Signs of the Times

Something wicked this way comes ...

People can feel the shift in the zeitgeist, like something big is about to go down …

I usually try to be at least a little optimistic. I don’t like dwelling on, or writing about, negative topics without trying to find a silver lining, however thin and insubstantial that silver lining might be. If I can’t find a way to be hopeful, I at least try to be humorous and entertaining. However, sometimes the signs of the times let you know that serious trouble is headed your way, and that there is no escaping it. We are living through such a moment now.

Imagine that you see dark storm clouds in the distance, rapidly moving towards you. You also notice what appear to be glimmers of sunshine piercing the clouds, so you think, maybe the storm won’t be so bad after all. Maybe it will pass quickly. But then, you realize that the coruscating brightness behind the clouds is not from sunshine; it’s from blazing bolts of lightning. Suddenly, you see that this storm is going to be much more severe than you had initially thought. That’s how I feel about the geopolitical storms coming our way. Things are probably going to get very bad, very quickly, barring some literal miracles.

“So what’s the point?” This is the question I was recently asked during a conversation about current events, after I had finished explaining the reasons for my pessimism. It was a fair question, and one I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. There seems to be little we can do to restore our civilization to sanity in time to avert the outbreak of World War III and the Great Depression 2.0, so what’s the point of paying attention to world news?

Here’s my attempt to answer to that question. I believe the expression “As above, so below” conveys a very real insight. If you pay attention, there appear to be curious parallels between the patterns you can observe at each level of “reality,” such that a pattern you perceive at one level can shed light on mysterious events happening at another level. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates uses the macro perspective of society as a whole, in order to extrapolate insights about things at the individual level. In an analogous way, I believe that by understanding conflicts currently happening on a geopolitical level (i.e., “below”), we can gain valuable insights about conflicts happening at a cosmic level in the spiritual realm (i.e., “above”). I also believe that this realm of the “gods” is more real than the realm in which our political leaders are operating. Could it even be the case that the primary reason the geopolitical realm exists is so that it can furnish us with clues about the higher reality inhabited by the “gods?”

In our postmodern materialist age, such talk no doubt strikes many as crazy and ignorant, but the Ancients certainly thought this way.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6: 12 KJV.)

Like the prisoners in Plato’s Cave, we do not see things as they are, in themselves. We do not even see the shadows of the things themselves. Rather, the shadows we see are created by mere simulacra of higher realities. Nevertheless, by paying attention even to this strange procession of shadows, we can observe patterns that can yield insights about both higher and lower dimensions than our own. The key, of course, is to remember that our perspective is limited, and that we are seeing mere shadows of mere copies of the higher realities, not the higher realities themselves.

From observing the actions and influence of Evil at the geopolitical level, we can intuit an understanding of how Evil operates at a spiritual level. And by understanding how Evil operates at a spiritual level, we can recognize the actions of an opposing reality, namely Good. And the conflict between Good and Evil at the spiritual level is the key to making sense of the conflicts that happen in our lower reality, both on a geopolitical scale and at an individual level.

There is something else that has been interesting to observe: the human rulers of our world are in a hurry to meet a deadline. This has become very clear in recent years, as they have increasingly overplayed their hand and thereby jeopardized their incredibly elaborate, carefully developed, globe-spanning, multi-generational project. There does not appear to be any good reason for them to have done this, given their degree of control and the fact that practically all of the long-term trends are moving in their favor. It’s like a football team with a comfortable lead late in the fourth quarter suddenly playing like they’re behind and going for onside kicks and fake punts deep in their own territory, risky gambits that mostly backfire and give the losing team easy opportunities to score. Why would the ruling elites do that? All they have to do is maintain the status quo and ride out the clock, but instead, they are acting desperate, especially when it comes to preventing anything that might possibly delay their plans. Hence, their absolutely insane overreaction to Trump’s Presidency and to his current candidacy. They could easily have neutered him (they pretty much did during his first term) with a shrewd combination of flattery and disloyal personnel strategically positioned throughout his administration. Remember, the political leaders committing these unforced errors are the agents of hidden elites who have carefully perfected a global control system over the course of hundreds of years, if not longer. Their desperation only makes sense if they are seriously behind schedule and frantically racing against the clock to complete their plans before time expires.

Now, that leads to an obvious question: what clock could they be racing against? It’s probably the same clock that ancient cultures from the Egyptians to the Mayans were obsessively tracking: the procession of stars in the heavens. Our leaders — or the people for whom our leaders are working — are acting like they know this clock has wound almost completely down to zero. What this portends, we can infer from their panic and haste. Whatever it is, it’s big. So big, that it smashed prior globe-spanning civilizations, which were possibly far more advanced and powerful than our own, to absolute smithereens and buried the rubble so deep that nothing survived of them except a few very hazy legends.

I have no idea what comes next, but all our ancient myths and religious traditions point towards it. Our postmodern scientism tells us that the ancient tales about Noah and Gilgamesh and Atlantis and the Tower of Babel were pure nonsense concocted by ignorant savages to explain things that The Science has now fully and finally answered — but then researchers like Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock started pointing out evidence that there really was some kind of cataclysmic flood that wiped out a prehistoric civilization, and that this may have happened more than once. Then, there’s the curious fact that despite their professed materialism, the elites really do act like they believe in occult mysticism and ritual magic. If there is a cataclysm coming our way, whether from cometary bombardment or super-volcanic eruptions or pole shifts or solar storms or all of the above and more, if the elites are expecting a cataclysm that will bring death on a massive scale, you can bet that they will try to arrange for it to look like a Satanic ritual sacrifice — probably because that is what they have been ordered to do.

Why are Western leaders deliberately maneuvering us towards World War III? They have to know that America and NATO cannot possibly win. Indeed, these same leaders currently pushing for war have done their utmost to sabotage their own nations’ warfighting capabilities, through open borders, mass immigration, deindustrialization, fiscal irresponsibility, sacrificing military readiness on the altar of DEIversity and Pride, etc. Why are they steering our world towards a bloodbath and civilizational suicide? Could it be that they are preparing to sacrifice us as a burnt offering unto their infernal lord? Or could it be that the rulers of this world have gotten us to accept a manipulated timeline and a falsified history, and that rather than our present age preceding the events described in Revelations 20: 1-10, we are actually living in the aftermath of the events described in verse seven of that passage?¹ Whatever the reality is, the hour is late, and something big is going to happen when the clock runs down to zero. Maybe that happens this year? Maybe that happens in 2030? But it’s not far off.

So what do we do in the meantime? Obviously, we get our lives in order, as best we can. Don’t panic, like the elites are doing. Our situation is not as desperate as theirs. We have not made the kinds of Faustian bargains that they have. We are really in the same situation we’ve always been in as mortals living in a dangerous world: whether the end comes for us via a civilization-ending cometary bombardment or World War III, or whether it comes through much more mundane things like car accidents or cancer, the reality is that Death comes for us all, in the end. With that in mind, eliminate as much of the world’s bullshit as you can from your life. Focus on whatever fosters a more abundant life for yourself and those you love. It is true that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” so no matter how dire things seem to get, be sure that you regularly engage in recreation — and think about that word: re-creation. Without recreation, life becomes sterile and joyless, and if your life is sterile and joyless, what good is it? And with the peace of mind that comes from knowing that Evil is not the ultimate reality and that by the grace of the Real God² we can transcend Evil in the final reckoning, we can be free to make the most of the remaining time allotted to us, however long or short that time may be.

1. I explore the bizarre possibility that the world is on the brink of Christ’s third coming (as described in Revelations 20) in this post:

2. There is a usurper who pretends to be God (or “G-d”), and who is the great inverter of everything, and whose agents have infiltrated and skinsuited major religious institutions and hollowed out and repurposed formerly good religious traditions. John 10:10 provides a useful heuristic for distinguishing between the Real God and the imposter, though wisdom and discernment are required to apply this heuristic. Consider what the devil reportedly said to Jesus in Luke’s account of the temptations of Christ:

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. (Luke 4: 5-7.)

Now that is a curious passage. Also consider that the author of the Matthew (who had a different theological agenda than the author of Luke) changed the wording slightly in his telling of the story. Is this difference significant?