21 October 2022
One dictionary's definition:
cynicism: believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. the selflessness of others
Notice that there are two different ideas there. The first simply does not expect much. The latter is sneering and hateful. The first one is biblical; the latter is Satanic. God will never permit Satan to create anything. However, the Devil is permitted to twist and pervert what God has made. It really helps if you can remember the difference. There is such a thing as holy cynicism.
Don't get lost here. If you don't understand that Satan is under God's control, then you cannot possibly grasp the dynamics of obeying the Word. Satan's mission is to stand outside the Covenant and call out to those inside the camp of God. He offers everything under the sun and under darkness, whatever it takes to entice some. That "some" turns out to be the majority, but that's another matter. The point is that there is ample precedent in the Ancient Near East for how Satan serves God as the divine Black Hat, the Left Hand of God. Satan makes his living, as it were, from catching and holding for ransom those foolish enough to leave the safety of the Covenant. Notice that the game is to trap the Elect; he already holds everyone who isn't elected for eternal redemption. We have no business questioning God about His plans for all those who aren't Elect.
Your false mythology about fairness is not in the Bible. We have no place to stand in seeking to establish a reference point so as to assess the likely proportions of those who are Elect versus the rest of humanity. All we have is the parabolic description of Jesus that the majority of humanity are on the broad path to Hell, while just a few will ever find the Covenant path. Notice how Jesus avoids saying anything about whether the majority of humanity is able to gain redemption, only that they simply do not.
That's the right place to stand when you consider what's coming at us. In yesterday's post, I pointed out my firm conviction that, within some 25 years or less, most of humanity will be wiped out by catastrophes that come around in 12,000 year cycles. It's rooted in a massive wave form of gravity that emanates from the center of the galaxy, and these waves carry dust. The gravity wave changes polarity on all bodies, while the massive collection of charged dust particles sets off novas (in varying levels) on all the stars this wave passes in the galaxy. The wave of dust is not sharply defined, but gets gradually thicker in the center of the gravity polarity wave. That this wave form size and amplitude is measured in light-years makes it hard for us to picture it. But it's coming around again, has already begun to sweep across our solar system, and the current best guess is that it reaches crescendo, in terms of how it affects life on earth, in about that 20-25 year time frame.
Most of humanity will not survive. Some portion of the natural species of flora and fauna will become extinct. The tectonic plates will shift suddenly, and the climate will pass through a series of catastrophic changes, finally settling into an ice age. Anything resembling civilization will be wiped out, and the surviving humans will be reduced to a stone-aged existence. There are things people can do to prepare for their own personal survival, but the means to produce all those marvelous tools for human survival will be gone. They'll have to start from scratch, and a great deal hinges on whether those who survive can bring with them the accumulated technical knowledge of what we have now.
Yet, regardless of all that, God will still deal with humanity on the basis of the Covenant. Reality will not have changed; the same terms of the Fall will continue to apply. This life will continue to be a prison, an artificial construct of space-time restrictions that obscure the ultimate reality of Eternity.
Meanwhile, we need not surrender to the Satanic brand of cynicism, sneering and hateful to other humans. We know from experience that there remains a thread of civility and kindness among fallen humans. We have all encountered it. Have you noticed how it dominates in areas of low population density, but nearly disappears where humans live in massive numbers in tight quarters? Have you noticed that it rests on some philosophy or mythology about our human experience here? It always rises where the survival of the species is in doubt. It's a hard-wired reaction of human nature. When there are too many of us in one place, because we have seized control over the resources of survival, kindness is obscured by the fierce competition of hedonism.
We can develop the capacity to see these things. We have no power whatsoever to change the course of human behavior at large. It is utterly impossible to build a human culture and civilization that takes into account the true nature of fallen humanity, because it would require someone not fallen to understand it. Well, God can see it clearly. He is the one with the final authority over Creation as a whole, and humanity in particular. And He has explained to us how that works, with covenants and with Satan the appointed master of this fallen existence.
The best thing you can do to prepare the survivors of the coming destruction is to establish divine wisdom in ways that will not be forgotten. You must provoke an awareness of ultimate moral truths. And according to the revelation of Him who is Master of all these things, the single most important way to do that is to learn it and live it. Sure, talk about it if you can, but it's far more important that you simply live it for all to see. Whether or not you survive the catastrophes should not be a major consideration. What really matters is the truth that carries you through however much living you are granted.
This world has no value whatsoever, except as the context in which we seek out Eternity, in which we do our best to reflect the glory of our Creator.
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