Delusion Sweeps America

If you have been waiting for conclusive proof that America is lost, I think I can produce it for you. A public junior high school just invited a professional cross-dresser to speak to the kids on a sort of career day. His stage name is Jessica L’Whor.

This is arguably worse than the story about homosexual militant atheist Dan Savage being invited to speak at a gathering of high school students, where he told the kids they could “learn to ignore the bulls__t about gay people in the Bible.”

You have to understand the facts of the story. Mr. L’Whor didn’t show up in men’s clothes and tell the kids about his career as a dental hygienist or CPA. He didn’t use his birth name. He didn’t speak as a person who has a normal career, while leaving his unusual sexual activities out of the discussion. He appeared in drag, calling himself “Ms. Jessica,” talking about his problem as though it were perfectly okay.

Maybe Rock Hudson spoke to students. I don’t know. He could have. He could have shown up in a suit with his wife on his arm, and he could have talked about his career as an actor, without mentioning the things he did in private. That’s not the kind of talk Mr. L’Whor gave. His sexual iniquity was central.

Mr. L’Whor talked about bullying. That’s interesting. For years, I’ve been telling people “bullying” was a code word for “criticizing sexual perversion.” That has certainly turned out to be true. Kids have always treated effeminate boys and masculine girls badly, and that’s a shame, but the “bullying” crusaders aren’t just pushing for kindness. They’re demanding endorsement and collaboration.

This bizarre appearance really happened. At Rocky Top Middle School, in Thornton, Colorado. In America. Junior high kids.

I’ve been thinking about my iniquities today–the habits and attitudes I bound to myself through repeated sin–and while I looked for wisdom on the Internet (stop laughing), I ran across some interesting stuff.

The Bible talks about iniquity bringing destruction on people. There are many places where it mentions iniquity implicitly in the context of the destruction of nations. We all remember the story of the flood. God said his spirit wouldn’t strive with man forever. He gave the human race 120 years to shape up, and then he killed nearly all of them.

In Genesis 15, after God and Abraham made the covenant of the pieces, God told Abraham about the future of the Jews. He said they would go into Egypt. He said they would come back to the place where the covenant was made after 4 generations, because the iniquity of the Amorites wasn’t complete.

People take that to mean that God knew he was going to have to crush the Amorites–inhabitants of the land he gave Abraham–but that the time was not ripe. God is patient, and he waits for nations to get very corrupt before he pulls the plug on them and brings them down.

We all know about Sodom and Gomorrah. They are famous for sexual iniquity, and Jewish legend also tells of their brutality, dishonesty, and deliberate unfairness.

Here is how things work. Temptation leads to sin. Repeated sin leads to iniquity. Once there is iniquity, you are “bent,” like a crooked tree, and it’s hard for you to stand up straight and stop sinning. You lose your free will, and you continue to sin even though you may hate it. As Proverbs 5:22 says, “His own iniquities shall entrap the wicked himself, and he shall be held by the cords of his sins.”

You are lucky if you at least hate your sins. Many of us come to embrace them. That’s depravity, or what the Bible calls “a seared conscience” or “a reprobate mind.” When you hit that stage, you may well be as good as damned, because if you don’t care about sin, you won’t listen when God offers you a way out. You’ll spit at him and persecute his servants.

Depravity is bound up with delusion. A depraved person can believe anything and take pleasure in anything. This is why we now have people who enjoy being pierced, cut, and mutilated. There is a whole community of people out there who amputate parts of their bodies for pleasure. they castrate themselves and cut fingers off for fun.

Depraved people come to hate Jesus. They hate Christians, and they call our mindset “hate.” When the Bible says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter,” this is the group it refers to.

The reason why America is lost is depravity. Not only are we drowning; we’re batting away the life preserver as though it were a poisonous snake. This is Satan’s greatest success. It’s astounding.

I can’t understand why people are so adaptable. It’s strange that we are capable of loving filth and pain, but it’s true.

We’re so far gone now, many of us are defending foreign invaders who insult us as they approach. Have you seen photos of the Latin Americans who are trying to storm the border? They carry their own countries’ flags and give us the finger on camera, and leftists are supporting them with great fervor.

Here’s a photo I believe I’m entitled to repost as fair use. A bunch of Hondurans supporting the marchers took an American flag, painted a swastika on it, and set it on fire. And leftists want to roll out the red carpet. This is about as bad as delusion can get.

Ordinarily, when desperate people who have ruined their lives ask to be your guests, they try to be pleasant. Look at this bunch.

Sin has left us very jaded. We are no longer able to recognize evil when we see it, and evil looks very good to many of us. At worst, it looks harmless.

It reminds me of something former pro wrestler Jake “the Snake” Roberts said. He ended up on drugs, and he lost his career. He fell into poverty. When a film crew covered his fall, he talked about his sexual excesses. He said he could not have normal sexual relationships, because after the wild things he had done, ordinary relations with one woman couldn’t stimulate him any more.

Sin changes the way we see things. That’s the most lethal thing about it. If you can’t see your problems, or you think they’re blessings, you won’t want to change.

Why don’t preachers talk about this more? Very odd. They don’t hear from the Holy Spirit.

God is still showing me my iniquities and their painful consequences, and that’s what I was trying to find out about when I started searching today, but I ended up looking at our nation as well.

I don’t have anything clever to say about it. I’m just observing what has happened.

Resisting sin is important, and the younger you are, the more good it will do you. If you’re old, like me, and you’ve already put shackles on yourself, it’s harder to succeed.

I hope God brings revival and wakes up as many of us as possible. I believe people who can still perceive the truth are going to get lonelier and lonelier.

More

I wanted to say a few more things about iniquity, but I got pulled away, so here I am.

One of the reasons I started to write today was that I had come across the phrase “the mystery of iniquity.” I looked it up to find out what it meant. I still don’t know the exact meaning of the phrase, but I read a lot of interesting and enlightening things.

The phrase comes from 2 Thessalonians. Paul was writing about the rapture and the end of this age.

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

This translation (NKJV) uses the word “lawlessness” instead of “iniquity.”

If you look at these paragraphs, you can see how they comport with what I’ve been writing today. I didn’t plan it that way. This is what happens when you hear from the Holy Spirit. You get ideas, and they feel as though they’re your own, but then you see them in the Bible, and you realize someone put them in your mind.

Paul says Jesus won’t come until after the world falls into Satan’s hands. This is a blow to people who think they can fix the world for Jesus. He says, “that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first.”

He writes of the Antichrist, saying he will be revealed, and will behave like a god, before Jesus returns.

The Antichrist will be a man of iniquity, which means he will be one who disobeys God as a matter of routine and principle.

Look what Paul said about delusion. He said the Antichrist would come with “all unrighteous deception among those who perish.” He’s talking about the people who think it’s okay to have a drag queen speak at a junior high school. The “unrighteous deception” has them under its spell, and they think evil is good.

Paul says God will reward their iniquity with “strong delusion” in order to prevent them from seeing the truth so they will be condemned to hell.

Anyone who thinks the Bible isn’t deep needs to take another look. Who would have guessed that sin would lead to something resembling insanity? It’s not obvious at all. Most intelligent people don’t realize it.

How can you explain the insanity that grips our nation without referring to supernatural causes? How can we move, during the second half of a President’s second term, from opposing homosexual marriage to endorsing it vigorously, unless something supernatural is at work?

Ten years ago, nearly everyone knew the difference between men and women, which is one of the more obvious differences human beings deal with. Now you can be fired from a job for refusing to call a man a woman. You can be thrown out of a gym for complaining that a man is in the women’s locker room. A change that drastic and quick is not natural. It can’t happen without spirits to push it.

The strong delusion of 2 Thessalonians is already here, and of course, people aren’t discussing it much, because deluded people can’t perceive their delusions. They think they’ve “evolved.”

It has been quite a while since God told me, “The hate is already here.” He was referring to the hate that would motivate–I’ll use the now-popular word–mobs to torment and kill Christians. We see it today in the startling willingness of leftists to confront and even attack conservatives in restaurants and at their homes.

Why is that hate here now?

The hate came with the delusion. I only see this right now. We endorsed sin, and we became bound by it. After that, we received delusion. Delusion caused us to invert good and evil. Now that we think evil is good, we think we have a moral obligation to storm Mitch McConnell’s restaurant table and throw his food into the street while banging on the table with our fists.

McConnell is a conservative figure, not a prominent Christian, but to the left, he symbolizes Christians. True Christians are conservative, and conservatives are the best friends we have in secular power. By attacking conservatives, leftists can get at us, and by driving leftists to get at us, Satan can get at God.

The leftist dream–a Godless society–is about to come true in America. Or is it? We’ll still have a “god.” Leftism has never really been about doing away with religion. We’ll have a fake god who has taken Yahweh’s place given people permission to ignore his commands.

I tend to think of leftists as people who hate religion, but that’s wrong. They love Wicca. They love astrology. They love Satanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, voodoo, and, strangely, Islam. They don’t have a problem with “gods.” They have a problem with OUR God; the only God that is God.

Today I read a little bit about John Cleese. A wealthy leftist, Cleese likes kicking at Christians and conservatives on social media. I looked up his religious beliefs. He’s a Buddhist vegetarian. He loves the Dalai Lama.

Tibetan Buddhism is demon worship. They pray to demons, and one witness says they make demons materialize in rituals. Whether they make demons materialize or not, Buddhism is a supernatural faith that teaches that spirits and the afterlife are real. It teaches about Buddhist hell. Tibetans recognize a spirit named Yamantaka who is supposedly the king of hell. Cleese seems to think we’re superstitious and primitive, but look at the faith he chose. Prayer wheels, ascetics on mountainsides, and reincarnation.

Many leftists are crazy about religion. They just reject the only one that’s valid and inconvenient.

We will not have a godless world. On the contrary; we will have a great abundance of “gods.” They’re all waiting to emerge and be worshiped, with the Antichrist at the forefront.

The hate that will put us in mass graves (more likely: crematoriums to remove the evidence of our existence from the earth) is already at work. It had a nice practice session under Hitler, focusing largely on Jews (beloved by God) and now it’s ready to spread all over the world and extend to anyone who seems to be on the side of Yahweh.

The workers of iniquity are not yet free to do as they wish, so they limit themselves to skirmishes. They are restrained until the proper time. Paul said, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.”

The NKJV capitalizes “he,” suggesting God himself restrains the workers of iniquity. I am skeptical. The restrainer sounds more like Michael to me. Michael is said to be the spirit that protects Israel, and since Jesus is identified with Israel, one would expect him to protect Christians as well. Jesus can protect us, but he can’t be “taken away.” No one can move him. When the scripture says the restrainer will be taken away, it appears to point to a lesser being.

Why would God remove our protector? There are still millions of people who belong to God. This same God was willing to save Sodom to protect 10 righteous citizens. The explanation that makes sense to me is that God will give the lawless complete freedom once there are no Christians left on earth. If we were here, it would make no sense for God to destroy the earth and give demons and fallen angels complete reign.

I believe our prayers and our existence restrain the looters and killers who are eager to turn the entire world into a riot zone. The need to execute judgment explains the rapture. God won’t want to do it while millions of us are here to suffer along with the wicked, and to pray for him to forbear.

I always wonder that the rapture will be like. Will we simply rise to meet God without warning, or will we get a push from the wicked? Martyrdom is a theme that has been with worshipers of God since Abel. Will God give us an escape hatch he never gave anyone else? I certainly hope so. I would rather disappear than be beheaded or shot.

Often, movies tap into supernatural ideas. It’s a strange thing to see. Even movies made by people who hate God sometimes seem to confirm prophecy.

I watched Avengers: Infinity War, and I saw something that reminded me of the rapture. Spoiler coming. Thanos, a well-meaning genocidal conqueror, believed the problem with the universe was overpopulation. The main problem people had was the existence of people. He obtained supernatural power, and then he snapped his fingers and made half of the intelligent beings disintegrate and die.

One wonders if something like that is in store for us. With modern technology, it’s possible to murder huge numbers of people simultaneously, if they cooperate (as martyrs often do). The Antichrist could fit millions of people with Internet-connected devices that kill in response to one person’s mouse click.

Things are going to get so crazy, people who love God will want to leave the earth. I already do. Many of us bluster about fighting and shooting, but I suspect God has Christians amassing guns so we can turn them over to the mob and surrender. If they have to storm our homes to kill us, and we shoot large numbers of them in the process and then die scrapping and kicking, it won’t glorify God. If we have the power to kill them, and we give it up and consent to die, it will mean something. It will tell the few remaining people who can be reached that our faith is something that can’t be dismissed. It will motivate them to look for God while there is still time.

Jesus told the disciples to carry swords, and when he was attacked by the high priest’s MOB, Peter cut off a slave’s ear. Jesus told him to knock it off, and he healed the slave. There was no battle, even though the disciples were armed.

What would people say about Jesus if he had had to be subdued? He didn’t go out that way. He wasn’t defeated. He sent Judas to bring the high priest, he waited, and he surrendered. The crucifixion was his own idea. It would make sense for informed Christians to go the same way. “Go ahead and shoot if you want. I am done with this place, and you may have it.”

I don’t know what the rapture will be like. On the whole, I prefer the easy route. One minute, standing in the aisle at Rural King. The next, floating away in the air.

Paul sends a confusing message about the rapture. He says the day of the Lord and our gathering to him (the rapture) will not happen until after the “falling away.” After mentioning the falling away, he says, “and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.” This seems to suggest that the Antichrist will be here before we leave, but it’s not spelled out unambiguously. I think “the day of the Lord” refers to the Messianic Millennium, and the revelation of the Antichrist is a separate thing, which comes earlier. I believe the earth will see the falling away, persecution, the rapture, unrestrained rule by Satan, the appearance of the Antichrist, the great tribulation, and the final return of Jesus, in that order.

We are already seeing the falling away, so it obviously comes first. We know the return of Jesus comes last, because this is when the millennial reign begins.

The Revelation mentions the souls of martyred Christians, stationed beneath God’s altar in heaven, calling out for vengeance on those who killed them. That seems to point to a rapture by massacre. The Romans liked to execute Christians in groups, to please the crowds. Maybe it will work that way when the rapture comes. A big televised show, with billions cheering final relief from annoying people who believe gender is fixed.

I am not a student of prophecy. Just trying to make sense of things.

What does “lawlessness” really mean, in the era of Holy Ghost baptism? When believers were under the Jewish law, it meant breaking that law. Eating pork, lending money at interest, and so on…these were acts of lawlessness or iniquity. Today, it’s not that simple. We’re supposed to hear from the Holy Spirit all day, and we’re supposed to do what he tells us to do. That’s the new law. Most Christians are still stuck in the old law.

Jesus said we have to do God’s will in order to enter the kingdom of heaven:

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Jesus said people would come to him and tell him what he owed them. They would say they had done great things in his name. He said he would tell them to go away, and he would call them workers of iniquity. Why was that?

He wasn’t referring to people who didn’t call themselves Christians, and he wasn’t referring to people who didn’t do nice things. He wasn’t referring to unbelievers. He was referring to self-described Christians who decided, on their own, what to do to advance God’s kingdom.

Guessers, not listeners.

You can try to please God by doing things that seem right in your own eyes and end up provoking him. You can make God angry by opening an orphanage or giving a poor person money. It’s not the nature of an act that makes it pleasing to God. Remember how Saul was cursed for trying to perform a sacrifice? An act is only pleasing to God if he commanded it.

Trying to please God with acts he didn’t tell you to perform is lawlessness.

Christians who don’t hear from the Holy Spirit can’t help being lawless. If you can’t hear the lawgiver, you don’t know the law. They will end up working with the persecutors. They already are. Look at all the ordained homosexuals in the clergy.

I always complain about Christians who think being nice pleases God. Putting homosexuals in pulpits is nice. Telling people there is no hell is nice. Telling people Christianity is basically the same thing as Buddhism is nice. You can destroy a church with nice policies that demonstrate contempt for God.

If I had to sum up the important points, I’d say:

1. Don’t sin if you can help it, because you will eventually lose the ability to stop.

2. Once you lose your free will, you will lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and you will think evil is good. God will send you delusion as a reward for rebellion.

3. Once you start to believe evil is good, it is very unlikely that it will be possible to convince you to repent and avoid hell.

4. Once the spirit of delusion is on you, you will harbor animus toward Christians and Jews, and you will be motivated to commit great sins that will eventually be punished in ways too horrible to be imagined.

5. If you’re not hearing from the Holy Spirit, you are probably doing things God considers lawless, even if you’re trying to be very nice. You can offend God very badly while being nice and trying to do things to please him.

6. A huge percentage of the world’s population is already deluded and filled with rancor, and wholesale violence is on the way. Stop praying for a perfect world and ask God to prepare you for the decline and fall of our race.

I hope this material will help people. I always hope that if the rapture comes while this blog is up, people who are stuck here after I’m gone will be able to use it as a roadmap to repentance and salvation. Maybe that’s too much to expect. I suppose the Antichrist will have an effective program of censorship that will rid the world of Christian writings.

Sorry to be long-winded. It’s that kind of day.