Ted Noel has an article that is, in my opinion, must read, at the American Thinker today entitled Why the Left Worships Power? If gentle readers will read the article to the end, they will discover that Noel is drawing upon two books by the late Michael Heiser. I have read The Unseen Realm by Heiser. It is an excellent book that brings to life much that is taught at the seminaries, but that the Pastors don't teach their congregations. Essentially, the God of the Old Testament does not rule alone, but has a whole council of spiritual beings called elohim and sons of God. But they do not partake of the essence of God. Only the unique Son of God, Jesus, has that title. Once you have read Heiser, it brings the entire Old Testament to life. It also explains, not directly because Heiser isn't political, the reason the Left worships power above all.
We left my last essay with a conundrum. “What was my Irish Setter supposed to do when he caught the UPS truck?” Or in political terms, “What do the Democrats want to do with the power they are so ardently seeking to seize?” Even so great a thinker as historian Victor Davis Hanson admits to being a bit puzzled by this.
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The oldest manuscript we have of Deuteronomy 32:8-9, the Dead Sea Scrolls, points out that the division of humanity into warring tribes at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) placed each of those tribes under the authority of individual rebellious elohim, celestial beings created by YHWH, the One True God.* Each of them chose to rebel in order to be, as described by Isaiah 14:13-14, “like the Most High,” on a throne “above the Most High.” In short, they gave up service to their exclusive higher purpose in exchange for a quarrelsome “Me, Me, Me” life.
This is the status of the modern left. Various constructions, such as the post-modern “my truth,” point out that the left has no Pole Star for service. At this point, please forgive me if I leave out your favorite example. There are simply too many. Every example has a single key element. The individual is supreme, and there are no exceptions. Any suggestion that the leftist must submit to any higher authority is met with violent opposition, or, in the face of irresistible enforcement, some form of psychological decompensation. We are all familiar with the leftist protester screaming at the sky.
The Left ultimately does not believe in God. If they did, they would say "Thy will be done," and because their will and God's were aligned, their will would be accomplished. But because they stand in rebellion to the One True God, their plans ultimately fail.
Ultimately, the faux power will fail. As YHWH says in Psalm 82:6-7 (quoted by Jesus in John 10:34), “I said, “You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High. Nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall like any one of the princes.” (Psa 82:6-7 NAS).
Will we be able to reclaim some of those who have fallen into the pit of depravity, or are they so fully committed to the evil elohim that they simply cannot allow themselves to leave the dark side? My crystal ball is cloudy, so for now, we must spare no effort to right the ship of state and, in the words of Herman Cain, “Save the saveable.”
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