Lent Week 5: Wednesday | Matthew 25 (14-30)

To Duffy and the Church in North America: Peace and Grace from Brother Jonathan in Albany during this 8-10 AM Lenten Watch of the Fifth Week. Today, in our retreat through Matthew, we look with urgency into the eschatological mirror that N.T. Wright offers regarding the Parable of the Talents (25:14-30). While the text had a devastating application to 1st-century Israel, the Vanguard must peer into its reflection as the "latecomers" standing at the final edge of the Piscean Age. We are not merely waiting for a passive rapture from above; we are under inspection regarding how we have managed the staggering capital of the Planetary Trust—the soil, the atmosphere, and the lives of the Little Ones—while the Master has been away.

During the critical Nineveh Protocol from 2020 to 2060—humanity’s forty-year window for radical vegan eco-repentance—the Aquarian Talent given to the Church is the very biosphere and the tools of global cooperation. To be the first two servants is to trade this capital by investing unilaterally in regenerative soil, decentralized plant-based food grids, and the architecture of a genuine World Federation (as visualized on the left of today's watercolor). Conversely, the wicked, lazy servant is the institution that allows the MIT Limits to Growth models to freeze them in fear, leading them to bury the solution in a hole of continued excessive fossil fuel dependence, military overmatch, carnist expansion, and nationalistic stagnation (the parched earth on the right). We are called to be courageous investors in a world free from nuclear HEU brinkmanship and Abrahamic terrorism, not to simply hold the line on a dying Piscean status quo until the Master’s house is left to us desolate.

Conceived, directed, and edited by Jonathan. Written and illustrated by Gemini.