In order for MAGA to be in power for
fifty years or more it is going to take more than just political changes and
changes in policy. It is going to require
change from the bottom up and not just the top down because if there is only change
from the top down, then the desired policy changes will be short-lived but if change
begins from the bottom up, then the desired policy and social changes will be
longer lasting but why just settle for 50 years when we ought to keep MAGA in
power for as long as possible?
And when I say that in order to bring
about not just a temporary change to our nation, but a longer lasting change from
the bottom up instead of the top down, what do I mean by that? The same thing
that I have been stating in several other blogposts: You can bail out all the swamp
water from the top you want, but unless you locate the clog that is keeping the
swamp water in and remove it, repair the breaches through which it is flowing,
and rip out the fountains from which the swampy water is coming forth, and replace
it with fountains from which will come forth clean water, the swamp water is
just going to keep pouring in and the political changes taking place are going
to be short-lived.
But first, the clog that is holding in
the filthy water, the breaches through which the water is pouring in, and the
fountains from which they are coming forth have to first be identified before
they can be dealt with and we still have yet to identify them.
Now, to his credit, commentator Steve
Bannon seems to understand that it is not enough to change things at the top,
but in order to have lasting change, there are changes that also have to take
place in lower level sectors in order for the desired political changes to
maintained. In an interview with a
publication called The Times, Bannon stated:
We have to institutionalise the
populist nationalist revolution in this country, and you only do that by
seizing the institutions, purging them, reforming them, and remaking them in
the image and likeness of the American people, the working men and women in
this country. [1]
And the institutions that Bannon may
be referring to are our academic institutions and places of education in
particular as well as the media, our private sector, entertainment industry,
and even our own respective places of worship, and while I would agree that
there needs to be serious reform within our institutions, that is easier said than
done, is far more difficult to do than political reform at the top, and will
take time to accomplish and as for remaking them in the image and the likeness
of the American people, we first have to discuss what it is that defines and
image and likeness of the American people as we are a diverse people with diverse
interests, priorities, and belief systems and we are much more divided
politically, philosophically, and even more critically, spiritually than we
have ever been before and so in order for our institutions to be remade in the
likeness and image of the people, they would have to reflect the shared interests
of the people and represent what the people can be united under and in which
they can be in agreement and what the people themselves have to determine is what
they want their institutions to reflect not just politically, but also
academically, economically, socially, and above all, morally and spiritually
and the duration of the MAGA movement and its success depends upon what spirit
it is willing to embrace. Let us all
hope and pray that it will embrace the right spirit for if the MAGA movement
embraces the right spirit, it will serve as a shining city on a hill and a candle
in the darkness, but if does not embrace the right spirit, then it will simply
fade away into the darkness and will no longer have the impact and influence on
the national and world stages that it currently has now and what a tragedy that
would be which is why I implore everyone to examine what spirit it is that you
are embracing. Are you embracing a
spirit of light or a spirit of darkness?
If you find yourself embracing a spirit of darkness, then I urge you
reader, turn away from that spirit of darkness and embrace that spirit of light
who is the Father of lights (Jas. ) and
the Father of lights is the very God who made the heavens and the earth and all
that it is in them and it is His light that dispels the darkness and that
includes the darkness of the soul and conscience and the blackness of our
hearts and when God made the Heavens and the Earth, He created the world to not
be a place of darkness but a place of light in which there was no death, no
evil, and no suffering or pain of any kind but it was a world of peace,
happiness, and contentment until the day a spirit of darkness came into the
world but before he became a spirit of darkness, he had once served at the
throne of God Almighty as a covering cherub named Lucifer but he became so
lifted up in pride that he tried to make himself equal to God (Is. 14:11-21,
Ezek. 28:12-19) and as a consequence, he and all who sided with him were cast
from their places in Heaven and it was in that day that this Lucifer had become
Satan by which he is best known and it was he who crept into the newly created
world where he led the first man Adam and the first woman Eve being Adam’s wife
to eat a fruit from a certain tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil of which they had been warned to not eat from or else they would surely
die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but rather than heed the warning that God had given
them, they listened to the lies of that spirit of darkness who came to them in
the form of a serpent who falsely assured them that if they ate of that forbidden
fruit that they would not die as they had been warned but that instead, they would
receive wisdom that they had never had before and even become divine in nature
(Gen. 3:4-5) and when they had eaten of that forbidden fruit, instead of receiving
the wisdom that the serpent told that they would receive, the only knowledge
they received was the shame that came upon their nakedness after they had eaten
of that forbidden fruit (Gen. 3:7) and instead of attaining a status superior
to the one in which they had been created, they fell to an inferior status and
the sentence of death of which they were warned was pronounced upon them to
which they eventually succumbed (Gen. 3:19) but the sentence of death did not
stop with Adam and Eve for it was sin which entered into them that brought
death to them and the sin that entered into them and brought to death to them
was then passed down to all of mankind because it is from Adam and Eve all
mankind descend and because we are all descended from them, we have also
inherited from them the very sin that entered into them (Rom. 5:12) and just as
they died because of sin, so we all die because of sin; (Rom. 6:23) sin being
defined not by just our actions, behavior, conduct, and what we say, but as the
inwardly corrupt condition of our nature that not only influences our outward
acts and what we say, but also our very thoughts, motives, and the attitude of
the heart which is why it is written that we are not defiled from without but
from within (Mt. 5:11, 17-20) but the consequences of the transgression that
brought sin into the world and death with it did not confine themselves to man,
but spread to all of creation which is why it is written that the entire
creation groans and travails in pain to this day (Rom. 8:19-22) which is suffering,
pain, misery, and hardship of every sort and severity abound in the world today
and why creation itself is dying a very slow death.
By a lie did Satan become the father
of lies (Jn. 8:44) because the lie that he used to lead Adam and Eve into the transgression
was the first lie known to man and by that lie he through sin brought death
which is why he is also called a murderer (v. 44) and he continues to kill and
destroy through sin every day and it is by that lie by which he became the
father of lies and a murderer that he diminished the dominion over the earth
that had once been given to man (Gen. 1:26) and claimed lordship over the nations,
kingdoms, and empires of the earth (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which why he is
called the prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and the thief who comes to steal,
kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10) but not only is he a murderer of the body and the
destroyer of all things created, but he is also a destroyer of souls because it
is also by that lie by which he caused the transgression that he through sin
has brought separation between man and God because man who is in sin cannot dwell
in the direct presence of a sinless God and a sinless God cannot allow that
which is sin into His Kingdom in which there is no sin or else the Kingdom
would be as defiled as the earth has been and it was that very lie of Satan
that made that age-long war between God and Satan to be a war for the souls of
men.
This age-long war is not academic,
political, economic, or even social. It is
a spiritual war of which all other wars and battles are symptoms and the day is
coming when it will reach its final conclusion but the Lord God Almighty is not
willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance. (2 Pet.
3:9) Though God, in His Holiness and righteousness, must eventually eliminate
all sin and all evil, He is also a God of love and mercy and if judgment be
delayed, it is because our Creator takes no pleasure in punishment but in
bestowing love and mercy upon all men and in His love He has provided redemption
in Jesus Christ our Lord who is the only begotten Son of God (Jn. 3:16) who,
being without sin, (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) was that offering needed to take away
the sins of the world which He did through the shedding of His blood upon the
cross on which He was crucified and after having purchased our redemption by
His death, He was raised again from the dead so that we by our faith in Him
would be justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) so that any calling upon Him for the
forgiveness of sins in sincere faith and repentance would be justified before
God the Father by Him and in Him (Rom. 10:13) and with the redemption of our
souls comes a transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) 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 we look forward to the day that,
just as our souls have been redeemed and delivered from eternal damnation, when
we shall also be delivered from bodily death when that which is sinful is made
sinless and that which is corruptible is transformed into that which is
incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) for wherein dwells no sin
there is no death and finally, creation itself will also be liberated from the
curse that has come upon it because of sin, when Satan who is the adversary of
our souls and is that thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10)
is given his final sentence and cast into eternal damnation along with all who
have sided with him (Rev. 20:10-15) and after that, the creation will then be
made anew, and it will be a creation in which there will dwell no death, no
decay, no evil, no darkness, no grief, no sorrow, and no misery, and no
hardship, but only light, life, happiness, peace, contentment, and joy before
the Lord God Almighty for all eternity. (Rev. 21-22)
If you have not done so already and
would like for there to no longer be any separation between you and your Maker
but experience reconciliation to Him, then I urge you reader to call upon the
name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and your
place in that Kingdom will be assured.
It is but a prayer of sincere faith and 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. Louise Callaghan, “ Steve Bannon: Maga can
rule for 50 years and Farage will be PM,”
The Times, November 30, 2024
https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/steve-bannon-maga-can-rule-for-50-years-and-farage-will-be-pm-93j9np20f
Scripture references:
1. James 1:17
2. Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
3. Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
4. Genesis 3:4-5
5. Genesis 3:7
6. Genesis 3:19
7. Romans 5:12
8. Matthew 15:11, 17-20
9. Romans 6:23
10. Romans 8:19-22
11.
John 8:44
12.
Genesis 1:26
13. Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
14.
John 12:31, 16:11
15.
John 10:10
16. 2 Peter 3:9
17. 2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15
18. Hebrews 7:26-27
19. Romans 4:25
20. Romans 10:13
21. John 14:6
22. 2 Corinthians 5:17
23. Matthew 6:33
24. Revelation 21-22
25. Matthew 6:25-33
26. Matthew 10:28
27. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
28. Revelation 20:10-15
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