IT'S THE SAME OLD EVIL

Here we are again, having to work against the evil men do in order to feed their egos, remain in power, subjugate and terrorize and keep their wealth all to themselves. Spiritually, there is nothing new about what is happening in our country today. We have a foolish puppet in the WH whose strings are pulled by men with an alt rt, neo-Nazi, white supremacist agenda and whose goals are being met step by step. 

They are on offense and we have to scramble for the defense, as it always is when evil is perpetrated by people against the vulnerable. The puppet and his puppet masters have a base of support, but they are not in the majority. They are in power because not enough people recognized the danger of allowing them to be elected. And the Republicans who control Congress glibly told us that they could control the evil-doers.

Not so much.

So her we are again, just like every time in the history of our nation when we have allowed evil to exist in our nation or in the world so that battles have to be fought against it in order to have peace again. 

Our Founders allowed slavery to remain even when trying to establish a new nation dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone. That led to one of the most horrible wars that devastated the nation. 

But evil was defeated and people in bondage were emancipated.

Evil doesn't give up, though . . . and unless the people who are against it faithfully work to keep it at bay, it insidiously scenes for a way to challenge, terrorize, kill and destroy. 

However, evil needs a host. People who seek to use evil give it a chance to exist and propagate. It will exist here on Earth until the Earth is no more. Because of free will and the desire of God that people make the choice to love instead of to hate and do evil, we will always have to deal with evil and its aftermath.

When Jesus was born, God was bringing about the instrument of the salvation of every person who has ever lived and ever will live, and at Jesus' birth all Creation was redeemed. God was revealed to people when Jesus walked here on Earth, when he taught about what God is really like and how different the ways of the Kingdom of Heaven are. Because Jesus suffered the Passion, was crucified, died and rose again, He defeat of the evils of sin and death brought in a new era.

From the time that Jesus sent His Holy Spirit to abide with people, we have had the power to work against evil and help to be able to reject temptation and win against the spiritual forces of evil.

The only problem is that in our poet-enlightenment world, in our societies seduced by secular humanism, we are no longer aware of the spiritual world and we have come to excuse the evil that men do as if it is okay for them to get away with it because of our dedication to freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. 

Those freedoms are not absolute. They are always tempered by responsibilities that go with them. None of the freedoms exist without qualifications that include that every citizen of our nation has a right first to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which are guaranteed by God, not by instruments of human governments.

Aye . . . there's the rub. The Declaration of Independence was a call to liberty for a group of people who then formed a nation. But in setting out the way the nation would work in the Constitution, they immediately needed to amend it with the Bill of Rights. And over time, some of the provisions in the Bill of Rights have been propagandized and changed from the intent behind the words used by the Founders.

Freedom of Speech is limited to exclude the kind of speech that incites violence based in hate.

The Right to Bear Arms was meant to ensure that people could protect their families and homes, not so that homegrown terrorist militias and sick and evil people could use guns to kill innocent children and others whenever they felt like it. 

The Right to Assemble was meant to make sure that groups of people had a voice and could work together against abuses of power, not so that people who want to terrorize others could do so with impunity.

We are so far off the deep end, and the evil has made inroads step by step. We have allowed them to and even made excuses for them. 

So look where we are now,

The spiritual forces of evil have found enough hosts in people so sick and bent on the use of force to subjugate, terrorize and murder for their own delusional reasons.

We are in trouble and we have our work cut out for us.

What happened in Charlottesville has becomes a wake-up call. But there are near a thousand hate groups operating openly in the US according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And how many more are there hiding in the woods? 

They are uncountable because of the deviousness of evil and those who seek it out, succumb to it and allow it to exist while encouraging it to flourish.

After the election so many of my Republican friends had the wool pulled over their eyes. They said things like, "Oh, come one! Give him a chance," and it doesn't matter that the majority of voters was against him."

And not enough Republicans are denouncing him and the perpetrators of what happened in Charlottesville and other places. The spiritual forces of evil still have hosts -- and sometimes the hosts are impassive or just turning the other way.

That's how evil was allowed to rise and come into power in Nazi Germany and in Russia under Stalin and in Japan. That's how the forces of Communist Russia and Communist China continued to work to influence and take over Korea and Viet Nam. 

And evil working through greed has allowed us to give away our economy and influence in the world to China as Russia has subverted our nation through the greed and collusion with the man who got into the WH partly through their interference and because of the financial hold over him that the goenrnment-controlled banks and the leadership of Russia have over him.

Make not mistake. We are now in the fight of our lives. Evil has once again reared its ugly head and taken power in ways that we were not clever enough to see before the takeover. 

So now we have our work cut out for us and it is not going to be over quickly. As a nation we have rejected God in order to serve the idols of wealth, material possessions and temporal power. We have become disobedient in the same kinds of ways that ancient Israel and then Judah rejected God.

So we are now subject to the consequences and all we can do to make it better is to repent and turn back to the Lord as we explore Him to help us.

Sin and death were already conquered through Jesus, but we have to turn to God and be faithful to Him in order to be saved from the evil that surrounds us.

We have to choose to serve God and trust Him by being obedient and allowing Him to work in us against the evil for the sake of our children and grandchildren, our nation and the world.

We are not alone. Many people of faith will rise to God's call to defeat this evil. We were born for such a time as this. We can count on the Holy Spirit to help us. The battle belongs to the Lord and He always has the victory.

And we have a host of witnesses in Heaven who surround us in Spirit. We can "run this race" that has been presented to us, and in God we will not fail.

As it says in Hebrews 12:1-3 (Phillips version): Surrounded then as we are by these serried ranks of witnesses, let us strip off everything that hinders us, as well as the sin which dogs our feet, and let us run the race that we have to run with patience, our eyes fixed on Jesus the source and the goal of our faith. For He Himself endured a cross and thought nothing of its shame because of the joy He knew would follow His suffering; and He is now seated at the right hand of God’s throne. Think constantly of him enduring all that sinful men could say against him and you will not lose your purpose or your courage."