Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 — English Standard Version

Yes, America’s decline is by design.

But…

Do not fall prey to the rhetoric that this election will determine if America remains a democracy. America never has been a democracy. That is a myth, an illusion, the delusion of millions. Erringly taught in schools and universities. America is a Republic. There is a great difference.

A democracy would mean we the people determine all things and those we elect to follow our lead and respond to the will of the people. Democracy truly is mob rule, as Thomas Jefferson so aptly and correctly put it. We’ve been witnessing the results of democracy in action in America over the past 60 years or so.

Democracy would mean a select group of powerful and obscenely materialistically wealthy people did not dictate the direction an entire nation takes. Giving the people the illusion of democracy by staging elections.

Mob rule.

The mob in Wahington, D.C.

The mob in your statehouse.

The mob in your city hall.

The mob in the teachers union and all public education.

The mob in universities and colleges.

The mob in the hierarchy of corporations and organizations such as the World Economic Forum, United Nations, Rockefeller Foundation, the Davos, Switzerland lot, the Bill Gates Foundation, and so on…

Even the mob in what now passes for Christian churches in America.

Yes, America’s decline is by design — the design of Satan and his lies, his evil. Get that straight and in order of priority, as that is the root cause, the foundation here on which all other rot, erosion, decline, and destruction are built upon. Not the political, not political parties, not any politician or office.

The mob rule of evil. Not liberals or conservatives, as the Log Cabin Republicans, and others wearing the conservative mantel and lapel pin of an American flag can be and often are evil. So don’t get caught in the trap of one side being good, just, right, moral, and close to holy or holy and the other side, the side you don’t align yourself with are the opposite. Not quite true is it?

But who bothers with truth, reality, logic, objectivity, rational thought, and critical thinking any longer?

Especially those professing faith in the Lord Jesus Christ consumed by the world conformed to this world rather than conforming themselves to Christ and the Holy Bible.

We ought to understand all those in darkness, living their lost unholy, unrighteous, wicked lives refusing the truth and in bondage to their master, Satan. But what of us? Those professing faith in the Bible, in God, in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit? What of us?

Oh, to any atheists, agnostics, those seduced and enslaved to sorcery, demonic powers, idol worship, false beliefs, and false teachers loving themselves, loving this world, and believing there is no God, no Jesus the Messiah that was truly fully God and also fully truly a man that came to earth of virgin birth, lived, was murdered and rose from the dead, that think the Bible is a book of myths and Christians are ignorant — how is it, why is it the raging, violent, foul-mouthed, banshee screaming, always rising in protests, always heard and seen and most visible, the majority of what is seen and heard that are anti-God, anti-Jesus, anti-Holy Spirit, anti-Bible, anti-Christian, anti-morality, anti-truth have created not only a nation but a world that is unrecognizable from any other period in world history? And declining, eroding, rotting, falling, breaking down faster and in more ways than any other period in world history?

No other period in world history has witnessed so many believing there is no absolute truth, the destruction of the family, the infiltration of the Church, and the swift rise of perversions and sin. Not just accepting it — but approving greatly of it. Celebrating it!

To those refusing to believe in God, in Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirt, in every word within the Word of God, refusing to live to please the Lord, refusing to repent, refusing to confess their sin, refusing the truth, perverting the Word and polluting the Church, the schools, government, the family, the workplace, sports — every institution and everything in every place — refusing to believe the world is coming to its imminent end and all things as they have been known will end. That the Lord Jesus Christ is coming one more time — you’d better pause. Recalculate. Reconsider. Repent. Renew in mind and spirit.

While the Good and Merciful and Loving God blesses you with breath and a beating heart and a mind, a heart, a spirit, and a soul still able to repent, renew, and be transformed.

Because an eternity in the fiery depths of hell, absent of God, absent of any light or truth, in perpetual death and torment is a long, long, long… ∞ … time… ∞

What has and is taking place hasn’t been, is not about politics, elections, politicians, and human government.

This has always been about, is only about the constant battle between God and Satan, between righteousness and wickedness, and unrighteousness and sin have been winning in America. For decades now. As the people, and I write this to professed Christian folks, have become lax, comfortable, conformed to the world, not dividing and discerning the Word properly, not spending time in the Word in serious Biblical meditation and increasing in faith, in spiritual wisdom and discernment.

In professed Christians appearing no different than any heathen, any pagan, other than on occasion outwardly. Fearing to discern wisely or of upsetting someone while not fearing the Lord.

Is it any wonder America is in such a distressed state of despair? Due solely to spiritual malnourishment. Eating and subsisting of the wrong and toxic so-called spirituality, of false teachers and their teachings, placing faith in men and women, in a nation, in a government rather than in God.

Where is the family?

Where are the statesmen and women?

Where is the true Church?

Where is the knowledge of the holy?

Where are the onward Christian soldiers? Not marching off to political worldly war — but marching off to do battle in the spiritual war?

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12 — King James Version

Paul, Peter, none of the apostles, nor the Lord Jesus Christ wrote, spoke, or preached of placing more emphasis on the goings on of the Roman Empire, of the world’s current events, of the political arena, the temporal did they?

Then why do any of us professing to be like-minded with them do so?

Why do we arrogantly, foolishly, and ignorantly think our time and we are different in God’s sight?

Yes, America is in distress. Decline. As no time since the Civil War. But it isn’t democracy that is on the operating table and about to die. It’s the people either repenting, turning back and away from all those things that have led us to this precipice, and turning back to God, to Jesus, to the Holy Spirit, to all of the Bible discerning wisely, rightly dividing the Word — or else.

Period.

And no election, politician, government agency, or office has the power or the ability to make this nation and people as we ought to be.

Only what is within an individual heart, mind, and spirit, and thus corporately as a nation can achieve that.

And if that was what was transpiring? We wouldn’t be witnessing what we are, hearing what we are, reading what we are, and we would not be hurtling along to the end of the world as it has been known as we are.

Yes, America’s decline is by design. The design of the Evil One and the people have been more than obliging to bow to Satan’s words and lead than God’s. Exactly as when in the Garden of Eden.

Nothing ever changes in the hearts and minds of men and women unless the Supernatural power of the Spirit of God works within an individual.

No input on a ballot or voting machine has ever changed the world for the better, for a lasting better, to achieve an ideal, a right way of living.

Only a repentant individual submitting to the Lord and being truly renewed of mind and spirit, transformed by the grace and mercy of God has and can accomplish such a thing.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, November 7th, 2022

America’s decline has to be by design

November 7, 2022

By Elizabeth Stauffer

Reprinted from Washington Examiner Presents — Restoring America

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ruffled a lot of feathers when he declared in a March Twitter post, “The most powerful country in the world is falling so fast, that it makes you rethink what are the real reasons. … Something so big and powerful can’t be destroyed so quickly, unless the enemy comes from within.”

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson played a clip from a forthcoming interview with Bukele on Tuesday night in which he expands on his tweet. “The demise of the U.S. has to come from within. The enemies have to be inside,” he begins. “No external enemies can cause so much damage as internal operations.”

Sadly, he is right.

“Cities that were pristinely beautiful 30 years ago are wastelands,” Bukele tells Carlson. He cites Los Angeles, San Francisco , Philadelphia, and Baltimore and says he would not live in them.

He continues, “When you look at how the cities are eroding so fast, this has to be by design. Who would make so many stupid decisions? … They’re literally giving people drugs in some U.S. cities. Or they say we’re going to give you money if you don’t work.”

“They make all of these laws that make no sense. If you have high crime, [they say] ‘Okay, I have a solution. Let’s defund the police.’”

He makes the obvious point that those who make these laws know very well what the consequences will be.

“They can’t be so dumb,” he concludes. “Of course, they’re not. They’re smart. They’re very smart people. So, why are they doing these things? Because it’s by design. It has to be by design.”

Bukele nails it. The cumulative effect of nearly two years of Democratic control has fundamentally changed the United States, just as the Biden administration hoped it would. Living through the transformation day in and day out, we may be less aware of the changes than a foreigner, who looks at America through a series of snapshots and, thus, sees the difference more plainly.

Starting with the most obvious, when President Joe Biden took office, the inflation rate was 1.4%. His administration’s excessive spending has sent inflation to a 40-year high. Likewise, the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. was $2.38 . On Wednesday, it stood at $3.77 — a 60% increase. This administration declared war on the fossil fuel industry and squandered our energy independence purposefully.

Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan will go down as the biggest military blunder in U.S. history. It reduced our stature in the world community and emboldened our enemies. Does anyone think Russian dictator Vladimir Putin would have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were still president?

Roughly 4.5 million immigrants have poured into the U.S. illegally over our open southern border. In fiscal year 2022 alone, there were nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters at the border, plus an estimated 600,000 “gotaways.” Moreover, the increasing quantities of fentanyl smuggled into the country have made drug overdoses the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.

Conspiring with Big Tech, this administration has trampled our First Amendment right to free speech. And Biden has made it clear they’re gunning for the Second Amendment too.

The Justice Department’s asymmetric application of the law has become glaring. Among many other offenses, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland sicced the FBI on parents who objected to the teaching of critical race theory and gender ideology to elementary school students in public schools while refusing to investigate acts of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Democrats’ misguided effort to defund the police and their focus on criminal justice reform have led to a spike in crime. Organized retail theft and laws that made shoplifting under $950 worth of goods a misdemeanor have left retailers at the mercy of criminals and forced many stores to close their doors.

Our military leaders have become more concerned with identifying white supremacists among their ranks than protecting Americans. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s embrace of wokeness has led to the military’s worst recruiting crisis since 1973, when the draft ended.

These are just a few of the many examples in which America’s strength, status, and freedom have been degraded. We aren’t the same country we were two years ago — and the rest of the world knows it.

Bukele is right to point out that much of this degradation is by design. The Biden administration’s policies were no accident. They are part of a coordinated effort by the Left to undermine America’s energy sector, make the public more financially dependent on the government, and strip away the rights of those who dare to speak up. Democrats have worked hard to pursue their ultimate goal of one-party rule in the U.S. And they have done so with astonishing speed.

Unfortunately for them, the people have noticed, and they’re about to deliver a spectacular rebuke during next week’s midterm elections. Democrats better fasten their seatbelts. The red wave is coming.

Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal . Her articles have appeared at MSN, RedState, Newsmax, the Federalist, and RealClearPolitics. Follow her on  Twitter  or  LinkedIn .