Let’s review.
Torture opens the pits of Hell; it serves as a demand the demons come and get involved. You can quibble all you like about what constitutes torture, but if the stuff was being done to you, you’d know what it was. The government which feels it has to torture to win anything has already lost. They have lost the one very most important thing they could ever hope to have, and that is the final measure of God’s grace.
The terms of the Covenant of Noah are relative, in the sense that, to the degree you observe it, to that degree you are blessed. When a nation descends to the level of torture, all bets are off. Just getting there means shedding an awful lot of righteous standing along the way. We have arrived there.
Wholesale slaughter, even with a measure of brutality, is not in itself evil under that Covenant, but it has to be an enemy who provokes your nation. It has to be justified, and not a thinly disguised excuse to take something not yours. Anyone deluded enough to think we have any justice in making war in any part of the Middle East simply prefers fiction to reality — at best. Deluded. Perhaps a few are simply intellectually dishonest, refusing to consider, to venture into the territory of questioning things they have been told. The rest are just evil to the core. Follow the money. It’s all about oil, heroin, military contracts, and Israel. It’s not just brutality, but terrorizing.
The word “terrorist” now officially means simply anyone daring to resist the regime’s policies. Try it sometime. It can be the most utterly patriotic and righteous resistance to the most obvious illegal act, but if you resist the will of any government agent, you will likely be labeled a terrorist somewhere in the process, either directly or by inference.
The real threat to us is Satan’s very real control over our entire nation. Not worried? Okay, how about this: If the US government confiscated every dollar of private wealth from her citizens, and managed to go back in time and get all the rest that had ever been accumulated by private citizens since the founding of this country, it would not be enough to pay the national debt! It cannot possibly be paid! Yet, here we are, borrowing more, by the trillions, every few months. What happens when the available funds in other nations dries up, and no one can buy our debt any more?
It could mean utter repudiation of all debt. Of course, that means debt to the bankers who are also holding some Treasury paper. No, it more likely means devaluation like they have in Zimbabwe. That is, after more efforts to insure there is nothing left to confiscate from us. When? I have no idea, but it will come without warning. I’m not going to pretend I have any sage advice, except to note this is a good time to stock up on stuff you’ll be able to use to stay alive when nobody has any money to buy anything.
Meanwhile, don’t forget: Our national government has intentionally torn down the last hedge of moral protection we had. Creation itself is bound under moral principles, so there will be results in nature. God’s wrath is not pretty, but we collectively have begged for it. I’m not in the position of Abraham to negotiate with God about how many righteous He might find here, so I am only left to weep.
