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To relegate and categorize everything that happens in the manner of the walking dead, walking dead in their sin, blind to the truth of the Holy Bible, blind to the truth of Who Jesus is and what He has done, is doing, and will do is akin to attempting to be healthy, fit, strong, and imagining great longevity while subsisting on one high-calorie food and eating only that food. Like having two strong legs available to you yet attempting to run marathons with only one leg barefoot.
Get the idea?
Unless born again by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, there is no clear vision, no real sight, no depth of understanding — no knowing.
Everything is reduced down to and pigeonholed into various political and social categories with the intent that people are to accept those categorizations as the final word on things.
Utter foolishness. Downright stupidity.
Yet the majority line up and eat it all up. Yum yum, their snack food for the day they imagine they can live on.
No. Enough is enough, isn’t it? Or it should be.
It isn’t about and has never been about soft-left, this turn in politics, hard-left, the right, progressive this conservative that, social media this and that, oh that individual is now in office and that one is out, look what the news is saying today [all packaged and delivered not to inform but to keep eating the dung thinking it’s what is real and important as the viewers and listeners remain in their self-constructed cages serving their master, he who is god of this world for a season.
Yes, it’s that dramatic and that clear. That cut and dry. That black and white.
Finally wake up.
Yes, within every person on earth, it does feel like a pendulum has swung in 2024. But beware. If among the walking dead in darkness, while also being that darkness, do not become giddy or secure in the words being put forward by all those who are darkness like you — utterly missing the point and living on nothing but potato chips while attempting to run the race on one barefoot leg with the other one tied behind your back — which is what you’re really doing. Oh, with eyes, mind, and heart closed in a large room with no windows and no illumination because you, and those you listen to, those who have taught you won’t permit the Illumination in. Imagine that.
Yes, within the believer on this earth, it does feel like a pendulum has swung in 2024. But beware. Do not get lulled giddy or complacent. No man or woman or institution of this world is a savior. The solution. The way. Do not let your guard down or grow weary now. Just the opposite. In times such as these is when The Enemy finds the soft spot and plunges his lies into it. Weakening the individual. Inembriating the individual to ineffectiveness and laxity, delusion, and complacency with arrogance and overconfidence. Placing responsibility on the shoulders of others. Placing their faith in others above and greater than their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach — even though they will deny it with their lips.
Much talk has been uttered about the great changes taking place and peace breaking out around the world.
While great changes, yes, but with those changes come even greater deceptions and delusions.
Do not get caught in the snare of The Hunter seeking his prey to devour like a ravenous lion.
It isn’t about political ideologies and never has been. All those at all times are nothing more than smoke, a great fog keeping people in the exact same state as if enveloped in a fog making visibility and confident moving forward difficult.
Political ideologies are not the last stop on the journey.
Don’t end up parking there and turning the engine off thinking you can get out and stretch your legs, that you’ve arrived at your destination.
It’s all been a lie from the world.
Are you as deeply in the Word as in the words and ways of the world?
Hummm…
For to be deeply in the Word, mature in the faith of the Lord, to see, hear, smell, and thus know what is really going on walking as one in the light, in the truth, in the way — truly alive and no longer among the walking dead is what is needed and what can only provide vision, understanding, clarity, hope, and bring light into this dark, dark, growing darker world chick full of blind and grappling for the truth and some light in their lives.
Want a real pendulum swing in 2025? Be that light, that disciple of Jesus, Yeshua, we are to be in our circle, the world we live in, and touch, and don’t sit back and relax. Don’t leave things up to other people. Or Washington, D.C., or certain individuals.
It’s all about God.
It’s all about Jesus.
It’s all about the Holy Spirit.
It’s all about every word within the Word of God.
It’s all about what every individual does with that knowledge.
And not about the news today, political ideologies, what political party a person belongs to, or what those outside the faith in Jesus walking about blindly in the room with no windows, no true light no real illumination are saying and writing.
Stop thinking life can be sustained by eating only potato chips and running the race on one leg with the other tied behind your back and your eyes closed — focused only on the carnal, on politics, on politicians, and such.
Turn your head.
Adjust your view.
See, come to know what is really real and most important.
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Ken Pullen, Monday, December 30th, 2024
2024: The Pendulum Swings in a New Direction
As 2024 draws to a close, one thing is certain across the globe: the pendulum of history is swinging away from the direction it had taken since the 1990s.
For almost three decades, it had swung towards what one might call soft-left, in its latest epiphanies as globalism, political correctness and multiculturalism — all versions of collectivism.
By collectivism, we mean ideologies that see humanity in terms of groups or herds rather than individuals, and nation-states as pawns for self-perpetuating global elites to move on their imaginary chessboard.
The first institution to get hit was the United Nations that, as its name suggests, was supposed to be a nonpartisan grouping of sovereign nation states working together within a commonly accepted framework of rules and traditions in the service of peace and international cooperation.
In the past few years, however, the U.N. has morphed into a partisan club for soft-left ideologues.
In those years, one of the U.N. Security Council’s veto-holding members, Russia, has invaded two countries, while another, the United States, tried to prop-up Iran’s moribund Islamist regime in the vain hope of bringing it in from the cold.
A third veto-holding member, China, has acted like a neighborhood bully wielding a knife and threatening everyone from the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea.
The nadir came when U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres cast himself as an apologist-cum-advocate for Hamas in the name of “Palestinian rights.”
Another major institution of globalism, the European Union, has also been hit by corruption scandals, political skulduggery, bureaucracy and its members pulling in opposite directions even on key issues such as support for Ukraine.
Elsewhere, the Organization of American States, another collectivist outfit, has ceased to exist in a meaningful way. Its African version, the African Union, is also paralyzed, unable even to mediate among its members. On a smaller scale, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) split when three members left after military coups.
A number of other pseudo-collectivist outfits that had never been anything but expensive ghosts have continued to fade away, among them the Association of South East Asian Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS+, the Russian-led Eurasia phantom, various pan-Islamic money-spenders and time-wasters, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Arab League.
All that not to mention the so-called Axis of Resistance that the Islamic Republic of Iran had created at huge expense to “export revolution” to the four corners of the world.
The pendulum is swinging towards the old model of the nation-state that, first shaped in the 17th century, developed into the standard concept for organizing human societies within geopolitical borders set by historical processes.
Even a few years ago, mentioning the word “border” was tantamount sacrilege.
Borderlessness was à la mode: Doctors Without Borders, Reporters Without Borders, Lawyers Without Borders and, even Border Guards Without Borders, the latter in Europe.
In 2024, many borders that had disappeared have been re-installed, even between European nation-states.
In general, in elections held in Germany, Britain, France, Poland, and Austria, and the U.S. presidential election, a key word was: border. In 2024, Turkey completed a 320-kilometer wall to seal off its border with Iran which, in turn, unveiled a plan for a 925-kilometer-long wall on its border with Pakistan.
The year’s big surprise was Donald J. Trump who, against all predictions by the global glitterati, won a rare victory by not only returning to the White House with a majority both of votes and of the Electoral College, but also with the Republican Party gaining control of both chambers of Congress plus a majority of state governorships.
The big loser of the year was Iran, which saw its 30-year investment in its imaginary Axis of Resistance buried under Syrian rubble.
The year’s revenant was Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who before the October 7, 2023, invasion by Hamas, seemed to be on his way into oblivion via a possible stint in the can. Within a few months, however, the world discovered a brand-new Netanyahu casting himself as an international statesman. British historian Andrew Roberts even compared him to Sir Winston Churchill, who was branded a sad failure in 1939 but praised as a hero a year later.
The year’s gambler was Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who got his nation involved in Syria’s dicey destiny, a gamble that could produce big winnings for him but might also end up serving him the same cup of poison that Iran had to imbibe.
The year’s yellowest of yellows was the Syrian despot, Bashar al-Assad, who took his family and money and fled without telling his entourage, let alone his Iranian allies, to also run for cover, leaving them exposed to humiliation, revenge and death.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy remained the romantic figure of the year, to collect air-miles by flying all over the world to seek assistance from mostly cynical techno-bureaucrats masquerading as political leaders, and ending with little more than photo-ops for them.
The title cynic of the year could be shared by French President Emmanuel Macron and the outgoing German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. Both have refined the affliction into an art to help them hang on to power a bit longer.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Argentine President Javier Milei, of Italian origin, might share the title of the pragmatist of the year by adding water to their respective ideological wines and practice politics as the art of the possible.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may get the title of hard-to-boil figure of the year. His war in Ukraine isn’t proceeding as he imagined, and the ultimate outcome of his ill-advised involvement in the Syrian imbroglio remains uncertain. His call for help to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is humiliating by all accounts, and his growing dependence on Xi Jinping’s China is a matter of concern in Moscow.
Yet most polls show that almost 70 percent of Russians still trust Putin, even if they disagree with his invasion of Ukraine.
The title comedian of the year must go to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law and sent the army to close the parliament, but quickly changed tone by saying sorry, I didn’t mean it.
All in all, not a bad year, and if the pendulum swings in the current direction, the best may be yet to come.
Amir Taheri was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979. He has worked at or written for innumerable publications, published eleven books, and has been a columnist for Asharq Al-Awsat since 1987. He is the Chairman of Gatestone Europe.
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