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ClearMiddle's avatar

That's an interesting take on current events, as I have come to expect from you. You won't be accused of parroting what others are saying, not by me anyway.

I see these events rolling by as a jumble. Their structure -- their relationships -- is unclear to me, but rather what is coming to mind more and more are biblical themes around suffering and martyrdom. Sound familiar?

Another theme, more difficult to discern from scripture, is of a last-days 1700 year old institutional church tradition being pummeled now through intense spiritual warfare that it can't see, on the verge of dying as it sinks deeply into the cultural mire.

Contemporary worship, even when not devoid of the true gospel, is looking more and more like pagan ritual and entrancement, while many of the people --whatever worship style they are drawn to -- are being sickened and killed, literally, blind to the causes and receiving no warnings about it from their leaders (who are suffering the same way). The first four seals, advancing toward the fifth?

Scripture contains guidance and instruction concerning what to do when confronted with such things, and it is not "avoid such as these". In the secular culture maybe, depending, but not in the dying church. The institutional church, however, lacks the enabling traditions for teaching it, much as it lacks sufficient tradition for teaching about what follows "salvation", the difficult path and its suffering. For that matter, the traditional lecture-style forms of teaching and the rigid order of worship are not well suited to sharing what needs to be shared.

Truth does come through -- the traditions cannot stifle it -- but they do serve to impede and confuse.

Meanwhile, these events that you address here offer a HUGE distraction, rich with opportunities to pursue false messiahs, sorcery and idolatry. I expect I will have more to say about specific scriptural details that are not widely understood, but I'm in a rather intense learning curve right now, applying what I have learned, both to my own situation and to working with and praying for a few friends who are under attack and being stomped hard.

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I appreciate your perspective on current events, as it is clear the devil loves nothing more than a good red herring, and some are sitting so obviously in front of your nose that it is hard to see until someone else points it out. Many of these things, like the sudden flip to tolerance of "alt-right" talking points that were once the pinnacle of taboo, to the sudden rapid rise in popularity of that Idaho nationalist pastor you mention... all things that had been weighing in my mind as suspicious, but not connecting the dots as you had. Unfortunately it does make a lot of sense for this to be the future moves of the playbook.

Lots of turning away to both overt & subtle embraces of paganism, even within church settings. Now the mythos has been so bastardized by pop culture that christianity has been the historical scapegoat of forcing ALL the innocent, peaceful "in tune with nature" pagans to convert and "destroy their culture"... it is only a matter of time to frameshift this forward to the modern day christians being what is holding back the "rich" culture invoked by crystal-toting chakra-toting runic tattooed neopaganism. Capitalism? Invented by the christians to destroy collective wealth of the masses. Anti-environmentalism? Invented by the christians to rœpe the earth of its resources. Misogyny & racism? Did you not know that the pagans believed in equality before the christians came along? My assassin's creed video game said so.

All this to be led by a couple select judas goats with many of their emboldened followers really believing that they're running a pro-christian nationalist victory lap... when they are really running straight to the pyre to become the first sacrifices as penance for Christianity bringing about all this misfortune into the world.

Is this too dramatic a prediction? Maybe. But with the coincidental timing of public distress reaching a point of soon calling for heads in payment for the collapse of the West, and The Epstein Show being put on to display that those responsible have successfully reached Untouchable status, it seems unnervingly likely that the growing bloodthirst will soon be redirected

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