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And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.

Deuteronomy 6:10-13

Moses spoke these words to the Israelites as they were at the dawn of their Promised Land conquest. God patiently permitted the Amorites to continue in the land as long as they did, even though their sins certainly were asking for it, because they had not yet reached their wicked zenith. But the time had now come.

Soon, all of Israel’s clans would be moving into the structures and homes of their enemies, drinking their wine, sipping from their cisterns, and kicking their tired feet up onto Canaanite ottomans. Obedience to God, in this case, means being blessed with the stuff the disobedient left behind.

In America, the reverse is happening. Structures in society like family, law, education, and religion – structures that Christianity built – have been taken over by progressives. The difference is that the Church voluntarily abandoned those structures over the past hundred years, doubling down instead on the spiritual side of the gnostic divide. The world is not our home, after all. Don’t want to make idols of these things.

Meanwhile, the progressive, like envious hermit crabs, scuttled into these perfectly good societal structures that no one seemed to be defending. At least, there wasn’t much of a fight. The worst of it is that in our rush out of the houses that we built, we left behind our children.