Another trip around the metaphorical wilderness mountain over the past few months since my last post has taught me what I already knew: the world is under the power of the devil. The (biblical) scriptural truth confirms this: “We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one.” 1 John 5: 19. Nevertheless, there seems to be some considerable confusion about this in that the children of God are seemingly recognised by the world as children of the devil, and those in control of the world are obviously totally confident in their relationship with God, even though it seems that their hearts, among other things, are far from the scriptural truth of how they should behave. How strange. So in an attempt to explain why God has such a bad reputation and why those who say they love him really need to think again, let us continue our discussion on this basis.

I had the misfortune of spending a couple of hours whilst spectating during a recent cricket match overhearing a public “servant”, some justice or legal associate, telling his pal confidently how he’d managed to use his influence in the justice system regarding some helpless individual (presumably a middle-class, white, male) who has been denied any form of legal council whilst the courts adjudicated in his absence that he was “essentially guilty” and in light of the fact that they couldn’t bring him to “justice” (some technicality of not being able to employ an unbiased jury), he concluded, that the courts were “working fantastically well to ensure that justice is done.” I was amazed. But it seems that the world is infected with an insistence from the “ruling classes” that they can say and do whatever they want and whatever they do say or do is justified entirely by the positions they hold in the world, and not in any way governed by the rule of law or justice that they claim to serve. It happens all the time, in every country across the globe, to one degree or another.

So in effect I’m saying that these people, by insisting on doing things in this way, are acting not in the interests of justice but are actively participating in injustice. Any “justice” that results from their dispensations appears to be entirely coincidental, because if something doesn’t suit their pre-conceived bias of what is right or wrong, it just doesn’t get done. Criminals seem to remain at large across the globe whilst the “authorities” seek to hunt and destroy those they hate. If “anyone who hates their brother is really a murderer at heart, and we know that murders do not have eternal life within them,” (1 John 5:19) can anyone else see my reservations that these so-called “public servants” are not really serving the public’s interests at all, but rather their own interests to everyone’s cost (and shame).

“Ah,” you might say, but you are guilty of your sin! So was Rahab the prostitute, but it didn’t prevent her from being included in the heroes of faith hall of fame in the book of Hebrews in the bible (chapter 11). And besides, my “guilt” has been absolved by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on account of my confession to him. And furthermore, it’s none of your business how “guilty” I am (or how guilty you think I am!) – “Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If you criticise and judge each other, then you are criticising and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you. God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbour?” James 4: 11, 12. If nothing else, can you see why I might think that some in authority aren’t 100% behind God’s solution of redemption for the world?!! And whatever else you think, I can assure you that they haven’t heard my confession of my sin with anything like the accuracy and “expertise” which they expect everyone to believe they possess. I’m sorry to have to say that it seems they’ve been quite deceived by this issue. Not that anyone apart from me could bend or twist the truth, of course (because the inner heart and mind of man are not exceedingly deep, perhaps?) – hence, we know his name……not the best advertisement for “making insight a beloved member of the family,” to say the least!

It is certainly a matter of understanding, but also of spiritual sickness and blindness, which pervades the entire human race and is quite obviously amplified by position and privilege within the world system. Like blind people following blind guides, the nations of the world are successively falling into the allegorical ditches, the situation in the middle east being the most salient example of this. Whilst the Ukraine digs in against Russia’s lines of offence, which we should be carefully planning, preparing, and designing a solution for what is certainly going to evolve into a much most serious conflict, we’re watching on as the one great hope of the west’s deliverance, at least militarily, is merrily throwing billions of dollars’ worth of munitions into Iran in a futile attempt to disarm their nuclear capability, which has clearly already been exported into Russia for safe-keeping.

And what does God think about all this? Does anyone really know? All we have as a basis for comparison is, after all, the interpretation of his generalised will via his prophetic servants as revealed in the bible and a certain number of other primary, fundamental mythological texts and treatise which point to archetypal world redeemers and boon-givers and what it takes to become such, and the related consequences of these figures, who inhabit a place in the axis-mundi of God’s creation. Even in terms of using the bible for an estimation of God’s position at this current time is fraught with danger. The Torah was, after all, written by an Israelite, and forms the basis of the Christian faith in the testimony and revelation of Jesus the Christ, who came into the world as the “fulfilment of the law of God.”  It is easily misinterpreted and there are countless examples over the course of human history of man, country, and kingdom going to war erroneously on the basis of the revealed truth of (particularly) the bible.

Is God always on the side of the oppressed? It seems unlikely. Does he always avenge every crime or sin straight away? No. Does he want the sinful to die? No, he wants them to live by turning from their sin – and it’s not just my Christian influence who convinces me to say this – the book of Ezekiel states it plainly also, as well as, admittedly, that “the one who sins is the one who must die.” But it doesn’t get me any closer to the truth of where God is placed in this argument. However, my concern is to provoke an argument about whether you really do love God and as such my question really is: do you understand God’s argument? It might be clear to you that I don’t understand this, which is a valid opinion, but why do you think that so blindly? Have you read with any level of impartiality anything I’ve written, or have you merely based your opinion of me on my reputation among my hateful peers and the angry reaction that this was always designed to cause? In short it would seem, at the very least, that you don’t understand God’s purpose in all of this any better than I do but by your very actions you prove to me that the Christian God I observe is not the same god who you do, for the reasons stated above, primarily that your insistence on condemnation is not based on any love for or adherence to any legal or moral code but by your dislike of a person, and this is evidenced by how you are treating people in general, according to your own personal predilections, and this is proven by the fact that certain selected individuals are routinely humiliated in your courts, in their absence, on the assumption that they are “strange” and “don’t have a leg to stand on,” or that the proposed spoon-fed jury “would dislike him so much,” in what is seemingly a vicious legal ambush intended not to prove that they are guilty but to confirm a verdict you’ve already announced to whoever is unfortunate enough to be held as a captive audience in your “high places of the earth”.

And so from bullshit to bullshit we proceed, at times even in the name of the God you say you revere. How utterly absurd. And the same things are happening across the globe, with visionless leaders burdening their nations with the myopic horseshit they’ve justified in their witless brains; and so we have the building calamities that we’re now seeing, with wars and rumours of wars well into the first years of the tribulation period. And no one sees well enough to understand that these afflictions are the results of generation after generation of peoples who’ve ignored the Word of God and lived according to their own foolish wisdom and selfish ideals. How quick you all were to condemn me when I lived as such but because you have the law on your side you assume that it doesn’t matter that your wrong-doing is concealed with trickery and covered with pretty words whilst you drain the life and resources from the countries you serve by the offices you hold. Well, you might get away with it for this lifetime but that’ll be the end of your run of “good fortune,” because “many will fall, never to rise again.”

And, shock, most of you won’t even know it’s coming: “it will be business as usual, right up until the last day.” I suppose if we’re looking for a silver-lining we could reasonably say that at least creation comes from destruction but unfortunately it would seem that destruction is the only eventuality for many in the human race at this juncture. Nice one. Perhaps when we’re all reading this in the next existence, we’ll put it in the place it deserves but until then it’s destined to be trodden on and neglected, misunderstood, misinterpreted and misquoted but in the end it will stand as a testament to what I actually said in this lifetime, which will be in stark contrast to the abomination of justice that you’ve created around my life, where I routinely hear things that I’ve never said quoted as being from my own mouth. Those are only the words as well, unfortunately. When I hear the rumours of what you’ve accused me of I have to remember that Jesus has already said about this what was true for him and all of the prophets who came before him. Presumably you don’t understand what I’m talking about? Nevermind. The time for understanding is coming to an end. Darkness will soon fall upon the earth and no man, or woman, will have the time to search for and find any more wisdom or understanding than they already have. Don’t believe me? Read the book! “Though they search, they will not find me, for they chose not to fear the Lord. So I in turn will laugh at their calamity.” “Let the one who is evil continue to be evil”, etc. You could have worked it out for yourselves if you weren’t so busy concentrating on my failings, to be honest! Good luck to you – you’ll be needing plenty of luck from now on, it would seem!

God said to his son: “I have crowned you forever as a priest in the order of Melchizedek (which is, justice and peace)” – I wonder what he’d be saying about all of this? The foundations of his throne are righteousness and justice. Your version of righteousness seems to be presumed by your position, not necessarily real, and as for justice I think it’s clear that you’re not representing the side of God – how can you be, if to deny justice to the innocent is not right in God’s sight? And the chances of peace? That seems pretty unlikely now!

“There are six things the Lord hates – no, seven things he detests; haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.”

Shall we go on? “The words of the wicked conceal violent intentions; hatred stirs up quarrels; hiding hatred makes you a liar; slandering others makes you a fool. The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales; when the wicked die, their hopes die with them, for they rely on their own feeble strength; with their words, the godless destroy their friends; it is foolish to belittle one’s neighbour; a sensible person keeps quiet. A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence; your kindness will reward you, but your cruelty will destroy you; trust in your money and down you go!” All from the same book. All excepts, admittedly, but it’s hardly as though you’ve been telling “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God,” by the sound of things!

“No one who trusts in him will be put to shame” – we’ll soon see who’s actually trusted him and who has merely said the words, and in the meantime, I hope you “enjoy my work!”