Cannot Silence the Message

On the one hand, the Internet is overwhelmed with iniquity. It’s hard to avoid defiling yourself by what is being pushed so forcefully at us. This is the primary reason I use adblockers in all my surfing. I’ve mentioned subliminal conditioning in the past, and tried my best to explain how it works. Lately it has shown up in the writing tools most of us use. It’s a pathway for demons to suppress your resistance. It requires a strong heart-led awareness to avoid the conditioning to open up to sin. While not everyone involved is fully aware of it, the whole idea is to silence the power of the gospel flaming inside each of us. But that’s not the only problem.

There is yet another form of silencing at work on the Net. I have no hard evidence to offer on all of it, but I’m seeing a trend in censorship that I never expected.

The early efforts are familiar by now. It’s not enough that the gospel truth has been displaced in public with the dreaded “wokeness” idolatry, but those who oppose that idolatry are being forced off the primary social media carriers. And perhaps you are aware of how various “woke” Internet service providers, along with the background traffic moving providers, have been trying to silence voices they didn’t like. Plus there are plenty of governments blocking unapproved traffic at their borders. It’s been a game of whack-a-mole, an arms race between those governments and their tech savvy citizens slipping past the virtual roadblocks.

Lately, the “woke” folks have been colluding together rather like trade groups, bringing very heavy pressure to bear on those who haven’t bought into the “woke” point of view. It’s getting harder and harder to find hosting and traffic support for anyone who defies the idolatry, never mind those who actually condemn the idols. The safe harbors are being closed.

So far, the mainstream churchianity has been the only resistance. But as we have seen, the churches themselves are being hijacked from within. Did you notice how even Southern Baptists, the traditional bellwether of conservatism, have now significantly compromised with this evil over the past two years at the national level? It’s trickling down into the individual churches already. Church offerings are now being spent in ways that support the “woke” message on the Internet.

Our far more primitive biblical ways are even more threatening to the system.

Every means to expression on the Internet is under attack all at the same time. Apparently there are other ways of crushing dissent, ways I haven’t seen directly, but I’ve seen the effects. I’m not sure I can put it into words, but there’s this dark mass behind yet another major push to subvert every form of human communication on the Net. Very soon it will seem almost impossible. This is part of why I keep expecting this blog to be shut down by outside forces — there’s something big and evil cooking out there. I can smell it, but I can’t see in the fog where the demon kitchen is.

I won’t tell you to get off the Net. That’s not my place. What is my place is to obey my convictions, and that’s where I get the idea that my computer should be reverted back to mostly a writing and printing machine. And if any kind of CME or EMP fries that, I’m already part-way shifted over to using pen/pencil and paper alone. Again, I can offer no timeline. All I know is that it’s on its way.

Perhaps a useful parable is the image of the Roman Roads of the New Testament world. The Internet has been that for us, but now the roads are being closed. It’s not just the surveillance; it’s the road closures that are the big issue now. They are being fenced off with checkpoints all over the place. We’ll have to learn how to take a slower path on the backroads and trails that are now often hard to use because of neglect. It’s time to restore the old paths, and maybe open up some new ones. I’m sure I can’t imagine all the ways God will work in this time of tribulation, but that He is working is never in doubt.

The message may be slowed, but it cannot be stopped.