• 1.  Irreverent to any thing sacred; applied to persons.  A man is profane when he takes the name of God in vain, or treats sacred things with abuse and irreverence.
• 2.  Irreverent; proceeding from a contempt of sacred things, or implying it; as profane words or language;
• 3.  Not sacred; secular; relating to secular things; as profane history.
• 4.  Polluted; not pure.
• 5.  Not purified or holy; allowed for common use; as a profane place.
• 6.  Obscene; heathenish; tending to bring reproach on truth

• I Timothy 1:8-11  - But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• I Timothy 4:7 - But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
• I Timothy 6:20 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
• II Timothy 2:16 - But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

• 1.  Empty; worthless; having no substance, value or importance
• 2.  Fruitless; ineffectual.
• 3.  Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; elated with a high opinion of one's own accomplishments, or with things more showy than valuable; conceited.
• 4.  Empty; unreal;
• 5.  Showy; ostentatious.
• 6.  Light; inconstant; worthless.
• 7.  Empty; unsatisfying.
• 8.  False; deceitful; not genuine; spurious.
• 9.  Not effectual

• 1.  To utter words imperfectly or indistinctly, as children.
• 2.  To talk idly or irrationally; to talk thoughtlessly.
• 3.  To talk much
• 4.  Idle talk; senseless prattle.

Reconstructionism, Kingdom Now theology, Theonomy, and/or Dominion theology,

• Call it what you want, but this is all a blend of Reformed/Calvinist theology and Charismatic influence.
• We simply know it to be another result of wrongly dividing.
• emphasis being on the gospels AND the Old Testament along with Hebrews to Jews, but having to leave out much of Paul's writings!

• While it appears that there are relatively few who would call themselves reconstructionists, a number of the movement's ideas have infiltrated the thinking and actions of many professing believers, often without them knowing it.
• That is one of the many dangers of following a person, etc. without knowing your own Bible!

• If names mean anything to you, the movement is led by people such as Rousas J. Rushdoony; Gary North; Ray Sutton; Greg Bahnsen; David Chilton, and by Charismatic leaders such as Earl Paulk.
• And their ideas are often reflected by non-reconstructionists such as Pat Robertson, D. James Kennedy, John Whitehead, Franky Schaeffer, and Jerry Falwell.
• You will recognize these teachings / thoughts / beliefs, in many of your authors and radio personalities - as well as popular preachers.
• So, there are other names... you can add them as you hear them...
• It is all part of wrongly dividing the word of truth!

• In spite of the fact that many Dominionists-Reconstructionists-Theonomists are hyper-Calvinists,
• ...yet at the same time they write and speak as if they believe that they must help God get things under control down here on earth,
• ...so that the kingdom can be set up in order that the King Himself can reign properly.
• Calvinism theology - interspersed with many denominations...
• That the unregenerate seek out opportunities to perform as much evil as possible.
• That God is the creator and source of all sin and evil.
• That the decree of atonement for the elect logically precedes the decree of the fall (see supralapsarianism)
• That the decree of reprobation is positive and symmetrical to the decree of election (see equal ultimacy)
• That men have no independent will, and secondary causes are of no effect.
• That a sign of election must be sought prior to repentance.
• That it is wrong to actively proselytize.
• That there is no common grace for the unregenerate.
• That God cares only for his elect and has nothing but hatred for the non-elect.
• That dissent from Calvinist belief is a sign of reprobation among professing Christians.
• That it is wrong to fellowship with non-Calvinists.
• That all of the elect will ultimately be converted to Calvinism.
• Simply put:
• Total Hereditary Depravity
• Unconditional Election
• Limited Atonement
• Irresistible Grace
• Perseverance of the Saints
• Persons
• John Calvin, along with the founder of the Presbyterian church, John Knox, and any number of later figures such as the English Baptist John Bunyan and the American preacher Jonathan Edwards.  David Livingston, C. J. Mahaney; Carl F. H. Henry; Charles Spurgeon; James White (theologian); John F. MacArthur; John Gill (theologian); John L. Dagg; John Piper (theologian); William Carey (Father of the Great Commission movement).
• # Martin Van Buren - 8th U.S. President; # Theodore Roosevelt - 26th U.S. President; # George Clinton - U.S. Vice-President under Jefferson and Madison; # James S. Sherman - U.S. Vice-President under Pres. Taft; # Rembrandt - celebrated painter; the greatest of the "Dutch Masters"; # Jan Vermeer - celebrated painter; one of the "Dutch Masters". # Vincent van Gogh; # Paul Schrader - screenwriter (Taxi Driver; Raging Bull; The Last Temptation of Christ; Bringing Out the Dead; etc.); # Lucille Ball - actress, TV sitcom pioneer (member at an RCA congregation); # Robert H. Schuller; # Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; # Peter Minuit - important religious leader; bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians for $24.
• The 'names' are throughout all history!
• Talk about the influence of wrongly dividing!

• Christian songs are being written implying that we are in the Kingdom of heaven at the present time, and as a result, we should be reigning with Christ over the earth - see Revelation 5:10 -And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
• The question is 'when' will we reign.
• If the Kingdom is on earth now, then we should have dominion now, so say the Dominionists.
• Much of this theology is found in contemporary christian music - CCM - the popular Charismatic song "Majesty" (written by hyper-charismatic Jack Hayford), which invites us to "Come glorify Christ Jesus, the King" -- after all, "Kingdom authority flows from His throne unto His own."
• With this authority from the King, we are to reclaim the earth for Christ, not just spiritually, but socially, economically, and politically.
• (it is no accident that one of the Reconstructionists' organizations is called "The Institute for Christian Economics")
• The dominion of the earth is accomplished not only through 1) prayer and 2) evangelism,
• ...but through 3) political process and 4) social reformation.
• The Dominion/Reconstructionist organization Coalition on Revival (COR) was established for this purpose.
• They say that Christ will not and cannot return to earth until the church has accomplished this task, so say the dominionists.

• (a) Satan usurped man's dominion over the earth through the temptation of Adam and Eve;
• (b) The Church is God's instrument to take dominion back from Satan; and
• (c) Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken dominion by gaining control of the earth's governmental and social institutions.

(a) The Old Testament  Law is our rule of life for today.

• Although DT teaches that keeping of the Law is not a condition for salvation, it is a condition for sanctification.
• (However, some of the COR's official statements appear to specifically condition salvation upon OT Law-keeping!);

• Since we are called to subdue the earth (Gen. 1:28), DT teaches that God's Law should rule (or dominate) all aspects of society.
• This view is known as Theonomy (or God's law), and is described by Greg Bahnsen as: "The Christian is obligated to keep the whole law of God as a pattern for sanctification and that this law is to be enforced by the civil magistrate."
• This would mean that Christians would be obligated to keep the whole OT Law except in the obvious NT cases - but from the gospels only, of course!

• As a result, it makes no distinction between the church and Israel (i.e., the church has become "spiritual Israel").
• However, DT goes beyond traditional covenant theology and teaches that the church is to be governed by the same laws, is subject to the same curses, and is promised the same blessings as Israel;

• If the Kingdom of God is to gradually take dominion over the earth, it only makes sense that Christians should be attempting to change society through the changing of laws and through social action;

• As a result, DT does not believe in the rapture of the church.
• According to DT, the world should be, and is becoming, a better place through the efforts of Christians (cf. 2 Thessalonians. 2:1-12);

• We are in the Kingdom, and have Kingdom authority, but on the other hand, we are ushering in the Kingdom through our efforts.
• "The Kingdom is now, but not yet," is a popular DT slogan;

• It is believed that as a result of the reconstruction of society by Biblical principals, that the final aspect of the Kingdom of God will be established on earth.
• Christ cannot return until a certain amount of dominion is achieved by the church.
• It is believed that the curse will slowly be removed as the world is won over.
• Even disease and death will be all but eliminated before Christ returns to the earth;

• This means that they teach that virtually all prophecies which most Christians believe are still future, have in fact been fulfilled already, mainly between the years A.D. 30 and 70.
• Many believe that the book of Revelation, "is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is about the destruction of Israel and Christ's victory over His enemies during the first century."
• They believe that the Great Tribulation took place at the fall of Israel in A.D. 70;
• the Antichrist refers to the apostasy of the Church prior to the fall of Jerusalem;
• the Beast of Revelation was Nero and the Roman Empire.

• This concept is based on several passages.
• First, Genesis 1:28 commands Adam to subdue the earth.
• Adam lost his ability to do so to Satan as a result of sin.
• The church should now be in the process of reclaiming from the devil what Adam lost.
• Secondly, the Great Commission - Matthew. 28:19-20 - commands the followers of Christ to disciple all the nations...
• ...which they say, goes beyond personal salvation and sanctification to the 'reformation of society.'

• DT claims that the word "fulfill" actually means "confirm."
• Thus, Christ did not in any sense fulfill, or complete, or do away with the Law, rather he confirmed it as our rule of life today.

• DT's answer is that the Law was divided into three sections: civil, moral, and ceremonial.
• The ceremonial law, it is claimed, has been fulfilled by Christ and is no longer incumbent upon the believer, but not so the moral and civil parts of the law.
• Therefore, we are to live under the moral law and seek to establish, in our society, the civil system of OT Israel.
• The problem with this view is that nowhere in the Bible is the Law broken into these three sections; this is something invented by men.
• Whenever the Law is mentioned, the Scriptures are speaking of the whole Law as a unit. The Jews were as obligated to keep the sacrificial system and commandments concerning food and dress (ceremonial law) as they were the Ten Commandments (moral law).
• If the NT says that Christ fulfilled the Law, and that as Christians we are no longer under the Law, it means the whole Law.
• Church age saints are no longer obligated to any aspect of the OT Law.
• No one has the right to arbitrarily claim that we have been set free from some of the Law (the parts we don't like), but that the rest of the Law is required.
• Either the believer has been released from the whole Law (Rom. 7:4,6) or none of it.
• As Thomas Ice reminds us, "The Law of Moses was given to a specific people (Israel), to be followed in a specific location (the land of Israel), to deal with their specific situation. Therefore, the Law cannot simply be obeyed today by the Church, as was expected of Israel when it was given to that nation"
• On the positive side, Ice comments, "Paul teaches in Galatians 3 and 4 that Christ has set us free from the bondage of the Law, not so that we can be lawless as the Reconstructionists insist, instead, but so that we can walk in the newness of the motivation of the Holy Spirit."
• Note that they still don't use the KJB - and insist on using the word 'set' instead of 'made.'

(a) Reconstructionists teach that the mission of the church goes beyond the spiritual transformation of individuals, to a mandate to change society, a "moral patriotism," in opposition to secular humanism.

• For Christ to be pleased with Christians, thereby, they must become political and social activists.
• We must change the laws of the land, gear up to elect Christians to office, and generally seek to take dominion over our world and bring it under the Law of Moses.
• We see the influence of this thinking even in those who may know little about DT -- James Dobson, Larry Burkett, the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, Promise Keepers, Charles Colson and the Evangelicals and Catholics Together document (ECT), and Operation Rescue, are but a few of the evidences that reconstructionist thinking is beginning to dominate the so-called evangelical world;

• This cultural mandate to restructure/restore society is a task that may take thousands of years, even by the DT's own admission (approximately 36,000 years, according to David Chilton);

• This is why "Reconstruction" Calvinists and "Kingdom Now" Charismatics have formed at least a loose unity -- they both have the same world view.
• They are not looking for Christ to return and set up His Kingdom; they are attempting to set it up for Him.

• i.e., "replacement theology" --
• the church replaces the Jews as the new or true Israel, and Israel has no future as a distinct nation within God's plan).
• They believe that Israel does not have a future different from any other nation.
• Historically, replacement theology has been the theological foundation upon which anti-Semitism has been built within the confines of professing Christianity.
• While reconstructionists do believe that the individual Jews will be converted to Christ in mass in the future, almost none of them believe that national Israel has a future, and thus, the Church has completely taken over the promises of national Israel.
• Reconstructionists say that "ethnic Israel was excommunicated for its apostasy and will never again be God's Kingdom. ... the Bible does not tell of any future plan for Israel as a special nation."
• Reconstructionists believe that the Church is now that new nation, which is why Christ destroyed the Jewish state.
• Reconstructionists have said, "In destroying Israel, Christ transferred the blessings of the kingdom from Israel to a new people, the church."