We Have No Friends

This is a matter of my convictions.

The world is filled with conflict. Do you recognize the battle lines? They’ve shifted recently. The threat of making vaccines mandatory has created a whole new political war. It looks like Trump just jumped the shark. By backing the vaccines, he’s alienated the majority of his most rabid supporters. And this same war has become the single biggest issue for online censorship.

Other political battles are vying for attention. We should have never been in Afghanistan; it was all about resources, not the needs of the people living there. Were you aware that analysis indicates Afghanistan may be one of the single biggest sources of lithium? That’s what electric car batteries are made of, and it’s what burns so hot, resisting all attempts to extinguish when those cars catch on fire. Yeah, we need more rolling fire bombs electric cars on the road.

Were you aware that the necons haven’t disappeared? They just aren’t making as much noise as before. They are letting the Zionists do all the busy work. Leo Strauss was the founder of the neocons and he said the single greatest issue in their identity was keeping Israel as a dispersed nation, always infiltrating and never assimilating into the nations of the world. He didn’t support the Zionist project. It was all about the victimology leverage. If anyone was the soul of The Cult, Leo Strauss was it. His disciples are still among us in very large numbers. They are going to let the Zionists flame out and use the coming destruction of Modern Israel as yet another cynical ploy to make themselves the premier victims of the world. It will be the new Holocaust.

Meanwhile, the neocons are also letting the secular globalists do a lot of their work, as well. Surely you didn’t think that the World Economic Forum (WEF) and similar elitist groups were actually following their own plans? The people at the apex of all these various Tower of Babel cults are all neocons, though often disguised as something else. Even the “neocon” label is just a mask, but it’s probably the most accurate we have right now. At the same time, the globalists like to imagine that they are playing the neocons off against some other enemies.

And all of them are fielding faux grass roots resistance to one thing or another. Do you know that the major leadership of the antivaxxers are not what they claim to be? This thing is being hijacked as we watch. It’s not that there isn’t a genuine resistance in the population, but that the elitists are working overtime to suck them into something that will make a few people an awful lot of money regardless of the outcome. There are precious few leaders out there willing to sacrifice to resist the evils of Critical Race Theory (CRT), the vaccines and lockdowns, the Green Agenda, etc. They are there, but you won’t hear much about them.

Even churches are getting into the act. When you take the time to consider the official statements of various religious agencies, you’ll discover that many of them are painting Bible verses on top of some distinctly secular political agenda. It’s very hard to find one that hasn’t been hijacked.

Do they speak for you? None of those people speak for me. None of them represents the gospel I’ve been given. Some of them might make a little room for me to ride on the running board of the wagon now and then, but none of them really want to help keep the focus on the gospel. They keep insisting that whatever it is they are doing is the gospel.

We have no dog in any of these fights. Our interests overlap here and there, but nobody is our ally. It’s pretty easy to set them off when we press for something they aren’t already doing. The gospel message has been partitioned off and scattered among a dozen opposing camps. Nobody on this earth represents our interests. So we have to kind of pick and choose the things we use to get anywhere.

Personally, I would really love to get behind the anti-censorship movement online, but I’m pretty sure there’s not much hope in that. There are bits of light peeking through here and there, and things could turn around a bit any day now. But for now, it looks pretty dark. Still, don’t be surprised if I signal any kind of change, because it’s a fluid situation.

You see, it’s only a tool for the gospel. It’s not the thing itself. God isn’t necessarily pushing for any particular outcome in all of these battles, and that includes the online war over censorship. We could pray this through and He might be willing to restore some opportunities for online publication of the gospel message, but it’s not essential to His plans. It’s just something comfortable for me and some other folks. At least, that’s how my convictions run on the issue. So I’m being careful, pulling back my investments of time and resources from something I tend to believe will eventually collapse for me. Barring a word from the Lord, my plans are to de-emphasize the use of the Net.

But keep in mind that not everything you can see coming is locked into place. We have to take the time to contemplate and pray, to sense as best we can in our convictions what we can expect from God’s hand in this time of tribulation. Keep in mind that God’s priorities are exceedingly difficult to assess, but we do have some advantage in seeing what they are not. It’s not about the vaccines, despite what an awful threat that is. It’s not about the Green idolatry, which masks some very important stewardship issues. It’s not about the political entity called “Israel.” It’s not about globalists, though God does have some special ire for them.

It’s all about the gospel, which includes a lot more packaging than most folks are willing to understand. It’s how Christians have discarded the included packaging over the past two millennia that has made it so hard for us now. All that other stuff is a stack of nonsense used by Satan to distract people from the real issue. That’s why I say that the situation is rather variable from day to day on many things, because none of them are germane to God’s stated concerns.

Don’t assume that the Internet is somehow inherently evil, nor particularly beneficial. It’s just a tool. The same goes with all the computer technology that goes with it. We could say that about typewriters, paper, pencils and pens. The vaccines and lockdowns are just tools for oppression in general, a distraction from what really matters. The same with Zionism, the neocon doctrine, globalism, etc. None of that really matters. This life is supposed to be absurd.

But be warned that we have no friends out there, except the few people already pursuing the same thing. I haven’t met very many, but I’m convinced they are out there, quietly doing the work of God. He’s going to show us some of them. And others are simply waiting for the signal to rise to this high calling. Never mind how dark it is out there, we must let our light shine. Even if it’s only a tiny handful, somebody out there needs to see it.