Retreat

 If you’re wondering what it will take for the world to leave you alone, the short answer is that it won’t. The darkness is never satisfied until no light exists. Darkness consumes. It devours. It is ever searching for any flicker of light, no matter how small. Evil is not satiated until the last vestiges of goodness, decency, and wholesomeness are eradicated, done away with, and stamped out.

I’ve been having conversations on and off with pastors, elders, and men who are responsible for the spiritual guidance of others for the better part of five years now. We’ve gone over all the options and things that could be done, and the only thing that may yet have a chance is to stand your ground and fight as though your life, your children’s lives, and your grandchildren’s lives depended on it.

A retreat is not an option. Cloistering ourselves behind high gates and thick walls is not feasible. It doesn’t matter how much the church withdraws and retreats. The enemy will always want more.

The perfect example of this is the education system in America. They began to pollute and pervert the minds of the young in public school, and the parents who saw the danger this posed began working twice as hard to send their kids to a private school. It didn’t have to be fancy; it didn’t have to have any bells and whistles, just a place where they could still learn how to spell ‘cat’ and hopefully add two and two the right way in that they came up with four.

Once the public school space was conquered, however, the perverted dogma deemed it unacceptable that they would not be allowed to infect young minds in the private sphere, so they made inroads to the point that the private education system is just as septic as the public.

Since no one seemed to be putting up a fight, the godless were emboldened and doubled their efforts to confuse, maim, and distort young minds. Christians, for their part, decided to retreat further and homeschool their children, hoping they’d be left alone. Little did they know that the devil never sleeps, and his minions are zealous to the point of fanaticism, willing to destroy the future of their own flesh and blood to prove an unprovable point.

Murmurs suggest that pressure is being brought to bear on colleges and universities to deny admittance to homeschooled students. For now, it’s not an in-your-face refusal, telling you outright that if your child was not indoctrinated to the point of believing that boys can get pregnant or the litter box in the classroom is necessary because Jasper thinks he is a cat, they’re not ivy league material. It’s tacit and overt in that if two students apply to the same college, the one who went through the public school meat grinder gets preferential treatment.

We’ve retreated to the point that there’s nowhere left to retreat. We have become as Lot, locked in his home, hoping that the perverts will be satiated with his daughters. All the while, our spiritual betters either tell us that it’s not that bad, it’s not going to get any worse, or that as long as we bring the viper to our bosom, validate, accept, and celebrate it, it will not bite.

You have become a second-class citizen with the aid and complicity of your preferred televangelist or mega-church pastor. Read that again, let it sink in, and be angry. You have a duty to righteous anger, not just a right.

As long as we will keep retreating, the devil will keep advancing. As long as saying no, being vocal, being brazen, and standing up is too tall an order for most Christians, we will continue to be boxed in, denigrated, dehumanized, and brutalized. It’s the dehumanization that’s the worst of it because once you don’t see a human as a human anymore, once you’ve managed to strip them of their humanity, taking them for a one-way train ride to enjoy a hot shower is easy as genocide.

There he goes again, Eunice, making a mountain out of a molehill. I mean, that stuff may have happened in Commie Land, where he’s from, but this is ‘Merica, and we have rights. He’s exaggerating.

Am I, though? Think it through. Take what Jesus said, what man is demonstrably capable of insofar as visiting cruelty upon his fellow man, and how readily all your rights were suspended because of the sniffles, and then tell me I’m wrong.

You are not currently being persecuted for your faith in Christ because evil has not as yet seized the requisite power to do so. They only want to coexist until they’re sitting on top of the food chain. After that, all bets are off, all previous armistices are voided, and the useful idiots who opened up their sanctuaries for men in dresses to bounce toddlers on their knees will no longer be needed.

When the last round of Jews was put on the train cars and sent away, the Jews helping the Nazis coral their fellow Jews also got carted away. Just because you’re in league with the devil, it doesn’t mean he counts you as one of his own. Eventually, there will be something you will object to because there may yet be a shred of decency in you.

If you want an example of what I’m eluding to, just look at all the spiritual authorities who insisted that Jesus would roll up His sleeve and come in for boosters every two weeks to boot. Some of them have limits. They might be okay with you dropping dead of a heart attack from blood clots, but they draw the line at pre-pubescent children being butchered and experimented on. The devil can’t risk that; he can’t risk those who colluded with him to grow a conscience, and so, once they’ve outlived their usefulness, they will suffer the fate of those who chose to stand. The only difference is that those who chose to stand will receive their eternal reward; those who betrayed the truth, their eternal punishment.

You can’t claim not to belong to either kingdom. If you do not belong to the light, you are of the darkness. Pick a side! That’s the reality, the truth, squirmy as it may make some feel while reading it.

With love in Christ,

Michael Boldea, Jr.