31 July 2023
We have a large body of literature, TV shows, roll-playing games and films depicting dystopian futures. Because of how they portray it, most Americans carry around an expectation that we are heading for some single event that will push us over into an apocalypse. That's not how it works in real life.
I'm not expecting a single point in time when it will all come down at once. Indeed, I rather expect that many of us will experience a long, slow muddling into some kind of quagmire. You may have trouble seeing the boundaries, as certain aspects of our human existence simply get slowly worse.
Yet, there will be plenty of moments when the actors involved will have to announce decisions that represent sudden shifts. Some of those events shouldn't be too hard to guess. When banks or certain businesses shut down, the process requires doing it all at once. Some government decisions also require that kind of dramatic change.
However, a great many sorrows come in increments. We've already seen plenty of that. Bit by bit, common liberties have been taken from American citizens. There have always been plausible excuses, of course. In order for TSA to come into existence, there had to be some dramatic event like 9/11 to justify it. The COVID restrictions are another example.
There will be more like that. Each time, a whole collection of small changes will be forced upon us. Even if there are rollbacks, the boundary has been crossed. It will happen again sooner or later. And if the resistance is too specific, then look for the same restrictions to come back with another kind of crisis.
But the changes our oppressors want to enforce are huge, and so it requires this long charade of tragedies to leverage this shifting of power and wealth into their hands. Also, keep in mind that this all takes place at multiple levels. Way up at the top of the chain, the plan is to destroy the West completely. Not just the civilization and culture, but they intend to wipe out most of the population. At lower levels closer to us, the people in charge act as if they simply don't believe that deeper agenda exists. They don't seem to realize that they are just tools, believing in false promises for their own future welfare.
To the degree the place where you live is isolated from the power centers, you may experience a lot less trauma. There will always be some portion of us out on the margins of this oppression; our lives will change far less because local government isn't that enthusiastic.
But despite all this, there will be points along this ugly path where big things will suddenly break visibly. That's just the nature of long-term destruction. But the powers that be have been working to distract us from seeing their intentions until it's too late.
Aside from those dystopian fictional visions, the powers that be have long sponsored a large collection of false prophets. We've been told over and over by various hucksters that disaster is just about to strike. They keep up the rhetoric and hype, always waving stuff in our faces that don't represent any real danger. More to the point, they mix in the real dangers with plenty of nonsense so that we can't tell the difference.
After awhile, we become cynical and stop paying attention at all. We come to the place where we believe nothing big is going to happen. Worse, some of the big stuff that has already happen suddenly seems small and insignificant. That's part of the plan.
Should I remind you that this is the first time in human history when oppression was not forced upon the oppressed? Instead, we are voluntarily walking into it. The evil people think they are so clever, but it's just that westerners are so stupid. We are the army enforcing our own enslavement.
I wrote yesterday that there isn't much we can do now toward preparations for a difficult future. We've already had a rough ride; that more is coming should be obvious. That wasn't really my point. I wasn't simply noting one more increment along the path on our level, but that the real changes were taking place in the spiritual realm. God is at work, and so are the various members of the divine council.
I've said this before: God is quite willing to reveal His hand to those who serve Him. On one level, anyone who pays attention to their convictions can sense some spiritual events. On the other hand, the real deal is for those who walk within His Covenant boundaries. The Covenant exposes spiritual events in Heaven, in the same way that it restricts what those forces can do with us. Covenant people hold a special status in Heaven.
Your prayers for the Covenant message and messengers are sufficient for the Lord to treat us as a covenant community. He's going to talk to us about what He's doing. He may not tell us much about earthly events, but He does give us enough to go on so that we can act for His glory against the background of those events.
Thus, I say again: If you have been obedient to your own convictions, and you have been praying with me and the other readers of this blog, then you should recognize that there's not a lot of preparation time left for the next phase. It's not as if I could lay out for you a concrete scenario; that's not my mission and calling, and you don't need it. What you need is encouragement to keep your eyes on the Lord. Yes, sorrows are coming; the saints of God will tribulate. That's our native element in this life, but there's a divine agenda behind it all.
If the Lord has placed you close to centers of power, then you already have your own concerns. For those of us out in flyover country, our biggest immediate problem is a rise in crime. That has a spiritual cause; it's not just a matter of changes in the human condition. You could say that demons have been let loose on the American population, and they are provoking a form of madness that leads to preposterous behavior.
But this is against the background of ongoing conflicts on the human level. We are at high risk of going to war with Russia first, but tensions with China are also rising. It won't be one or the other; those two will join forces against western governments. We could see mobilization, including conscription. That conflict is already under way in background issues like trade and currency exchange, and our economy is weakening. And then there's a genuine invasion across our southern border that's creating a consuming presence in this country that will help destroy the economy.
There are regulatory proposals that will further destroy the economy, not to mention make our lives generally more miserable than they already are. Our own government is engaging in ongoing biological warfare, and the big banking moguls are plotting to take all our money. Some of this stuff is going to take awhile, but most of it will come in increments of big changes. And the madness of demons will color all of this as it happens.
Yes, "it" is coming, but not as we have been led to expect. Nor will it be all at once. What really matters is that you make yourself ready to manifest the Lord's glory regardless of the situation. Would it surprise you to know that in the midst of all this sorrow, there will be bright moments of hope, even on just a human level? That's simply a part of how God and His council do things. Some of it will be deception, but some of it will be genuine good.
I can't wash from your minds the dystopian visions of popular entertainment. What I can do is share with you what the Lord says through my convictions. If some of that rings a bell with your convictions, then let's pray and walk together as a covenant community. We have a mission in the midst of the sorrow and chaos.
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