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Shawn McCraney's program, "Heart of the Matter Radicalized," outlines a vision of faith and individual empowerment, emphasizing personal spiritual choices over traditional doctrines while launching an online watchdog group to combat abuses by institutions and corporations, drawing on a redefined Christianity rooted in victorious eschatology.

This text emphasizes the belief that Christ possesses ultimate authority over all things as evidenced by scripture, maintaining He is the head of the church and marking a significant theological viewpoint on eschatology and soteriology, suggesting we are living in God's reign since Christ's resurrection and ascension.

The world, influenced by Christ's victory, operates under a new divine counsel where God allows all events, good and evil, for the improvement of humanity through a collective Spirit, while humans, made in His image, contribute to an evolving better world.

The text explores the evolution of human understanding and development, emphasizing the role of the Spirit of Man and the presence of God's will, advocating for a perspective that embraces human experience and God's allowance of events as divinely purposeful, while encouraging believers to approach life with peace, love, and understanding.

Believers are encouraged to remain open to various religious and philosophical insights while discerning their value through spiritual fruits, aiming to improve the world according to Christ's teachings.

The text discusses the failures of past religious practices and expresses a collective vision for improving the world by focusing on addressing real corruption and evil, contrasting with traditional Christian engagements in political reform and social issues.

Heart of the Matter Radicalized

Live from Planet Earth, this is Heart of the Matter Radicalized, and I am your host, Shawn McCraney. Join me in prayer if you are so inclined – YAHAVAH, we thank you and seek you . . . IN Yeshua’s name, amen.

A New Divine Order

Radicalized June 3rd, 2025, A New Divine Order. Announcements? Updates? Spots? DELANEY? We truly hope you will continue to hang with us until we drop the culmination and summation of all forty years of our labors on January 6th, 2026. It will well be worth all the changes, all the teachings, all the efforts – if you are willing to see.

Until that time, we are using this year to present to you some of the “distinctives” about our understanding of the sacred faith we might call, Christianity Fulfilled, and how we have come to understand it ESPECIALLY in the face of Victorious Eschatology, which we define as God having had the victory over all things in heaven, earth, and under the earth through His only begotten Son, with the world being returned to the spiritual Garden of Eden and all of humankind individually deciding how they will live their lives – dining on Him through the indwelling Spirit in all souls or dining on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil – with God not only loving all unconditionally in the face of their choices, yet calling on all, no matter how long it takes, for them to turn and receive His finished work on their behalf.

The earthly ramifications of this view are substantially different than what has traditionally been taught in the past, and tonight we want to take our views one step further by explaining what we see as the New Divine Order. In January through March, we did shows on what we called, The New Culture, Sex and Weed. Then from April through this month, we have introduced A New Cosmology, talking in April about Three Potential Big-Bangs, in May, “Considerations on the Afterlife,” and tonight, “a New Divine Order.”

Five Fives

But before doing this, let’s do this month’s, Five Fives!

FIVE INSPIRING MUSICAL ARTISTS 5. Petula Clarke 4. Patsy Cline 3. Lana Del Rey 2. Enya

  1. Diana Ross and the Supremes

FIVE MIND-EXPANDING BOOKS 5. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury 4. The Trial – Franz Kafka 3. 1984 – George Orwell 2. Pictures of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

  1. No Man Knows my History – Fawn Brodie

FIVE STIRRING FILMS 5. Rope – an Alfred Hitchcock rarity 4. Freaks 3. Breathless 2. Mississippi Burning

  1. Big Wednesday

FIVE ARTISTS (of any kind) 5. El Greco 4. Lautrec 3. Katsushika Hokusai 2. Winslow Homer

  1. Norman Rockwell

FIVE MODERN HEROES 5. People that pursue trade like cobblers, tailors, seamstresses, trustworthy mechanics. 4. Musical instrument teachers 3. Coaches of every sport 2. Culinary schools

  1. Farmers and Ranchers

Because we are convinced that faith-based organizations are unnecessary but are especially hollow without some-sort of material application, and because we suggest that these applications must be directed and chosen by the Spirit within every individual, we wanted to create something, standing on Him, that would serve the unfortunate, the defenseless, the weak, and mistreated in a way that would have legs toward making our world a better place, and not engaging in activities that insist on resisting personal choices over faith, lifestyle, or political opinion.

We wanted something that would transcend all the activities that typically serve political agendas and literally do for the world’s inhabitants something that will brighten their plight against what we have long seen as the Dark Powers which enter our domain. So what we at the GreatNewsNetwork are doing, under the title of our being Yeshuans, is we are creating an online watchdog organization, similar to Sarah and Joe Young’s Check my Church, to collect stories and vet them, digitally expose perpetrators with the world, and to organize fiscal rebellion in the face of such.

These efforts will be exclusively against institutional insurance abuses against individuals, institutional religious abuses against individuals, corporate and business abuses against individuals, medical/dental abuses against individuals, and banking, lending, and investment abuses against individuals who cannot afford nor are the capable of representing themselves or retaining legal aid.

From where we sit, and in the face of all we have concluded from the foundation of Christ’s fulfillment, we believe that this material

Theological Teachings on Eschatology and Soteriology

Help us, or want to freely submit what we are calling a personal claim for us to follow up on, watch over the next several months for us to unfold this part of the ministry, and to begin, in addition to helping educate souls on the faith, to offer our material outreach into the world. In the end, we believe this will do more to help improve the world than anything else we might do.

See you on Tuesday, July 1st, when we begin our third quarter Radicalized where we will present… a New Ontology and Soteriology. In the face of Victorious Fulfillment of Eschatology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, we maintain the following stance, offering it to all to accept or reject, that,

Scriptural Assertion

GRAPHIC

“Everything before Christ has been put under His feet, and that everything after Him God allows.” Pay particular attention to the second half of that statement – “Everything before Christ has been put under His feet, and that everything after Him God allows.” The scripture is clear that Christ has been given all power. Peter wrote to the believers in that day and speaking of Yeshua,

1st Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Paul speaking of Christ and adding in Ephesians 1:21-23 that He is

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

And again, speaking of Yeshua, Paul added in Colossians 1:15-20

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Paul, in explaining His return and what it would bring, wrote in 1st Corinthians 15, speaking of the Resurrected Christ, says,

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

Eschatological Expectations

Herein lies the import of right eschatology because if He has come, everything in scripture prophetically has happened, and if He hasn’t, we are waiting on much of it to happen. But listen to what Paul says did or would HAPPEN when he returned.

24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, (meaning, He would be reigning at the side of His Father) until he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that God is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

We maintain that the age in which we now live (and have been living since He returned and took His Bride to the New Jerusalem) has God being all in all – all which is above, all which is here and all which is below, operating from a New Jerusalem, in a New Heaven.

The New Earth and Divine Counsel

…and over a New earth through the world’s inhabitants which are given the power to be New Creations. The everything “before” Him that has been put under His feet includes: Adams sin and the Fall, spiritual ramifications of the Fall, the subduction of Satan, demons, devils, fallen angels, hell, afterlife punishment, “rulers and principalities dwelling in high places,” “sin” that God in the past punishes in the afterlife, and whatever kept us humans alienated from God, and/or separated from Him according to His Holiness. We maintain that the only thing that keeps any person separated from God is their refusal to receive Him through the Spirit of His Son. Where Christian preach the Gospel, Yeshuan’s preach the Good News, which rests squarely on the Christian Gospel.

We all know that in the former biblical economy, demons and devils and Satan and the Law reigned and Man was alienated from God. BOLD GRAPHIC ALL OF THAT IS OVER. And the world has been returned, by the last Adam, to the Garden of Eden state where all souls live in the . . . GRAPHIC The Subjective Age of the Spirit. Now, with Christ having given the Kingdom to His Father and God becoming all in all, we must, in my estimation, agree with the second line of the quote we opened with and that is, GRAPHIC “Everything before Christ has been put under His feet, and that everything after Him God allows.” Herein is the New Divine Counsel found and the new way God operates.

The Victory of Christ

See, Christian biblicists remain in an antiquated war against sin, death, satan and hell, failing to realize Christ’s victory. They do not see the world we live in as what God has permitted and allowed but believe that there are heavenly demons and devils still winning and taking souls to the former covered place they call hell. Because of this these souls believe that Satan is still reigning, that material religion is a must, and that believers are at war with all these enemies. We maintain, with all of that former economy having been victoriously overcome, that we live (and have been living for some 1930 or so years) in a new economy where whatever exists or happens, God allows it to exist or happen, (READY) all as a means to ultimately better the world, through His Spirit which abides in all humanity, whether they receive and follow it or not.

Because God gave our first parents who He made in His image dominion over this earth, we suggest that in and through human beings, God is bringing the earth and its inhabitants forward into a brighter and brighter day. Will there always be failures, darkness, and material woes? Because Man is a free agent, we can only suppose so. But God, who NOW allows all things to exist that exist, uses all things, in the hands of Man who has dominion over this world, to bring about His will and desires for the increasing betterment of Mankind.

Humanity’s Role in a New Order

Here we get really radical but hear me out. Everything that happens on earth God allows – good and evil, dark and light, spirit and flesh – all because Christ has had the victory of it nearly 2000 years ago. If something exists and has happened, it is solely because God has allowed it to exist and has not deigned it to die. Now get ready… Because God made Man in His image, I imagine and suppose that humanity, who was made in God’s image, contributes and donates to an evolving human collective, so to speak, and that He through us, is creating a world culture through the collective Spirit of humanity, that again, evolves toward a better and better day. It is a reservoir of the human collective conscience. Where angels and demons and Satan once operated as a divine counsel to God, we wonder if there is a new divine order in place, where humankind, from the collective spirit of man, helps govern the world as God allows.

It only makes sense to me that since we are made in God’s image, and since there certainly is a Spirit of Man that exists, that with Christ having the victory and God being all in all, that on this earth, which man has been given dominion, humanity is collectively improving the world’s conditions – in a slow moving evolving forward motion – and God works hand in hand with each development men are inspired to share. If you have a hard time with this just allow yourself to compare a few things over the ages – Women issues? (like visits to the OBGYN) 600CE?

Human Evolution and Spiritual Growth

1950? 2025? Environmental Issues? I remember in the 1960’s when our family thought it was a sign of freedom and privilege to liter! Communications? Scrolls, Pony Express, Morse Code to Cell Phones. Understanding of the human brain? From Insane Asylums to Lobotomies to Talk and medicinal approaches.

The Spirit of Man and our evolving collective is imperfect and swings too wide in both directions on the learning curve but does pass through periods of real advancement all because of the Victory of Christ and our dominion over the earth. So, while Man has always been allowed to freely think and act but because of Christ within all of us humanity ultimately – ULTIMATELY – will bring about God’s will, again, in the long run.

Embracing Our Dominion

Instead of fretting and trying to govern this collective human spirit through religion, I maintain that we embrace the fact that GOD has allowed all things under our dominion to exist and it is incumbent that each individual choose how to contribute to the good or to the dark during their time on earth. Note, I am not conflating the heavenly kingdom with the earthly in any way. I suggest that they are different and operate in different ways. But I am suggesting that since the veil was ripped in two, and God was reconciled to the world, that there is a better way for believers to see the world on which they live and it is not through the lens of the former biblical economy.

Certainly, this collective repository is the Spirit of Man, and not the Spirit of God directly, but remember, God gave Man the right, even the obligation to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Because there is a Spirit of Man, as Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians 2:11, “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”

Spiritual Discernment and Progress

I maintain that what God allows is ultimately for us, the human race, and by us, to learn to discern and decide “what works” (in our dominion over the earth) and that we take all that we have done in the past (which is present in an invisible human collective) and that by and through the indwelling Spirit of Christ within each of us we see what God has allowed as purposeful in moving the human race and the conditions in which we live, forward. Of course, these realizations may be wrong, we can’t prove them, but all things considered from the text, I don’t think so.

So, what does this mean in reality? To me, the reality we might embrace is multi-faceted, but one that honors His victory as His disciples and it includes: The believers accept the fact that all that has existed and come forth from the hands of Man – good and evil, Dark and Light – God has allowed for reasons only He understands. That in the face of it, His Children face the past, present and future with peace, love and understanding, extending this to all of the ebbs and flows of human expression, trusting that the Living God knows what He is doing in what He allows, and That we see all events, ideas and actions presented by others as bringing humanity to a better place as we trust that the Living God is using everything that He allows to move the needle, to swing the pendulum toward His desired ends, which therefore, allows those who choose to walk in faith and love to:

Gently, in the Spirit of Christ, to patiently work with those who do evil. Gently, in the Spirit of Christ, aim to shine His light into human dark without the anger of Man or condemnation present, and to Follow the advice of Paul who said, even back in his day, in Philippians 4:8: GRAPHIC

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

By using this as the new guide for the faith, we, as believers and children of God, assess all things, adding that which is true and of light to our understanding and leaving that which does “not

New Divine Order

Assigning this approach to what I see as the New Divine Order (as opposed to what Genesis, Job, Psalms, and Isaiah referenced as the Divine Counsel) we might consider that in the Victory of Christ, the New Divine Order is composed of who and what hands God placed the control of this earth in from the beginning – us – or humans who inhabit this realm materially and spiritually. This is NOT to ever suggest that Man’s will is superior to God’s, but it is to suggest that God is and has been working in and through the freewill acts and ideas of Man to make this world He so loved better and that spiritual warfare today is against humans present and humans departed.

What I mean by this is that even the spiritual forces at work in the present world, since Satan and his angels and the gods of the former age were destroyed, are the departed souls of human beings, as depicted last month:

(Show that Graphic here please.)

Openness to Ideas and Beliefs

If these realizations have merit and prove true, the statement, GRAPHIC “Everything before Christ has been put under His feet, and that everything after Him God allows,” should, in my estimation, lead to a wide open assessment and investigation into all the contributions Humans have made relative to faith, refusing to automatically reject thought, doctrine or beliefs unless they fail to pass reasonable scrutiny of biblical principles WHILE acknowledging that most offerings stand in need of tweaking.

This mindset among then suggests that we ought to be open to every idea set forth by the Patristic Fathers, the so-called Heretics, the Catholic Church, Orthodoxy, Protestants, Restorationists like Ellen G White, Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, Mary Baker Eddie, and others. All eastern metaphysic insights to abide, all forms of Islam, Judaism, and every other religious ideal that God has allowed. I suggest believers remain open to medical and scientific theory, practices, the advances in psychology, business, and industry and let the Darkness in such practices be weighted and if wanting, abandoned. That, standing on the foundation of our victorious King, all believers who affirm Christ, will “Bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things,” trusting that God does reign over all (in and through His Spirit) and His children are here to merely advance the good fruit of it all through the world.

Traditionally we have ignored all of such views in the faith, but now we accept the very words of Christ when incarnate, who said, John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it wants, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. That believers test all things by the fruit of that spirit (and not by doctrinal certainty) and use it as the litmus test for every item under the sun, retaining whatever stands upon and produces in Man . . . Galatians 5:22-23 “ . . . love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: and (Ephesians 5:9) all goodness and righteousness and truth . . .

Embracing Truth and Progress

I am personally interested in the works and theories of truth that accord with the Spirit that are reflected in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, in studies in evolution, mental illness, industry, cosmology, art, entertainment, musicology, food, farming and agriculture, economics, sociology, engineering, ecology, animal rights, human rights, and whatever else God has allowed in this victorious age to bring about a world that better serves other human beings in their time here.

In my estimation believers should be the first people out of the gates to encourage healthy living, education at the highest levels obtainable, reasonable healthcare, dentistry, ending world hunger, illiteracy, and elevating careers that serve humanity instead of heartless careers built on human greed and indifference. I think sound women’s studies, the protection of children, and the improvement of masculine expressions, and animal husbandry are a must; I think the Spirit has long been calling to us to make the world a better place as God has not only fixed all the Spiritual obstacles but has called us to subdue and have dominion over the earth.

Do we stand on Christ and all He taught? If we don’t, we will fail. But as we do, freely emancipated from the archaic notions of the past, believers will help lead the way into the bright future for humanity which God intended with our first parents. I do not believe God created this world nor us in His image to

The Relationship Between Humanity and the Divine

fail, roil under oppression nor barely subsist. The failure of all who have come before us, from Adam, the Nation, and those who put Christ to death, along with every formulated material religion have all missed the mark that our arche, our primary go-to,” created for us. I think the relationship between He and us includes our governing this dominion better, and the collective growth we experience is captured in the Spirit of Man.

The Role of Yeshuans in World Improvement

With all of this said, we are preparing what we believe is one of the best ways we, as Yeshuans, can better the world. Looking at American Evangelicalism and other institutions of Christ Affirming faiths over the centuries and the things they have focused on, with the good being things like feeding and clothing the poor (which is a good thing and places like the Salvation Army and the Catholics do a pretty good job) and helping stop child abuse, poverty, homelessness and the like.

Challenges and Controversies

But there is also the unfortunate foci Christians have done like political reform and publicly, in Jesus name, resisting of what they deem evils like homosexuality, LGBTQ, abortion, and gay marriage. We believe in these latter ways we can do better and have in place an approach we will reveal in the coming months that will focus in on real corruption, evil and human manipulation – we hope you will tune in to see it unveiled in the months to come. That said,

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Established in 2006, Heart of the Matter is a live call-in show hosted by Shawn McCraney. It began by deconstructing Mormonism through a biblical lens and has since evolved into a broader exploration of personal faith, challenging the systems and doctrines of institutional religion. With thought-provoking topics and open dialogue, HOTM encourages viewers to prioritize their relationship with God over traditions or dogma. Episodes feature Q&A sessions, theological discussions, and deep dives into relevant spiritual issues.

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