stand

"The battle cry is getting louder.  The count-down's close to the final hour.  The enemy's on every side.  Still no match for the Crucified!  ...Stand up!  Take a stand for Jesus! Stand up, so the whole world sees us.  Following Him, Serving Him, and fighting the fight that we know we will win!"  -Petra, from More Power To Ya.

Reading 1984 in high school launched several impromptu class discussions about things that were happening currently (in 1987) that pointed toward a "big-brother" society.  The new and controversial seatbelt law in Texas was first from my lips.  There were varied reactions to that.  One classmate piped, "If the government can tell you what to do in your own car-your own property, what's to stop them from telling us what to do in our homes..."  To this one of the more progressive minds in the class retorted, "But studies show that seatbelts save lives!"  "Its not the government's job to keep people safe, its none of their business!" I replied.  Another chimed in, "the government's job is to keep our rights safe-the Constitution, not our persons!" The debate roiled for another 20 minutes, waxing hot, then cooling. Any of this sound vaguely familiar?   

I remember walking out of the classroom with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach at the thought of how this new law was the start of many like it. In my 11th grade mind I saw it would be the proverbial thread that would be pulled to unravel our very way of life.  The government did pass laws about how you can and can't act in your car, your house, on your own property.  They got us to take sides and think our side was the right one. They made us believe that we were guilty of the sins of our forefathers.  They got us loving money, possessions, games, and T.V. shows.  They told us it was impossible to legislate morality when it came to drugs, abortion, and gay rights. Then they legislated morality by creating "hate crimes," which was a sly and damaging stab at freedom of speech, and a hard lurch for thought control.  In the mid-90's there was pressure to get certain vaccinations in the healthcare arts in order to "stay safe" and "keep others safe."  Frog in the pot, dude.  And we don't know just how cooked we already are.

While they have been very busy getting us all used to being herded toward ultimate compliance, their plans went beyond forcing vaccinations, to chipping us all, and ultimately to invading our minds.  Public education has been a cornerstone of our American life for at least 100 years, and also a pillar of the communist manifesto.  Wow...  How long have we been schmoozed, lulled, pacified...   Our information, news, and intel is and has been disseminated through the filtered funnel of the heinously twisted p.c. dystopia-mongers, so that we will think and believe what they want us to.  If a disturbance is made in the wavelength of the plan, those responsible are quickly branded as free speech deviants-cancer to societal health, evil.  It's all very Truman Show-esque.  

A whole new ethic (anti-ethic) has been puked up from hell, and because of old political allegiances, good people are deceived into taking the pill and are turning against the Constitution of the United States, common sense, free rational thought, and anyone who would take a stand for the freedom that made this country great.  That freedom is rapidly dissipating. Even as some languish under the ostracism and reproach of friends and family who have sold themselves to this demonic force, I can see it all has to happen.  It is, indeed, meant to happen.  

"Take heed that no one deceives you.  For many will come in My name saying, 'I am He,' and will deceive many. But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled, for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles.  These are the beginnings of sorrows. But watch out for yourselves for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues.  You will be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them...  Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved."  -Mark 13 NKJV

Anything that stands against freedom, love, safety, truth, justice, redemption through Christ, is antichrist. We were a God-fearing, free country, people still believed it in 1987.  That is why people balked at the things mentioned in George Orwell's book.  Now, in 2022 we are watching it play out right in front of our eyes.  The time is coming when everyone must take a stand on what they believe.  We just have to make doubly sure that we are standing on the unmoving truth of God in Christ Jesus.