There’s no tomorrow.
That is, there’s no tomorrow if “tomorrow” means more of today. This seems like a good time to remind my American readers that we are under God’s wrath and it’s going to get worse before it’s over. We are already in a steady decline as a given, the background against which other events will be set. But we should surely expect some jerks and jolts, a few precipitous drops.
I don’t have a word from God on the timing, only one of those gossamer threads of warning that reads in my flesh like tension. A significant number of independent sources are predicting stuff throughout the rest of the year. Some of them claim it could start as early as this weekend. Perhaps all of them are correct in one way or another, in that it may be a whole series of shocks. What makes it a bit unnerving for me is that my spirit vaguely agrees with the broader pessimism.
As Douglas Adams would say, “Don’t panic.” If my teachings of Christian Mysticism mean anything, we are otherworldly in our orientation and rather serene about our human existence in chaos. It’s supposed to be crazy here. When you can absorb that, a bleak future is just another adventure in faith.
Yes, there are things you probably should do, but they must follow your basic calling. For a computer nerd like me, it meant once more turning away from Windows and shifting to OpenSUSE. There might be other reasons for that choice, but I find it a suitable compromise between competing demands. I’m not making a sales pitch; you aren’t supposed to copy my actions unless you have your own good cause. To be honest, it all hinges on communications for me. A computer is just a glorified typewriter with the ability to toss the documents in a non-paper format to the far corners of the globe. For now.
Even that could change, and there are active attempts to slice and dice our current level of access to something more tightly controlled than in Islamic countries. Long term, that would mean my computer is just a typewriter with electronic storage. That’s reason enough for keeping my laptop, but not much else.
But the single most important thing I do is communicate the message of faith. Regardless of the context or circumstances, that’s all I really to have to do. And I keep doing that until I part from this world.
Everything else is just details.
Update: I suppose this piece is about as good as any other to sum up some of the probabilities. It’s long and I recommend the comments on down the page, as well. A quick summary is that the folks running our government at the ground level are being manipulated by the plutocrats to provoke an armed revolt. The Bundy Ranch was a near miss because the Feds didn’t expect the high and heavy response. They thought the militias had been stomped during Clinton’s administration, but here they were and ready to fight. So we can expect them to let the economy collapse and right when it’s really painful they’ll try again and it will be bloodshed.
Meanwhile, look for all the dirty tricks you can imagine and false flag events that will get worse as time goes on.
As always, this is not our fight. Every government on earth is wrong; so what’s new? That has nothing to do with whether any or my readers might have to do something crazy involving weapons and such — on either side — but that such is just shadows of truth. Act according to your convictions, but know this is not where God’s real interest lies. I tend to think the plutocrats are hoping it turns into a quagmire, and that the Feds don’t actually win. That sort of thing makes the whole world more vulnerable to their larger plans. But again, it’s not our fight because our whole mission is getting the message out for the world to see, however much of our world’s attention we can grab. If only for just one moment at a time, we need to show sanity and justice as God revealed it.
