American Apocalypse

In case you haven’t noticed, the Police State is here. I suppose a significant number of us living here in the US have seen it coming for a long time. Some part of me knew it way back in high school, I now see in retrospect, but it took a direct attack from the state to wake me. The federal marshals had me kicked out of a church where I was serving as Music Director, shortly before the turn of the millennium. Up until that point, I was consciously active in supporting the US government, generally. They threw me under the bus.

But I’m by no means active in now opposing that government. I was at first, but got over it rather quickly. That’s because I knew in my spirit that God’s hand was at work. What I saw more clearly than anything was that America was doomed. It was past the point of repentance, and the wrath of God was irrevocably set loose on this nation. There was no turning back then, even less so now. That was more than a decade ago, and more recently I warned openly that this was God’s wrath and that political resistance was nothing more than supporting the system God intended to destroy. So political activism in opposition to government policy is, in that sense, a sin against God. We have asked for this, and God has granted it.

That includes all the heart-wrenching stories of innocent folks murdered by government thugs. Frankly, not all the names you see in the news qualify as innocent, even in a fairly generous sense of ordinary American justice. However, even the guilty are supposed to get a better deal than what some have gotten.

What we see are the death throes of a nation that has served as the pinnacle of Western Civilization, and as the climax of the evil it represents. I maintain the position that America was evil in her birth, arising in rejection of God’s ancient truth.

As I’ve noted in the past, it may not touch you very much. All the more so if God has use for you through, and on the other side of, this mess. If you repent and renounce Western Civilization, you have a good chance of discerning the moral justice at work so as to avoid the worst of it.

And none of this is news to my regular readers.

However, I wanted to note my perception that this Internet thing has been strongly affected by all this, and much worse is coming. It’s not merely the Snowden revelations about government spying and hoovering up all our personal data, but a rash of oppressive controls most of us would not have imagined. This is something I see in my heart, confirmed with daily reports in the tech news that I read, so I can’t predict specifics. Rather, I warn you that the flavor of things will shift.

You are perhaps aware that most of the Internet is supported by advertising. There’s a lot of “free” stuff that comes at the cost of your eyeballs and attention, not to mention a certain amount of your computer power to process the crap for your browser. With that comes a higher price in security threats, because there is no discernible difference between criminal attacks and government snooping. And advertisers are now alert to ways they can get in on the same game. You can get all the free content for the price of selling your soul, as it were. This is going to turn so ugly we just cannot picture it.

Some of you will simply pay the price and keep on trucking — for awhile, at least. It really depends on your level of tolerance. Mine is not the sensitivity of the Internet activist, but the servant of God who wants to get the message out. My primary need is writing, and my hands don’t tolerate quill and paper too well any more. So I’ll always need that electronic keyboard. Using that same device to get the message to others makes it better than a typewriter. That’s the primary reason I even keep access to the Net. But some of the current “free” stuff is getting too expensive for me. At some point, the message is overwhelmed and no one hears it any more. I’m reaching that point with Facebook, for instance. I suppose by the first of the year I’ll be out of there.

I’m hoping that this blog isn’t so badly affected too soon. I don’t hear from more than 1-2% of you, but that’s better than nothing. Some of what I’ve already heard includes grousing about some of the adverts that show up at the bottom of my posts, and there’s not a thing I can do about them. I’m using a free account here and WordPress doesn’t value my content enough for its own sake to treat my readers any better. At any rate, I’m hoping we get some warning if things start to go crazy here.

I suppose you would guess that all of this signals other kinds of changes in our world. There will always be unintended consequences of just about every policy change. Some of the Internet stuff is only threatened, with no real intent to carry through. Other things are a more serious, if more subtle, threat and will await the inevitable hackers’ responses. The virtual freedom fighters have the advantage right now, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy for us to use.

All I can say right now is pray and remain sensitive to your hearts. Stay nimble and don’t over-commit to anything that is so easily taken from us. God will preserve what His message requires, but it demands we be ready for just about anything if we hope to stay involved in divine business.