In the very beginning, Christ the Eternal Word created order. He created the law of physics, assigned all of the celestial bodies to their proper places, divided the waters, made land appear, etc. (See Genesis 1).
He likewise created mankind, who was made in His very image and likeness. Thus, man was granted a gift to have a share in expressing the mind of God in a limited degree, which is why Man has rationality and therefore free will. Hence, man was granted a gift in assisting God in keeping order (not that God needed an assistant, but willfully shared limited authority with Man out of His Love, as, again, they were made in His image):
“Then the Lord God took the man He formed and put him in the garden to tend and keep it.”
– Genesis 2:15.
Divine Inspiration tells us that this gift was abused, and that order was rebelled against, as in the case of our first parents who ate of the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3). Thus, God’s original plan and intention for us to never die was ruined by the fault of man; who dethroned God and His will from their hearts and enthroned themselves and their own will.
And what was the offspring of it, save: corruption, sin, and death? And from what sprouted from this poisonous plant but war, destruction, enmities, famines, and the like? If dethroning God from one’s heart individually brings forth spiritual, mental, and even physical mayhem and internal bitter poison; how much more the world?
Look at Cain’s refusal to offer a pure sacrifice, to which Abel became a victim by his brother’s envy; or man’s refusal to obey God’s commandment to subdue the earth, and as a result was divided into nations for their crime (Genesis 11:1-9).
Scripture also tells us that entire governments and rulers of nations would continue in man’s initial rebellion of order:
“The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers gather together Against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, “Let us break their bands, And cast away their yokes from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh at them; The Lord shall mock them. Then shall He speak to them in His wrath And trouble them in His anger.”
– Psalms 2:2-5.
The prophet Solomon once wrote under Divine Wisdom:
“What has been is what will be, And what has been done is what will be done. There is nothing new under the sun” – Ecclesiastes 1:9.
So, it should not be a surprise that chaos in our own time has come to fruition. This is not only limited to political leaders within the West, but all throughout the earth that refuse to submit to Christ. (Confession alone is not sufficient, but personal subjection of the will).
In any event, an important factor to consider is that the United States was the first country to be founded upon Freemasonry which has within its core doctrines de-throned Jesus Christ and has enthroned pagan deities and man’s limited rationality as being the enlightenment to the world.
Not convinced? Consider that the French gifted the United States the Statue of Liberty. More specifically, from Edouard de Laboulaye who was a proud freemason himself. It’s not a coincidence that there are plates on the side of the Statue of Liberty which confirm that it was erected with Freemasonic rites, more specifically, Scottish rituals. I am open to being fact checked and refuted on this matter if objective reason is in my opponents favor. But I would also offer the challenge to visiting the statue in person if God permits, or to at least investigate the web for themselves which is most certainly accessible to them.
And to what does the statue itself resemble, but the Roman goddess ‘Libertas’ who is supposed to be, according to the elites: “La Liberté éclairant le monde”, viz. “Liberty Enlightening the World”?
How tragic for man to enthrone false gods and look to them for light, when Christ alone is that light (John 8:12).
Hear the words of St. Athanasius:
“But men once more in their perversity having set at nought, in spite of all this, the grace given them, so wholly rejected God, and so darkened their soul, as not merely to forget their idea of God, but also to fashion for themselves one invention after another. For not only did they grave idols for themselves, instead of the truth, and honour things that were not before the living God, and serve the creature rather than the Creator,” but, worst of all, they transferred the honour of God even to stocks and stones and to every material object and to men, and went even further than this, as we have said in the former treatise” – (On the Incarnation, 11:4).
In summary, the country, and the world, is in need of subjection to Christ the King for Order and Peace. Nevertheless, despite the chaos in the world, have no reason to be afraid. Christ had promised of these things, but also gave us hope:
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
– John 16:33.
We have a God who has the power to rebuke storms (Luke 8:24). How much more tribulations? Perhaps this is the worlds chastisement, and our pruning to help us grow in holiness and attain salvation?
This concludes this post.
Faith Unto Ages 