I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve watched transpire politically over the last month and a half. I questioned the “whys” of what has happened and heard the Lord gently nudge me to reread what I’ve been writing/warning for quite a while. I spoke of the warning sound the Lord showed me from a shofar called a Teruah. It was to bring us clarity and focus to the approaching evil. In September, I warned that we are on a fraught filled road that will bring even more ill will in the next two months. And I said to not become troubled along the way. I ignored my own warnings and looked for a different outcome. I need to listen closer and realize that warning was for me also.
A few weeks ago, I was watching TV and the movie Mississippi Burning came on. Love this movie and it is still so relevant today. I see the same evil hatred toward people of color, sexes, nationality, religion and many other biases that seem to be passed down as if they were the deleterious effects of in-breeding. We see an end result being undesirable genes causing heart disease, genetic disorders, and schizophrenia. Yet we see this displayed in how people treat one another. At the end of the movie, an FBI agent is talking to the lead investigator, Alan Ward, played by Willem DaFoe. He asks why the mayor hanged himself since he wasn’t the main fault of why the evil had happened and said he wasn’t even in the KKK. Agent DaFoe answered and said: “Oh, he’s guilty. Anyone is guilty who watches this happen and pretends it’s not. All of them. Every Governor or Senator who allows hate to fester to gather a few votes. Every college kid who laughed at a racist joke. Everyone who chewed their tongue when they should have spoken up. Mr. Mayor was guilty alright. Just as guilty as the fanatics who pulled the trigger. Maybe we all are.”
The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said, “The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.” And this is where we are today. Again. Every day. Too many sit idly by knowing something is very wrong and knowing we should respond but are content to remain as sheep watching the wolf devour those on the outskirts of the flock hoping they will not penetrate too deeply and endanger us. 2 Thessalonians 5 tells us we should not render evil toward anyone but always pursue what is good for all. Ephesians 5 tells us we are to have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness but rather expose them. Yet I see so many embracing this encroaching evil. Proverbs 31:8-9 tells us we are to open our mouth for those who have no voice. We are to plead the cause of those in need. In fact, Isaiah 58 tells us we are to lift up our voices like a trumpet and expose these transgressions. We are at a place where many are being called to withstand this tidal wave of trouble and wickedness, yet are not only stepping back, but considering the positives of that which is the antithesis of all Jesus taught. We border on a majority of citizens who are comfortable with one who is a felon, liar, traitor, rapist, sexual deviant, cheater – a godless man who has knit a disease filled cloak of Christianity that he wears and is received by so many in the church as one approved of/sent by the Lord. Proverbs 24 asks us if we can say of evil being perpetrated, “Surely we did not know this.” If He who knows our soul is aware of this, will He not render to each man according to his deeds? Something to think about.
James 4:17 says, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” And Romans 12:21 tells us, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” As it says in Ephesians 6, we are encountering rulers of darkness and spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places. And they operate and roam freely in people lusting after power and those that are comfortable being led by that which is unholy. Put on the full armor of God that you may withstand this which we face and will see increase. Pray without ceasing. Blessings.
Stand My Watch 