Let there be no mystery: We are the weeds of utopia — it’s us the WEF intends to uproot, burn, and turn to ash.
Why? Because we’re in their way.
AFTER CENTURIES OF manipulation, the Architects of Doom finally have the power and control they believe necessary to remove all impediments to their evil designs and implement their sinister dreams.
If you haven’t figured this out on your own just yet then you’re probably living under a rock somewhere. But heavy boots are approaching in the distance to the sound of grating steel, and no one sheltering-in-place at the moment — whether mentally or physically — will enjoy the luxury of remaining hidden for long.
Great Evil.
IN ORDER TO appreciate the rare occurrence of Great Evil on the human timeline we need to know something of its backstory (this is introductory).
It’s more or less true that given all of the flagrant historical evidence, many would agree that evil exists. We see it on the nightly news. In fact, some believe a better argument can be made for the existence of Evil than for the existence of God.
‘But so what?,’ the secular mindset says, ‘Hasn’t it always been this way? In one way or another, we live with evil every day. No big. If things turn bad I’ll just take a different route home, or move to the country.’
Were it that easy.
Only people who don’t understand the economy of Salvation and the unchanging framework God has placed on the supernatural order of Creation (the natural points to the supernatural) dare to think this way.
Increasingly, many who detach from God believe everything in life comes down to luck and opportunity (supported by good genetics for the special few) with little in the way of variation or underlying consequence — My truth; Whatever works for me; that sort of thing.
Except the Universe doesn’t operate that way. Not for you. Not for me.
For nobody.
The Truth (and rest assured, there is One Truth, beloved, not many) is that God made everything good, and everything good He made He subjected to this same concise rider of expectations (His) and limitations (ours), which, like the miracle of creation itself, bows to Him and not you.
So, if the world looks like nothing more than a giant playground for each of us to have our way with, keep in mind that an aquarium looks the same way to its tiny inhabitants. But that little world is only a safe space as long as someone feeds the critters and keeps the tank clean. Throw that ecosystem out of whack and what have you got?
Dead fishies.
The Evil we’re facing is the outcome of moral collapse.
ON ITS OWN, Evil doesn’t have the freedom to just appear, randomly, like some rowdy gang of bikers at a local roadside dive.
Evil needs our permission.
Life & grace attend the holy faithful and good things blossom within and around them as a testimony to the sunlight of their faith; while death and all things sordid & grimy glom onto a world strip-mined by sin. And it’s the latter that we’re seeing everywhere today. It couldn’t be more obvious. But that’s not the full gist of it, not by a long shot.
The gift of free will, our determination to be one thing or another, and as co-pilot of our destiny (God doesn’t leaves us entirely vulnerable to our own destructive quackery), means we can do pretty much what we want as we want once we make our minds up to do it. There may be certain cultural and moral strictures and taboos and laws and Mom’s wooden spoon to help keep us in relative line (and yes, even guiding angels), but as to the rest of it, once the formation restraints are lifted, we are essentially free to choose the course and outcome of our lives subject to God’s unchanging Cosmic Order (real and supernatural interventions and the actual consequences to the choices we make).
This is good and bad.
The bad part of free will, it bears mentioning, is not because there is anything intrinsically wrong with it (no, not at all), but because our nature carries the spiritual DNA of our first parents, Adam & Eve, we are prone to lean toward the same selfish pride, rebellion, and wickedness that was their sin and our inheritance, imprinted by God on each of us at the moment of conception.
The good part of free will and the reason we exist at all (hint, We exist for the praise of His glory Ephesians 1:11) is for each of us to unpack personally the meaning of Godly Creation relative to the Cosmic Order, hence our need for a Savior here in the land of Exile to turn the festering wound of Adam & Eve’s eternal curse, if you will, into our eternal blessing.
Read that again.
These are vast themes that suggest that we’re each on the hook for more than ourselves, and together populate a larger story that responds to our individual and collective choices, and hence, the spiritual climate we live in ultimately reflects this.
Which is achingly true. And the fallout of human history proves it.
THE THING ABOUT Evil is how preternaturally sly & cagey it is. For the most part, Evil doesn’t want you to know it’s there, but then at another point — at the point of Great Evil — it wants everyone to know it’s there.
That’s the Devil for you.
Like ice cream, the bulk of Evil’s lethal poison is hidden within the sugary confection. If we don’t know, Evil can only really succeed by way of deception and subterfuge (persuasion by temptation), and the resulting harms stemming from demonic infiltration by way of sin are the chief cause behind all human tragedy and suffering in this world.
Having said that, given an informed choice, you would think most people confronted with the reality of evil would thereby reject it for a couple of reasons: First, practically speaking, because doing the bidding of darkness leads eventually to the abyss of self-cancelation according to the Holy Word of God and endless examples around us; and Second, because no one in their right mind would dare risk eternal life for a bit of passing stolen advantage or rebellious misbehavior that would potentially send them to H3ll.
At least you would think so, right?
Which is precisely why informed choice based on the over-arching, undeniable Truth about God and His view on sin and Evil remains constantly present on the one hand and largely obscured from the masses on the other beneath the cover of artificial urgencies swaddled in pretty cultural imperatives that slam us constantly.
FACT: The Devil cannot succeed against those who are redeemed by Jesus Christ. But remove Jesus from the lives and minds of enough people who throw God aside to remake the world in their own image, and this is what you get.
This. Right here. Right now.
Simply put, active sin — sin normalized & weaponized over time — builds on itself, allowing Evil to sink its pinions deep into our lives and Earthly realm, and once there doesn’t give up ground easily.
And this, beloved, is the nature of our current vexation.
(to be continued)
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The Weeds of Utopia_Pt1
by Obsidian Rex, All Rights Reserved, 2023
Thanks for your support, Sally. May God bless all of us to realize where we are, how we got here, and what to do about it!
There's so much to say about this. I'm not prepared to say it all. Not yet. Many already think there is no eternal life, and their own desires are their god. But even some believers can be led in the wrong direction, particularly if we think we know. This is the hard part, and one reason why I don't move quickly when it comes to God's word. Prayer and answer/no answer has to be what leads, and not me/myself. Their is our own anger (or for some, hatred), but God's anger is far greater. We already know the worst hasn't come yet, but that it will. Even when the evil becomes blatantly obvious, it won't sway most of those already caught in it because self is more important. That's sad for a lot of humanity. I believe where we are is at preparation. I see God's hand in the silent farmers; the quiet hunters; the hidden warriors; and the teachers of faith (rather than religion). God was angered enough once to annihilate S&G, and He will do so again, as we're told in Revelation. I hope more can be saved before then. Many more. I'm not sure this world is fixable, and I question myself, my own motives for decisions every day.