What the End of a Civilisation Looks Like: Britain and the West 2010 valid Now

 

Written by Tim Heydon

December 2010

What the End of a Civilisation Looks Like: Britain and the West 2010 It is a truism to say that we live in an increasingly secular society. What those who welcome this present trend do not seem to realise is that it means the end of civilisation as we have known it. And if it were to continue and expand it would ultimately mean the end of any civilisation worthy of the name whatsoever. A Society cannot survive without agreed Standards of Morality Why so? Because a society cannot survive if there are no agreed standards of morality, and there can be no such standards without religion. That is because without religion the universe is meaningless. Our lives have no purpose beyond the animal urges endowed us by our genes which are themselves the mere accidental outcomes of physical laws. In a Meaningless World, No one has the Right to decree Right and Wrong. And so there can be no binding rules of behaviour on anyone, since if there is no absolute right or wrong, who or what is there to bind? And why should anyone behave in a way another wants him or her to behave?  In such a world, if someone says to you, ‘you must behave in such and such a way,’ all one has to do is say, ‘I don’t agree’, because your preference is as good as anyone else’s. Political Correctness: Merely the Preferences of the Left imposed through Power That is or should be the end of it, but of course it isn’t, as we are seeing. Because the secularisers have tried to substitute Political Correctness  for religion as the basis of morality. Since the nihilism on which Political Correctness is based denies that any one morality is superior to another, this means that their imposition of the morality of Political Correctness is invalid. But they choose to ignore that. As Nietzsche foretold, what is left without religion is power and the Politically Correct merely impose their own preferences on the rest of us through the exercise of it. Whatever the secularisers might say about religion, they cannot claim that it is self contradictory in the imposition of morality in the way that Political Correctness is. When there is no Religion and no Right or Wrong. What a Society on the Brink of Destruction Looks Like In the 1930’s  the  pioneering Harvard Sociologist and historian Pitirim Sorokin predicted that values in the West would continue to be undermined, would become more and more influenced by relativistic thinking, would lose their binding power and would be .‘ground to dust’ Distinctions between right and wrong, true and false, beautiful and ugly and positive and negative would more and more disappear in the opaque and chaotic world of crumbling ‘sensate ‘ culture as he termed it. Sorokin’s Chillingly Accurate Prophesy He has been proved absolutely right. Huge numbers of people are increasingly incapable of telling right from wrong including politicians, judges, journalists and even many clergymen. A quick glance at Modern Art (where Lucian Freud for example depicts human beings as soulless mounds of flesh and Frances Bacon saw them as ugly, tortured and almost dissected, staring into the void), modern  music (based round the rhythm of the sex act), modern architecture (which banishes the human and the fitting in favour of deliberately meaningless gimmickry and the celebration of glass, steel and concrete),  the cinema and TV,  ‘all show that the borderline between the beautiful and the ugly, the positive and the negative have been erased’. Becoming more and more materialistic Sorokin also asserted that Man himself in the declining modern world would become more materialistic and less spiritually minded. Science would seek to strip life of its sacred character (think genetic engineering, abortion on demand and ‘designer babies’) and Mankind would become increasingly debased and sensual (Any TV soap and many  town centres  on a Saturday night are  proof of this). Most people would ‘sink deeper into the muck of the sociological sewers’ and would be ‘progressively destructive rather than constructive, representing in their totality a museum of sociological pathology rather than the imperishable values of the Kingdom of God’  (It is hard to disagree with these remarks given the morality -free wastelands of so many of our towns and cities). The ancient place of true religion in society would be replaced by pseudo religions (such as Political Correctness, Environmentalism, all those little Buddhas used as ornaments, the devotion to ‘Yoga,’ the fawning over Islam etc. ) The Disappearance of Personal Honour and of Duty Sorokin also predicted that ’contracts and covenants in our age would lose the remnants of their binding power.’ This would make virtually impossible the proper functioning of representative government. (Do you trust our politicians?) The Rise in  Violence  and the Loss of Respect for the Law With the fragmentation of other values, Sorokin predicted that respect for law and civil order would dramatically decrease. Government would turn to its only remaining weapons; naked force and fraud. There would be an increasing war of all against all (such as we are beginning to see in our inner cities), riots, civil disturbances and brutality would become commonplace. (Is this not true?). The Hollowing out of the Meaning of Words Men once Died for. Words which previously were meaningful such as ‘freedom’ would gradually lose their definition and become mere fiction. (We can see that in our ‘liberal’ ie ‘free’ society in which people are in reality less free than they have been since Cromwell). Our rights would be alienated. Constitutions would be abolished or used as ‘beautiful screens for an unadulterated coercion.’ (The enforcement of EU membership and mass immigration and multiculturalism on this country by its Political Class speaks for itself); The Disintegration of the Family Sorokin also foresaw the attack on the family as an institution and as the fundamental building block of society. The sacredness of the family unit, of husband, wife and children would continue to disintegrate. Genuine difference between marriage and illicit relationships would disappear. (Helped along by the ‘marriage’ of homosexuals). Children would be separated from their parents at an earlier and earlier age (as they are doing through divorce and separation). These trends would continue to accelerate until, he remarks, ‘the family becomes a mere accidental cohabitation for male and female while the home becomes a mere overnight parking place mainly for sex relationships.’ (This state of affairs has already arrived for many). The Prediction of the Overwhelming of Western Civilisation Sorokin  wrote in the 1930’s that Western culture, as a separate entity,  would soon be overwhelmed by a grotesque collage of bits and pieces of every culture on earth (‘enrichment’). Culturally speaking, he thought that our culture would become a bazaar like those of Cairo or Damascus with everything and anything tossed into a muddled heap. The End of Creativity Sorokin though that genuine creative thinking in the crippled remnants of Western Society would wither and die. The Beethovens, Newtons, Rembrandts Shakespeares of our former civilisation would be replaced by mediocrities (Tracy Emin, David Hockney etc)  vulgar showmen, pseudo-thinkers (Foucault , Derrida, the Frankfurt School etc etc) and the like. The End of Rising Living Standards Finally, with the collapse of moral values and ethics and the withering of creativity, Sorokin saw that economic production would eventually decline, and that standards of living would grow worse. With this, security of life and of possessions would fade as would peace of mind and happiness. Violence and criminal activity would grow to terrifying proportions and ever –increasing numbers of people would grow weary from the struggle for existence. (The ultimate decline in living standards Sorokin foretold may or may not be here –watch this space -  but the rise in criminality  certainly is) Sorokin’s truly chilling accuracy as to the way our society has evolved (written some 55-75  years ago let us not forget) demands that we take his ideas seriously.

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Why Wokeism Is A Religion

 Authored by Michael Shellenberger via Substack,

Introducing the Taxonomy of Woke Religion

Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States has failed to take action on racism, climate change, and transphobia. Others have pointed to the war on drugs, the criminalization of homelessness, and mass incarceration as evidence that little has changed in the U.S. over the last 30 years. 

And yet, on each of those issues, the U.S. has made significant progress.

Police killings of African Americans in our 58 largest cities declined from 217 per year in the 1970s to 157 per year in the 2010s. Between 2011 and 2020, carbon emissions declined 14 percent in the U.S., more than in any other nation, while just 300 people died from natural disasters, a more than 90 percent decline over the past century. Public acceptance of trans people is higher than ever. The total US prison and jail population peaked in 2008 and has declined significantly ever since. Just 4 percent of state prisoners, who are 87 percent of the total prison population, are in for nonviolent drug possession; just 14 percent are in for any nonviolent drug offense. And many large cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle have effectively decriminalized public camping by homeless people. 

Progressives respond that these gains obscure broad inequalities, and are under threat. Black Americans are killed at between two to three times the rate of white Americans, according to a Washington Post analysis of police killings between 2015 and 2020. Carbon emissions are once again rising as the U.S. emerges from the covid pandemic, and scientists believe global warming is contributing to extreme weather events. In 2020, Human Rights Campaign found that at least 44 transgender and non-gender conforming people were killed, which is the most since it started tracking fatalities in 2013, and already that number has reached 45 this year. Drug prohibition remains in effect, homeless people are still being arrested, and the U.S. continues to have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world.

But those numbers, too, obscure important realities. There are no racial differences in police killings when accounting for whether or not the suspect was armed or a threat (“justified” vs “unjustified” shooting). While carbon emissions will rise in 2021 there is every reason to believe they will continue to decline in the future, so long as natural gas continues to replace coal, and nuclear plants continue operating. While climate change may be contributing to extreme weather events, neither the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change nor another other scientific body predicts it will outpace rising resilience to cause an increase in deaths from natural disasters. Researchers do not know if trans people are being killed disproportionately in comparison to cis-gender people, if trans homicides are rising, or if trans people are being killed for being trans, rather than for some other reason. Twenty-six states have decriminalized marijuana, and California and Oregon have decriminalized and legalized, respectively, the possession of all drugs. Progressive District Attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other major cities have scaled back prosecutions against people for breaking many laws related to homelessness including public camping, public drug use, and theft.

And yet many Americans would be surprised to learn any of the above information; some would reject it outright as false. Consider that, despite the decline in police killings of African Americans, the share of the public which said police violence is a serious or extremely serious problem rose from 32 to 45 percent between 2015 and 2020. Despite the decline in carbon emissions, 47 percent of the public agreed with the statement, “Carbon emissions have risen in the United States over the last 10 years,” and just 16 percent disagreed. Meanwhile, 46 percent of Americans agree with the statement, “Deaths from natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change” and just 16 percent disagreed, despite the absence of any scientific scenario supporting such fears. And despite the lack of good evidence, mainstream news media widely reported that the killing of trans people is on the rise.

The gulf between reality and perception is alarming for reasons that go beyond the importance of having an informed electorate for a healthy liberal democracy. Distrust of the police appears to have contributed to the nearly 30% rise in homicides after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests last year, both by embolding criminals and causing a pull-back of police. A growing body of research finds that news media coverage of climate change is contributing to rising levels of anxiety and depression among children. And there is good reason to fear that misinformation about the killing of trans and non-gender conforming individuals contributes to anxiety and depression among trans and gender dysphoric youth.

Social Media, NGOs, and the Death of God

Why is that? Why does there exist such a massive divide between perception and reality on so many important issues?

Part of the reason appears to stem from the rise of social media and corresponding changes to news media over the last decade. Social media fuels rising and unwarranted certainty, dogmatism, and intolerance of viewpoint diversity and disconfirmatory information. Social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram reward users for sharing information popular with peers, particularly extreme views, and punish users for expressing unpopular, more moderate, and less emotional opinions. This cycle is self-reinforcing. Audiences seek out views that reinforce their own. Experts seek conclusions, and journalists write stories, which affirm the predispositions of their audiences. It may be for these reasons that much of the news media have failed to inform their audiences that there are no racial differences in police killings, that emissions are declining, and that claims of rising trans killings are unscientific.

Another reason may be due to the influence of well-funded advocacy organizations to shape public perceptions, particularly in combination with social media. Organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign, and Drug Policy Alliance have misled journalists, policymakers, and the public, about police killings, drug policy, and trans killings, often by simply leaving out crucial contextual information. The same has been true for climate activists, including those operating as experts and journalists, who withhold information about declining deaths from natural disasters, the cost of disasters relative to GDP growth, and declining U.S. emissions. 

But neither of these explanations fully captures the religious quality of so much of the progressive discourse on issues relating to race, climate, trans, crime, drugs, homelessness, and the related issue of mental illness. A growing number of liberal, heterodoxical, and conservative thinkers alike use the word “woke” to describe the religiosity of so many progressive causes today. In his new book, Woke Racism, Columbia University linguist John McWhorter argues that Wokeism should, literally, be considered a religion.

As evidence for his argument McWhorter points to commonly held myths, like the debunked claim that the American War of Independence was fought to maintain slavery, or that racial disparities in educational performance are due to racist teachers. He points to Woke religious fervor in seeking to censor, fire, and otherwise punish heretics for holding taboo views. And McWhorter suggests that, because Wokeism meets specific psychological and spiritual needs for meaning, belonging, and status, pointing out its supernatural elements is likely to have little impact among the Woke.

But just because an ideology is dogmatic and self-righteous does not necessarily make it a religion, and so it is fair to ask whether Wokeism is anything more than a new belief system. There is no obviously mythological or supernatural element to Woke ideology, and its adherents rarely, if ever, justify their statements with reference to a god, or higher power. But a deeper look at Wokeism does, indeed, reveal a whole series of mythological and supernatural beliefs, including the idea that white people today are responsible for the racist actions of white people in the past; that climate change risks making humans extinct; and that a person can change their sex by simply identifying as the opposite sex.

Woke Religion: A Taxonomy

While reading McWhorter’s new book, I was surprised to discover many similarities between woke racism and apocalyptic environmentalism, which in Apocalypse Never I describe as a religion. Each offers an original sin as the cause of present-day evils (e.g., slavery, the industrial revolution). Each has guilty devils (e.g., white people, “climate deniers,” etc.) sacred victims (e.g., black people, poor islanders, etc.) and what McWhorter calls “The Elect,” or people self-appointed to crusade against evil (e.g., BLM activists, Greta Thunberg, etc.). And each have a set of taboos (e.g., saying “All lives matter,” criticizing renewables, etc.) and purifying rituals (e.g., kneeling/apologizing, buying carbon offsets, etc).

I also saw parallels between woke racism, apocalyptic environmentalism, and victimology, which in San Fransicko I describe as a religion complete with the metaphysical (essentialist) view that people can be categorized as victims or oppressors, by nature of their identity or experience. 

I reached out to a new friend, Peter Boghossian, a philosopher who recently resigned his post at Portland State University in response to Wokeist repression, and other experts in different Woke movements, and together we constructed a Woke Religion Taxonomy (below). It includes seven issue areas (Racism, Climate Change, Trans, Crime, Mental Illness, Drugs, and Homelessness) covered by Woke Racism, Apocalypse Never, San Fransicko, Peter’s research, and the writings of other critics of Wokeism. And it cuts across ten religious categories (Original Sin, Guilty Devils, Myths, Sacred Victims, The Elect, Supernatural Beliefs, Taboo Facts, Taboo Speech, Purifying Rituals, Purifying Speech). We were surprised by how straightforward it was to fill in each category, and by the fascinating similarities and differences between them. 

We decided to publish the Woke Religion Taxonomy because it was helpful to our own understanding of Wokeism as a religion, and we felt it might help others. The Taxonomy identifies common myths and supernatural beliefs and helps explain why so many people continue to hold them, despite overwhelming evidence that they are false. We are under no illusion that the Taxonomy will reduce the power that Wokeism holds over true believers. But we also believe it will help orient those who are confused by its irrationalism, and are seeking an accessible overview. Finally, we are publishing it because we recognize that we might be wrong, either about matters of fact or classification, and hope it will encourage a healthy discussion and debate. As such, we have published it with the caveat that it is “Version 1.0” with the expectation that we will revise it in the future.

Both Peter and I would like to stress that we have published the Taxonomy in service of the liberal and democratic project of social and environmental progress, which we believe to be under threat from Wokeism. We believe the U.S. is well-positioned to reduce police killings, crime, and carbon emissions; protect the lives and the mental health of trans, non-gender conforming, and cis-gender people; and better treat of the mentally ill and drug addicted. But doing so will require that Wokeism weaken its grip over the American psyche.

As Peter writes, “bigotry and racial discrimination are real and they have no place in society. Yes, there is ongoing racism. Yes, there is ongoing homophobia. Yes, there is ongoing hatred of trans people. These are morally abhorrent and we all need to work together to bring about their end. The woke religion, however, is not the way to stop these moral horrors. It is making our shared problems more difficult to solve.”

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Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment,"Green Book Award winner, and the founder and president of Environmental Progress. He is author of just launched book San Fransicko (Harper Collins) and the best-selling book, Apocalypse Never (Harper Collins June 30, 2020). Subscribe To Michael's substack here

Matthew 24 and Revelation – Fulfilled in AD 70 or Future?

 by Michael Sullivan

The Importance of Eschatology (the study of Bible prophecy) and Introducing This Series

Many Conservative Christians have come to understand that we can’t put a blind trust in many of the scientific or medical “experts” when it comes to climate change, Covid, the lockdowns and the follow-up toxic so-called “vaccines.”  Putting trust in bought off well polished political “experts” has also proven to be worthless at many points in this Nation’s journey.  Clearly the world hasn’t ended every 10-12 years with the “climate crisis” simply being a Communist fear tactic to introduce a carbon tax and that being a means of controlling freedom loving individuals.  When the “climate crisis” did not produce the desired effect mask mandates, Covid lockdowns, and “vaccines” became the means by which the New World Order and opportunistic Democrat Socialists used and continue to use to bankrupt the middle class redistributing the wealth of our great country to corporations and globalist banks – all the while seizing power for themselves.  Becoming an “expert” in these fields and peddling the Globalist lies have made many rich.  For an example Vice President Al Gore has made millions peddling the theory that the world is going to end every 10-12 years because of “climate change” in a continuously changing repeated cycle. Many Conservative Christians get frustrated when they can’t shake their liberal friends and even some Conservative friends from their sheep like trust in these “experts.”  We desperately want them to study and challenge these false paradigms and scams before we lose our country and freedoms to this progressive unconventional attack.       

But how many of these same Christian Conservatives who want to wake the public from putting a blind trust in the above mentioned “experts” then turn right around and put a blind trust in so-called  biblical “prophecy experts” which are on TV, radio, popular internet podcasts, and litter the bookshelves in contemporary Christian bookstores?[1]  As the climate crisis “experts” continue to lose credibility when the world doesn’t end every 10-12 years, so do the biblical “prophecy experts” when, over the last 2,000 years, the repeated prophecies of Armageddon and the rapture continue to go unfulfilled. These “prophecy experts” claim to be “convinced” “based upon the bible and contemporary events” that some plague, natural disaster, evil ruler(s), war, etc. are all evidence that Jesus is coming “soon” in “our lifetimes” and in “our generation”. This is based on how they read and want Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation to be interpreted.  So, it doesn’t surprise me that once again some prominent well intended Christians are claiming that Covid is a plague and the vaccine passports are the “mark of the beast” mentioned in the book of Revelation and thus another fulfillment of the “signs” Jesus gives in Matthew 24 and thus we are the “terminal generation” destined to be “raptured” off the planet or experience the Second Coming.  This as well as other contemporary events such as Israel becoming a nation in 1948, the continual threats of war, earthquakes, etc. are somehow paving the way for Armageddon and the rapture. 

I mean after all some of the vaccine patents have the numbers “666” in them or that since an “eagle” and “dragon” are mentioned in Revelation this is further evidence that America (eagle) and China (dragon) are fulfilling or will be imminently fulfilling these prophetic events.  These are some of the most embarrassing and misguided examples of twisting Scripture I have ever seen.  Some of these “prophecy experts” have realized (like Al Gore) that if you can convince Christians that Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation are teaching the end of the world and “rapture” is imminent for our generation – it can be a very profitable venture indeed.  And just like the “climate change” shell game always has an excuse as to why the world didn’t end 10-12 years ago but will in the next 10-12 years, these “prophecy experts” always come up with new “newspaper” evidence as to why Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation is predicting the rapture and end of the world is coming “soon” in our generation.     

It seems that ignorance on what the Bible teaches of Matthew 24 and Revelation coupled with pride consumes many well-intentioned Christians (as it once did me), to the degree we can’t seem to fathom the idea that we aren’t living in any other time than that of the climax or end of world history.  After all we are just that important.  Therefore, these folks can’t seem to read Matthew 24 or the book of Revelation any other way.  The spirit of studying for oneself or “testing” what the “prophecy experts” teach as a “Berean” is an art and discipline that has been lost – let alone taking the time to take a hermeneutics class.  But that is changing, and we are experiencing a reformation in the area of eschatology (view of Bible prophecy) on many fronts.

As a result of trusting in these so-called “prophecy experts,” the Church as the “sleeping giant” always finds itself behind the eight ball when it comes to developing strategies against evil tyrants and systems.  Why?  Well, the Church (mostly Futurists and lately the public face being Dispensationalism) seems to think the Bible has prophesied everything is supposed to get worse and worse in our generation just before Christ comes to “rapture” us out of this mess.  Thus, these folks are content in merely exposing evil (The New World Order/Global tyranny; medical tyranny, China, etc.) with the expectation this is all a sign of an imminent “rapture” or departure from it.  They have no concept that we will be in this world for a very long time, and we need to create long-term strategies against these Globalist tyrants and their tactics. 

In the coming series of articles, I will walk us through Matthew 24 and show how all the signs, the destruction of the Temple, the end of the [old covenant] age, the great tribulation, abomination of desolation, the gathering of the elect, times of the Gentiles and Christ coming upon the clouds were all fulfilled in Jesus’ contemporary AD 30 – AD 70 “this generation” (Mt. 24:34).  And since John’s version of the Olivet Discourse is the book of Revelation, it too confirms the events written to seven first century churches would be fulfilled “shortly” and “soon” – in anticipating the 3 ½ years (i.e. AD 67 – AD 70) judgment of Jerusalem – the city guilty of crucifying the Lord of Glory (Rev. 1:1; 11:1-8; Rev. 22:6-7, 20).  I will be arguing John’s first century audience (not us) were to use a common cryptogram to identify the “666” character who was Nero Caesar the “sixth king” or Caesar who was alive in John’s time (Rev. 13:18; 17:10-11).  If Christians did not acknowledge Emperor worship (that is confess Nero as the “son of god”) the buying and selling of goods was very difficult if not deadly.  The “666” and “mark of the beast” references have nothing to do with a modern evil ruler or vaccine computer chips / vaccine passports.   

While the New World Order and vaccine passports are wicked their influence is only a modern or secondary application of these texts and not the primary fulfillment which was reached imminently in the first century.  There have always been wicked tyrants throughout history who have wanted to rule the world and suppress Christians through these kinds of tactics and principles.  God raises up aspiring world leaders and tyrannical systems like Pharaoh/Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Rome/Nero, apostate Judaism, etc., so that He might purify a backslidden Church through persecution and demonstrate His power over His enemies when He is finished with them.  As scary as the New World Order and their “Great Reset” / “Build Back Better” / “Operation Lockstep” / “Agenda 2030” is, they can only go as far as God allows them and no further (ex. God restraining Satan in the book of Job, Dan. 4:34-35, etc.).  In the days of Esther God’s people faced the threat of extermination and of course God stepped in and turned the tide by simply causing the King to not sleep and having the book of memorable deeds read to him.  This and establishing Mordecai and Esther in the right places at the right time.  And I’m sure in John’s time the sea beast (Rome) and the land beast (apostate Jews) seemed to be forces too great for the Church ready to devour them, but in the end, God turned them against each other while allowing the Jerusalem Church to flee to Pella from the wrath God poured out upon the land of Palestine in the Roman / Jewish war.    

God has sovereignly allowed the New World Order to be stronger and have more influence than many of us ever imagined.  And since it is not God’s will to take Christians out of the world (Jn. 17:15), we need to be active against this enemy and develop long term strategies.  We must actively look for godly leaders who know their Bible’s and seek God’s face to run for local and national offices.  At this point we need to pray for a President that will truly put “America First” and not Israel, Pfizer or his ego.  Initially I had hoped President Trump was using a tactic “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” when it came to Israel and the vaccine enriching war machine, but I think a more common-sense approach tells us he was played by them and still is.[2]  We need to get back to growing our own food or at the very least network with local Christian farmers.  Stop complaining about corrupt journalists and enter the field yourself with other Christians who are beginning to buy and develop TV news platforms.  We need to buy firearms and form Christian militias as the Bible and our Constitution allows.  Christians once founded Colleges, hospitals and led the way in medical discoveries.  We were inventors forming various industries.  What happened to that spirit?  Clearly Andrew Torba and the Gab staff are committed to developing parallel alternative Christian societies and services to be prepared for what is coming.  Are you preparing and using the gifts God has given you?

We can cripple those who seek to oppress us merely through prayer and following godly principles and common sense.  As this series will prove, no modern leader is the fulfillment of “666,” and a 5 foot 7 Jew floating down on a physical cloud is not going to rapture you off the planet from the mean New World Order and its destructive tactics.  Nut-job “prophecy experts” like John Hagee want a war between Israel and Islam and support modern Israel killing and stealing land because he thinks this will get him “raptured” off the planet “soon.”  He is the perfect “Christian” the Globalist Zionists, and the New World Order are looking for to easily manipulate and mold.  The Globalists have long planned WWIII to be started between Israel and Islam to enrich themselves and gain wealth.  The process makes nations weak financially and dependent upon their banks and currency system.  This was their approach in WWI and WWII and it worked well for them.  I believe WWIII has already begun with the bioweapon and color revolution attack coordinated between foreign enemies such as the Globalists and China which has been further facilitated by domestic enemies such as Gates, Fauci, Obama, Biden, big tech, etc.  When this war gets to a more conventional phase and reaches us what will be your response?  I know what mine is – I wrote an entire book on the subject, Armageddon Deception The Eschatology of Islam and Zionism a Biblical Response.  How are you going to try and de-escalate this war from ever happening if your eschatology wants and needs it to happen so you can be “raptured”?  And if WWIII will happen or is happening, how will you pick up the broken pieces when the “rapture” didn’t take place as you so confidently predicted? 

King Jesus is described as the “Faithful and True Witness” in Revelation who promised to come upon the clouds in the lifetime and generation of those standing next to Him or “soon” in the events of AD 67 – AD 70 (Mt. 10:22-23; Mt. 16:27-28; Mt. 24:34; Rev. 2:16; Rev. 3:11; Rev. 22:7, 20).  Either Jesus is “Lord” and was faithful to keep this promise or He is a “liar” or “lunatic” for making it. Either the NT writers were “led into all truth concerning things to come (that is issues of eschatology)” and inspired when they likewise taught Jesus was “about to come” or was coming “soon,” “quickly,” “in a very little while and will not delay,” (cf. Acts 24:15 YLT; Rms. 13:11-12; Jms. 5:7-9; 1 Pet. 4:5-7; Heb. 10:37; etc.) or the NT really isn’t inspired.  It really is that simple.  I will be defending the position that Christ did come upon the clouds in the first century as God had come upon the clouds in the OT.  When God came upon the clouds in the OT it was symbolic or metaphorical language, and He was seen or understood to have come in judgment by means of using an invading army (ex. the Assyrians or Babylonians).  Following the language of the prophets Jesus predicts the end of the old covenant age (not the end of world history) and Him coming upon the clouds is a judgment that would be seen or realized through Him coming through the Roman armies to judge Jerusalem in the events of AD 67 – AD 70 (Lk. 21:20-32 / Mt. 24:30-34). 

This series is going to be a “red pill” for many, and you will find it makes the most sense of anything you have ever heard when it comes to interpreting Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation.  But for others it will make them VERY angry because it upsets unbiblical traditions and forces one to think.  Many of us are very “comfortable” where we are and don’t like to be challenged outside of our theological or eschatological box and tribe.  And some of you may be put out of a job if you preach this from the pulpit.  And yet many a preacher from the pulpit has told his congregation that they must be willing to lose their jobs to stand up against this Globalist and medical tyranny and trust God to provide.  Are you also willing to lose income (if it comes to that) in order to preach and teach the truth – even if it is not the popular or denominational position to take?  We are indeed living in testing and trying times on many fronts – but if we get on our knees, repent, and seek His face we may have a real Biblical revival/reformation that will strengthen this nation to be greater than it ever has been.  But the storm is coming, and you must prepare yourself in every area because greatness in your personal life, the Church or Nation will not come without severe testing and cost.  This is the cost of freedom and the cost of following King Jesus wherever He may lead.  If we honor His Word, He will restore us and turn back our enemies (Ps. 56:4-13). 

The Great King and His New Covenant Kingdom came in its mature form in AD 70 when the physical, temporal, and typological Old Covenant Kingdom ended — during the Roman Empire and it is everlasting, ever increasing, spiritual / within us, can never be shaken by world powers, and is completely sovereign over all kings and nations of this world who do His biding and can go only as far as He alone determines (Lk. 17:20-37/Lk. 21:27-32; Lk. 1:33; Mt. 21:43-45; Jn. 18:36; Dan. 2; Dan. 4:34-35/Prov. 21:1; Dan. 7:13-14; Isa. 9:6-7; Heb. 12:18-29; Rev. 11:1-15; etc.).  We fear no man or tyrannical system – we only fear the Living and True God – King Jesus.  In part 2 we will begin an exposition (or interpretation using the grammatical / historical method) of Matthew 24 to further support the opening statements and foundation laid thus far in this article.

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[1] Of course, I am not just appealing to folks like Hal Lindsey, John Hagee, Robert Jeffress, etc., but also those who despite their newspaper eschatology are doing a great job in exposing the New World Order and the destructive jabs such as Mike Adams, Alex Jones, Stew Peters, Clay Clark, etc.  Jones seems to see the problem with the pre-trib “rapture” folks and wants to prepare Christians for the conflict with the New World Order but is mistaken in that we will go through some future Great Tribulation and that this somehow involves the New World Order in Matthew 24 and Revelation.  The Tribulation and wrath upon the land of Palestine was an event from AD 67 – AD 70 and thus fulfilled in Jesus’ contemporary generation.  The Preterist position is not only more exegetical than the Futurist post-trib rapture view, but it equips the Church to develop long term strategies against the New World Order – which I believe is what Alex Jones is trying to prepare Christians for.  I humbly recommend Alex read these articles and my new book in order to prepare us to fight the NWO.  I have been watching his shows since Andrew Torba posted his moderated debate between Nick Fuentes and Robert Barnes over U.S. foreign police with Israel.  In my humble opinion Nick won that debate.  As a theologian whose expertise is in eschatology the tell for me that Nick won the debate was twofold.  The first was in Jones question posed to Barnes at minute marker 29.  Barnes was not correct to say modern Christian’s support of Israel is 90-95% for purely political reasons and not their view of Israel and the Bible.  The truth is they give Israel a 90-95% support for what they think Matthew 24 and Revelation teaches about modern Israel and they we must support or bless them because they are allegedly God’s people.  Barnes seems clueless that modern Dispensational “Christianity” has been hijacked by unbiblical Zionism.  The second tell that he lost the debate is that afterward he falsely accused Nick of being “anti-Semitic.”  Alex’s work in exposing the New World Order’s attack on the U.S. is second to none but when he ventures off in newspaper eschatology, Satan, demons, half-breeds of lizard people / aliens I look at me wife and give an “ugh.”  We will cover some of these issues once we get into Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 16:20/Genesis 3:15 and the judgment of Satan, the Watchers and hybrid spirits/demons of Genesis 6.  What exactly are the dark influence outside the gates of the New Jerusalem today that are behind wars and the NWO (Rev. 22:15)?  I hope to give a more Biblical response and exposure of what the Satanic worship of the NWO is and if there is any power behind it.   

[2] I voted for President Trump twice and traveled to DC Dec. 12th and Jan. 6th of 2020 to support him.  While I see Zionism as a blind spot for him, I am not content in complaining and criticizing him as others do on the Internet, but rather I wrote an entire 464 page book (dedicated to him – Armageddon Deception The Eschatology of Islam and Zionism A Biblical Response) with the goal of helping him see why Biblically and historically Israeli and Evangelical Zionism is not Biblical.  

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The West Is Burning

 The West Is Burning

By Michael Foster and Bnonn Tennant

Centuries ago, the walls of Jerusalem were broken down by Nebuchadnezzar, and its gates were burned with fire. When Nehemiah saw it, he wept. He wept because he knew that a city is protected by its walls, and guided by the men who sit in its gates. Jerusalem had neither. She had been reduced to a chaotic ash heap. “Then I said to them, ‘You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach’” (Nehemiah 2:17).

We find ourselves in a similar situation. Western society is burning. The structures that led to her prosperity have been broken down. You see this in many realms, but none so clearly as the state of our men. Like the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah, our men are in “great distress and reproach” (1:3).

We are living in a world of fatherless males who don’t know how to rebuild the walls of society. They have become clueless bastards. They know how to build, explore, and conquer—in video games. They must turn to YouTube to learn how to jumpstart a car, tie a half-windsor knot, and do a push-up. Social skills are even harder for them. They scour the internet to learn how to stand up for themselves, make friends, and talk to women. The knowledge which is normally transmitted from father to son has been lost. They have to rediscover it for themselves.

As if being functional bastards weren’t bad enough, they are being born into a radically unstable cultural situation. Technological and environmental shifts have resulted in men having such low testosterone levels that their grip strength would be weaker than the women of a generation ago.

The ubiquity of porn has led to erectile dysfunction in men not even out of their 20s. Masculinity is shamed. Strong men are vilified as toxic. Those who speak out have their houses destroyed. Fathers are portrayed in mass media as unnecessary buffoons—little better than one of the kids.

Anyone esteeming motherhood as foundational to femininity is canceled. Domestic violence is regarded as an exclusively male sin. No-fault divorce, welfare, and wickedly prejudicial custody laws incentivize women to leave their husbands and take everything they have—and so they do, initiating nearly 80% of all divorces. Male suicide is heading for the skies.

All of this would have seemed absurd just fifty years ago.

Yet here we are. Our culture has become like Jerusalem, burning—and so have our men. More correctly, our men have become like Jerusalem, burning—and so has our culture. The men of the West have become ruined cities, and our real cities, states, and nations have followed. “Like a city that is broken into and without walls Is a man who has no control over his spirit” (Proverbs 25:28).

The world we were born into may not be our fault but it is ours to fix. We are the ones now living in burning Jerusalem, and we are the ones who must rebuild the walls. We are the ones who must overcome the evil patriarchs of our day, whether in the deep state or the media-industrial complex. We are the ones who must refuse to be turned aside to their will by deception and gaslighting, refuse to be numbed by their offers of cheap pleasure, and refuse to be cowed by their intimidation and oppression.

Jerusalem is indeed burning. Many men in the church know it, and they are tired of living in the ash-heap. The conditioning of our culture cannot conquer their masculine nature—they want to fight. But they crave guidance.

When the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, God raised up Nehemiah to rebuild it. But where are the Nehemiahs of our day? Where are the pastors who build with a trowel in one hand, and fight with a sword in the other? Where are the Christian leaders who can rally men with words like this—and mean it? “When I saw their fear, I rose and spoke to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people: ‘Do not be afraid of them; remember the Lord who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your houses’” (Nehemiah 4:14).

The church is not known for such men. And so in the absence of godly Nehemiahs, young men are turning to Absaloms. Someone must help them repair what is broken, and rebuild what has been lost. The clueless bastards are groping for fathers. And so they find Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, pickup artists, and secular men’s rights advocates. They discover that these men listen. These men understand. These men advocate for them and defend them. These men are trying to fight and build. They have a hammer in one hand, and a firearm in the other.

And so these men steal their hearts.

The church is in danger of losing another generation of men. We are in danger of prolonging our time in exile. We need Nehemiahs who will lead men in the work of rebuilding—but they are few. Many leaders in the church won’t even acknowledge that Jerusalem is burning at all. And the ones that do can’t honestly explain why. They are blind guides, prescribing solutions that not only fail to address the core problem, but create more of that problem.

This has created a void.

We must rebuild the walls and reset the gates of society. This must start from within. It must start in our own lives, and then move out to reform our households, and the household of faith. We will therefore focus on the goodness of God’s creation order, how it got all messed up, and how you, as an individual man, can work towards restoration. We want to restore masculine piety: the duties we have to God and neighbor as men. Because as a man goes, so goes his household; as a household goes, so goes the church; and as the church goes, so goes society.

This post was adapted from the book It’s Good to Be a Man available from Canon Press here. 

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