not fiction

Strange, but to me connecting somehow, to be reading Revelation at a Time when dragons, monsters of Evil like Vladimir Putin and Payton Gendron https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/17/payton-gendron-parents-buffalo-shooting/ and dupes of conspiracy theories like Sandy Hook, and Q-anon, and the stolen election, and the pandemic hoax, and now the great replacement - - the terrifying naiveté and extreme stupidity of people who buy into such rubbish. My first knowledge of such nonsense was in 1963, about the assassination of JFK. Revelation, apocalypse, becomes real, draws nearer, with every event of such σκύβαλον, abuse of the internet, which is so marvelous with knowledge heretofore virtually inaccessible, but abused to spread Evil by demonic humans.

Americans arming themselves against each other, specifically ready to kill each other, the growing attitude and action that fills anyone of human decency with revulsion. Again, Not My Land, the land of my fathers no longer exists, and I see nothing being turned around, Evil is loose, hatred is rampant and cannot be corrected, because Americans have our constitutional right to own, speak, spread, do, and cover the land with unspeakable evil; and we value our rights more than we value the lives of innocent people. Like the MiddleEast problem of Israel v Palestine, there is no solution, it is far too late, America is Pandora's Box opened. America has no way to stop the Payton Gendrons.

This isn't dramatic or over reaction, it's where we are. "Alas", as Pat Frank wrote, "Babylon" Alas, Babylon, a mass extinction event is underway, shift colors, the situation could not be more dire if a ten-mile-wide asteroid was hurtling toward Earth.

Genesis 6:5-7, Chicxulub1.2, pray it does not happen in winter?

Easter Season 2022 ends with the Day of Pentecost, June 5. For you, and for our adult Sunday School class specifically: if you have not read Revelation 1:1-22:21, read it as your Easter project, mindful that, like all apocalyptic literature, it's a terrifying story written as blessed assurance, to give godly hope to people suffering in chaos at the hands of extreme Evil.

If you don't have a Bible, here's a link:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A1+-+22%3A21&version=RSV

RSF&PTL

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562 (Oil on Canvas), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder