Tune in. The world is burning and this is where you know where the fuel comes from
Council on Future Conflict Episode 658: Iran War Day 53, Finders Keepers https://t.co/U0LqlH4LcD via @YouTube
Thanks first and foremost for the prayers.
I’ll ask one last time for a share on this. The butcher bill is due. $9k for the lawyer and a civil compromise. I had to borrow over half that from family. Thankfully my employer stood behind me.
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I’m going to throw this out one last time. Between a Civil Compromise and the Lawyer it cost me $9k and I had to borrow over half of that from family. Thanks for all the prayers, thankfully my employer stood by me.
Trust your instincts.
If you think we're headed for civil war, you are absolutely right.
I know that sounds unimaginable to some people, but history shows us that we're on the same course many nations have been on before that ended that way - more specifically, the Spanish Civil War.
Yet the time to wonder how such a thing could happen is not when there are already bodies in the streets, empty shelves at the grocer, or hospitals overflowing with casualties.
The time is now.
You are on the precipice, dangling over the edge, looking down at a generations long war of attrition with your fellow man.
How did we get here?
Let us continue to use history as our guide.
Shortly before the outbreak of civil war in Spain, Cardinal Segura of Toledo wrote perhaps the most important letter to come from the Church at that time.
Heed his words.
"If we remain quiet and idle, if we allow ourselves to give way to apathy and timidity; if we leave open the way to those who are attempting to destroy religion, or if we expect the benevolence of our enemies to secure the triumph of our ideals, we shall have no right to lament when bitter reality shows us that we had victory in our hands yet knew not how to fight like intrepid warriors prepared to succumb gloriously.'
His letter rings as true today as it did almost 100 years ago.
The scathing criticism of Spain's passive inaction in the face of the the new Republic's secular policies would lead to the destruction of the Church if not stopped then, and it will do the same now.
So what can be done in the face of such evil and imminent destruction?
How can we face such impossible odds?
Let the life of Nehemiah be an inspiration for the church to break from it's over-spiritualization of the battle it's in, and to deal with the very real and physical threat it faces.
"From that day on, half of my servants carried on the work while half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows and the breastplates: and the captains were behind the whole house of Judah.
Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens took their load with one hand doing the work and the other holding a weapon."
I love that line.
Their load in one hand and a weapon in the other.
It's time for the Christian man to do the same.
You've got enemies?
Good.
Face them, and enjoy the opportunity to spend your life in a worthy cause and to preserve the Bride of Christ; his Church.
“‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.”
Isaiah 58:3-12