I notice that there are quite a few folks striving to predict where the current trends are going. The problem is that most of them are quite expert at only a few things, and their analysis is restricted to what they know. Worse, far too many of them insist that their perspective is sufficient to explain just about everything. It’s really quite rare to find experts who can address multiple angles on the same problems.
I’m not going to compete with them; I know better than to try. All I can do is share my convictions. It’s one of the few things I honestly believe I understand.
For example, from way back fifteen years ago, my convictions told me that any American attack on Iran would fail. I had a vision that I thought was not literal, but it included equipment smoking on the battlefield and the dead bodies of US troops. According to reports over the past few weeks, that seems to have been more literal than I expected, especially if you count the actions our military took in relation to that lost weapons officer. The US left a couple of large airplanes and several choppers destroyed on the ground there, but no one wants to talk about any dead bodies.
I’ve learned to trust my convictions because of things like that. I could relate plenty more examples, but most of them are too close to me personally, and you wouldn’t be able to see how accurate they have been. That’s the whole point: Your convictions speak to your situation in service to Christ and His Covenant.
Because precious few people in the US are even aware of the Covenant and what it means, we should expect events to be rather random. God is not working closely with events here because none of them are under His covering. He gets more directly involved when it impinges on His plans, but almost nobody in America is worried about His plans (which are always under the Covenant).
Instead, we have the Devil and his allies working away at keeping folks deceived about almost everything. There are multiple agendas pushed by various forces that may or may not mesh in any way. There is no single human agency with a solid grip on what transpires, no single core conspiracy that rules the rest. All of them are chasing false dreams Satan has sold them and none of them will turn out as promised. Yes, some of them will succeed in some measure, but not as they expect. None of them will get what they are really after.
It’s not necessary for me to understand their plotting. I could never have guessed which president would go to war against Iran, much less when, yet here we are. There’s no way I can estimate how, but I’m quite sure the value of the US dollar will tank, and that seems to be rather close. My convictions keep warning me that I need to ensure I have purchased all the things I really need to make it through hard times, because there isn’t much time left.
My convictions say that whatever happens with the Iran War from here on out won’t matter much. It compares nicely to a poisoned trap; the US has tripped it and the damage is done. There’s no antidote. I suppose there could be a beneficial solution, in theory, but there’s no way our government is going to learn from mistakes. That is particularly true of our two major political parties.
I sense that I need to prepare for political chaos. Not just blow up suddenly at some point, but what turmoil we already have will simply continue to get worse. Again, too many smaller groups chasing conflicting agendas, so that there can be no uniting against a common problem. Both major parties are riven with internal feuds.
The economy will continue to degrade slowly for a while yet. It’s too big and complicated to simply break down all at once. More importantly, various states and regions will do better at one thing or another. There are states that have masked mismanagement under massive financial flows, but that’s going to fade. Some of those states will be lucky they don’t break out into civil warfare, but plenty of states will do okay. Given the current level of economic rot, nobody is going to be fat and sassy, but some regions of the US are in much better shape to face the challenges. The biggest issue is that wealth made from knowledge (Big Tech, for example) and financial management (not just banks) will evaporate while actual production of things people use will save a lot of areas.
A couple of states could fracture, but most will remain as they are now. Somewhere out there will arise one or more issues that divide the states from each other. I’m convinced the US will balkanize into regional powers. I honestly doubt that the US will last longer than Trump’s term in office. My convictions don’t say much about why, or who will get the blame, because it won’t matter. What matters is that the US will decentralize, whether officially or simply in practice.
Yes, I still expect Israel to implode and Dispensationalism will virtually die. There will be an exodus from Big Eva. I still expect Microsoft will seriously step on it and lose an awful lot of customers and revenue. Computer hardware for the consumer market will be difficult to get for a while. I hope your current equipment is pretty good and can last a few years.
But it’s not the end; there will be a form of recovery somewhere on the other side. No details, but my convictions say the worst of our troubles will fade again in a few years. But we still have to get there first. Yes, sometimes I mistake what my convictions can tell me. I might read them wrong, but they have never failed me.
