I have been trying to think of what to write and say about all that has happened in recent days. It has been difficult. I think the recent months and especially the past week or so have been the worst I have seen in this country in my lifetime.
What makes it the worst? The terrible disease? No, we have had bad diseases before. Well, what then? The murder of that man in Minneapolis by a police officer? No, although horrible, we have sadly seen that before.
Well, what then?
I think it is the abject failure of those elected to leadership positions in this country to protect the citizens of the country and preserve the basic rights and liberties of the people. I think it is the shocking recognition by all of us that they really weren’t going to do anything to stop the violence, that we have some really terrible governors and mayors who just do not understand some essential things.
We have now seen many such leaders clearly not being able to differentiate good from evil, right from wrong. In the coronavirus we saw many – including the whole national government – overreact and suppress the people, taking away basic rights. Now some governors have moved to restore freedoms while others seem to delight in holding the people down where there is no cause.
And in these past few days we have discovered many of these leaders do not understand the first responsibility of any of them is to protect the citizens and their property. While pretending to be empathetic in a horrible situation, they turned the streets of the cities over to violent, evil, horrible thugs and felons to destroy and beat up and create general mayhem. Stores destroyed. Famous stores and little stores of individuals who worked their lives to have a business. People beaten horribly – men, women, police. People killed. Monuments that mean a lot to the nation defaced – like the Lincoln Memorial and the WWII monument.
Peaceful protests are absolutely fine and represent an expression of the freedoms that come with being an American. Horrible violence is not fine and represents flat out evil being acted out in harm to others.
The failure of leadership by the governors in many states and the mayors in many cities should create shivers down the spines of all citizens. This shows America that we have the wrong people in positions of authority. We should have known that. We do now. Most of the lack of response and understanding of what to do came from liberal governors and mayors who just couldn’t bring themselves to act. Or didn’t have any idea what executive decision-making means. And then the horrible violence which hid under the pretense of legitimate protests was supported by so many of the awful wealthy know-nothing Hollywood entertainers and liberal news media.
And too we cannot fail to note the national government did little either other than to give speeches and offer to send troops if the local leaders requested. Surely there must have been more they could have done.
Surely all law-abiding Americans who know the Lord have seen enough of the news media and the Hollywood entertainers to last a lifetime. We don’t need to see them anymore, do we?
But what is the country to do when its leaders will not enforce its laws, when there is no accountability for violence? (What did the country expect when areas began to release prisoners or not even to hold felons arrested by police who were immediately released by the local magistrates?)
As you and I know, all this fits in the various prophecies for life in the last days before the Lord’s return. The general increase in lawlessness. The falling away from God. Still, it is sickening to live through.
I have not written of other things going on simultaneously that perhaps you should know of. There have been many earthquakes in key places. Just two days ago a fairly strong one in southern California and a very very strong one in northern Chile. In the days preceding, there have been many strong earthquakes, from New Zealand to Idaho. Pretty alarming.
And of course those locusts keep attacking parts of the world.
The countries of the world today live in various states of fear, being locked down by governments that just do not know what to do.
You know the time is near for the Lord’s return. Still, no Antichrist has appeared or been identified. Still, no peace agreement has been signed with Israel that will begin the seven year Tribulation. So there seems to be some time left. Things don’t look good, do they, for the quality of life on earth. The simple answer is no they don’t.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, as always. Pray for God’s mercy for the United States and the world. Pray for wise and skillful believers to be elected to positions of leaders in the states and cities. And pray that the American citizens have now waked up to the dreadful quality of so many of those in “leadership” positions in this country.
June 2020
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