alone.

Ethnicity based on a spiritual foundation of beliefs and values and way of life, nationhood as we call it, is ESSENTIAL to building our freedoms in a hostile culture. We have to both differentiate ourselves and engage the world around us. The balance here is both separation based on preserving our way of life and Christian witness and in being a salt and light witness of truth and love to others outside our faith and national communities. Nationhood allows us to find that balance in a peaceful and proactive manner.

Such a form of nationhood must both be broad enough to possibly include millions of people but narrow enough to make it distinct as its own identity and lifestyle and therefore legally protected from discrimination and suppression by existing national peoples or even any political state. It is a more narrowly defined identity than the universal elements of historic Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy, for instance, and would be distinct from existing national people groups.

Upadarians may have things like African tribal, German, English, Chinese, Jewish, or other ancestries, but the Upadarian nationality is distinct and separate from these nationalities. Upadarians in America may be patriotic to their country, but they are a distinct nationality like unto an indigenous tribal nation or other ethnic groups.

If your concern is freedom and your desire is to live a Christian lifestyle in peace, then nationhood is the best path for liberation and prosperity in the face of a growing Caesarism. The idea of intentionally creating a NEW nationality based on Christian ideals, principles, and practices may seem “far fetched” but every single nationality of people, of which there are around 10,000 on the planet, was at some point “created” from one or more other existing national peoples.

The major flaw in a strictly individual application of freedom, the rights you own as a human being, is that there is no at-scale legal structure that can gurantee those rights, especially when Caesarism stalks your land. But if we use the definition of ethnicity under international law and the special legal protections against ethnic discrimination as well as for ethnic self-determination we begin to build the basis of freedom that both protects your individual rights and provides at-scale structures more or less reocnginzed under international law to uphold those rights.

If the Upadarian nation as a PEOPLE, and ethnicity, has its own Society as a legal structure to represent the rights of its people then any effort to violate the rights of Upadarians to live our way of life becomes ethnic discrimination and also engages the perpetrators with a much larger-scale entity that cannot be easily cowed. In creating our own ethnic identity as a spiritual nation without well-defined standards and norms we insulate ourselves from discrimination and we create at-scale entities to represent us to the larger society and international community.

Let’s stipulate that nobody has a right to vote away our freedom to live, practice, and share your beliefs, values, and freedom with whomever you choose. Even when a majority vote against freedom, being fooled or cowed or otherwise convinced to do so, we owe them no loyalty or subnission where it violates our inherent human dignity and human rights, or spiritual sovereignty. But in practical terms we have to use available means and methods to preserve and build freedom in the face of Caesarism.

Our approach to building freedom is probably way outside of your realm expectations and experience, but, we submit, it is the right approach. Indeed, it is the only viable approach.

Our approach to personal and corporate liberation and to building freedom is this thing we call intentional nationhood. It is something we own a sacred right to build among ourselves. Nobody has any right to prevent us from doing this. It is something with its own social, cultural, economic, and civic relationships and structures which can exist in parallel with existing structures and independently of them. Moreover, building such structures remains a sacred right that comes from God, who has ordained nations, and cannot be denied by man.

We desire this freedom not only for ourselves but for everyone in the world.

Violence and insurrection, rebellion and sedition, secession or revolution are not any kind of answers we seek. Our concept comes from ancient history, it reflects an historic process whereby a small plurality of people inwardly withdraw from the old system and unilaterally create a new nationality of people based on the kinds of ideals that permeate a new civilization in its emergence. The new emerges as the old flails about and tries to use Caesar to replace its destroyed inner spiritual and creative life.

Let’s be clear, and this is difficult to convey as well as hard to grasp, nationhood as a concept and as an adopted shared identity is as essential to surviving the Caesarism of a late civilization as it is to ensure the birth of a new civilization during a time when the old civilization experiences collapse and ruin. Mere ideology and political activities confined within the old systems are inadequate and no serious lover of freedom would rely on such a shallow approach. Trying to reform 9r restructure an existing and dying civilization has not once succeeded in human history!

The fundamental problem is a civilizational paradigm imposed by a top-down system of control created to perpetuate a ruling class with a “world-as-spoil” ideology. The old identities, even our precious identity as Americans, lose their original spirit and intent, are watered down to absurdity, and change into something of a monstrosity. The need of the hour is, foremost, for the deliberate creation of a new national identity that deliberately follows the ideals of a new civilization and eschews the decadent worldview and lifestyle of the old.

What we call “Upadaria” is a new form of shared national identity based on the core ideals of an essentially Christian civilization that promotes equality of freedom and justice for all human beings. By adopting this nationality you change your own paradigm, you deliberately re-create the ancient ways of a new civilization, and you reclaim your spiritual sovereignty as a free human being.

We will NEED this nationality to unify people on a grand scale without having to create a centralized top-down hierarchy that could easily be destroyed by a Caesarist regime. Everyone who has the core spiritual and then social, cultural, economic, and civic DNA of our spiritual nation has the raw ingredients for building a life of material independency from the Caesarist structures. These people can act alone or locally with a few fellow Upadarians to build relationships, associations, and organizations that nurture this most Christian way of life and holistically provide for their own basic needs.

Without this nationhood, we will flounder and fail because nothing will stop this present civilization and every country under its purview from turning to Caesarism.

INTENTIONAL NATIONHOOD BASED ON SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY IS THE SECRET HACK TO PRODUCE FREEDOM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

If you are Christian or a socially conservative person living in a morally backwards, increasingly authoritarian cancel culture society and you desire to live and love in peace and freedom where you can prosper and be a faithful witness to the Gospel, then, we humbly submit, the concept and practice of a Biblical form of nationhood is going to be essential to your future.

Our desire is not to reform this present sociocultural and socioeconomic system, nor to impose our most Christian sociocultural norms on others. Our desire is to remain free to prosper, to live and love in peace, and to be a positive witness and influence through words, examples, deeds, and service to others. We desire to build the social farbic of a Christian way of life and witness to the world through the concepts and practices of a Biblical form of nationhood which connects people of like beliefs, values, and convictions in an organic way, in freewill participation as opposed to any form of coercive control through top-down centralized hierarchies.

It is clear to us from the Bible that God desires a multitude of diverse nations of people, each unique but all with the same core Kingdom DNA, to occupy (as in inhabit and be a witness to) this world and to actually govern the world to come.

We are witnessing the classic story of the Tower of Babel over and over with some playing the role of Nimrod, trying to make of many diverse people one top-down nationality that is based on authoritarianism and centralized hierarchies. The Bible shows us in Acts 17:26-27 how God sees and ordains nations as diverse manifestations of the same spiritual DNA, all with the same God and faith, but all solely through freewill participation, all with their own unique place in history, and all with their own homelands.

Through a Biblical understanding and application of nationhood many people all over the world can begin to act as one without a centralized hierarchical system of top-down control. Additionally, and importantly, there are provisions and blessings reserved unto such nations of people that are released ONLY to and through them.

There is a KEY to understanding nationhood from a Biblical perspective and how it relates to an authoritarian overreach within the existing sociocultural and socioeconomic structures. That key is that spiritual nations whose God is the Lord can tap into and release blessings of provision and protection that are only reserved for such nations. Through God’s blessings of provision and favor all the people within a nation whose God is the Lord live within a Divine sacred border (pomerium) which is protected by the Armies of Heaven.

Our spiritual nation, called “Upadaria” after the UPDR Ideals of a Christian civilization, will be blessed according to that Biblical promise and the people and their lands will come within this pomerium of God’s provision and protection. Our nation is intended to play a unique role in being a contemporary example of a spiritual nation of people whose God is the Lord and in being a vanguard people of a new Christian civilization.

Many existing national peoples will use this example to redefine their national identity and way of life to center on the person and works of Yeshua and many new and intentional spiritual nations will emerge, all within the framework of Kingdom essentials and a new Christian civilization.

We will not say that “Upadaria” will be the only such vanguard people in the coming age wherein nationhood as a concept drives a global Christian witness to the nations. We can say that this role is essential to the shared sense of mission and destiny that guides the way we, as a nation of people distributed all over the world, will live and act together.

A “Upadarian”, or Peer of our spiritual nation, wherever they live and whatever their ancestry and church affiliation, is a Christian with a heart for the lost in every nation and in every land or country in this world. A Upadarian desires to practice a Christ-centered and Kingdom-focused lifestyle, they desire to fulfill God’s best for their lives with excellence, and they desire to both individually and as a nation be an effective witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations.

Key to the Upadarian way of life is the intentional re-creation of the lost ancient, but essential, institutions such as the extended family and multi-family households of faith as well as kinship communities where kinship is a spiritual identity as opposed to being limited to blood or race.

A Upadarian Household Community, called a Shirehold, is envisioned as a kinship community of around 120 peers of our spiritual nation who behave as an ancient extended multi-family household community that cares for its members not unlike a single nuclear family would. This is the key to understanding a Upadarian way of life: organizing and living within your own marriage and nuclear family, a kinship group of 3-5 or so Upadarian nuclear families, and a kinship community of around 120 or so Peers of our spiritual nation.

Put another way, only sociocultural and socioeconomic structures like our Shirehold community, which cater mostly to people of the same national identity, can convey culture and faith for generations to come and preserve a Christian lifestyle even in a hostile social and cultural setting.

Only the dual claims of religious freedom and ethnic self-determination can buttress such communities from unjust external interference. We say our concept of family is a multi-family kinship community of around 120 adults of the same ethnicity, even though we also say OUR ethnicity is based on spiritual and then sociocultural beliefs and convictions as opposed to solely blood ties or biological ancestry. We claim that it is our firm religious belief that being part of such a nation is our calling from God and that being part of such a family is essential to our national identity and religious faith.

From a “religious freedom” perspective, we believe it is God’s will for us to cluster together as extended familial household communities and that the essence of family in our belief system, as ordained for us by God, is this multi-family extended household community of around 120 adults. The idea that such a familial community cannot exclusively hold land in common and cohabitate therein is a violation of our religious freedom because we believe God intends and ordains us to live in such a manner.

Moreover, what we view as our “national homeland” consists of all the Estates and larger hubs and hub communities created for the primary use and benefit of Upadarians and our core shared mandates to the greater world, such as being missional in reaching others for Yeshua and helping Christian refugees. While our national pomerium covers all lands and property owned or controlled by all peers of Upadaria, and every single Upadarian, our “distributed homeland of heart and hearth”, includes specific lands held under trust by a national institution of Upadaria for the primary benefit of Upadarians and to carry out our shared mandates.

In the beginning we believe most Shirehold communities will be distributed, with conmon facilities somewhere in the vicinity of members, that also serve subscribers of our virtual commonwealth and the surrounding Christian and natural community. It is not EVER mandatory that anyone live within a Shirehold’s Estate to be part of that Shirehold. But it is their RIGHT to do so, provided they fulfill the practical requirements (e.g. cost-sharing). As we proceed, most Shireholds may HAVE an Estate or Villa but they are not defined by this, they can exist without this if need be, and nobody is REQUIRED to live therein.

As noted, only the Estates/Villas of a kinship group (around 15 or so adults) or an entire Shirehold community, and larger hubs and hub communities, are considered part of our globally-distributed homeland. We do not need or require political sovereignty to preserve our homelands provided the host countries recognize and respect our nationhood as a tribal sovereignty and our lands as a tribal homeland. All of our political activities are directed toward achieving this status.

Normally, and we foresee in the future for us, blood kinship and nationhood are connected to a substantial degree. Initially, as our spiritual nation is intentional and our familial household communities are based on our shared nationhood, most of the members of our first Shireholds will not be blood related. Moreover, even as and when we begin to see most members of Upadarian Shireholds are more or less also blood related, Peerage in our nation and acceptance into a Shirehold community will not be strictly limited to and will not be defined in terms of blood relations.

It is of extreme sensitivity that we remember always: being in freewill participation with a Upadarian Shirehold does not disconnect you from your own blood kin or ancestors, it isn’t a substitute for your local church, and it isn’t a substitute for your citizenship as a loyal member of your country (whether by birth or choice).

While it may be more “convenient” when blood kin are ALSO members of your Shirehold community, it remains true that you owe a responsibility of mutual care to your blood kin regardless of whether they are called to be a Peer of our spiritual nation!

Upadarians believe that we should serve God first and foremost, then our spouses and children and people under our care, our blood relations, and then our national community, church community, fellow Christians, and fellow citizens, in balance and all for the Glory of God. Being part of Upadaria should FACILITATE you being able to do this and never detract from you doing this.

Anyone who uses their Upadarian identity to cut themselves off from relatives, friends, fellow Christians, their church, or their fellow citizens and their country does not understand the vision or ethics of Upadaria!

We envision these kinship communities as the core constituent entities of our spiritual nation, of the area to regional Ecclesia of ALL Believers of any national identity and church affiliation, of every country, and of the whole of Christian civilization. To be painfully and abundantly clear, in our view, according to our religious conviction, “family” is nothing less than a whole kinship community, generally cohabitating something like a small village or large estate within a larger pluralistic community of diverse people. This includes other Christian national communities, fellow Believers, and even non-Christians on the basis of a common freedom standard.

This isn’t a top-down thing. These kinds of kinship communities, where kinship is defined in spiritual terms through freewill participation, emerge organically but use a common blueprint and framework. Even when most of the people in a kinship community are blood related, it is the spiritual connection through freewill participation in a shared nationhood that defines who and what they are. Even people born into a kinship community must at some time decide that this is part of who they are and part of their own scroll of destiny and purpose in order to remain a stakeholder in that community.

In cases where someone born into a kinship community decides this Upadarian nationality doesn’t fit their scroll of destiny and purpose, these people may not be stakeholders but they are also not shunned or shamed or physically removed or otherwise disconnected from the people in that community. We recognize that nationhood from a spiritual perspective is always based on freewill participation and that it isn’t for everyone.

Where legal structures that can make this type of community a legal entity recognized under law are lacking, a multi-faceted approach may be necessary with a number of legal structures like a mutual benefit society, mutual benefit corporations, land trust, club, or whatever is necessary. All political activity by the larger networks, chapters, branch societies, and international society will be directed toward gaining legal standing and protection from the country where these communities are located and under international law.

Having our own well-defined ethnicity as per the legal requirements under international law is a strong step in this direction and is essential to any claims for a carve-out from laws, regulations, and policies that would inhibit our way of life according to our shared religious and sociocultural beliefs, values, and convictions.

We have to be very careful to limit our political activities to preserving or creating and then preserving our way of life and status, namely as a tribal sovereignty or domestic nation and for our lands to become like unto reservations or homelands. We do not aim to re-create or fashion existing countries into homelands for our nation alone. Our larger vision for society is to become a free and pluralistic society of equals which allows many diverse nations and individuals to enjoy maximum self-determination and individual liberty.

Despite there being various larger-scale organizations planned around the Upadarian nationality, like branch societies and the international society, there isn’t a centralized system of control to dictate the who and where about these parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic structures, mostly within the Shirehold community, which any group of people animated by our common nationhood can create unilaterally without asking for anyone’s permission.

These kinship communities can exist outside any “official” affiliation with other entities, though doing so definitely has its legal advantages. This is especially true when the international society is recognized as representing our ethnicity under international law and if the branch society is reocnginzed as the “government” of a tribal entity representing all Upadarians within that country. Moreover, the more such such communities affiliate with and pool resources to support the international society and branch societies the more likely such recognition will come!

In the early days of building our nationality, using things like a website, a platform, and a book, we have no such recognition, but we do have the recognition and mandate of heaven and we do have the pomerium of God’s protection which surrounds every piece of land owned or controlled by every peer of our nation. It is certain that earthly recognition will follow Heavenly recognition!

Being connected to our nation, as a Peer, adds a layer of spiritual protection and provision beyond that which is available to individuals just as being married adds another layer of love and affection from God which can only come through Holy Matrimony. This is ALWAYS a good thing, but it is especially necessary during the emergence of an era of Caesarism!

It always bears repeating that our kinship communities fall within the unique element of spiritual nationhood. A Upadarian kinship community doesn’t replace your church. It doesn’t replace your country and citizenship in your country. It doesn’t erase your own unqiue ancestry. It doesn’t replace your blood kin, to whom you also owe responsibilities. It certainly doesn’t impinge on your own individuality but it enhances and increases the odds for the successful fulfillment of God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for your life.

If we have any hope or vision for society at large, it is to perpetuate and nurture a form of free and pluralistic unity in diversity which allows diverse forms of nationhood among the people in any given locality or land. We cannot even dictate this vision, and our expectations are not very high, but we can promote this kind of pluralistic freedom and equality of justice and opportunity for all as a common standard for every country on this planet.

Our political agenda is basically designed around perpetuating these kinship communities and gaining legal protection for them and gaining some form of legal standing for our branch societies as tribal entities, our lands as tribal homelands, and our international society as a distributed non-territorial sovereignty with equal standing to political states under international law.

We do not eschew political engagement: we encourage Peers to vote and envision a Caucus system to identify candidates and issues which might be deemed so essential that all Peers are urged to vote “en bloc” to support or protect against. Our first priority is our own status and standing both under international law and with regard to the country where we live. Our second priority is Christians in general, advocating for those facing discrimination and persecution and for religious freedom in general. Our third priority is freedom in general with respect to human dignity and human rights to promote equitable and just human flourishing.

That all being said, politics and political activism are not the means by which Upadaria will emerge. They remain a reality of power with which we can advocate for ourselves but with full realization that our sovereignty, mandate, and recognition comes from Heaven and not from this earth.

We are not into top-down control, we don’t have gurus or special ruling class authorities, we don’t isolate from other Christians or the world, and we don’t do secession or revolution against our countries where we live. Our form of nationhood is unique as a diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood in Yeshua, it isn’t divisive or hostile toward the surrounding Christian community or to our own blood kin, our ancestors, and our own country. Again and again we say: to be a Upadarian doesn’t require you to join anything, submit to any human agency or authority, or buy anything. It is something you adopt and become because it fits God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for your life.

But to become a Peer of Upadaria, our spiritual nation, as well as, additionally, our global virtual commonwealth, is to desire and seek to fulfill the manifestation of these forms of kinship communities among fellow Peers as a means of creating islands for freedom, as a means of providing refuge to ourselves and especially persecuted Christians, and as a means of being a living witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations of people around us.

Becoming a Peer of our spiritual nation is something between God and you alone. You make a formal pledge to God to UTILIZE and be guided by our 17 Protocols as God leads and provides and in connection to those you believe God wants you to associate with. You don’t pledge to or submit to another set of human beings who lord over you as kings or prelates or anything like that. If you CHOOSE to join our planned international society your Peerage will need to be confirmed, but this doesn’t mean your Peerage within our spiritual nation comes from people, it comes from God and your pledge to live out this way of life is only ever between God and you.

The intentional planting of these Upadarian Shireholds (kinship communities), and larger scale distributed communities within areas and regions all over the world, is essential to a sort of spiritual revolution within, a peaceful and organic movement that will help usher in the emergence of a new civilizational paradigm forged in Kingdom Essentials adapted to the 21st century and beyond.

Unlike worldy revolutions, based on force and militarism, the Upadarian Revolution is a totally peaceful and emergent movement based only on freewill participation that seeks only to be that which we proclaim without imposing itself on anyone else. By providing the spiritual DNA of our nation, and its blueprints and frameworks for parallel structures within a hostile and authoritarian system, we ensure the emergence of “Upadaria” as one of many diverse “Kingdom Nations” that will reach all the nations of this world for Yeshua.

Our concept of nationhood does not replace the local church or the universal church, it is in fact its own separate and distinct element within the Kingdom, an element little understood or never taught within the modern-day religious establishment. Upadaria is a nation, not a church or denomination, and people of all Christian churches and denominations who hold to historic Christian moral and doctrinal orthodoxy are welcome to become Peers of our spiritual nation without in any way giving up their present church affiliation.

We assert and propose that forms of nationhood such as we intend to proclaim, impart, and practice are essential in the 21st century to building a form of freedom that cannot be suppressed or denied by a top-down hierarchical sociocultural and socioeconomic system that is becoming hostile to Christians and authoritarian in its essence.

As and when the organic cohesiveness provided by this form of spiritual nationhood allows people to readily build these kinship communities in their midst and through freewill participation, it becomes impossible for political and military force to sweep them aside: they are everywhere and they can disperse and reconstitute anywhere at any time, therefore they cannot be controlled or destroyed.

Nationhood is based on shared identity, shared purposes, and shared convictions about social, cultural, economic, and civic life that are not necessarily universal to the whole Body of Christ but that are all forged in Kingdom Essentials, such as historical Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy. Nationhood, and by this we mean DIVERSE FORMS OF NATIONHOOD IN CHRIST, is essential to a Kingdom Age in which the spiritual sovereignty of each Believer can be actualized and the nations of this world can be reached in word, deed, example, and service.

The intentional creation of a globally-distributed spiritual nation of people whose God is the Lord is part of a larger civilizational paradigm shift within the whole Body of Christ that will see all the core elements of the Kingdom, including the church, develop more into a more mature and powerful manifestation of the Kingdom of God among us.

While the world becomes more primed for the ultimate fulfillment of history and the last days, we believe the Kingdom of God will be made more manifest and visible among humanity and within all the lands and among all the peoples of this earth. The wicked will get worse but the righteous will get better.

No centralized hierarchical system of top-down control can usher in the coming Kingdom Age among the Elect or the final conclusion of the history of this present world before the world to come arrives. Our particular vision and diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood in Yeshua is not the totality of what is coming, but it is in the vanguard of that emergence.

To be free in the 21st century will demand movements and structures based on a form of Biblical nationhood that stands on freewill participation and not coercion or control, a type of revolution that emerges from within people and their freewill associations and not through political control or violence, and parallel structures that are formed unilaterally among people to suit their needs and circumstances.

Politics can be employed to protect the rights, persons, and property of those who engage in such a revolution within, but they cannot be the vehicle for that organic emergence that must only ever come from the heart and be expressed by means of freewill participation.

We, as a nation of people whose God is the Lord and as a constituent community within the whole universal nationhood of all Believers, are not trying to reform the world. Our aim is to reach the nations for Yeshua until His Return in Glory.

Through this form of nationhood we will build freedom in the 21st century and beyond both for ourselves and, through our example and service, for others. As the worldlings fall for the trap of Caesarism, we will enjoy the kind of true freedom that flows from God to every nation of people whose God is the Lord.

We assert that without this kind of nationhood all attempts in this century and beyond to protect people from the trend toward a hostile Caesarism will utterly fail because they don’t go deep enough or far enough and because they depend too much on changing a fallen world through politics and force. Only the use and practice of nationhood forged in Kingdom Essentials will avail us in the coming worldlings’ era of Caesarism and will allow us to experience the Kingdom Age of the Elect.

Our claims and approach are twofold:

First, we believe we can build and become our own nationality as our own ethnicity by choice and that, as such under international law, to prevent us from living as Upadarian nationals is ethnicity discrimination and violates our national self-determination which rests on our ethnicity and not statehood.

Second, we believe that it is our religious conviction that both being connected to such a national people and being part of a family, defined by us as nothing short of an extended kinship community, is part of our calling as ordained by God and you deny or neglect this is to disobey our God and our conscience.

In creating our nation as an intentional ethnicity based on our shared faith and on the basis of our explicit ideals, principles, practices, and mandates as a nation called into being by God as a witness for Yeshua to the nations, we are also laying the groundwork for similar such national peoples and in defense of the rights of self-determination for all peoples and the human dignity and human rights of all individuals.

The call to become a peer of our spiritual nation is indeed a call to build freedom for ourselves and others on the basis of Kingdom Essentials and through using existing legal standards and norms under international law to preserve our way of life and basic rights even within a hostile, Caesarist, cancel culture society.

If we build our nationality and its attendant structures, like our virtual commonwealth platform and our international society, it will, first and foremost, enjoy the protection and provision of God because it is reocnginzed in heaven and protected by the Armies of Heaven. Second, and importantly from a practical perspective, it uses international law and even existing laws in many countries which protect the rights and self-determination of ethnic groups.

While today the number of people calling themselves Upadarians is low, below 100 as of September 2021, the more people identify with this nationality and engage in building its structures the more we will get closer to some form of recognition that protects us from the freedom-takers that rule Western Civilization as it devolves into hedonism and Caesarism.

If the majority of people want this, they can have it, but as for us, our national people and our families, defined as Shireholds, want no part in this and own an inherent right to opt out and remain free.

Rebuilding The Social Fabric- A Upadarian Kinship Group

Rebuilding The Social Fabric- A Upadarian Kinship Group

Bill Collier September 16, 2021 0

Totalitarianism, upheaval, and even the collapse of a whole civilization are the fruits of the lack of a strong social fabric that connects people on a purely freewill participatory basis. This social fabric connects people from the individual to a very large scale and provides a sanctuary against the centralized and top-down hierarchies of control, which always devolve to serfdom for the many for the benefit of the ruling class.

The social fabric of human civilization exists within such known structures as marriage and the family, but also within more ancient and weakened or even forgotten structures like the extended family, kinship groups of around 15 or so adults, and kinship communities of around 120 adults, all with some form of shared faith and ethnic/national identity. Rebuilding such social fabric is not about reform or using politics and laws, it is about both using our own models and blueprints and it is about imparting these ideas to others but mostly through a living witness and example they can see and interact with.

Eventually, networks of such kinship communities form the basis of larger distributed communities (we call them “Shires”) like unto free cities, cities of refuge, or spiritual city-states all based on spiritual as opposed to political sovereignty. In this manner we build the genesis structures both for a new qnd globally-distributed nation and a new civilization of many such nations even in the midst of the decline of old civilizations whose cultural and spiritual life has been politicized and corrupted.

We both propose our own model, the Upadarian Model based on our spiritual nation as a vanguard people of a new civilization, and the broader adaption of its more universal principles to other peoples and nations around the world, all based on Kingdom essentials, like the core of historic Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy.

We begin with a Upadarian Kinship Group which you and others can unilaterally and autonomously build together using our blueprint qnd framework. Aside from the need to secure a very low cost “license” to use our brand and nomenclature, the development and management of your kinship group is controlled by you and can connect to the larger global Upadarian community through our website and eventually our platform.

A Upadarian kinship group is a more formal extended, but intentional, familial group of around 10-20 adults who treat one another like an extended family in terms of mutual support, mutual self-reliance, and a shared purpose. Imagine 20 other adults who live near you and who care for your well-being, success, and happiness as much as they care for their own and where you feel the same way.

A Kingship Group is like unto a small extended family, but it does not replace your own blood kin. In fact, many such groups may form mostly among people already related by blood, though blood relations are not the sole basis of a Kinship Group and every adult member is both a Christian and a peer of our spiritual nation. But, that being said, Kinship Groups do not replace your own blood relations to whom you have mutual obligations.

In an ideal world, using historical examples as our inspiration, kinship groups generally occupied the same property. But in the real world where people have leases and mortgages and cannot just up and relocate, or may not wish to, such groups may be “distributed”, as in people who live near each other connect and gather at some sort of common space or in each other’s houses. Either way, it is possible to reconstitute a modern version of the ancient kinship group whenever a group of people meet the criterion for such a group and choose to practice mutual self-reliance and support in pursuit of shared goals.

We propose that nationhood, as in a form of shared identity that can be shared with two people or more and that can scale upward to include millions without a neee for some centralized hierarchy of top-down control, or something like it, is an essential criteria. A kinship group requires a deep degree of shared beliefs, values, and convictions about daily life and practices, otherwise the only form of cohesiveness that is possible would be through some form of charismatic and/or authoritarian leader, which is most certainly not what anyone needs.

When the connections and bonds of unity are organic, that is, from the heart and strictly voluntary and open-ended (free to enter, free to leave), then the need or tolerance for top-down control is almost zero. It should be zero. The difference between a healthy kinship group where people’s individual destiny and happiness are served and a cultish environment where people’s individuality itself is subsumed may in fact be this organic cohesiveness.

Cultish behavior is considered by Upadarians to be one of the greatest threats to human dignity, happiness, and autonomy as God intends it. People lording it over others and forcing or manipulating them to conform for the good and benefit of the few is a gross sin against God and your fellow human beings.

Where something like nationhood as we define it, on strictly voluntary and spiritual grounds and through freewill participation and adoption of shared ideals and the such, is applied, we have organic cohesiveness that is open-ended and that enhances the individual’s quality of life. In theory other forms of organic cohesiveness may be created, but unless they embody shared social, cultural, economic, and even civic virtues and standards that guide the whole and reflect the actual beliefs, values, and convictions of the participants on a freewill participatory basis, then the opportunity for some form of top-down control to emerge is there.

Through our 17 Protocols, for instance, we can spell out what those things are on a very transparent manner and people can then decide, on a voluntary basis, whether or not these things reflect their own beliefs, values, and convictions. It’s not a matter of us saying “you need to change to relfect these Protocols”, it’s us saying “we are being totally transparent about the things that guide us and IF AND ONLY IF this REFLECTS your own beliefs, values, and convictions and FITS AND SERVES your own destiny and happiness, then perhaps these 17 Protocols are yours as well, perhaps you already are a peer of our spiritual nation.”

It is not unusual for one of us to tell people that their choice to affiliate with our spiritual nation, by making a pledge between themselves and God alone to be guided and inspired by these 17 Protocols, is entirely their own and should only be made if they are ceertain this fits and serves God’s best for their lives. If we maintain this stance and Upadarian kinship groups and communities emerge around bodies of people autonomously pursuing the use of these Protocols to have and experience mutual self-reliance and support, then every Upadarian kinship group will be a launching pad for the dreams and visions of each individual participant.

As we must often say, Upadaria isn’t a church or denomination. As a spiritual nation, any person, anywhere in the world, can adopt this form of nationhood, call it an intentional spiritual nationality, without formally joining any organization or buying anything. There is no hierarchy of control deeming who can become a Upadarian nor how using the 17 Protocols best fits your life, your needs, your dreams, and your circumstances.

Likewise, while every Upadarian kinship group will use these 17 Protocols as a guide, just how they do this, in what order or priority, and in all the details and specifics, is up to that autonomous and self-governing body of people. While Upadarian structures, organizations, enterprises, and institutions can and must exist, no Upadarian, by virtue of having taken the Pledge, is obliged to subscribe to our join or otherwise be governed by any of them. If you choose to adopt this spiritual nationality in addition to your political citizenship or ancestral ethnicity/nationality, and layered within and subordinated to your identity as a follower of Yeshua and citizen of the Kingdom of God, that is totally and solely, to be abundantly and painfully clear, between you and God!

Upadarians are first and foremost Christians, followers of Yeshua and citizens of the Kingdom. That, and not Upadaria, is our core identity. Being a Upadarian is a diversity expression of nationhood as prescribed by God who ordained a multiplicity of diverse nations of people whose God is the Lord. Not all Believers are called to our diversity expression of nationhood in Christ.

So even as we propose and lay out frameworks specifically for Upadarian kinship groups, the broader principles apply to all, and at the heart of this must be some form of organic cohesiveness like unto those who, through adopting the 17 Protocols, have become peers of our spiritual nation on a strictly voluntary basis.

This is the most difficult concept for people in the West especially because they live such atomized, as in separated to the smallest scale, lives. They are individuals and at most nuclear families that are easily and lightly separated by a form of divorce that has no deeper mutual commitment than what satisfies each individual person’s lower order needs. Such an atomized life is easy prey to any cohesive group with more wealth and power in society, for which reason slaves were never allowed to develop their own nuclear families on a long-term basis (mates would be separated and sold out, for instance, and children were taken from parents). They certainly weren’t allowed to create extended family groups or cohabitations with them.

The idea of a grand scale form of voluntary kinship which includes both people related by blood who maintain the same connections and others who aren’t blood related but who you have a spiritual connection to is difficult to envision. We cannot say “here is a modern example that is exactly what we are talking about.”

Historic examples existed and students of history know that from hunter-gatherer bands to the first village-size settlements, for most of human history, most human beings were connected to, but did not lose their personal identity within, bands and villages of around 15-20 adults which were usually connected to larger community groups pf around 80-150 adults. What has been lost and is being suppressed is that we “modern” humans have not by any means lost our needs for these kinds of social, cultural, economic, and civic connections based on a shared form of identity, like nationhood. The number one reason why we are seeing corporations and governments run amuck and violate basic human rights with impunity is their deliberate suppression of the social fabric.

Hedonism and the destruction of the family and extended family through atomized libertinism are the hallmarks of a society headed toward some form of tyranny or collapse, or both. While we would not mandate who you loved or lived with or how you define marriage or family, it is our conviction and belief that a man and woman raising their own biological and/or adopted children in connection with a larger extended multi-family community of like-minded souls is the ideal and perfect fractal of human civilization.

It is not for you to agree or not. Our holding to the dream of creating our own scalable social fabric on this basis alone, to the exclusion of all other arrangements, is not a threat to your holding to other opinions and ideas in your own connections and relationships. We believe that in a sick society, politics and the corporate world tend to create, or impose is a better word, a top-down culture that atomizes individuals and that thwarts efforts to create a more positive and voluntary social fabric. In a healthy society politics and corporate policy serves culture, it doesn’t impose sociocultural norms throughout coercive or manipulative means from above.

The idea in Western Civilization that one can change culture to change politics is idealism. One must so change politics that it retreats from culture and thereby also prevents the emergence of monopoly corporations that also use their influence and economic power to punish those who don’t adhere to the corporate ideology. But it is also possible to find and create carve-outs from even this political-corporate regimentation of atomization of individuals into an amorphous blob. While one ought to engage whatever powers are engaging them, by all reasonable means at hand, the deliberate creation of these kinship groups and the restoration of the social fabric of human civilization on a unilateral and freewill basis could eventually become pervasive enough that politics and corporate policy will change.

To create a kinship group with people who have adopted the 17 Protocols of Upadaria as a guide for their shared identity, conduct and behavior toward each other, and goals and purpose, is to walk away from the atomized life of top-down control and opt for more individual liberty and self-sufficiency using this most successful model for human flourishing. It is a change on lifestyle, particularly who you spend time with, where you spend that time, and how you spend that time, and even how you use your wealth, property, talents, and resources.

Changing from the atomized collectivism of a centralized command culture that serves the ruling class to an organic cohesiveness in connection to a kinship group based on a shared spiritual nationality is a major shift for most people akin to moving to an entirely new and alien land with a different sociocultural framework than you have ever known. It is an ancient way of life that is readily adapted to modern needs and possibilities, but for most people it is as novel as an imagined culture on an alien planet.

Part of why we have “Experiences” that start on the basis of you being a “refugee” is that the understanding of this form of social fabric is outside most people’s previous experiences within Western Civilization. Reconstituting these ancient norms and connections in modern form will take some effort and it requires a careful balance to prevent abuse: forming a strong social fabric should in no way subordinate or bury your individuality or allow anyone to control your life. The opposite should be the case.

A Upadarian kinship group just using the 17 Protocols has the basic foundation upon which to build organic cohesiveness that is positive, beneficial, and empowering to each individual. Participants in such efforts will find that more and more of their lives are liberated from the top-down control of a corrupt political and corporate ruling class who lord it over an amorphous mass of atomized individuals.

The New Dawn of A Nation of People Whose God is the Lord: A Proclamation

The New Dawn of A Nation of People Whose God is the Lord: A Proclamation

Bill Collier September 14, 2021 0

We are living in the new dawn of a Christian nation, or “Kingdom Nation”, whose purpose is to nurture the social fabric of civilization as God intends it (kinship), to reach and the nations as a witness and influence for Jesus (missions), and to provide sanctuary, aid, and advocacy for Christian and other refugees through creating physical safe havens as support hubs and even whole hub communities (refuge).

Can a nation come into existence without any political state or military power but only on the basis of spiritual sovereignty? Can such a nation be blessed and protected even though it takes a form more like an international Christian mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee society? Can a Christian nation be favored and secured by God even though the closest form of “statehood” is an intentional virtual commonwealth that connects people around the world and empowers them to autonomously build the genesis structures of that spiritual nation in their own neighborhoods and communities?

We are proclaiming a new Christian nation, as the vanguard people of a new civilization, and an international virtual commonwealth of freedom promoting the restoration of the social fabric of human civilization as ordained by God.

The social fabric of human civilization lives, in the Biblical worldview as adapted to our present era, in the form of things like individual spiritual sovereignty, marriage, the nuclear family, the extended family, an intentional kinship based on spiritual connections, the practices of clustered living based on spiritual kinship, kinship-based distributed communities, and physical spaces designed to nurture and promote these structures, including distributed cities and even major hubs like unto cities of refuge.

Unlike some worldly nations who depend on statehood and military means, our spiritual nation does not ever envision mandating our way of life through politics or laws on anyone: one must freely choose to adopt our way of life in connection to other peers they choose to associate with on a strictly freewill/voluntary basis.

Restoring and protecting the social fabric of a nation of people whose God is the Lord and a whole civilization whose very ideals are forged in Kingom essentials, is the mandate and purpose of what we call the “Upadaria” project. This is an intentional birthing of a new nation that isn’t a political state and that won’t be established or built using political or military force. Through a website, a book, and a virtual commonwealth platform, what we call “Upadaria” will become an international network of hundreds of thousands of clusters of people who adopt and use our 17 Protocols to autonomously build the genesis structures of a new Christian civilization in their own midst.

While a few will get this and be able to run with this, many will not embrace this opportunity to adopt a new form of spiritual nationhood, with all the blessings therefore, until they see the first physical structures, like a common facility or clustered living spaces. The pioneer builders of the genesis structures of this nation will be like those who were chosen by God to serve alongside Gideon, the Gideonites of Upadaria as we call them.

Many will come to our banner seeking refuge and safety, knowing that our nation is favored by God not because He is on our side but because we choose to be on His side for the advancement of human civilization.

The emergence of Upadaria as the vanguard spiritual nation of a new civilization is part of a larger paradigm shift from the age of kuriakos, or the church as a limited religious institution, to the age of the Kingdom, in which all the elements of the Kingdom are intentionally manifested among the elect. The birth and rise of Upadaria will play a role in manifesting the Kingdom of God among us and through us to reach the nations for Jesus Christ.

Because Upadaria, as the vanguard people of a new Christian civilization, is a Kingdom nation and not a worldly nation, it will be established through spiritual sovereignty as opposed to political sovereignty. It’s people (in their local chapter communities, missions and embassies common houses, and clustered living housing developments) will live all over the world among the nations as a witness and influence for the Lord.

Essentially, and legally, Upadaria will be manifested to most people through a privately owned and “for profit” virtual platform called The Virtual Commonwealth of Upadaria which emulates a free and pluralistic society of equals, and an international Christian mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee support society, with many Branch Societies and other structures all affiliated with both the virtual commonwealth and the international society. Upadarians are Christians who live all over the world and who have adopted and adapted our 17 Protocols to manifest the Kingdom of God among themselves in order to draw people to Christ.

This is a nation based on Kingdom essentials and sacred Biblical blueprints whose peers come from all lands and ancestries and who belong to every Christian denomination or church affiliation, we are not a church or denomination ourselves. A nation is substantively different than “the church”, even if its people are all citizens of the Kingdom and of the elect of the church.

It is our conviction, albeit not a doctrine, that the four core elements of the Kingdom, as we understand it, include what we call Ecclesium, Ethnium, Oikosium, and Koinonium or church, nation, family, and community.

The Ecclesium is the church universal and eternal, where we see “ecclesia” at the area level as the general government of the Kingdom, participated in by the Elect, over a distributed spiritual city-state of the Elect who are God’s embassy to the people in that area. The Ecclesium includes the local congregations, churches, and all Christian bodies as well as all followers of Yeshua.

The Ethnium which is both the universal commonwealth of the Elect as spiritual Israel and the many diverse nations whose God is the Lord. It has ever been God’s intention for a DIVERSITY EXPRESSION of Kingdom Nationhood to exist on this earth, in the form of many unique nations whose God is the Lord, as a witness to the nations.

The Oikosium is familial connections of spiritual kinship which manifest mostly in the form of marriage between a man and woman who raise their own children (including adopted children) in their own home and within the kinship connections of a multi-family extended household community that behaves as a larger extended family to meet all the basic needs of the whole.

The Koinonium is community through freewill participatory association based on intentional kinship and God’s standards of righteousness and justice. Koinonia basically refers to a form of scalable fellowship like unto kinship that amounts almost to an informal contract for mutual assurance and support between individuals and groups of people.

When most people think of church they think of buildings, clergy, and services but church is bigger than this (although it includes this) and, what is important here, the Kingdom itself has other elements of importance which are not contained within even the element of the church/ecclesia. Nationhood is a core element of the Kingdom meant to serve the broader world, not just its peers or Christians, so that, through its structures and spaces, people might find God if haply they seek Him.

See Acts 17:26-27

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

Familial connections (Oikosium) and kinship community (Koinonium) engage and are essential to both Ecclesium and Ethnium, but they are their own elements. The core ideals for these elements include Unity in diversity for Ecclesium, Popular sovereignty for Ethnium, Democratic equality for Oikosium, and Rule of law for Koinonium, although all four core ideals apply to these elements in their own way. These are the four core ideals of Christian civilization as we understand and practice them.

It is important to keep in mind: nationhood as we present and practice it does not equate to the church and isn’t a form of a church any more than your own family or business is a church. We are promoting nationhood as Biblical element of the Kingdom, we are not creating a church of any kind.

While to some, becoming part of Upadaria is like unto joining an intentional society with a fraternal/mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee support focus, adopting this spiritual nationality as an addition to your own nested identities (like your country, ancestry, denomination, and etc), doesn’t require you to join any formal organization. Upadaria is a spiritual nation and anyone in the world who loves God, has a passion to reach the nations, and feels led to adopt and use our 17 Protocols, can become a Upadarian and pursue these things autonomously, led by God alone.

When you choose to adopt this spiritual nationhood, by making the Upadarian identity and way of life part of who you are and what you do, because these things fit God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for your life, you come within a sacred border of protection and provision (pomerium) which extends only to nations whose God is the Lord. God’s unique blessings, provision, and protection for such nations comes only through such a form of nationhood.

To become a Upadarian, or a peer of our nation, is to choose a form of nationhood based on God’s blueprint for the nations, His righteous and just standards for all nations as the basis of human civilization. But like the Kingdom, our spiritual nation is not built on the same basis as the worldly nations which tend toward things like force and political power. A Upadarian can love their country and the land where they live and does not need or demand any form of political separation, their only demand is for basic human dignity and human rights so they can express and experience their own way of life with fellow Believers and fellow Peers and be a witness and influence for Yeshua to the world around them.

It’s time to embrace the new thing God is doing: raising up a new nation of people who live all over the world but who are all part of the same spiritual nation as a witness to the nations for the Lord.

Building Globally-distributed islands of freedom

Building Globally-distributed islands of freedom

Bill Collier September 12, 2021 0

Imagine an international network of hubs and communities where God’s standards of righteousness and justice prevail and therefore everyone within these spaces enjoys freedom and prosperity regardless of what is happening in the society around them.

Freedom is not a wish, it is something we build, preserve, and protect regardless of how anyone else feels and regardless of the majority “opinion” or vote: it is an absolute standard of human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing, based on virtue, liberty, and independence, that nobody, not a dictatorship nor a democratic majority, has any legitimate authority to violate.

Let’s be perfectly and abundantly clear to the point of repetition if need be: we own freedom, as we have defined it, and nobody, no organization or institution, by any means has any legitimate authority to try to prevent us from being free people, from serving and worshipping our God in peace, or from living and proclaiming our own Biblical way of life.

Eschatology does not matter, we own this freedom forever, whether here before the so-called “tribulation”, or during it if we are still around, and certainly after it. Our rights and duties to preserve freedom for ourselves and our progeny are not suspended at any time, even if they are violated through coercion or force.

What we call a “Upo Hub Community” may look like a small village with space set aside for peers of our nation, fellow Christians, other groups who want to cluster together, refugees, and the public. A global network may eventually include thousands of these Upo Hub Communities all over the world in many countries, most all of them built autonomously by local Upadarian Branch Societies and/or their local chapters. Through broadcasting the core Gideon’s call, building model hubs and hub communities, and providing blueprints and frameworks, many groups of people all over the world can autonomously fulfill this vision for themselves.

To build hubs and communities that are islands of freedom we have come to the realization and firm conviction that a high degree of what is called “organic cohesiveness” is needed. Organic cohesiveness comes when some form of a shared identity based on things like shared ideals and standards, shared goals, and a shared way of life, comes from the heart and soul of each person, voluntarily, and allows them all to flow and act as one without very much top-down hierarchical command and control structures.

We have further concluded, after studying forms of organic cohesiveness in the Bible, that some form of nationhood, as in nations of people whose God is the Lord, is both ideal and prescribed by God for human civilization to have such cohesiveness without the need to resort to governance systems that violate our God-given freedom.

Broader “Kingdom alliances” between different, unique, Christian nations and between diverse familial and kinship groups at the local level, all under the banner of our universal shared nationhood, are necessary and will emerge. But these will flow from the emergence of intentional forms of nationhood by which bodies of people can act with very tight unanimity that comes organically from shared ideals, principles, practices, and shared goals, standards, and norms. This is, as we say, “our breakthrough idea.”

There are blessings and provisions which flow to us from God ONLY through His blueprints being followed. God has given us a blueprint for nationhood as a spiritual construct instead of a mere political construct defined by statehood and instead of something rooted in race or blood ancestry. Nations of people whose God is the Lord are uniquely blessed and provided for in a special way and are ordained by God to exist. They are not defined in God’s Word by statehood or by race or blood ancestry.

Even Israel was allowed, some say encouraged, to induct people into their tribes and nation who weren’t of the blood ancestry. And we all know Israel existed as a stateless nation well before the creation of the first commonwealth and then the Kingdom and long after these states disappeared.

Our specific vision for a stateless nation founded on Kingdom essentials and spiritual sovereignty in Christ is itself also a model other bodies of Christians will use and adapt as they see fit to either form new forms of nationhood or to revive and restore or convert whole nations of people through the penetration of the Gospel of the Jesus Christ into all aspects of their society and among all their people.

This concept of intentional nationhood as the foundation for an organic cohesiveness that makes close cooperation possible without resorting to the authoritarian systems being used in many countries and lands is essential to how we intend to build hubs and communities for freedom.

It is a novel concept and innovation, even if we see and claim it has ancient roots in the Bible, that many will tend to struggle to comprehend. Only after the Gideonites, people who answer a Gideon’s call to build the genesis structures of this globally-distributed spiritual nation, have established physical spaces and enterprises based on this form of nationhood will people have an easy time grasping and buying into this vision.

We must therefore insist that to proceed to build these islands of freedom we will need a form of nationhood that people can adopt because they feel called and led to embrace the shared ideals, principles, practices, and mandates of our spiritual nation. We propose that we cannot build things like an intentional extended kinship community or a distributed free city as well as physical hubs and whole hub communities without this shared nationhood animating the core builders and administrators of these structures.

A spiritual nation whose God is the Lord can serve and reach other nations, it can serve the whole Body of Christ, and it can serve the public and whatever lands and countries its members dwell in. The hubs and hub communities as well as kinship communities, distributed cities, and even whole physical cities or “homelands” hosted by various countries, can serve peers of our nation, fellow Christians, and the public and form a pluralistic and free society as an oasis of freedom in an otherwise unfree world.

The legal structures and devices used to allow for these distributed free cities, local kinship communities, hubs, hub communities, and privately owned and managed free cities hosted by different countries will vary from country to country. Many will require multiple interdependent structures and organizations, some being groups of people and some being private individuals or enterprises.

Things like mutual benefit corporations, housing covenants, land trusts, fraternal benefit societies, clubs, corporations, non-profit organizations, and the such will all be utilized to find a legal structure that de facto allows for the operation of these hubs and etc to freely exist as an island of freedom. The ability of the people who are the core of these islands for freedom to cooperate closely in economic and civic matters and to provide their own social, cultural, and other needs and services will be strongly facilitated by their shared nationhood, as in an adopted spiritual nationality.

Shared identity that has Christ as its head and that is based on clearly defined commonly held ideals and etc is essential to this work. We theorize that no freedom-building movement aimed at creating islands of freedom will succeed deeply, on a large scale, and on a long-term basis if this organic cohesiveness is not animating at least its core builders and leaders.

The mere fact God prescribes nationhood in the Bible both now and for eternity tells us how important nationhood is even though the modern religious establishment seems to have zero interest in or understanding of this.

Are there other forms and means of creating this organic cohesiveness? Certainly. But few or any can offer a scalable form of organic cohesiveness that had the closeness and warmth of a familial connection that comes from the heart. Nationhood is to us as essential to building these islands of freedom all over the world as is an understanding of what freedom is and a commitment to a pluralism that invites and serves the greater world to partake of that freedom.

Through adopting a shared form of nationality based on clearly defined ideals and etc large bodies of people with minimal governance structures (some are needed, as Moses himself learned in appointing captains of tens, hundreds, and thousands) can build incredible things that scale up, have great depth, and last for many generations.

An extended kinship community is the restoration and adaptation of the ancient multi-family household and local village made up of a few of these “extended households.”

A hub is a clustered living space with common facilities that serves both residents and non-resident members who live nearby.

A hub community is a larger contiguous community with multiple areas set asifr for diverse groups of people in a more pluralistic arrangement, even if the core builders and managers are from a single spiritual nation.

A distributed free city is an area-wide network of hubs, hub communities, and common facilities distributed here and there throughout an area and within its various locales and communities but that is in fact a self-sustaining and mutually self-reliant community within the larger area. It is as if one took a city in area and distributed its parts within all the communities and cities within an area: it may have small plots in many separate places but it is a unitary city in the eyes of its participants.

A free private city is an entire city hosted by a country that grants it a charter as a special zone wherein its social, cultural, civic, and economic life are governed by its own rules autonomously of the host country’s laws, but with its charter.

Our global network of all these things as well as their legal structures, including an international society, NGOs, and Branch Societies for every country, will be called a virtual commonwealth and will enable cohesive collaboration and mutual support between all these entities which are a part of it.

Where hubs begin is through friendships, new kinship connections made intentionally, and the local gathering of people who have been led to be part of a spiritual nation by adopting its ideals and etc as their own way of life. First the website and then the platform as well as a large book, using a fictional future history to impart its vision, will make it easier for people to connect, gather, collaborate, and build together with a more directed and disciplined focus.

As the message and vision of this spiritual nation and of nationhood in general spreads, people will organically form connections and gather, and then collaborate and cluster, until these islands of freedom naturally emerge all over the world. What is more, as we, the people participating in our specific virtual commonwealth and our spiritual nation, advance, others will “copy” and adapt these ideas until even more such islands of freedom emerge.

What Follows If America Ceases To Be A Commonwealth of Freedom?

What Follows If America Ceases To Be A Commonwealth of Freedom?

Bill Collier September 10, 2021 0
What will happen if freedom itself dies in this land at the hands of the woke communists and their neocon collaborators?

America cannot remain the world’s predominant freedom commonwealth uniquely blessed by God if our people are willing to follow a godless ruling class and their prescriptions, which violate human nature, the laws of Creation, and God’s standards of righteousness and justice. These things may be protected by law, but they cannot be mandated by law, they either come voluntarily from the heart or they will eventually be involuntarily outlawed. A society of people who willingly embrace depravity and authoritarianism as the norm will never tolerate anything other than total submission.

Imagining that we can, or should, change the fundamentals of human nature in how we create things like marriage, family, and community is a deadly and foolish undertaking that will surely lead to ruin. But the majority of Americans are clearly willing to submit ir tolerate leaders and people with a public trust who do these very things and who desire to shun, shame, and outlaw those who refuse to go along with their godless social, cultural, and economic norms.

What then follows if America as a country ceases to be a commonwealth of freedom and devolves into a savage, alt gendered, totalitarian state where only a few corporate and political shot-callers control politics and where politics controls everything else? What happens is that God raises up new peoples and new countries to fulfill that which America, as a whole country, first ceased to defend and then began to attack.

We can foresee a day, unless the current path is changed, when those who love things like freedom founded upon virtue, liberty, and independence will be a persecuted minority who can only survive through parallel structures that have no dependency to the godless, anti-freedom structures which then dominate this land. But those parallel structures can emerge and, with God’s protection and provision, no power in hell or on the earth will be able to prevent them from emerging and thriving.

Indeed, if America as a country is to be redeemed, then the emergence of new structures for an entirely parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic infrastructure and civilizational paradigm cannot come soon enough. The alt-gendered, hedonistic and authoritarian “woke communism” with its cancel culture extremism is aimed, by hell itself, at the heart and soul of God’s intended manifest destiny for America.

Being afraid to confront and resist the violent perversion and attempted redefining of such sacred instruments of God’s will for human civilization, such as marriage, family, kinship, nationhood, and community, exposes our own pusillanimous hearts. Such a people who cannot or will not arise and resist the siren call of hedomism and authoritarianism will have their lights extinguished and God will raise up a new people, new nations, and a new commonwealth of freedom.

The idea God’s arc of history for human civilization will be prevented from being fulfilled is an idea born in an absence of faith and truth. As the worldlings grow in their wickedness, so too God’s people, if they heed His call, will grow in virtue, and as the worldlings become less free, the nations of people who follow hard after God will become ever more free.

At no point in human civilization will the power hungry, perverted, morally reprehensible forces of totalitarianism whose every idea is born in hell gain world dominion. Pockets of human flourishing rooted in God’s blueprint for human civilization will always remain somewhere, until the time when God removes His People from this present world.

We envision the deliberate creation of alternative, parallel structures, beginning with a virtual commonwealth called “Upadaria”, as a platform that promotes freedom based on virtue, liberty, and independence and that emulates a non-territorial “country” that adheres to God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations. We believe the creation of these structures, which also includes distributed free cities, hubs of refuge and support, and clustered living options, could help restore America to its true manifest destiny or, in a worse case scenario we do not want to see happen, create an ark of sorts for people during times of great unrest and ruin.

People who either embrace our virtual commonwealth as e-Citizens or who embrace our alternative nationality, as peers of a globally-distributed spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, will find options and alternative solutions that tend to enhance their level of freedom and prosperity while empowering them to become more influential as a witness for the Lord to others. In the end, this could become the basis of what follows IF America as a country ceases to be a commonwealth of freedom and abandons its true manifest destiny. It could also become the rallying point and foundation for restoring our country to its God-given purpose.

We hope, pray, and work toward creating these parallel ideas, relationships, connections, and structures toward the end of saving our country from being dominated by perverted and corrupt authoritarians, the woke communists and neocon collaborators, whose only god is their own self-pleasure.

But we also know and acknowledge that if Americans do not reject and resist, with spiritual weapons and not the weapons of this world, the wanton destruction of our culture and way of life, then what follows will be the demise of our country and the emergence of new nations of people and a new country who fulfill God’s intention to always have a commonwealth of freedom on this earth.

Why Is America The Greatest Country Ever and Can It Last?

Why Is America The Greatest Country Ever and Can It Last?

Bill Collier September 10, 2021 0

If you aren’t an American and we say America is the greatest country ever, this may rankle you a bit and make you feel insulted or that we who say that are conceited and rude. But bear with us for a bit as we explain why this is so and why this definitely doesn’t make any American better or more valuable than you, because everything we say about America, for the reasons we give, can be said about you, for the same reasons.

On the other hand, if you happen to hold an American citizenship and vote in our elections but don’t agree that America is good, perhaps you are looking in the wrong places, perhaps you are acculturated to see only our flaws and failures, and perhaps you are so animated by alien and, frankly, rather authoritarian ideas that your eyes will always be jaundiced toward this country. We won’t accuse you of not being an American if you are genuinely deceived about how and why America is good, and therefore great, but there are some who hold our citizenship but whose hearts have turned against us in the same hateful passion any foreign foe might feel toward our country.

America is the greatest country because the arc of its history, even in its most flawed states and during its most henious acts, bent ever more toward freedom and God’s standards of righteousness and justice, thus producing more liberty and prosperity for most of its people than any country in history.

America was not and is not “America” to everyone all the time, some whole groups of people (think inner cities or Appalachia, native American reservations, or the migrants we both tempt across our borders and then condemn as illegals) are left behind. But more of a percentage of Americans were embraced and blessed with freedom and prosperity in, say, 1990, then 1890.

That being said, and this is where America is in danger of losing its crown as the greatest country, the amount of total individual freedom and individual to local autonomy from a top-down system of control owned by the most privileged in 1790 has eroded and hasn’t been experienced by very many Americans even today. Put another way, a rich, white, male in 1790 had more freedom in that era than anyone, including rich white males, does today.

A downward trend isn’t a forever trend and if America is somehow returned to the path of its true manifest destiny as a commonwealth of liberty with justice for all, then we will see this a mere dip in an otherwise upward arcing advancement.

America owes its status as the greatest country ever to God alone. What made us great is our arc toward ever greater freedom with justice and prosperity for all that became more and more common for more and more a percentage of our population. This is an arc of history any would-be tyrant or authoritarian coterie could not tolerate as it would make their totalitarian agendas less feasible.

In the Freedomist vision for America nobody is left behind, the arc of our history continues back on track to expand freedom with justice and universal opulence (abundant prosperity) for all, without exception. If you think rich, white guys in 1790 had all the privileges and maximum freedom and prosperity and this upsets you, consider focusing less on bashing rich white males and more on wanting all Americans to have the same freedom with justice and prosperity.

This all came from God. We did not invent it or create it. Indeed, anyone, anywhere in the world who learns the ways of God’s standards of righteousness and justice will find the same blessings of freedom with justice and universal opulence.

America is the greatest country on the earth because of the blessings and will of God, who made this land a beacon of hope and a model of liberty to all the nations as part of His plan and blueprint to advance human civilization and therefore human dignity on this planet. We are not better people than anyone else. Everyone on the planet who sees in America’s goodness, despite our sometimes badness, the ways of God for the nations which ought to be emulated by all will have a part in these blessings.

American exceptionalism is a product of God’s plan to provide a sanctuary to the oppressed and an example of freedom to the nations. Why He chose this country is only known to Him, but God is the source and deserves the credit. Turning from God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations, denying His blueprints for human civilization, beginning with marriage and the family as well as extended family and local communities, we would eventually forfeit this status and God would raise up new nations and a new country or countries to carry the torch of His benevolent desires for humanity.

How and when this happens, if America as a country becomes a secularized, hedonistic, and authoritarian society led by unscrupulous and corrupted leaders without any regard to our true manifest destiny, is not clear. It can take decades or be sudden.

America is the greatest country ever, for now, but that isn’t anything we can brag about as if we made it happen, and it isn’t going to continue as long as we, as Americans, reject the God who made this happen and reject His manifest destiny for our country and His standards of justice as righteousness for the nations.

A New/Old View of “The Church”

A New/Old View of “The Church”

Bill Collier September 8, 2021 0

When we say the word “church” we tend to see this as a local congregation, but what if our entire paradigm regarding church was missing the idea that the whole church exists within and should be seen as an area-wide distributed spiritual city-state of the Elect?

What if I said your specific local congregation, as a synagogos, wasn’t “the church” as an area-wide community but a fractal of the whole? What if I said that your family and a new/old construct, an extended multi-family household of faith, was as much of a constituent entity of the church as your local congregation?

None of this takes away from your local congregation and what it does now. We are talking about expanding your concept of the church, not limiting or undermining the present role and functions of your local congregation.

Let’s begin with our view of the church, albeit with an important caveat that this represents convictions, not a doctrine by which we would judge who is or isn’t a child of God. You may cling to the mental constructs of what church is all you wish and it won’t jeopardize your soul, but, we propose, it may keep you from fully actualizing God’s best for your life with excellence in this life.

Envision the church at an area level, like a multi-county area that is known as a contiguous area. For instance, “the church in Galatia” was an area in what is now south-western Turkey with multiple cities and villages. It was at once a distinct community from the surrounding communities wherein its members dwelled and a part of the whole fabric of society within the area as a salt and light witness for Jesus.

The word for church is EKKLESIA. The word had many specific meanings depending on context and, we asd this caution, our way of using and understanding this word is not set in stone or doctrinal. Our conviction is that the concept of Ekklesia as used to describe the assemblage of all Believers should be informed by the concepts of an assembly governing a city-state.

The WAY the “church in Galatia” is described and shown to function, as a single community of people distributed throughout the physical communities in an entire area, has the feel of something approximating the traditional and well-known Greco-Roman city-state model. In essence, if the Kingdom of God is a spiritual Kingdom, then the Ekklesia in a given area is a spiritual city-state.

The Christian “church” is an irreducibly complex entity: in its fractal it is two or more gathered in Jesus’s Name, but in its fullness we propose it should not be subdivided from the city-state scale, where the city-state is based on a spiritual foundation and is distributed, in the form of its core constituent entities, throughout an entire area.

This is the concept of the area-wide Body of Christ as a spiritual city-state and the church as the gathered assembly of the entire “citizenry” of that spiritual city-state who are its Electors. While it is logical that the fractals and constituent entities of the whole would in many ways resemble the whole and emulate its offices and functions, it is perhaps liberating and powerful to consider the meaning and practices of these offices and functions from the perspective of an area-wide distributed spiritual city-state.

This will make the “local congregation as supreme” advocates uncomfortable because it may be seen as undermining centuries of church tradition wherein every local congregation assumes it embodies in itself the totality of churchdom, as it were, and its officers as the very people spoken of when the Bible describes the offices and functions of the Ekklesia. We use the term “solo grande”, which implies a grand and solo authority which brooks no refusal or dissent, and this has more or less colored the “modern” local church model since the 15th and 16th centuries when the present form really became the model most Christians followed.

Every local church and ITS clerical leaders became the beginning and end of what the very meaning of church was and the larger, distributed spiritual city-state of the Elect was pushed further from everyday consciousness until it virtually disappeared.

In our model of the church as the governing assembly of the spiritual city-state of the Elect, local congregations are the synagogos, places of gathering for religious observance, worship, and spiritual instruction, but also fractals of the whole with the same basic governance model based on the offices and functions of the area-wide spiritual city-state of the Elect. The Pastor of a local congregation ought to be as much like a village mayor or chief caring for their congregation as if it was a locally distributed intentional community as a clerical leader.

The core constituent entities of the area-wide spiritual city-state of the Elect and its governing assembly include things like married couples, nuclear families, extended multi-family households of faith (a “lost” Biblical institution we ought to restore), and local congregations. The actual physical and/or virtual gathering of the Elect, using the Polis model of Ekklesia as the gathering of ALL Electors, is the ultimate full realization of this model in practice. We can infer logically that any association and structure whereby two or more Believers engage and connect with Christ as their head is also a constituent entity of the area-wide spiritual city-state of the Elect and its governing assembly.

It is within the extended multi-family households faith, oikos in the Bible, kinship communities in our terminology, that we find a place where the core elements of the Kingdom more of less all connect: the Ekklesia is modeled in its governance, the Ethne or “nationhood” is the basis of its kinship (more on that follows), it is the Oikos of the familial unit that includes a more expensive view of the family, and it is a part of the larger Koinonia which is freewill participation based on objective standards and norms rooted in God’s standards of righteousness and justice.

To unpack all these things would take multiple articles. But to simply realize a more expensive, comprehensive, and holistic view of the church with all these elements of the Kingdom and all these core constituent entities is a paradigm shift that better equips us to adapt and navigate within a largely hostile surrounding culture. This view does not threaten or eliminate the local congregation as a vital part of the whole church, but it does threaten the solo grande model by which one effectively sees and experiences the church mostly through this limited venue and mostly as something religious and more ephemeral.

The intentional restoration of the ancient multi-family households of faith, often translated as households, or oikos, is a meeting point and expression of all core elements of the Kingdom, including yet another “lost” element, the nation. Many diverse nations as a spiritual construct are, we firmly believe, ordained and predestined by God to fill this earth and to make it easier for people to find God if they seek Him.

What we see in the ancient concept of an extended multi-family household of faith is that it requires the spiritual cohesiveness of being a fractal of the whole church and its its most basic core constituent entity. But it also demands the organic cohesiveness of a shared nationhood and that every nation of people whose God is the Lord ought to consider this structure to be its core constituent entity as well.

Your local congregation cannot embody all the social, cultural, and economic as well as civic functions and structures one might envision if church is more like a spiritual city-state and distributed intentional community than merely a religious club.

These ideas and concepts each deserve their own thorough review, it is sufficient for now to at least see in this a paradigm changing shift from church as a limited religious club to church as an area-wide distributed spiritual city-state whose Electors include all citizens of the Kingdom regardless of their unique forms of nationhood and of their local congregational affiliation. At the very least, you should see in this that if we explore the ancient, Biblical models for the church we find structures and institutions that our modern society has undermined, perverted, and destroyed.

The promotion of spiritual nationhood as a parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic system and civilizational structure as well as the intentional restoration, albeit in modern form, of the extended multi-family household of faith may be vital to building church, as in ekklesia, to fit the spiritual city-state model as opposed to the more limited religious club model.

There are those who will see any questioning of the solo grande clerical-led “local church” as an attack on the church. They see their 15th and 16th century inventions as if they are the final or only true form for the church and would balk at any notions not contained in this tradition. The conflating of any questions of the present church-as-religious-club model with an attack on the sanctity of the church is common and only serves to keep the church irrelevant and weak within a morally and spiritually depraved culture.

You don’t have to stop “going to church” or pastoring a church in order to challenge yourself to think more expensively and holistically about the church at the area-wide level.

Our approach is not to try and convince everyone to form area-wide governance structures that include all Believers. Creating “unity” through a top-down structure that tries to corral every Christian to be part of it won’t create unity, it is, frankly, a “tower of Babel” approach.

Our approach to ekklesia as a spiritual city-state of the Elect and its governing assembly is to focus on embodying its concepts and practices internally among ourselves in the hope others will do the same. In reviving nationhood and taking it to a new level of praxis in our daily lives and in rebuilding the ancient extended multi-family households of faith as the core constituent entity of both the nation and the ekklesia, we become what we envision and others are bound to copy until that which we see, the unity of the whole Body of Christ in a given area, emerges naturally and from the heart.

It may or may not be true that those who control most church structures, from local congregations to denominations, will resist this because they see it undermines their solo grande authority over their felllow Believers. It may be, however, that those “clergy” who embrace and nurture this both within their own congregations and as members of other core elements of the Kingdom will be among the most “successful” at reaching the lost, growing their congregation, nurturing their members, being a salt and light influence to others, and promoting true unity among Believers.

It is neither necessary nor useful to treat these concepts as a doctrine or to look askance at anyone who isn’t at a place where they are willing to explore, let alone accept, these concepts. We present this to challenge and edify, not to divide or condemn. It explains how we see the church, but it isn’t required of you in order to be a Christian.

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