The new spiritual landscape
11/10/2024
While I don't like to follow politics, there is undeniably a link between government action, policies and the spirit realm. Government can either side with the angels or work for the devil. The notion that there is some neutral ground where all are free to operate is at best naive and at worst a damnable lie.
Christians across American breathed a sigh of relief that their faith would not be put to more strenuous tests in the near future. Catholic hospital administrators went to bed free of worrying when and what form of abortion mandate would be imposed on them, and how they would fight it.
Contrast this with the situation in England, where the British Government demands control over the very souls of its subjects, demanding that silent, otherwise undiscernible prayer be banned in certain places.
This is of course nothing new for the British, who ran a martyrdom factory during the Tudor era. As a sidebar, the other day I came across a conversation where Protestants observed all the important theological reforms made by the English Reformation, and now necessary they were for the development of Christianity. I managed to restrain my desire to point out that if they were no necessary, why was torture and death employed to implement them, and how's the old Church of England doing these days? The ancient cathedrals are being used for dance parties and put-put golf games. But I digress.
Many people have remarked to me over the last few months of the gloom and dread they felt, and former agnostics returned to the faith as a result. A better example of God letting us see the folly of our sinful ways in order to repent cannot be imagined.
And now there is an undeniable change. A weight has been lifted. Other in the paid performance press, the division has largely vanished. People can get on with their lives and the faithful have the marvelous feeling of deliverance.
At the same time, we have won a battle but the war goes on. Now is the time to further devote ourselves to God and lock in these gains. The only way to avoid a recurrence is to so shape society that it becomes impossible. That means the hard task of conversion and also pursuing individual holiness. The two go hand in hand as people who are saintly draw sinner to them.
By saintly I mean truly saintly - modest and humble, not bragging or self-righteous. Yet at the same time, we must avoid the trap of "Nice Christianity" and speak with unwavering firmness about the evils in our midst. A great many people still do not understand the full evil of abortion, how its supporters have twisted statistics and lied about medical necessity to kill viable children on a whim.
There is also the issue of the sudden rise of transgenderism. It is impossible to find a parallel example of such a wicked, cruel belief system being imposed so quickly and so thoroughly. The damage to souls and institutions will take years to heal, and a full reckoning must be made for those responsible.
Indeed, I think one of the biggest changes in the spirit world is that the faithful now find themselves confident and reassured and the wicked are suddenly troubled and afraid. The dark powers that sustained them seemed invincible, powered by the "arc of history," but that arc has collapsed. The secular future is no longer inevitable and the tide of events has unexpectedly turned.
We must not let this moment simply fade away.