HIs World? or Their World?

12/7/2018

So today is the day that will live in infamy. And it does. The attack of Pearl Harbor on this day in 1941, substantially changed the lives of Americans from that day till now. Everything changed. A war ensued, raging in two continents for four years, This war became known as “the big war”—WW2. History lessons have been written and re-written about the battles, the bravery of men, and the cowardice of a few. The politics are still being cussed and discussed, claimed and disclaimed, and the further we get from that war started 77 years ago today, the less we know about the why of that war.

I was schooled in a very patriot-centered era and also in a patriotic town and school. After being in the adult world for about 14 years, I began to read and listen to some thoughts which made me re-examine the history of this war. That study caused me to go further into the events prior to and leading up to the Civil War. In the decade before the war between the states, I found history taught in schools to be very lacking. Obscure, one term presidents, a skirmish with the Mexicans, nothing significant. But, that wasn’t true. It seems the decade preceding wars are very significant.

Today, people talk about a “shadow government” in our country. I know when it showed up: It was in the shadows of the beginning, 1775 to 1784; then it grew bolder and had a presence in the 1850s, then bolder yet in the 1910-18 years, infusing itself into our lives while the public sat asleep and did nothing to correct the bend away from our constitution. Before two more decades were completed after the first world war, our country had lost its grip on the wealth and prosperity which had been the hallmark for the first 125 years. The “shadow government” had little resistance by the time the “day of infamy” arrived. It took the better part of two centuries for the “god of this world” to penetrate the people of this land to the point of capitulation, but we were all in by the time John Kennedy was elected. 

Understanding the “way things are” in the world gave Pres. Kennedy a different purpose than just going along to get along and as soon as he began to speak and plan changes to bring us back to basics, they had him killed. The Warren Commission puppets finally just gave up and concluded little old Lee Harvey Oswald just thought the whole thing up by himself. Good grief, what a farce! 

Where were the heroes of the two wars “to end all wars?” They were not being heard from. The quest of the shadow guv was in high gear and it hasn’t been slowed down since. In the 1990s, a Supreme Court judge said publicly that the U.S.A. had to listen to the world’s interpretation to know how to judge our constitutional rights. ….Good grief, again!

If you think all this is not true, study it for yourselves. I did, I won’t bother with it much, but you should know where you are, why you are, and know who your enemies truly are because you do have to live in their world.

Has any of this surprised the Lord? Our Saviour, Jesus Christ: is He wondering if He can finish His course? Is God dead as Neitzsche  said?

Of course not. God is still the God of the whole Universe. His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ is still the “heir of all things.” We are still, one by one, being saved by the facts of the gospel, “how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, was buried, and was raised again the third day according to the Scriptures.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” God will seal you by His Spirit and you’ll belong to the “Victor!”

But this worldly situation should serve to make us sing a great song, all day long, to ourselves or to a crowd: “This World Is Not My Home”—I’m just passing through, my treasure’s all laid up, somewhere beyond the blue”…. A great song about a great hope and a greater eternity. Even so, come Lord Jesus. This world will wear us down sometimes, but our hope will make us shine like the Son!

Incidentally, this was not the SIMH, that was an old sappy love song by Nat King Cole—“That Sunday, That Summer.”

Thanks for reading, the Elder