Title: 13
Author: Joe Griffin
Last saved by: Matt Lawson
Company: GDC

The Church of the Living God

		09-07-19-A.FBC08-149 /

Postulates of Divine Integrity: Personal: No Advantages of the Escrow without the Advantage of Spiritual Maturity; National: No Advantages from Blessings by Association without the Advantage of the Pivot; Anadiplosis: Cycle of Civilization; 5 Cycles of Discipline

The Postulates of Divine Integrity
I.	Personal Postulates:
1.	There are no advantages to the advantages without the advantage.
1)	The advantage for the believer is the attainment of spiritual maturity.
2)	The advantages are those escrow blessings that flow down the grace pipeline to the mature believer.
3)	Believers who are in reversionism have none of these advantages although they have the option of rebound and doctrinal recovery in order to obtain them.
2.	If you have the advantage, you have the advantages.
1)	If you are a spiritually mature believer then you have the advantages of escrow blessings.
2)	I you are in reversionism then you do not have the advantage and therefore no advantages.
3)	There is potential for recovery but potential minus capacity equals depravation.
4)	If the reversionist seeks recovery then he has renewed potential.  Potential plus capacity equals possession of the advantage and therefore the advantages. Therefore,
3.	Without the advantage, there are no advantages.
II.	National Postulates:
1.	No nation can have the advantages without the advantage.
1)	The advantage is a pivot of mature believers.
2)	The advantages are the blessing by association enjoyed by the nation’s general population due to the blessings imputed to mature believers.
2.	A nation without the advantage loses the advantages.
1)	When the pivot shrinks thus losing it preserving power, the client nation is without its advantage.
2)	Loss of pivot power results in the nation losing its advantages related to blessing by association.
3.	No nation can recover its advantages without the advantage of a pivot.
1)	Redevelopment of a pivot requires a national reawakening to the gospel and widespread interest in learning and applying the Word of God to life and circumstances.
2)	Without this recovery the client nation continues on a downward trend toward destruction.  The cycle of a civilization from bondage to freedom and back into bondage is illustrated by this anadiplosis:
Man begins his existence in bondage,
And rises from bondage through spiritual faith,
From spiritual faith to courage,
From courage to liberty,
From liberty to abundance,
From abundance to selfishness,
From selfishness to complacency,
From complacency to apathy,
From apathy to dependency,
From dependency back into bondage.

The author of this quotation is unknown but attributed to several men, the most likely being Henning W. Prentis, Jr., in a speech delivered on March 18, 1943 in New York City.

4.	Loss of both the advantage and the advantages eventuates in the removal of the nation from history under the fifth cycle of discipline.
1)	Without the pivot and the blessing by association provided by it, the nation ceases to function as a client nation.
2)	Loss of client nation status results in the country becoming vulnerable to predator nations and will be eventually taken out under the fifth cycle of discipline. 
3)	The five cycles of discipline, the subject of Leviticus 26, are summarized as follows:
(i)	The First Cycle: Loss of health, decline of agricultural prosperity, terror, fear, and death in combat, loss of personal freedoms due to negative volition toward Bible doctrine (Leviticus 26:14-17).
(ii)	The Second Cycle: Economic recession and depression, increased personal and individual discipline for continued negative volition in spite of the first warning (Leviticus 26:18-10).
(iii)	The Third Cycle: Violence and breakdown of law and order; severe restriction of travel and commerce (Leviticus 26:21-22).
(iv)	The Fourth Cycle: Military conquest and/or foreign occupation, scarcity of food (reduced to one-tenth of normal supply), separation of families (Leviticus 26:23-26).
(v)	The Fifth Cycle: Destruction of the nation due to maximum rejection of biblical principles (Leviticus 26:27-39).

R. B. Thieme, Jr., Freedom through Military Victory, 4th ed., ed., R. B. Thieme III (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, 2003), 16.

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