Living In the Devil's World

 First off, let me say Happy New Year to my gentle readers.  I have been remiss in posting, it is true, but I have been severely under the weather with the flu.  Yes, I got the flu shot, but it is always a crap shoot.  I am over the worst, but am still easily fatigued.  Well, I hear you thinking, you must get tested to see if it was the dreaded Omicron.  But I ask: "Why?"  What good does it do me to know if it was Omicron or just a stardard flu?  Would I have done anything different?  I don't think so.

There are two articles today, both of them at the American Thinker, both of them sounding a similar theme. The first article is by Dee Chadwell, and is entitled The Devil's World. Chadwell clearly spells out what our purpose is here on Earth. That purpose is to be God's warriors fighting the Devil. It is as if she had read Father Longenecker's book Immortal Combat, which makes the same point, only in a longer format that allows greater explanation.

Chadwell cites a number of problems facing our nation from mass unchecked immigration at our borders, to inflation, education, election integrity and so on. And she notes that all of these seemingly intractable problems have relatively simple solutions. To make matters worse, we know what these solutions are. So, why don't we implement them immediately? Don't we have even the courage of our convictions? Christ noted that if we had faith as small as a mustard seed, we could move mountains. So what does that say about our faith?

And it is here then that Chadwell comes to the point. We are living in the Devil's world:

The answer to that is also simple, but it’s terrifying: this is the devil’s world. He runs it and he wants to run it his way -- the opposite of what is known to work and work well. He wants to one-up God. (Isaiah 14). He’s failing miserably, that’s obvious, but he isn’t going to let that stop him from trying.

You see, when we start running things the way God dictates, Satan is going to fight us with everything he has. Why do you think there was such rampant fraud in the last election? Why is there still such a nonsensical resistance to election integrity? Why are they talking about packing the Supreme Court? Why are they hell-bent on enlarging government and driving up the national debt?

Common-sense solutions are a huge embarrassment to the devil and his minions. They think they’re smarter, better, more nuanced than everyone else, so we can’t have just regular folks fixing problems -- problems they not only have failed to fix, but caused in the first place.

If one follows the news, it seems as if there is a person or a group there to fight against every one of the common sense solutions mentioned by Chadwell. Mostly, these people put up nonsensical "reasons" for "feeling" the way they do. The truth is that these people are in thrall to the Devil. Oh, I know, you don't want to believe it. It feels too...medieval, somehow. One wants to believe that he is above superstitious mumbo jumbo. And so, the Devil accomplishes his goal of making the world believe he doesn't exist.  But he does.

This is where I always end up -- God. We absolutely can’t fix this mess without Him. He is the giver of courage. He is the producer of patience. He is our salvation, both spiritually and nationally. He is absolute truth, so if we follow Him -- through His Son, Jesus Christ -- we will be able to claw our way out of the trust issues that plague our national discourse. If we absorb His Word, we will find the solutions, the guidance we need. That’s what ancient Israel was for -- an example for the rest of the nations.

Things are, after all, essentially binary. That’s why the left so hates that idea. There are only two ways to do things: God’s way or the devil’s way. There’s no middle ground, no just being a “good” person, no reorganizing of society in “reimagined” ways. We have no need to reinvent the wheel -- it was round to begin with. All the Satanic ideas merely add pointed corners. They may plump some egos, but the overall result is always tragic.

We now turn to the other article today at the American Thinker by Andrew W. Coy entitled Men Have Forgotten God. Just as we have been convinced, through our own pride and sense of superiority to belive the Devil does not exist, we have also been led astray to forget God.

"Men have forgotten God". When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was still a young child growing up in Russia/Soviet Union many of the elder population were asked, why is all this calamity falling upon us? Why are the authorities limiting our freedoms and choices? Why are we not allowed our basic human rights? Why are we starving to death? Why are the authorities creating a surveillance police state that monitors our every move? Why are we being sent to the gulags for our disagreement with the authorities? Why are our churches being shuttered? Why is religion forbidden? The answer that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn remembers hearing as a child from the older, more experienced, wiser Russians was that "Men have forgotten God; that's why all of this has happened." The Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist government and rule was allowed to happen and expand. And thus it became more dictatorial, oppressive, and authoritative. All this, according to the elderly Russians, because men had forgotten God.

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When we look for the answers to why have these things gone so wrong so quickly, I suspect we can really find those answers; if we look hard enough and are honest enough. And by the way, it really has not been that quickly. We have raised a generation since the 1960s questioning "Is God Dead?" And now,that generation is in power in the city of Washington. What did we think would then happen? The American experiment was built on four vital columns of steel. They were Faith, Family, Freedom, and the Free-Markets. The American house appears to be crumbling and titling ever so quickly into a disastrous collapse. This is because the four principal pillars are being knocked out from under it. For the constitutional republic to stand, the four basic columns must be reinforced under the house. Starting with Faith. Faith is the cornerstone. For when "Men have forgotten God", the house will undoubtedly crumble. And something else will be built upon the ruins, and this something else will look nothing like America. Just ask Solzhenitsyn, and Washington, and Adams, and...

I urge readers to click on both articles today and see if there might not be the ring of truth in both of them.