More Complicated Than A War Against China Or The Deep State

 


I am afraid that this new cold war is far more complicated than just being a war against China, its allies, or even the Deep State.  The following item from The Spectator, however informative, only scratches the surface of what is really at work. [1]  It is a war that is being waged, not just abroad, but also within our civic and academic institutions, within our entertainment industry, private sector, and even within our respective places of worship, but this warfare is not merely a militant, economic, political, academic, or even a social one though it may manifest itself on any and all of these fronts, but it is a war goes back further than even the cold war with Russia, than even WWII.
 
This war is ideological and spiritual in nature and this war that is being waged is not merely against China, nor is it even merely against bad actors within our own borders.  It goes far deeper than that.  It is a war that is ideological and spiritual in its nature and the enemies with whom we are at war from both without and within and their policies are driven by a founding set of tenets; a philosophy, a creed, just as the liberties and way of life are also founded upon a set of principles, a philosophy, and a creed, and yet we are so very ignorant of the foundational doctrines that drive both sides of this conflict and if we knew what it was that truly inspires and drives the actions of our adversaries, then we would exactly what it is that we need to address and attack.  And if we knew what it was that upholds the very things we hold dear, then we would know what it is that we need to be preserving and defending on a daily basis.
 
Ronald Reagan had once said of freedom:
 
 
 
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on to them to do the same, or one day, we will
spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children
what it was once like in the United States where men were free. [2]
 
 
 
 
And yet the Communist, globalist aligned, and Islamic nations have done a far better job in fighting for, protecting, preserving, and handing down their doctrines to upcoming generations than nations founded upon Christian principles have done in fighting for, protecting, and preserving, and passing down to upcoming generations the very principles that have preserved their cultures and ways of life.
 
And not only that, the wicked forces at work have assaulted the very foundational principles that brings and preserves liberty in nations to great effect.  They have infiltrated our respective places of faith and worship, our academic and educational institutions, the media, our entertainment industry, private and corporate sectors, and finally, the very halls of our governing powers and from there cause many to question the very foundational principles and belief systems upon which their respective society was founded and even lead them into rejecting those principles altogether and from there, indoctrinate and poison their hearts and minds with their own creed be it fascism, socialism, Communism, Islamism, globalism or anything else they seek to conform the society that they have infiltrated to and in the process, they will shame, castigate, vilify, marginalize, and ultimately silence any who stubbornly hold to the very traditions and principles by which the society in which they have been raised and have lived is defined and that is how a Capitalist/Democratic society becomes a Communist totalitarian society or how a professing Christian society may eventually be overtaken by Islam (Asia Minor and North Africa are historically prime examples of this; once bastions of Christian civilization now under the iron fist of Islam)
 
The western world is currently experiencing that undermining of the once rich cultural heritage that they had possessed by a variety of different forces.  We see this currently happening in Great Britain and throughout all of Europe for that matter in which the people there are facing two clear and present dangers: Islamic migrants from without and globalist/far left powers from within; both are actively undermining and overthrowing European culture and way of life as we know it has been.  We have also seen the liberties once enjoyed in nations like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand being eroded away by socialist and globalist powers, and even in our nation of America, our own liberties are under constant assault, we are facing a migrant crisis of our own with millions of unvetted illegal immigrants pouring across our southern border, threats from abroad, treachery from within, an increasingly corrupt government at every level and branch that takes little to no meaningful action against rioters who loot and burn cities but yet will hunt down and jail generally peaceful and civil protesters at a political rally and even just for being there nor will they prosecute the crimes of those whom they favor, but they will swiftly prosecute their political and ideological opponents for crimes with virtually no evidence of them ever committing and furthermore, they cut off access to resources within our own borders by which we can attain economic independence in the name of so-called climate change while forcing us to depend on foreign resources, even from nations hostile to us.
 
The civic institutions we depend on to uphold our civil rights, protect us from those who would do us harm, and efficiently administer justice, are instead committing acts of injustice, refuse to protect law-abiding people from criminal activity, violate our God-given freedoms that our own respective Constitution was designed to uphold, and even seek to deprive us of the means to defend ourselves from any and all threats, and impose on us excessive taxation and burdensome regulations that make it difficult, if not impossible to make ends meet.
 
The things of faith are constantly challenged, ridiculed, and misrepresented, the concept of the family is being redefined to be something that it by nature never was, our academic institutions are poisoning the minds of our children and youth against the respective faith and moral principles that their parents have sought to bring them up in, we are being bombarded by lies by mainstream media, (I call it the mainstream manure pile) and our entertainment industry spews forth misleading propaganda and glorifies depravity and perversion.
 
In the name of so-called tolerance, it is demanded, even of those who might otherwise not, to affirm that which they deem to be abhorrent and perverse behavior or else be branded an intolerant bigot with the private sector, social media, academia, and even some civic institutions weaponized against them, and if parents refuse to affirm certain delusions held by their children, the civic authorities may then remove them from their care and custody, and in some nations, if you refuse to address certain persons by their preferred pronouns, you may be fined, imprisoned, or even both.
 
And in the academic establishments, challenge and dissent from the favored curriculum results in termination if you happen to be a teacher or a professor or a failing grade if you are a student and what is even worse is that those who are supposed to be speaking out against and boldly confronting the things of evil remain silent and are cowardly when they should be courageous and as a result, evil prevails when it otherwise might not.
 
There has been a great divide in our nation between two different factions and two different ideologies and not between genders, skin-color, economic or social classes, nor between different age groups, but rather there is a war between two different ideological, philosophical, and spiritual forces for the minds, hearts, and souls of the people.
 
On one side, there is a creed and ideology that declares that there is a God in Heaven by whom all men are made and who has made all men equal and has endowed them with “certain unalienable rights” which is made evident in the opening paragraphs of our Declaration of Independence [3]  
 
On the other side, there is a creed and ideology that denies the existence of God and which denies that all men are created equal and which declares that our rights are not determined and decided by a God who created the heavens and the earth, but by the governing powers that be.
 
Our founders believed and appealed to a God they believed was not only the source of all truth, but also the source of their liberty
 
And the question we have to ask ourselves is who do we look to as the most trustworthy and just authority?  The authority of God to whom our founders regularly appealed? Or to the authority of men who make appeals to none other but themselves, their own strength, skill, talent, and intellect?
 
There is no middle ground in this age-long war for the souls of men.  We must ultimately choose one side or the other and one side will emerge eternally victorious and the other side will go down in eternal defeat.
 
And it has been going on even before the world was created and it began when a certain angelic being who had once served before the throne of God, in his pride, thought he could take for himself that which belonged to God alone and as a consequence, he and those who sided with him were cast from the positions they had once held in Heaven. (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19)
 
That angel who had rebelled against his Creator was called Lucifer who then became better known as Satan or the Devil and after having been cast from the position he had once held, he with subtlety, in the form of a serpent, infiltrated a newly created earth and there he deceived the first woman whom God had created whose name was Eve into eating of a certain fruit from a tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) and after having eaten of that forbidden fruit, she gave some to her husband Adam who was the first man whom God had created and he ate of it also. (Gen. 3:6)
 
The lies with which the serpent caused man to commit the first recorded transgression against God was as follows:
 
He falsely assured them that they would not die and caused them to doubt the Word of God.
And he deceitfully told them that they would become more divine and enlightened thus causing them to think that God was withholding them from their complete and optimal potential. (Gen. 3:4-5)
 
But when they ate of that fruit the only thing that they were enlightened to was a nakedness of which they were embarrassed and ashamed. (Gen. 3:7) They never felt any superior or any more powerful than they had been before they had eaten of that forbidden fruit.  If anything at all, they felt lower and inferior than they had before.  And worst of all, the sentence of death was pronounced upon them just as they were warned (Gen. 3:19) because when they had eaten of that forbidden fruit, something, a condition, entered into man that was not intended for them and which inwardly corrupted him and thereby brought upon him the sentence of death.
 
The adversary of our souls had promised Adam and Eve what seemed like a greater liberty than what they already had, but that greater liberty turned out to be a bondage that neither had anticipated and that bondage and tyranny is that of sin and death but the sentence of death did not stop with Adam or his wife Eve.  The inward corruption which entered into them was then passed down to all of mankind (Rom. 5:12) since it is from Adam and Eve all of mankind descends and since we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, the corruption that entered into them has also been passed down to all of us, thus also making us into that which God never intended us to be and as a consequence, we all die (Rom. 6:23) and that ultimate cause of death is that corrupted condition of our very nature; that condition being what the Bible calls sin and it is into sin we are all born and by sin do we all die, but the consequences of Adam’s disobedience did not confine themselves to him or mankind, but the effects of sin have spread throughout all of creation because sin taints, distorts, corrupts, and perverts more than we can possibly comprehend which is why it is written that the earth groans and travails in pain to this day. (Rom. 8:19-22)
 
And because of Adam’s disobedience, the dominion that mankind would have had over all of the earth (Gen. 1:26) was diminished because the transgression of Adam gave Satan justification to claim lordship over the people, nations, kingdoms, and empires of the world. (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he is called the prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and worst of all, sin into which we are born and by which we die has caused us to be separated and estranged from the God who made us and who is without sin and therefore cannot allow that which is in sin into the Kingdom of Heaven lest Heaven be defiled as the earth has been defiled and because of sin ever present within us, even our own goodness and righteousness falls short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) which can be described as being nothing more than moral perfection because sin is not just an evil or inappropriate act nor a thoughtless cruel word spoken.  It also corrupts our very thoughts and motives, darkens our attitudes, and hardens and blackens our hearts which is why it is written that it is written that we are not defiled by that which is from without but we are already defiled from within (Mt. 15:11, 18-20) and therefore an outward performance on our part is insufficient for our redemption for our redemption can only be possible through an inward cleansing (Mt. 23:6) and an inward transformation.
 
And just as Satan had promised a liberty that appeared greater than what mankind was already created in, so too have authoritarian figures throughout history been known to promise things better than what has already been in place, only for that which is promised, instead of being the remedy for the present evils and imperfections, ends up being worse than what it had been purported to cure.
 
But because the God who made us is not willing that any of us should perish in eternal damnation, but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) He lovingly and mercifully sent into the world on our behalf His only begotten Son who is called Jesus Christ, who Himself is without sin (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) to take upon Himself the demanded penalty for all sin and because He was without sin, He was that perfect and unblemished sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) required to take away the sins of the world which He did through His death upon the cross on which His blood was shed and then after having through His death and the shedding of His blood purchased our redemption, He was then raised from the dead on the third day so that we by in Him by faith would be justified (Rom. 4:25) if we will, fully trusting in His redemptive work and in sincere repentance call upon the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Rom. 10:13) and upon the forgiveness of sins are we reconciled to the God from whom we were once estranged (2 Cor. 5:18) and are spiritually transformed and made anew (2 Cor. 5:17) and it is this spiritual transformation that causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven, (Mt. 6:33)
to no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty, (Jn. 14:6) no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, (Mt. 6:25-33) recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God,
to no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
 
And it is this redemption found in Christ and this inward change done in us by Him where liberty begins because it is His truth by which we are set free (Jn. 8:32) for it is by His truth that we are led the salvation that He offers us through the forgiveness of sins if we will with a repentant heart call upon Him to do so and in being set free of our sins, we are also set free from an everlasting damnation of unimaginable torment.  And if we will but declare ourselves to have no other ruler or king than that of our Creator, then we can boldly and confidently declare before all powers that be that our rights and liberties are solely determined by the God who made us and not by any man or governing power.
 
I would challenge anyone to show me just one example of how there could possibly be a greater liberty without God because as far as history is concerned, godlessness never brought peace nor did it ever bring the liberty it promised.  All that has ever come from it is rampant evil, lawlessness, misery, and oppression.
 
And what has banning prayer from school and scripture reading from the classroom, and removing Ten Commandment displays ever done to better our society or uphold our liberties? It hasn’t done either.
 
Instead, what has resulted from it is a descent into spiritual darkness, a moral decline, a decline in the quality of our education, an increase in degeneracies and perversions practically unheard of beforehand, immorality and corruption within the institutions to which we looked to influence and govern the course of our society of the likes we have never seen, vulnerability to our enemies from without and within, constant violations and assaults upon our God-given liberties, and dangers of an economic collapse of the likes not seen since the Great Depression.
 
Many fight so hard for economic, academic, and even social freedom, but the liberty we need to first be seeking is spiritual freedom; liberty from sin and Hell, a liberty that transforms our very souls and raises up to a newness of life.  For when we cry to the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and submit to His authority in our lives, we find a freedom that we will never find from anything, anyone, or anywhere else because it is a freedom that is not an outward freedom but an inward freedom.
 
Even our founders understood this concept, including those who may not have been followers of Christ.  For example, John Adams said of our Constitution that is was intended only for a religious and moral people and not for any other [4] and a French statesmen, in a correspondence with his own respective government said that the secret to the greatness of America in his day was not in her factories, her schools, or even in her civic institutions.  He said that the secret lay in America’s places of worship:
 
 
 
I sought everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered the church. It was there, as I listened to the soul-equalizing and soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from Sabbath to Sabbath upon the masses of the people, that I learned why America was great and free, and why France was a slave [5]
 
 
 
As it is written, “seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Mt. 6:33)
 
Please do not misunderstand me when I say this, but I believe that economic, political, social, and individual liberties are vital and important for the preservation of a free, prosperous, and safe society, but before we seek these liberties, we must first seek spiritual liberty because slavery and bondage do not begin from without, they begin from within our own selves and for those of us who have attained an inward spiritual liberty in Christ, we also know that just as we have been made spiritually free by the blood of Christ, so one day, the external liberties that we seek will also eventually be added as we look forward to the day that we will also be made free of bodily death when our corruptible forms are transformed into that which is incorruptible and in which dwells no sin for where there is no sin, there is no death (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) and then shall the usurper of earth face his final defeat and be cast out of the world along with all who have followed him. (Rev. 20:10-15)
 
And finally, the creation itself shall be liberated from the curse that came upon it because of the sin of man when it is made anew and when it is made anew, it shall be a new and better world in which there is no sin, no death, nor any decay, nor any evil, darkness, suffering, grief, pain, sorrow, misery, hardship, or adversity, but only unity, harmony, love, peace, contentment, happiness, and joy before the Lord God Almighty. (Rev. 21-22)
 
Today decide for yourself whether or not you are a free soul under God or the property of another entity because you will be conformed to one master or another and this much I can tell you, the rulership of God will demand far less of you, then the authority of men, and if you would be a free soul under God, and if you have not done so already, then I would urge you reader to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who is able to make you into a free soul under God.  It is but a sincere simple prayer of repentance away:
 
 
 
“Lord Jesus I need you.
 
 
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
 
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
 
 
Amen.”
 
 
Know that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
 
 
 
End notes:
 
 
 
1.  Hunter Oswald, “Winning The New Cold War,” The Spectator, August 3, 2024
https://spectator.org/winning-the-new-cold-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winning-the-new-cold-war
 
2.  Ronald Reagan, “Encroaching Control,”
Given before the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce on March 30, 1961
https://archive.org/details/RonaldReagan-EncroachingControl
 
3.  The Declaration Of Independence, 1776
 
4.  John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence
and second President of the United States, "To The Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division  of the Militia of Massachusetts", 11 October, 1798; Printed in "Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull" by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke
(New York, 1848) pp. 265-266
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=43oEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Revolutionary+Services+and+Civil+Life+of+General+William+Hull&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu9Ij3vajiAhUJSN8KHTJiCbAQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Revolutionary%20Services%20and%20Civil%20Life%20of%20General%20William%20Hull&f=false
 
5.  Madison Clinton Peters, “Empty Pews & Selections from Other Sermons on Timely Topics,” pg. 35, Philadelphia A. T. Zeising & Co. , Printers And Publishers, December, 1886
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Empty_Pews_Selections_from_Other_Sermons/f54PAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
 
 
 
Scripture references:
 
 
 
1.  Isaiah 14:11-21
 
2.  Ezekiel 28:12-19
 
3.  Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
 
4.  Genesis 3:6
 
5.  Genesis 3:4-5
 
6.  Genesis 3:7
 
7.  Genesis 3:19
 
8.  Romans 5:12
 
9.  Romans 6:23
 
10.  Romans 8:19-22
 
11.  Genesis 1:26
 
12.  Matthew 4:8-9
 
13.  Luke 4:6-7
 
14.  John 12:31, 16:11
 
15.  Romans 3:23
 
16.  Matthew 15:11, 17-20
 
17.  Matthew 23:6
 
18.  2 Peter 3:9
 
19.  2 Corinthians 5:21
 
20.  Hebrews 4:15
 
21.  Hebrews 7:26-27
 
22.  Romans 4:25
 
23.  Romans 10:13
 
24.  2 Corinthians 5:18
 
25.  2 Corinthians 5:17
 
26.  Matthew 6:33
 
27.  John 14:6
 
28.  Revelation 21-22
 
29.  Matthew 6:25-33
 
30.  Matthew 10:28
 
31.  John 8:32
 
32.  1 Corinthians 15:51-55
 
33.  1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
 
34.  Revelation 20:10-15