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  Thanksgiving in the Ebb Time of Antichrist: Atonement, the Empty Throne, and the Reparative Leading by the Meek toward the New Advent   Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds, Ret. November 21, 2025   “The present world, a world without consecrated authority, seems caught between two impossibilities: the impossibility of the past, and the impossibility of the future.” —Chateaubriand   Abstract This prophetic sermon in its classical sense brings not comfort but clarity; not reconciliation but rupture. It is not doctrinaire but Christopoetic, issuing both an exegetical and ethical demand. It critiques the American Thanksgiving tradition through the lens of unatoned national sin, eschatological urgency, and covenantal ethics. Drawing from biblical texts (Exod. 21:16; Num. 35:33; Jer. 6:14; 2 Thess 2; Matt. 5:5; Rev. 1:7; Isa. 11), the message contends that the United States’ refusal to reckon with the original sin of slavery and the theological betrayal of the C...

    The Ladder Tearing:  A Christopoietic Rejection of Ascent without Neighbor Bearing...and of DB Hart's Platonic-Inf(l)ected Teaching Douglas Blake Olds 17 November 2025 T here is a certain kind of metaphysician—learned, serenely confident, mistaking the florid for the elegant—who peers at the world’s formal splendor and mistakes its shimmering surfaces for truth. He believes the universe climbs a ladder: physics to psyche, psyche to nous (or v.v. when what is “presupposed” slips its rung), nous to the One. He names this ascent “order,” and calls its rungs “irreducibility.” He supposes that by describing desire’s upward reach, he has spoken of infinite goodness rather than finite conceit. He speaks of divine complexity as if it reveals covenant; of emergence as if it were responsibility; of metaphysical hierarchy as if it were wisdom. He presupposes far too much of what is knowable about the attributes of God, that his pattern allows the heart to be buried of its co...