Undone

 (A eulogy for today).

"A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation,Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted, because they are no more". Matthew 2:18.

Imagine for a moment that you're back at the cusp of the 21st century. Someone you don't know approaches you, looking somewhat troubled, and tells you that in a couple of decades, you'll be buying many of your goods from China, and that this won't happen at your local store, but through a virtual ordering system in America, where a small group of businesses will run most of the world's key media.

You, no doubt, are a little taken aback at such pronouncements, but this strange moment hasn't ended. Your 'visitor' proceeds to say that the day will also arrive when the government of your country will require those deemed 'key workers' in particular places and vocations to be injected with an experimental medicine by Law. Failure to comply will result in the loss of their employment, not to mention a stigma expressed in society due to a fear of "them" being without said experimental medicine.

So, you're now heading for the door, defining your strange assailant as clearly in need of some serious assistance...

When stated like this, it really hits home, because of course all of this is now very much part of what passes for 'the norm' today.

It didn't all start twenty odd years ago. The blood-drenched "modernism" of the French Revolution was the ground in which the seeds of our present decimation really found the conditions necessary to thrive. Proceeding, like the malevolent 'red weed' in War of the Worlds to then crawl and choke every channel of health, uprooting and subverting order in the West, its latest and most acidic incarnation is now evidenced in the 'woke' culture.

Christianity succumbed in the 1950's and 60's, as scripture was substituted wholesale for doubt across the entire spectrum of theology. As the church crumbled, society sunk beneath the deluge of indulgence breaking every moral taboo, not privately but openly, celebrating such in the arts and in shearing forces at play that brought the fragmenting of the cohesion of family life. Business became the realm of greater and greater risk for fast profits, and in all spheres, individual pleasure became the key imperative.

I write this not to give some history lesson, but to remind us, myself included, why we are here. We are truly the children of these times.

The foundation of 'rock' (God-defined identity) of prior times is now a broken, crumbling mess of empty, destructive darkness.

The basis of such evil is clear. As the Canaanites sacrificed their offspring to Moloch, my generation has sacrificed the unborn on the altar of 'medical' procedure (where the 'preference' of the "mother" is upheld over the rights of the child). As shown in the purging of the unwanted in Germany's T-4 "hygiene" units, any society which chooses to shed such blood is marked as fit for only one destination - Gehenna.

It really was only a matter of time before we reached the point where such abominable 'rationality' was applied to all, for all will become marked with the same value required to be complicit, or will face exclusion and purge.

I find myself deeply undone by developments today. I have known moments of great distress for these times, but, in truth, I have been too readily distracted and often, too afraid to speak as clearly and as urgently as required. I freely admit my being too complicit in these rebellious years and can only pray for grace and mercy in these times of need.

Seeking aid from beyond ourselves - the overshadowing of the Most High - is all we can do. The Lord will indeed come soon with ten thousand of His own to judge and to save, and we must surely make ourselves ready.

This era tells us exactly why we are a faith of "Christ Crucified". At the cross, outwardly, Christ expiates the ruin of sin, whilst, in parallel, amidst apparent weakness and failure, He breaks the strength of every principality against Him, and thereby destroys fear and death.

Now we see why His coming was marked with the cry in Ramah - evil can do nothing but destroy. Only Christ brings life.

The night is surely upon us, but will pass. A bright and unending day is fast approaching! Let us, weary of the times, cast off what is dark and clothe ourselves, exclusively, in the perfect, spotless splendour of His righteousness.