I’m as guilty as the next guy about posting doom and gloom, but not without good reason – things are coming to a screeching halt. At least most of the ways of life we’ve taken for granted over the last, well over the last years of our lives. Things will never go back to being “normal”. Normal for me was how I remember the seventies – graduating from high school and striking out to join the Navy. I was able to go see a good bit of the world, enough to understand that people and places might be far apart on a map, but those people and places aren’t all that different. People generally have the same needs and desires everywhere. Big cities, no matter where they sit are huge sewers for the most part as seen through the eyes of a backwoods East Texas country boy. Big cities are where rich people congregate.

Rich people the world over are typically a bunch of disgruntled, spoiled wastrels who typically inherited their wealth (although there are many who stole it themselves) and would like to make everyone else as miserable as they are, quibbling over whatever pennies might get into the hands of needy folks while at the same time trashing out businesses, buying luxury items they don’t even need trying fruitlessly to elevate their cheerless moods. There was an old Porter Wagoner song eons ago about rich people not ever having a satisfied mind, and it’s so obvious, but then I don’t think I’d be living a very happy life knowing what’s going to befall me (as do those guys) when this life’s over, but hey – it’s their choice. Meanwhile, they construct data centers, invent bionic robot people, engage in lifelong, hopeless efforts to find or invent something that can make them live forever so as to circumvent what’s gonna happen to them when they join Sheldon Adelson and Jacob Rothschild roasting with the demons of hell, all the while doing their utmost to make decent people as miserable as they are.

At the behest of their father Satan, they are compelled to attempt to take control of all the peoples of the world and it’s pre-scripted and prophesied that they will do so over the vast majority, but the part that irks them to no end is that there are still many of us commoners who are Christians and our allegiance is to the real God. There’s nothing, not squat, they can do to upend the believer, up to and including ending our lives. There they are in a catch 22, if they figure out a way to implement their Noahide law project, and they are making considerable progress, then they will be able to summarily execute believers in Christ, which has the net effect of sending us to Paradise to be with our beloved Savior earlier than would have otherwise occurred, so aside from the physical act of ending earthly lives of believers, the damage they will have done is less than minimal. Martyrdom for Christ is after all, the absolute, surest way to guarantee the victim receives an eternal reward of Heaven, so the enemy ironically by his action sends believers on to where they want to go anyway, just faster and with far greater surety. And the rich guy who developed this genius plan in service to Satan will just stand there, I guess, knee-deep in blood and gore trying to figure out whether or not he just punished or rewarded someone, and whatever new malice he can achieve, while the souls of his victims at last go into Paradise, never to worry or regret or experience pain or fear ever again. The believer will go to a place of indescribable joy and peace, so the enemy is effectively just left chasing his tail.

Maybe the wealthy servants of Satan can have some solace in the fact that there will still be great numbers of commoners who have chosen not to follow Christ, so they will still be available to torment and scare with silly things like “total surveillance” and social credit or whatever other nonsense Satan can contrive. Perhaps that will be some consolation, but without ever achieving the most desired satisfaction of robbing believers of their salvation. It cannot happen – not to true followers of Christ. [John 28.29]: “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.“

So cheer up, even in these worst of times here on this old world that is growing more hellish by the day we have something much greater to which we can look forward. The planet is simply beginning to feel the results of abandoning God. There are heat waves and fires consuming some of the worst offenders of the ways of God. These maladies are not unexpected, John was shown they were coming: [Revelation 16:9]: “And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” The very water of the earth is drying up in all the places where it is needed most, while vicious flooding is drowning people elsewhere.

While the wealthy people of the world are still jet-setting to some secretive palace where they can still find their perverse enjoyment, buying pleasure islands and what not, they are sure to still find time to bring catastrophe upon the decent people of the nations. Data centers, flock cameras, mass surveillance, any and everything they can contrive to, as mentioned earlier, but probably not enough, make regular folks as miserable as they are. Fear not, if you choose to be a believer and follow Christ, even though you probably don’t enjoy watching them selling their souls, knowing what’s in store for them, but you do not have to follow their paths. Do not envy the rich, he is in for a horrible eternity – he knows it and that’s why he can never be satisfied, no matter how much earthly gain he accrues, but nevertheless he keeps collecting wealth in the hopes that somehow the power that comes with great wealth will against all odds bring him some perverse satisfaction. They can – and regularly do – buy law enforcement, politicians, even militaries, to enact their heinous agendas which ultimately come down from Satan. We cannot defeat them with violence, our weapon is simple, but immensely more potent – the love of God. When we have the love of God, we have everything, though we have no earthly riches at all. Remember that – we have access to something of greater potency that all the riches of all the wealthy men – the mighty men – in the world, something they can never attain to – eternal life in Jesus Christ.

Times are pretty rough right now and they are going to get much worse before they get better, but trust me, trust the Word of God, they will get better for us who choose to follow Jesus Christ. If you haven’t made the decision to let Jesus guide your life, do it now, lest you find yourself on the same wayward side of things as the evil rich people of whom this post speaks. Do not wait until it’s too late, we common folks are what Jesus refers to as the salt of the earth and He loves us immensely. He is willing, no matter what kind of background we come from, to forgive us for our past mistakes and make His abode with us in our very hearts.

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

MK