There’s a lot of talk out there these days about the end times, including much apprehension as to how the governments of the world are turning into police states. Especially here in the US, but most of the western nations seem to be circling the drain as far as societal norms being broken down. Even though all of the leaders in the US have solemnly sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, most of them have no idea of what that means. But then, when they have already sold their souls, what else could we expect from them? Swearing that oath to them is only one of the steps they have to go through to get into some position of power or the other.

Invariably people who attain high places, including leadership roles in states and countries become more interested in whatever morsels of authority with which they can govern than keeping their agreed obligations to the proletariat. At this writing, the streets of Los Angeles are burning as surely as the Malibu burned earlier this year. Protests are cropping up in several large cities and people are genuinely ticked off at how the country is being so disgracefully run. No one in middle America stops to consider that their own biases and hatred of the “other” has facilitated this chaos. Trump has turned the ICE monsters loose on every one with brown skin, even American citizens, precisely because of the quite popular notion that Latino people in this country somehow threaten “Americans”. He has taken the liberty to try and change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, his ignorance of the fact that Mexico is as much a part of America as the US making him totally oblivious to the obvious foolishness of doing this to try to insult Mexico. I don’t know about anyone else, but in all of my considerable years on this earth everyone has referred to this body of water as the Gulf of Mexico and I will call it the Gulf of Mexico until my journey here is over, whether or not some racist leader comes along decides to relabel the maps. I can’t get over the abject failure of the pathetic attempt at public bigotry because of a president’s imbedded ignorance of political and social geography. A PRESIDENT, no less. And that same ignorance being so prevalent in the masses of his supporters makes the irony of it go right over their heads. But Kharma works like that.

We will suffer worsening chaos in this country as long as some “leader” or another can garner the support of the masses by making asinine decisions that cater to people’s racist attitudes, and so far this administration has enjoyed overwhelming support by playing to hatred in the hearts of “Americans”. I’ve mentioned before that we are admonished in the Bible not to turn away the alien. [Malichai 3:5] “And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
Against perjurers,
Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.”

In my posts I’ve tried to inculcate, from scripture no less, the notion that this country we call ours does not belong to us. It belongs to God [Psalm 24:1] “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.” He has only allowed us to have stewardship of whatever place we live. Stewardship comes with pre-ordained requirements, those set out by the property Owner, among which in this case is a command not to turn away a stranger, in our case those who seek a better life in “our” nation. When we choose to violate the agreement to which we entered when we “claimed” God’s property, whatever fate we suffer because of our choice is of our own making.

Very few Americans in this country have been harmed in any way by Latino immigrants. The vast majority of them take work that most Americans refuse to do. Many of these same Americans sit around and whine about immigrants, possibly the most persecuted group of people here. People in this country scream to high heaven about border control, about imagined hordes of Hispanic monsters ruining our nation, yet by and large most of these people come here to find work and they have proven to be among the hardest of our workers, taking a pittance of pay, paying FICA taxes as they are deducted from their paychecks like anyone who works in America, but due to their “illegal” status, knowing they will never be allowed to collect that Social Security later in their lives. Yet we scream on, and this gives corrupt leadership all of the support they need to enact practices that will ultimately come back to bite all of us. No matter how much you might think we need draconian laws and actions for whatever reason, when we surrender our rights, we put nasty dents in the Constitution. We will never, short of the same kind of insurrection that won us those rights in the first place, get them back.

I guess what bothers me most about all of this is that the riots in California and elsewhere could have been avoided if our society had not been so brainwashed. For every crime publicized by the blaring media that was committed by an illegal alien, there have been hundreds committed by criminals who are perfectly legal American citizens, but most of those don’t get the press that wrongdoing by the alien gets. People with hatred in their hearts have to hate somebody, so they choose to hate the immigrant – for now, but the media will point out someone else for them to hate tomorrow – and they will oblige.

If we were to undertake the burden of being honest with ourselves, we might find that the real problems in our society begin with our own prejudices. Satan-led leaders know they can use the hatred within the hearts of mankind to lead the masses by the nose – anywhere they choose to take them. That is why it is so important to search our own hearts constantly and make sure our own aims in life are aligned with those taught by Jesus Christ. Yes, I am saying that ALL of our problems, in our lives, in our neighborhood, in our nation, start with our own personal spirit inside us. The problems we face can be traced to the attitudes with which we choose to carry on our journey through this short period of time we are allotted here.

So, the ICE monsters are unleashed on America. At first it seemed they would actually go after bad actors, but in perfect fascist form, they came out using their newfound authority to go after American citizens who protest genocide – who support the Palestinians. And Union Leaders! Was this what the racists who support Trump were concerned about? I don’t think so, but this is what happens when there is public support for racism and bigotry. Give an authoritarian leader the support he needs to persecute people, and that’s what he does – and soon enough he will send his goons for folks whom you did not intend, and then at some point yourself, if you have the audacity to demand your God-given liberty. Liberty which an authoritarian does not recognize – for anyone.

This old hillbilly is with the protesters on this one – ICE needs to go. I’m old enough to remember a time when we didn’t have a Nazi-sounding Department of Homeland Security. As far as I’m concerned, it needs to go too.

These institutions, unfortunately, are probably here to stay, but as fast as this country is coming unwound, it probably won’t be much longer. I’ve been a reader of prophecy for a long time, and I believe the description of the place that gets destroyed in Revelation 18 will be the United States. Says it is destroyed by fire in one hour, and I don’t think anyone could doubt what that means. If my interpretation is true and we get a surprise nuclear attack, we likely don’t have a lot longer to worry about AI or any other technology taking over America and living in computer-controlled society. All I can say is if it does happen, I hope I’m at ground zero, because that’s one event I don’t want to survive.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK