Hope in a Hopeless World
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's "The Defender" (scroll down) website offers a consistently good albeit discouraging selection of critical issues unfolding around us.
This morning, as I scanned these depressing headlines, the thought occurred to me that we are witnessing the inexorable progress of a multi-faceted, worldwide Juggernaut of Evil - grinding forward with an unstoppable momentum, pulverizing any opposition in its path, driven by and feeding upon the deeply rooted intellectual, moral and spiritual vacuity and corruption of the world's peoples - people who, collectively, are devoid of the intellectual, moral and spiritual virtues and grit necessary effectively to oppose this towering machinery of evil or even remotely understand what is happening to them.
I believe nothing short of divine intervention will prevail against this evil monstrosity, whose hellish, satanic objective is the enslavement, misery and destruction of mankind. Thinking otherwise - perhaps imagining that winning an election or two will turn things around - is, in my view, a rather considerable pipe dream. Human evil on the scale now manifest everywhere around us - intellectual, moral and spiritual rot deeply entrenched in the souls of men - will not magically evaporate in the face of a lost election or two:
"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and WILL BE, FOREVER AND EVER, UNLESS he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Mosiah 3:19
Accordingly, we see the fallen state of man - the "natural man", his intellectual, moral and spiritual depravity, the wellspring of all the evil in the world - is utterly, absolutely and forever intractable and irredeemable, UNLESS he freely chooses to embrace and submit to a highly specific and demanding process - the Atonement of Jesus Christ - that alone has power to transform his corrupt nature.
Realistically, what are the chances that sufficient numbers of the world's peoples will so choose to submit - especially in time to stop or even slow the aforesaid, rapidly accelerating great Juggernaut of Evil? Does the image of a snowball in hell come to mind?
Seems to me that what we see unfolding around us - for those who credit Judeo/Christian scripture and have eyes to see and ears to hear - is perfectly consistent with what has long been foretold. The Signs of the Times are screaming in our faces. One has to be scripturally ignorant and spiritually insensate not to see it. As scripture makes plain, there is no going back to the kinder and gentler days of yore.
Quoting from modern scripture, here is what lies ahead:
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face. Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord. And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Doctrine & Covenants 112:23-26
Rough road ahead. Not a pretty picture of things to come.
I am reminded here of the feelings expressed by the Nephite military leader and prophet, Mormon, who, in the last days of the previously enlightened but then corrupt and evil Nephite nation, in the final decades of the 4th Century AD, gathered together all the records kept by his people over their thousand-year history (600-BC-400 AD), abridged them and inscribed the abridgement onto plates made of gold - a historical record the modern world has in the form of the Book of Momon. In command of the Nephite armies and facing the last great battle that would extinguish them as a people, knowing the wickedness of the unrepentant Nephites to be beyond the pale, knowing they had been rejected by God, Mormon wrote the following:
"And it came to pass that I did go forth among the Nephites, and did repent of the oath which I had made that I would no more assist them; and they gave me command again of their armies, for they looked upon me as though I could deliver them from their afflictions. But behold, I was without hope, for I knew the judgments of the Lord which should come upon them; for they repented not of their iniquities, but did struggle for their lives without calling upon that Being who created them."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Mormon 5:1-2
It would appear, then, that we are left in a Mormon-like predicament - obliged as he was to fight the battle to the last ditch (Mormon did not survive) - while knowing God has set his face against an evil world, knowing that our battle against the Great Juggernaut of Evil cannot and will not be won by worldly means.
So what options do we have? Ideally, if we haven't already, should we not consider coming to terms with Jesus Christ, accept his invitation, get on the right side of his Atonement and trust in his deliverance? Why “procrastinate the day of your repentance”? Why not attend to this bit of critical business while the day lasts, for soon "cometh the night of darkness, wherein there can be no labor performed."
Why live in fear when we are offered through Christ a “peace which passeth all understanding”? If we do get straight with Jesus, we have this promise: "...if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear." Why not get this part right, then, without fear, with peaceful hearts, while doing all we can, wait and watch for The Great Day of the Lord?
Or, alternatively, you can do what Mormon's unrepentant people did as they awaited their destruction at the hands of the vastly superior numbers of the Lamanite armies who were about to sweep them off the face of the earth as the rising sun does the morning dew:
"And it came to pass that my people, with their wives and their children, did now behold the armies of the Lamanites marching towards them; and with that awful fear of death which fills the breasts of all the wicked, did they await to receive them." - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Mormon 6:7
Torquemada
October 13, 2022
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