“But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy…” 2 Timothy 3: 1-2
“Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 19-21
Demonic darkness overshadows Western and American post-Christian paganized lands. In its darkness, madness, wickedness, and evil run roughshod over decent, law-abiding people.
These are evil, twisted days. In our our perverse, lawless, power-hungry, thoroughly inhumane and corrupt society, males claim to be female, females claim to be males and marry each other as in the days of Noah. Satanic ’nonbinary’ beings emulate Baphomet, the Divine Androgyne (Satan), and identify as Zi, Zer, and other such madness. Everything that was made straight has become crooked in our day and everywhere is heard the crashing din of breakdown–of society, of traditional marriage, of the law of our land, of decency, and all things normal and true. Thievery of every kind, including inflation, is now a ’new norm’ together with murderous hatred of humanity, terror, violence, murder in the streets, systemic lying, grotesque debauchery and porn addiction, rampant human sacrifice (euthanasia, abortion for any reason), and cannibalization of aborted baby tissue and parts.
Paganized, Demonized Modernity
For many years, Satan’s tools have been cutting away at the Christian foundations of American and Western civilization. With their toppling comes the replacement: Satanic worship of ‘self.’
Freed at last from God the Father, a global inner circle consisting of Luciferian Anglophile banker families, the WEF, WHO, Big Pharma, Bill Gates, George Soros, and other Luciferian ‘elitists’ play at being gods with their genetic modification serums and their global agenda, the infernal Great Reset. The plan is to destroy and remake the world via “chaos magic” as the instrument of mass destruction and death. Part of this demonic plan is creation of a new man, a genetically modified transhuman whose brain is controlled by the Artificial Intelligence ‘god.’
Precluding all of this is purification of the world of all ‘good’ people. But the Lord says to His people: “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28
The Helmsmen
Satan and his legions are the helmsmen behind the inner circle and paganized and demonized modernity as it plunges into barbarism and prepares with its own hands,
“a scourge that is far more disastrous than the ancient Flood, a much vaster destruction of the human race, in which it believes that it can sweep away from the face of earth not the wicked but rather the good: those who remain faithful to the Lord and to His holy law.” (App. Vigano: Pagan Modernity is Preparing A Scourge Far More Disastrous Than the Flood, LifeSite News, 2/13/23)
What does all of this add up to?
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.” Romans 1:18
And “… since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.” Romans 1:28
Fatal Consequences of Rejecting God the Word (John 1)
Early Church Father Athanasius explains the fallen human condition and the fatal consequences of rejecting our Creator in favor of satanic idolatry (self-worship) and nature worship.
God has made man, said Athanasius, and willed that he should abide in incorruption; but men, having despised and rejected the Transcendent Reality—the higher things and authority of God, devised and contrived evil for themselves, thereby receiving,
“… the condemnation of death with which they had been threatened; and from thenceforth no longer remained as they were made, but were being corrupted according to their devices; and death had the mastery over them as king.” (On the Incarnation of the Word, Athanasius)
“But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4.
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28
“Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.” Ephesians 5:6
In willfully rejecting the Lord our God and “every word that comes from the mouth of God,” and in transgressing against His commandments, God gives them over to wickedness and madness. This action effectively turns them back to their natural state and their being back to nothing in due time. For just as God the Living Word spoke all things and life out of nothing (Genesis 1), this means man’s being has been from nothing as well. Thus:
“…they might look for corruption into nothing in the course of time. For if, out of a former normal state of non-existence they were called into being by the Presence and loving-kindness of the Word, it followed naturally that when men were bereft of the knowledge of God and were turned back to what was not (for what is evil is not, but what is good is), they should, since they derive their being from God who IS, be everlastingly bereft even of being; in other words, that they should be disintegrated and abide in death and corruption. For man is by nature mortal, inasmuch as he is made out of what is not; but by reason of his likeness to Him that is (and if he still preserved this likeness by keeping Him in his knowledge) he would stay his natural corruption, and remain incorrupt; as Wisdom 6:18 says: “The taking heed to His laws is the assurance of immortality” but being incorrupt, he would live henceforth as God, to which I suppose the divine Scripture refers, when it says: “I have said you are gods, and you are all sons of the most Highest; but you die like men, and fall as one of the princes.”
Global and national fools who say in their hearts there is no God (Psalm 14:1) have effectively said to the Creator and sustainer of life and being, “You are not my Father,” “I am I, I come from myself.”
The rejection of God the Word is for soul and its citadel, spirit (intellect, will, conscience) to disintegrate into the void (nothingness) from which men have been called. Thus, for them the scourge means they abide increasingly in madness, stupidity, death and disintegration even though they still live but are mainly blind to the effects of disintegration and madness.
In his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien ingeniously makes ‘visible’ the invisible process of inner disintegration into nothing and resulting madness and evil with Grima Wormtongue (human kind), Gollum (Hobbit-kind), Orcs (Elf-kind), and other decayed and decaying characters.
Our Lord and Savior, the Living Word spoke all things into existence from nothing and has said:
“…. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life…”Deuteronomy 30:19-20
The Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Word become Flesh, Jesus Christ the Physician came to heal the spiritually sick. But whoever rejects the Physician, whether through indifference, hatred or outright denial, rejects His prescription, hence destroys him or herself.
Destruction however, does not mean annihilation of the soul as is commonly thought today. The soul, though immortal, said St. Augustine, nevertheless suffers a kind of disintegrated death when the living God forsakes it:
“…in that penal and everlasting punishment…. the soul is…said to die because it does not live in connection with God (meaning that) though man does not cease to feel, yet because this feeling is neither sweet… nor wholesome (but) painfully penal, it is (called) death rather than life.” (St. Augustine’s City of God, Chapter 2, Of that Death Which Can Affect an Immortal Soul, and of that to Which the Body is Subject)
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life...” John 3:36
As for the faithful,
“when Noah constructed the ark according to God’s instructions the ark was judgment-proof. When Noah and his family went into the ark God shut them in. God shut the door. Noah and his family were safe from the judgment of death.” (1)
The place of security today is “in Christ.”
2023@Linda Kimball
- As It Was in the Days of Noah, Pastor JC O’Hair, Berean Bible Society