Homeland Security Stockpiles Weapons

Homeland Security Stockpiles Weapons

Which is to say that,
many among us willingly prefer Hell,
to the
kind, gentle, good, and loving rule of God.

 

Snopes confirms that SSA issued a Request for Quote for 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets.  The rest is either unconfirmed or denied by Snopes.

Before we rush headlong into panic, we ought to consider the crucial historic fact that Hitler succeeded in part by secretly developing and arming his forces, and by subtly suppressing his opponents.  This historic fact should greatly sober our decisions, and drive us back into detailed examination of pre-World War II history.

Among the cardinal factors prior to World War II are these:  Open anarchy against God and His absolute authority over man, even to the point of putting God on trial.  Open denial of the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Savior of the world, to the point of declaring many human saviors, frequently done in the name of science falsely so called.  Open rejection of the Bible as God’s immediate instruction to the Church, and to the human race at large, even reducing the Bible to ten suggestions.  Open disregard for the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, often to the point of reviving and practicing ancient heresies.  Open disrespect for the leadership of the Church; and fractured though that Church may be on earth, unwillingness to pull Her back together: it is our own arrogance, and bullheaded stubbornness that keeps us apart, not the will and leadership of God.  This results in grasping after every idolatrous utopian scheme that is offered up.  This results in open disregard for any authority of any kind.

The obvious conclusion is that if we fail to return to God, there remains no hope whatsoever for the well-regulated continuation of ours, or of any other society.  What we must rather expect from our headlong descent to destruction is conquest, turning on each other in civil war, condemnation, famine, and death (Revelation 6:2-8).

This is no doomsday prophecy; rather it describes the inevitable, universal consequence of failing to follow the gentle leadership of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Without His guidance, society rapidly disintegrates with the certain consequence of extreme polarization, and turning on one another in civil war.  Once man loses his sense of decency and honor, he quickly loses his way: lemming like, man is easily lured to his own demise.

That this situation should continue to decline into certain Phariseeism, and a holier than thou judgmentalism, with attendant increasing condemnation is no mystery.  Or similarly decline into certain Saduceeism, a laxity of faith, where anything goes, and where all obedience is considered to be legalism.  It happened between 586 and 4 BC in large segments of Judea, and it will happen again.  The bitter elder son and the devil may care younger son remain among us today (Luke 15:11-32).  Our immediate reaction to disaster is to blame somebody else.  Whichever side you’re on, both sons are at fault.  It is so, so hard to remove the moat from our own eye.  God doesn’t take sides, favoring one sin over another: He hates, but is patient with both sins.

That famine and death should follow is no mystery either.

What is a mystery is that we, having deserted the kind leadership of God, would expect something else to happen.  Isn’t it perfectly clear that nothing we can say or do, no government action or policy, not even the Constitution or its First and Second Amendments will shield us from the wrath of God and from our own madness and self destruction.

Nor should we we be deceived into believing that God will lift His hand against us.  No, He will simply remove His kind, gentle, good, and loving leadership from among us: this leadership, which we currently despise.  The rest we will do to ourselves.  God, giving us that very thing, which we demand of Him; we inevitably self-destruct.  Until, at last, we have become fit for only one thing: to be cast into the Lake of Fire.  This is, after all, exactly what we want.

We have no foundation left to withstand the powerful immoral forces at work within our own government.  So before we deal with our own government, so obviously out of control, perhaps we should consider this question: Do we really want to get serious about loving and obeying God?  I think our answer to that question is, “No!  Hell No!”

Which is to say that,
many among us willingly prefer Hell,
to the
kind, gentle, good, and loving rule of God.