It’s a quiet and foggy early morning here in the Ozarks with temperatures low enough to cause what we call an ice fog. When these get heavy enough, they leave one of the most spectacularly beautiful wintry scenes you’ll ever see. The trees, mostly barren by now are left with a fluffy coat of rime along every branch and twig and somehow it looks and feels lighter and whiter than you’d expect. The scene feels accentuated by it’s utter silence – it causes one to reminisce – at least for me it does – imagining past times during which these old trees stood and watchfully grew, of winters of yesteryear posing for now as rest stops for red birds and jays during their endless frolics as their tiny wings slice through a brooding icy silence.
Today’s ice fog doesn’t seem to be a very heavy one, but the heaviness of my heart makes up for it because the folks that run this old world we live in have developed some awful problems and it doesn’t look like they’re going away. It just seems like every single day arrives with a whole new set of problems and they all just keep piling up. We’re in a big old ship that’s headed for some serious rocks, and no one seems to be steering it. It’s going to be a mighty cold wreck when we crash, and no one is trying to prevent it.
As of today, our leaders are determined to start a new war down in Venezuela. They keep spouting some nonsense about “narco-terrorists” – I mean just stop and give that some consideration, just for a second. What is a narco-terrorist? Remember Iraq? They had to come up with an evil-sounding name for that “enemy” and since the Iraq military had been destroyed but there were still many new foes but not in uniform so instead of admitting the US was slaughtering and/or torturing civilians, they started calling them enemy combatants, as if this new designation somehow made it more legal to massacre them. Made it acceptable to torture them in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Folks, we are living in some evil times and the spooky demons behind our government are unimaginably evil.
There will be no peace in this world until Jesus comes back or until the US and Israeli governments are totally neutralized. Personally, I like the former option – just imagine, real justice here on this earth like there has never been since mankind was put in charge. Everyone, and I mean everyone is by now trying to come to ways to cope with the things we’re facing, but hardly anyone is able to discern what is honestly happening – that Satan is in near complete control of all the world’s governments. People – human beings – are being mercilessly slaughtered right out in the open and the whole world stands by and does nothing. If you haven’t concluded yet – Jesus is our only hope!
Those leaders who have sold their souls dare not raise their voice because of their despicable moral failings have set them up for blackmail, or just as bad, they’ve sold out for wealth – wealth that will never fill the void left from their soul’s departure. People like you and me are powerless to stop the incredible evil that has permeated all of the earth. We can but protest in whatever ways the Lord provides and we must. We must speak out against what we’re seeing lest we become viewed as complicit in these great atrocities orchestrated by the demons of hell.
There was a very famous person who made her bones in the media industry who just a few days ago not only expressed support for that now infamous “double tap” strike on hapless survivors of one of the Venezuelan boats, but she said she was disappointed that they were not made to suffer enough before they died! Folks, this kind of stuff ain’t right – not at all, and if any of my readers share her sentiments, I feel sorry for your eternal future. There are so many things wrong with this situation on so many levels that we need to start praying fervently for ourselves, our families, and our nation.
The Almighty God, who created us in His image is not going to stand by a lot longer and watch this inexplicable evil – this monstrous attitude that it’s ok, even fun – to watch people suffer and die. That it’s ok if we have to support governments (including our own) who operate torture prisons and perform the most heinous, despicable, evil acts on captured and helpless individuals! People in one country actually staged protests in defense of prison operators who routinely assault prisoners by sodomizing them with brooms! These were civilian protesters who were appalled and aghast that these demons were threatened with accountability. This world is in some big trouble when God raises His hand against the servants of Satan doing things like that and I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. I’m afraid of the wrath of God that is coming upon the whole world because of this mass stampede to rampant evil.
It’s not ok to kill men on boats just because you came up with an evil-sounding name for them. It’s the epitome of evil to say – on public airways that those guys should have been made to suffer more – that lady should be immediately castigated and disowned by all God-fearing people of this country. That’s absolutely as evil as anything the Nazis did or said, and they’re supposed to be our measuring stick for atrocious behavior. Whatever you do, don’t look past things like this – these words and actions are what are going to bring the wrath of God upon this world! And it ain’t going to be pretty!
A few years ago there was a plane shot down, if my memory isn’t failing too much, I think it was over in Afghanistan. in which a high-ranking CIA guy was killed. I got a mental image of that story in the Bible of the great battle when Michael and the angels fought against, and ultimately cast Satan out of Heaven and onto the earth. In my mind’s eye, that was what happened. A demon fell to earth. Intelligence agencies around the world are Satan’s police departments, they are merchants of falsehoods and I believe if a person goes to work for any of them, he/she has to sell their soul up front, and then they are given control – of people, of governments, of the operations of the whole world, and they have taken control to the extent that Jesus is the only One who will be able to stop them, but He will! That’s why the leaders of the world are out to get Christians, they know Jesus Christ will be their downfall, so the dragon is enraged and has set out to try to destroy the woman (the Church), but take heart, he never will do it. Hence the rage – he knows his time is short.
Indeed, take heart you who follow the Truth – the only thing the enemy can take from us is a little bit of time we might have remaining on this earth, which by now has become so disgusting to live on that they don’t even realize they would actually be doing us a favor. When they take our money or property, they are only taking something that’s temporary – it wasn’t ours in the first place and they won’t be taking it with them where they’re going for sure. That causes Satan even more consternation and rage when we are no longer afraid of him and his demons, he loses the only thing he ever had over us – fear. Jesus said not to fear them [Matthew 10:28]: “
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” and [John 16:33]: “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Be of good cheer. Remember, even though things sometimes look hopeless, if it wasn’t possible to have courage, Jesus wouldn’t have advised us to do so. He didn’t – and doesn’t – waste His Words!
I’m going back outside into the cold fog to watch the bluebirds and meditate on His blessings while we still have them.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
MK