It really is bizarre! How many lies can the world tolerate all at the same time before it completely collapses? We are being overwhelmed from every direction with a veritable Noahic flood of deceptions and delusions, such is the power of the evil one to deceive the willingly self-deceived. Lies about the climate, about energy, about food, about medicine, about crime, about sexuality, about population, etc., etc., ad infinitum! I am growing very weary of this, of hearing nothing but delusions and deceptions from all and sundry. It is wearing me down, it is exhausting in trying to deal with it. However, one thing that is obvious to me, and perhaps also to you, is that all of this is the result of trusting in man and not in God. In fact, God has been booted out of all western cultures at this point and nothing is left but a vacuum rapidly sucking in and filling up with deceptions, with delusions, where once there was at least some remnant of truth, of reality. Authorities the world over are actively suppressing, censoring and deleting the truth wherever it may be found, whether in print, on web sites, in books, in mainstream media, even word of mouth and now, as demonstrated recently in the UK, in our very thoughts, as one can now be convicted of the "crime of thinking a prayer"! I kid you not!
Now we also see the rapidly rising hatred towards all Christians in the western nations. Truthfully, it was always there but was a shameful thing, since the huge success of western civilisation, in spite of its problems, was demonstrably primarily due to Christianity, so the wicked discussed their hatred for Christ and His followers only in private. Now they are completely unashamed of it, and of every other abominable sin, in their accelerating quest to bring down and utterly destroy western civilisation or, at least, what is currently left of it. In many nations, there has been a push for some time to normalise paedophilia, decriminalising those who would and who do abuse children for their own wantonly perverted sexual lusts. All manner of sexual vice, particularly that which destroys procreation, is promoted as good and normal, whereas healthy, maritally-confined sexual relationships between a husband and his wife are being treated with contempt and discouraged by forces working within governments (and by the expression, "a husband and his wife", I mean an adult biological male human and an adult biological female human who have been formally wedded, and it is a very sad reality that I should now have to make that distinction and clarify my words due to their reassigned meanings in this fallen world).
Recently, in Israel, two members of Netanyahu's party, both ultra-orthodox Jews, have put forward legislation to criminalise any attempts by Christians to convert people to Christianity, with penalities of one year or two years in prison depending on whether the potential "convertee" is 18 years of age and older or is younger (a minor), respectively. Even merely mentioning Yeshua (Jesus or any other suitable name), the Christ, specifically, the Christian Messiah, would be considered a crime. Fortunately, Netanyahu is opposed to such insanity (for now) since, as he clearly directly implied by his statements in response to the proposed legislation, if it weren't for the Christians then the Jews would not currently have a homeland. This may well be true because it is, to a great extent, through His people, the Christians, that the Lord worked to rebirth a homeland for the Jews, as prophesied in Isaiah millennia ago. Having heard about this proposed legislation in Israel, I immediately thought about the coming son of perdition, someone that the orthodox Jews will accept as their messiah, fulfilling the Lord's own words...
Joh 5:43 ASV I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
The state of the world really does appear to be so very close to the end of the evil generations. Little wonder that the devil and all the dark powers are having conniptions.
Here, in my own homeland of Australia and my home state of Victoria, the wicked premier of the state and his lapdog party members, along with the support of green ideologues (i.e. communists) introduced legislation some time ago that criminalises praying for people who are suffering from gender dysphoria or any other such problem associated with sexual identity, even if that struggling person asks a Christian for the prayer! In essence, this wicked government has inserted itself, via obviously evil legislation, into the private affairs of individuals. Of course, no Christian worth their salt would deny praying for somebody who genuinely seeks such help but the real problem is that such people seemingly seeking help can at times be working in collusion with authorities to entrap people of good faith. The result is a chilling effect on open Christian practices, even finding its way into churches. This government has done many profoundly wicked things to date, and what I have just mentioned is nowhere near the worst but is quite typical.
I am certain that, wherever you may be living, you, too, will be experiencing the rapid rise of rabid antichristianity. There is little to no opposition to other religions and, where there is opposition, it is generally in decline, which should be a red flag to those who are unbelievers and have been sold nonsense such as the debunked old chestnut, "religion is the cause of all wars", and other such lies. Wars are the result of the spiritual powers of wickedness operating through powerful worldly authorities. Religion is essentially irrelevant but where it opposes those wicked "powers of the air in high places", such powers foment war, and, of course, the opposition comes primarily from Christianity since it is only Christianity that recognises the reality of those evil powers and actively opposes them. It is obvious to the awake and alert that, by "religion", what is really meant is Christianity.
They have tightly shut their eyes, they have completely stopped up their ears, so that they cannot listen, let alone hear, and they cannot look, let alone see, because they were offered the truth but it is offensive to those who have pleasure in unrighteousness, as it exposes the true nature of the evils they practice, the wicked acts in which they have great pleasure. Now, in the darkness of their own creation, they see a lie, they perceive something but it is only strong delusion, so that all the wickedness stored up in their calloused hearts may finally find full expression in the world, thus filling brim-full their cup of sin, that they may be judged and fully condemned, without doubt among any as to their wilfull wickedness, without recourse or any hope of reprieve, and that God will be seen glorious in the perfection of all that He has done to save those unwilling to turn away from the path of death and back onto the path of life. They chose their god, knowingly choosing that which is false, willfully believing a lie, and becoming unrepentant liars. In short, they chose eternal death.
I choose eternal life, with my Lord and Saviour, my King, and even, dare I be so bold and say such a thing, my true friend. More importantly, He chose me. It is better to die on your feet, under the blood of Christ, than to live on your knees under the yoke of man.
Trust God, not man... and again I say, trust God.
