In the Evil Day
This morning I was thinking about a livestream I watched on my iPad a couple of years ago. A well known conservative commentator was the speaker and during the course of his presentation he made, what I thought at the time to be, a most unsettling fear promoting statement. He stated quite emphatically and matter-of-factly that,
“Evil is already here and it’s only a matter of time before it’s knocking on your door...Liberty is about to be torn down by some very evil people who don’t give a damn about you.”
WOW! I wasn’t ready for that! His declaration was so absolute that it caught me off guard, derailing my composure momentarily. I’m quite sure that my blood pressure shot through the roof for a second or two, while my brain tried to decipher the possibilities of evil knocking on my door!
Like so much of what I call “Panic Porn”, that is published every day to elicit fear, cause division or provoke a reaction, his claim had done its job! I was unnerved by his words. After all he is a conservative and a Patriot, one of the “good guys”!
Admittedly I wasn’t altogether clear on what he had said. I think most people, especially believers, are well aware that evil has been around for quite a while! At least since Lucifer got booted out of heaven along with a third of the other treasonous angels, sometime toward the end of the first heaven and earth.
So why the scary statement that evil is already here? For Heaven’s sake, even unbelievers are aware of evil, they just don’t know where it comes from!! Whether we’re believers, or not, most people don’t have a clue what to do about it!
The one thing that stood out to me was his reference to a speech given by Ronald Reagan at a rally in 1964 in support of the Barry Goldwater for president campaign. He mentioned that it was about thirty minutes long and was titled, “A Time for Choosing”. In it Reagan said that America was man’s last best hope on earth for freedom and if we lost it here we would step off into a thousand years of darkness!!
As soon as my feet hit the floor the next morning and I had successfully boosted my caffeine coefficient high enough so as not to be a danger to myself or others, I began a search to locate that speech! I found it under “Reagan” on YouTube! I was riveted to it for the entire twenty-nine minutes and thirty-three seconds of the video.
“A Time for Choosing” felt like ice water thrown in my face! It had a major sobering effect and at the same moment was a prescient reminder of what’s at stake! Reagan was describing an America that quite honestly no longer exists!
If the America that you and I are currently living in is the last best hope of freedom in this world, then I’d have to say we are already several years into the thousand years of darkness he spoke of!
I clung to his every word with the tenacity of a drowning man! Although I had the unique advantage of being able to look backwards to his day, it was deeply disturbing to realize just how hazardous and precarious life has become in America. We are now standing on the very precipice of the calamity that Reagan warned about.
I encourage everyone to watch to “A Time to Choose”…I believe you’ll find it to be time we’ll spent!
Ronald Reagan might just as well have delivered that speech today, not fifty-nine years ago!! I am profoundly saddened to realize just how far we have allowed this great land of the free and home of the brave to deteriorate since 1964.
As I mentally gaze out upon our current political landscape, it is sobering to realize just how fragile our situation is! And yet, inexplicably, Americans don’t seem to be alarmed at all! Unless boycotting Bud Light and Target qualifies as a major Patriotic action. Not that boycotts aren’t necessary and effective at times. It’s just that I highly doubt that boycotts will change a thing about what is happening to America, because the cause is spiritual and you cannot fight spirit with five senses weapons.
Practically speaking God ALWAYS MEANS WHAT HE SAYS, AND SAYS WHAT HE MEANS! We can depend on Him in all situations! He will ALWAYS tell us the truth because He is not a man that might have reason, because of his agenda, to lie to us!
But this morning my brain was stuck on that livestream video a few years ago about evil coming to my door. I needed to locate a scripture that would put my mind at ease and I knew just where to go……Ephesians chapter six!
I was settled and peaceful with the comfort that I always receive reading His Word. I was excited because this section in Ephesians covers the spiritual armor that God has lovingly provided for each and every born again believer. I figured that if evil was on its way then I had best suit up, stand up, get psyched up and pumped up and get ready to…
Kick the adversary’s butt!
Just about at that exact moment I came upon the following verse...a verse I’ve read so many hundreds of times over the years when things were far less urgent...and then five little words hit me like a ton of bricks.
The back half of this verse spurred me into action…
THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND IN THE EVIL DAY AND HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND…
It makes no difference which day it happens to be, WE MUST BE READY! We must ALREADY have on our armor and we MUST be fully prepared MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY if we expect to be victorious over the evil in our midst. IT WILL BE DEMANDED OF EACH OF US!
I have been telling my wife for years that Americans are naive, ignorant and stupid if they think that the same devil-backed atrocities, like ones that have been carried out in many other places, at many other times, against many other innocent people can never happen to us here in America.
The simple truth folks, is that freedom is NOT ACTUALLY FREE! Somebody paid for it in blood! But we here in America have, for many years, acted as though it were a free gift. I think we are all now realizing that we were wrong!
America is teetering on the brink of a monumental, irreversible, cultural disaster. We can no longer afford the luxury of naivety or the warm bliss of ignorance. It is time to quit straddling the fence and decide how you are going to withstand the EVIL DAY!
The American Dream is disappearing faster than a Twinkie at a weight watchers meeting! Rapidly supplanted by the ultimate American nightmare, a godless technocratic Marxist totalitarian surveillance police state driven by tyranny and upheld with terror and violence.
I don’t personally make a habit of predicting the future. That’s not my thing! Besides, I have zero talent for it. What I am good at is reading signs and trends and then adjusting my behavior accordingly. Right now in my beloved homeland storm clouds have been gathering for many years. We have ignored the signs of the impending storm and now it is upon us!
Of course God has not abandoned us, but His ability to act on our behalf is directly tied to our freedom to take appropriate and necessary measures that line up with His will. That cannot be done if we don’t know what His will IS so here it is:
GOD’S WORD IS HIS WILL!!
There are practical considerations offered to us by our Heavenly Father that we can, and should, make good use of. That way no matter how high the tide rises we can still climb back up into Daddy’s arms and withstand the evil one and gain the victory.
I’d say right off hand that we have more than enough unreasonable and wicked men in government positions that are colluding with our other enemies, both foreign and domestic, trying to take away from us all that we hold dear so they can replace it with tyranny and captivity. If we don’t get suited up with God’s spiritual armor we run the very real risk of being overrun by the massive forces of evil that have been turned loose upon our homeland.
God’s promise to every believer has always been crystal clear! But there are caveats, requirements, conditions that must be met. We must first diligently prepare and then faithfully carry out what He tells us to do. Then...THEN...and ONLY THEN will His unparalleled might be brought to bear on our behalf guaranteeing our complete deliverance from every evil intent of the adversary, and shall preserve and protect us to the uttermost! These scriptures are wonderful encouragement for us to suit up, stand up and be FEARLESS as we stand and withstand in our present evil day!
It has been more than two years since I was informed that evil was coming to my door! Praise God it hasn’t happened yet, nor do I believe it ever will!! BUT I’M READY!!!