by T.S. Weidler, American Thinker:
The American identity and national way of life stand on the brink of total disintegration, dependency, and slavery.
The machines of men and demons incrementally ratchet the gears tighter with each passing day, while the people of this nation have steadfastly ignored the warnings and alarms issued by the timeless Scriptures and wisdom of old. There is a great and terrible time of judgment quickly approaching that will overthrow what is left of the American way of life.
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This nation is sound asleep. The shrewd and subtle ways of evil operate like a dimmer switch turned down on hundred-year increments so that no one notices until things are truly dark. We live in these times, crowding into ever smaller islands of light where everyone acts as though it is normal. It is not normal. This is the present circumstance of the United States. We are on the road to perdition. It is wide, well-travelled, and has no speed limit until the destruction at the bottom.
This coming destruction is a form of God’s righteous judgement, and when it comes it will be righteous and much deserved. There is a kind of comfort in knowing that God’s judgment is just. All his works are good, and we ought to praise him, even if it is our own nation that is under judgment. This is the correct posture towards God in this moment and it points us toward our future deliverance as well.
Origins
To trace the roots of this societal collapse would require a long road back. It goes past the feminist revolution that celebrated feminine discontentment and normalized divorce, past the industrial revolution that separated man from his land and family. It goes past the capture of institutions by Marxists and the theology of greed and discontentment. It goes past progressive education over a hundred years ago, past naturalism and Darwinism, past the rise of theological liberalism. It goes past the victory of Washington D.C. over the states, past Hegel, Kant, and the European enlightenment. It goes all the way back. We are a sinful people born as slaves to sin.
The human race is destined to slavery of some sort. We will be slaves to our appetites and indulgences, or we will deny ourselves, submit to God and declare him our lord.
When a people turns from submission to Christ and turns toward self-indulgence, it inevitably becomes enslaved. First the slavery is a soft slavery to appetite and comfort, but it does not take long for tyrants to rise on promises of greater comforts and indulgences. In this way, enslavement to government does not appear as tyranny, but as benevolence and provision. Later, when the governments of men bring war and disaster on their people, their comforts come under threat. At this point the ever-larger government swoops in with a greater power grab and all the fat slaves of comfort rush to bow to their new savior.
In this way, all rejection of God’s lordship inevitably leads to enslavement to men. It is one or the other. The fear of God will keep men humble under his righteous authority, or the fear of man will keep men enslaved under man’s tyrannical authority. America has chosen to trust in the comforts of men rather than God, and it will reap what it sows.
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