I’ll go with this. I think it summarizes nicely what I believe I know about the current situation.
I still believe the current ruling regime in the US stole the election, that Trump won the election, and I don’t even want him to return to office. I believe that the dispute over this is not finished, regardless how desperately the alleged winners want to squelch it. I suspect that this thing will arise again this summer or fall, and that it could well be the source of armed conflict, or maybe even the beginnings of secession.
You can’t dissuade me from the idea that Microsoft will do something terribly foolish with the Windows operating system, and that it will create a huge mess. I foresee consumers and businesses resisting the migration of their computers to anything else, despite the problems. It won’t be the end of Microsoft, but it will be a miscalculation that will cost them dearly.
I am still convinced that Israel will also do something stupid, something so objectionable that there will be an exodus from Zionist Christian institutions. The leadership will generally refuse to admit they were wrong, and people will simply not stick around. A lot of American evangelical organizations will collapse. Naturally, this will also create a political furor, but I have no vision about how that will turn out. Indeed, I rather think it won’t make that much difference politically, simply because the chaos will be significant for other reasons.
Yes, I’m still praying for a right-wing backlash, and for secession leaders to rise in many of the states. I get the vague sense that a lot of this will happen during the current calendar year, so that means the next six months will be pretty rough.
By no means would I say these things as a word from God. The nature of conviction is not exactly predictive, but is meant to help you see the moral threads of human existence. You should have a firm image of what ought to be from your own perspective, to guide your mission and calling. Christians have long lost the ability to handle these things properly. It always feels to me like I’m pioneering. It’s a good place to live, but nobody’s been there in such a long time, it’s hard to find a path.
Maybe I can contribute in some way to rediscovering the lost heritage of faith, because I surely have not found much along these lines in the existing institutions.
I am still convinced that Israel will also do something stupid, something so objectionable that there will be an exodus from Zionist Christian institutions. The leadership will generally refuse to admit they were wrong, and people will simply not stick around. A lot of American evangelical organizations will collapse.
I struggle to imagine what profoundly reprehensible thing Israel could do that would turn brainwashed evangelicals away from them. I’m not doubting your prediction at all, I’m simply having difficulty envisioning what Israel would do that is sufficiently repugnant to today’s churchian evangelicals to break the spell. As things now stand, if the Knesset were to vote to crucify Jesus a second time upon His return, American evangelicals would go along with it, however reluctantly, because doing anything that goes against Israel is the ultimate blasphemy – or so they’ve been irreversibly indoctrinated into believing. I’m actually more inclined to believe that a massive messianic movement among Israeli Jews would be more likely to enrage and alienate evangelicals than anything else.
The only concrete support for this I have at the moment is that the obsession with Israel seems to be a Boomer thing. Polling indicates younger generations aren’t that strong in favoring Israel.