All Things Changing
03 Jan 2025
Discerning the signs of our times amidst massive structural shifts
Limited resources
Searching “earth’s finite resources” on the internet reveals limits to how much can profitably be extracted from the earth. Since the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, mineral resources have been ruthlessly exploited for human progress. World population has increased from about 1 billion in 1800 to around 8 billion today, and continues to increase. But ideological wars now exacerbate food and water shortages.
Wars have been paid for by excessive borrowing. So has social welfare. Banking effectively adds what is loaned to the ‘credit’ side of the balance sheet. In civilised nations the supply of money has always been limited by repayment, with interest, of what is borrowed. Now, however, there is such a monstrous amount of debt that it appears impossible to repay. One solution would be to create money as needed; but then tyrants could gain control of the supply of it, and consequently of the use of it.
Their ideology stems from a belief that every faith in the world contributes to an avatar of humankind, namely to ‘The Divine Nature of Man’.
Their ideology stems from a belief that every faith in the world contributes to an avatar of humankind, namely to ‘The Divine Nature of Man’.
These troublesome issues are camouflaged by monetising emissions of carbon dioxide. And frightening allegations about new viral diseases test governance and reveal those who might cause trouble through their awareness of the real underlying problems.
Secular solutions
Secular thinkers in powerful places believe they can liberate the world by reducing population and disciplining everyone to treat each other fraternally as equals. Allowing immigration across national borders is an attempt to force integration of cultures by mixing them. They also believe it necessary to make people’s habits change through subtle behavioural psychology and by imposing technocratic transhumanism, which is the instillation of technology into human bodies, to enable powerful internet control. Their ideology stems from a belief that every faith in the world contributes to an avatar of humankind, namely to ‘The Divine Nature of Man’.1
Judaism and Christianity are rejected as divisive. People do not seem to know that demonic aggression from ‘gods’ opposed to the God of Israel can never be appeased, and that the only way to preserve life in the face of demonic violence is either to take spiritual authority over it or make war against it (Matt. 16:19).
But the majority of people are obediently compliant.
But the majority of people are obediently compliant.
In order to disrupt previously accepted truth, words are deconstructed. ‘Woke’ language is insisted upon, with prohibition of ‘hate speech.’ A multitude of assumed facts are adduced for every conception.2 Thus political, religious, educational, medical, legal and banking authorities are no longer trusted as much as they used to be. We are subtly manipulated into accepting homosexual marriage, self-declared gender, drugging to suppress every distress, and the eugenics of euthanasia and abortion (not least, to reduce population), along with 15-minute cities, removal of public toilets, indoctrination of children in school, surveillance, job losses for those who refuse to accept such new measures, and so on. Insecurity and stress are causing mental health problems.
But the majority of people are obediently compliant. Fallen human nature can see no further. And they will follow a leader who appears able to get them out of trouble (see Dan 11:32). Mass formation psychosis has been diagnosed.3
How long O Lord?
Christians in whom Holy Spirit lives see an increasingly severe multi-front war against them. Yet those of us who know Scripture will understand that through Isaiah, God told Israel: “You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving. This people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn and be healed.” (Isa 6: 9-10).
These things have occurred, and more will occur yet, and many people are now benighted by that spirit of stupor.
These things have occurred, and more will occur yet, and many people are now benighted by that spirit of stupor.
Isaiah then asked God, “For how long, O Lord?” And God replied, ”Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken. And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.” (Isa 6: 11-13.)
These things have occurred, and more will occur yet, and many people are now benighted by that spirit of stupor (Rom 11:8). But the stump is coming to life again and Christians in whom Holy Spirit lives are grafted into that stump (Rom 11:17-21).
In control
Few people really see God working His purposes out, but He is totally in charge. He has told us not only what will occur in future but also how to discern current signs of our times (Amos 3:7, 4:13; Luke 12:54-57). Genuine Christians need to know that Almighty God will show them how to follow Him and how to overcome in hard times, even if they lose their job, or get sick or poisoned (Mark 16:17-18).
Truth is not determined by human thought alone.
Truth is not determined by human thought alone.
All authority has been given to Jesus (Matt 28:18). He has overcome this world (John 16:33). It is necessary to receive and listen to Holy Spirit (Matt 3:11, John 7:37-39), for then “…the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
Holy Spirit brings self-control (Gal 5:23) and discernment of truth (John 14:15-18). Truth is not determined by human thought alone. Truth guides us by His Spirit as we deal with experience and facts in the true light of Jesus Christ (John 1:5). If we abide in Lord Jesus with sensitivity, we shall follow truth which sets us free, and we shall perceive whether or not our thoughts, emotions and motivations are being manipulated (John 8:32). His grace and peace will show us the way (John 14:6).
But God tells us, “Stay alert!” (Mark 13:35-37).
Endnotes
1. As in the Temple of Understanding, an NGO of United Nations.
2. The philosophical quest to know the ‘essence’ of what exists was pursued long ago amongst the Platonists. More recently GWF Hegel has been a chief proponent. From such thinking comes an assumption, for example, that both male and female emanate from a single creative force. Progress is assumed to depend on incorporating such ‘essential’ notions into people’s minds. In Genesis 2:17 and 3:17-24 this is described as the desire of fallen humankind to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and to be like God. God tells us in Genesis that everything was created by the word of God, and in Deuteronomy the word of God says, “The secret things belong to the Lord….” (29:28).
3. See The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmit (Chelsea Green, 2022).
John Gordon was formerly a GP, a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He is now a licensed minister in The Order of Jacob’s Well.
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