For context, see my recent post on Haggai.
I’m having a Haggai moment here, where the prophetic word from God is fairly concrete, not so esoteric and symbolic. Granted, our nation has no peculiar covenant with God, but stands with all the others under the Law of Noah. That’s a pretty flexible standard, and God seems to offer a sliding scale of compliance. That is, He grants a generous measure of blessings despite our failure to get any part of it very close to His ideal. I’m not going to nit-pick over the details here; America is missing the whole point entirely.
You say you want security and reasonable material progress? You can’t have it on your terms. God will give nations just enough to hang themselves, but we are past that part of the cycle. We are hanging now. You can only have it and keep it on His terms. Those terms are easily discovered, but our Western Civilization is hostile to the very meaning of His revelation, so we aren’t going to get far simply pretending to read them and paying lip service. Our security is gone; we lie prostrate before our enemies, both mundane and spiritual. Twitching as a dying corpse is not the same as one last struggle to defend. Material progress is a fading dream.
The US, particularly the mainstream Christian institutions, have defined God in terms which prevent anyone actually understanding His revelation. They have defined holiness in ways so alien to God’s Word, I could write books about it, and still not cover the basics. I’m still trying to write those books, right now. They’ll be published by Smashwords.
But beyond that is something very painfully obvious to the poor benighted Western intellect: You can’t get what you want by reaching directly for it. You can only harvest the crop after planting seeds which don’t look anything like that crop. You want good things for your children, but you then shove your children into Satan’s mouth. Don’t expect the Devil won’t start chewing. The path to earthly security and prosperity is a path in the Spirit Realm. If all your efforts are aimed at securing and prospering by your logic and reason, you won’t get there. God has revealed His ways, and they are not optional. So you’ll plant and not harvest; you’ll save and lose it all; you’ll eat not be filled; you’ll hide and not feel safe. That’s because you have avoided God’s loving hand, and insist on His wrath.
At this point, saving the nation is not even possible on any level. It’s dead, Jim. We don’t have Haggai’s option of doing something simple like building a Temple of stone. We have to build a Temple in the Spirit Realm, because that’s where God operates these days. You can only save your own life, and maybe not that. But what can be salvaged is very little, and I’m living proof it’s possible. A limited range of His blessings are still within reach, and I’m harvesting the crop of His mercies because I planted the seeds of obedience. You can’t get by with some vague approach to His Laws any more. The very minimum is sincere and earnest seeking to obey the whole of His Laws. The starting place is to study God’s Laws — not the parody popularized by political mouthpieces calling their Anglo-European heritage “God’s will”, but the Laws He revealed within the intellectual heritage of His People. Of course, given His People also left it all behind, I’m hardly surprised no one else is interested much. Still, this is the path for His long-term blessings and the only way you can hope to protect your kids from the demons.
You see, the biggest threat to your children is not poverty, starvation and social instability. Those are symptoms. The biggest threat to your children is your own rejection of God’s truth and His ways for providing a spiritual power to block out the effects of evil in this world. It’s not like the demonic god Molech, to whom you were required to sacrifice your children literally. But if you don’t let Jehovah hold them in His arms alive and lovingly, He won’t protect them from the demons like Molech.
I’m not the gate keeper, and you can easily ignore me and take the path you discern on your own. But as long as you cling to the modern Western lifestyle and intellectual assumptions, the more your misery will rise to overwhelm you and everyone near and dear.
