When you consider the extreme commercialism of Black Friday, remember it fondly. It may not survive the future of America. As America’s youth are more accepting of socialism, all that may well change.

Surveys of Americans ages 23-38 indicate that about 36% approve of communism, and 70% of millennials support socialism. Some 60% of Democrats favor socialism. Hispanics, Asian Americans, and African Americans place socialism higher than capitalism. Even a quarter of the Republican demographic favors socialism.

A government paying for health care, tuition, and housing could tax people so excessively that Black Friday could go dark as there may be no money for gifts.

We need look no further than Argentina to see how, in a short time, government took control over the financial and physical lives of every individual in the nation. We also can see just how fast the economy spiraled downward, where people are now starving. Socialism would also restrict the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion.

In true socialism and communism, government takes the place of God. It is the government that enjoys the fruits and labors of the people who are enslaved to it. This is in great opposition to many parts of the Bible. Solomon, for example, writes in Ecclesiastes 3:13,

“…that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.”

He didn’t say it was the gift of government, as socialism and communism require.

From a Christian worldview, it is Christ’s people, not a centralized government, that must minister to the poor and provide healing, restoration, comfort, and vigilance over Liberty.

The earliest account of American history provided by Mayflower leader William Bradford indicates that the ability to worship freely was the central theme of the Pilgrims. And in that, he writes,

“We are knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond and covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves straitly tied to all care of each other’s good.”

And they proved this when they were dying, sometimes two or three per day, in their care for one another’s health.

When the Pilgrims were starving while trying to grow food communally, Bradford gave them their own land to till, which turned the colony around. He says,

“The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years and by good and honest men, proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times—that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God…. Community property was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment, which would have been to the general benefit and comfort.”

Are we to repeat this disastrous example?

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One has to look no further than Austria, Australia, and the United States to see that world leaders are using the fear-messaging of COVID 19 to bring entire populations under tyrannical control.

Ministry sources in Australia report the government has dictated a “no jab, no job” policy, with a $21,000 fine for individuals and a $110,000 fine for a church or business. Shopping or eating out without being vaccinated is banned. The vaccinated must use an app to check in wherever they go so the government can track movement, purchases and spending. Churches and businesses are to report violations. Parliamentarians who are not vaccinated are prohibited from voting, effectively removing dissent.

Sunday, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced the country is placing millions of people who aren’t fully vaccinated for COVID-19 on lockdown. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said there will be thorough police checks and fines of up to $1,660 for breaches, and all interactions with the police will include checking people’s vaccination status. The unvaccinated are already excluded from entertainment venues, bars, restaurants, and similar businesses. Showing official COVID-19 pass proof of vaccination, recovery from COVID-19, or being recently tested has been required for months in various places including restaurants, theaters, cafes, and hairdressers.

See the pattern?

In the United States, the Biden Administration is using policy, not law, to force citizens to take the COVID- 19 jab. In putting a stay on the Biden mandate, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stated:

“It is clear that a denial of the petitioners’ proposed stay would do them irreparable harm. For one, the Mandate threatens to substantially burden the liberty interests of reluctant individual recipients put to a choice between their job(s) and their jab(s). For the individual petitioners, the loss of constitutional freedoms “for even minimal periods of time…unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.”

Nevertheless, the White House encouraged businesses to ignore the court’s ruling and continue “getting their workplace vaccinated.”

The end-time prophecy in Revelation 13:17 warns of a world-power beast that forces people to worship him: “That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

The similarities between this prophecy and government mandates forcing people to take a vaccine or lose their ability to provide for their family—in essence, to buy or sell—are striking. These tyrannical mandates, while not the mark of the beast, suggest the grooming of people for such an event—one that the Holy Spirit and the word of God warn to discern and resist. An example is in Acts 5:29, where the Apostles resist religious censorship, saying, “We ought to obey God rather than men.”

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