It Will Take a Revolution

Jim ONeill / Canada Free Press

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history…the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer—Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) Dedication to “Rules For Radicals”

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!—Isaiah 14:12

This article actually started out to be about the Ebola outbreak, but as I was concluding the article my muse (Paraclete) kept nudging me in a different direction. The next thing I knew I had written this article, which doesn’t have much, if anything, to do with Ebola at all.

What started me going off track, or ontrack, as the case may be, was the subject of population control/reduction. There are currently a number of influential people who are enamored with the idea of reducing the world’s population—some of them would like to reduce it quite substantially. That is not “conspiracy theory” craziness—a modicum of research will show it to be a valid concern.

In a connect the dots manner the subject of population reduction led me on to other concerns, which in turn led to still others, until I was confronting a whole host of issues, and trying to make sense of it all.

For example: There are Iranian radicals who are just itching to start a catastrophic war so as to bring about the return of the Mahdi, the 12^th Imam. There are any number of Christians who believe we are in the Last Days, and are in fact praying for Armageddon. There is ISIS run amok. There is the Ebola outbreak. There are scientists working in revolutionary fields such as transhumanism and nanotechnology, who have no functioning moral compass. Relativism, multiculturalism, and arrogant secularism run rampant. The list goes on and on.

Expansive joy of surrender to God

The world seems to be rushing ever more quickly toward some sort of closure, and many of us sense it. The popularity of dystopian books andmovies during the past decade appears to bolster such a view of ourzeitgeist.

What follows is how I make sense of it all. I’ll run it up the flagpole and if anyone salutes, that’s fine, and if no one salutes, that’s fine too—it’s just my take on things. I apologize in advance if you find my article a somewhat bumpy ride—the nature of the material necessitated numerous abrupt segues; else the article would have quickly and easily turned into an unwieldy tome. That being said, let me begin.

Behind it all; behind all the glamour and glitz, sturm und drang and razzmatazz, is the struggle between good and evil. That struggle is not the ultimate reality, spiritually speaking, but for most of us here on earth it is a conflict of some import.

I have found that a helpful way of looking at this conflict is to see it as a struggle between ego and spirit; between the contractive pride of self-aggrandizement, and the expansive joy of surrender to God.

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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/66725