The Watchman

Analysis & Diagnostics of the Christian Union

"So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me."

Ezekiel 33:7

These articles examine the current state of the Christian body — its doctrine, its failures of instruction, and the gap between what the Word teaches and what the institutional church delivers to the believer. The watchman does not editorialize for its own sake. He observes. He names what he sees. He reports.

Articles

August 8, 2026

Two Origins, Two Remedies

Sin and evil do not share a common origin. Through one man sin entered the world. Through the fallen angels evil entered the world. The distinction has consequences that run from Genesis to the Great White Throne — through the flood as a surgical operation on the seed line, the division of the nations at Babel, the conquest as the execution of a judgment already rendered in the divine court, and the ongoing angelic conflict in which the Church Age believer is a tactical participant today.

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August 6, 2026

Wise as a Serpent, Gentle as a Dove

The institutional church has collapsed the serpent and the dove into pure dove. Sin and evil are different categories of conduct, covered by different mechanisms, and answered at different judgments. The forgiveness command is category-specific. The wealthy man, the woman caught in adultery, and Absalom are precision case studies in the distinction — and Jesus administered the Law in each encounter with full knowledge of every party's actual standing.

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August 6, 2026

The Author Who Entered His Own Text

The academic field's most respected evangelical scholarship on Jesus and the Old Testament commits a categorical error: it places Jesus inside a hermeneutical tradition as a practitioner of it. Blomberg calls Jesus a typological interpreter. Wright frames him as a prophet-like figure. Longenecker places him in a taxonomy of Jewish exegetical methods. All three have moved Jesus from upstream to downstream from the will and acts of God. A confrontation with the error, its institutional roots, and the correct framework.

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July 30, 2026

The Wages of the Sin Nature and the Spiritual Life

Romans 6:23 is preached almost exclusively to unbelievers. But Paul wrote it to believers — and the wages of the sin nature are collecting on them in real time, in this life, every day they remain out of fellowship. An examination of what the sin nature costs the believer, why the institutional church cannot diagnose it, and the distinction between the gospel of salvation and the gospel of doctrine.

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