“These are the times that try men’s souls.” –Thomas Paine
As the world becomes increasingly unhinged, dark, and lawless, just remember that for most of our short history on this planet, that has been the norm.
The United States, born out of a righteous anger against injustice, sought reprieve through petition. But when ignored, censored, and abused, it left no other option than revolution. France would undergo similar circumstances years later, but with a drastically different result.
Why was the American experiment so successful when others weren’t?
The primary factor was the wisdom nested in the founder’s core understanding of where freedom truly comes from. Instead of placing the ultimate authority with human government, the founders, instead, pointed to God as the ultimate arbiter of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They rightfully realized the fallen condition of man, and man’s propensity to abuse power once in power.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” –President John Adams
Behind the scenes, and moving unseen, dark spiritual forces were surprised at this turn of events. Therefore, the plot was hatched that the United States would have to be throttled in its cradle to prevent it from becoming a sanctuary and a beacon of light for a world shrouded in darkness.
It’s no wonder that since our founding, the United States has been consistently attacked, subverted, and corrupted. And all this from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, to the Civil War.
Europe had long hoped that the US would collapse and fracture so they could come back in and plunder its wealth and people as they’d done in so many other parts of the world under the banner of colonialism.
They didn’t care how we collapsed, only that we did.
But God.
When external threats proved unfruitful, Satan turned to his old tactics of corrupting from within. This had worked marvelously over the millennia with Christendom. After three centuries of merciless persecution by pagan Rome, Christianity only spread faster and farther.
Thus, it has been the satanic agenda for the better part of 180 years to buckle the pillars of our once great nation by destroying our common faith, the family unit, and confusing mankind with all manner of perverse ideologies and religions.
The parable of the mustard tree talks about a naturally small tree that grew insanely large, in which all manner of birds came and nested in its branches. In the context of all the parables in Matthew 13, the birds were viewed in a negative light (see the parable of the Sower and the Soil). The point being conveyed by Jesus here was that instead of the great commission given to the Church to take the gospel unto all the world, the world came into the Church.
Comparably, the United States grew insanely large and became a sanctuary for all beliefs and peoples. However, instead of immigrants assimilating together under a common identity and purpose, we are fracturing into countless tribal enclaves divided by religion, culture, identity, and allegiances. This division has been greatly accelerated and exacerbated by the infusion of false religions, progressive socialism, and postmodernism.
Even though it took time, the poisoned fruits are now fully ripe, and we are in the season of sifting. The truth of the matter is that we are so divided now, there is simply no putting this humpty-dumpty back together again. Thus, we are again at the precipice of another major turning point in our nation’s history. Our fourth, as it were.
This is not accidental; it is by design.
The Bible tells us who presently holds sway over this broken-down kingdom we are living in Luke 4:5-6, Ephesians 2:2, 1 John 5:19).
Satan intends to drive men to the point of desperation that they would willingly abandon their hope in Christ, His institutions for family, government, and salvation, and cry out for a modicum of peace and safety (1 Thess. 5:1-4).
But peace and safety can only be found in one Person; that is Jesus Christ (John 14:6, 27-29).
Admittedly, I was despairing until the rainbow reminded me of the promise God gave to Noah (Genesis 9).
And as we near the two-thousandth anniversary of our Lord’s death, burial, and resurrection, we should not despair in our present political situation but take comfort in the promise He gave us.
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1-3).