Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes…

By Ken Pullen

ACP — A Crooked Path

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

There is a maxim most ought to be familiar with — “the more things change the more they stay the same.” People who research such things attribute the origin of this to a French novelist, named Alphonse Karr (1808-90).

David Bowie wrote lyrics of young angst, hoped for rebellion and utter confusion in the 1960s song “Changes,” which towards the end utter the same refrain Mr Karr did back in the 1800s:

Partial lyrics to song “Changes” by David Bowie

I still don’t know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same

King Solomon in the Holy Scriptures said it best, most true and succinct:

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 — King James Version

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 — English Standard Version

The most recent posting on A Crooked Path preceding this: Change: A Virtue or A Slogan? — By Peter Barnes, Reprinted from: The Banner of Truth Magazine is an excellent, spot on commentary article I hope everyone here reads.

Point is, as I have made it redundantly many times here and in speaking to people, in writing letters to people —HUMAN NATURE HAS NOT CHANGED OR BEEN ALTERED ONE IOTA, ONE WAY SINCE THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

All that changes? Truly? Contrary to the delusion and misperceptions, the hype, hyperbole, propaganda and the noise of utter nonsense made about all the ch-ch-ch-ch-changes made or the ch-ch-ch-ch-changes needing to be made BY MEN AND WOMEN? It’s all a heaping stinking pile of dung that dwarfs Mount Everest truth be told!

Don’t believe that. Most do not and will not, but it is true no matter how much one resists, denies and fights the truth.

Even cultures do not change. Not really. Cultures, what the majority adopts, accepts and allows — the path taken ebbs and flows, rises and falls, storms and quiets like the seas, like a volcano, like the quaking of the crust of the earth on which we reside in all these delusions, lies, misconceptions and contrived realities which boil down to trusting and believing misinformation.

Due to sin. Due to whom each individual comprising a total population then is listening to, following, serving and places their beliefs.

Due to a failure and almost total ignorance of history.

Due to a failure and almost or total ignorance of God’s word.

All that truly changes? TECHNOLOGY.

Technology changes and gives the illusion, the perception that great change — progress — is being made but all that is really taking place is an increase in knowledge, learning how to work with different materials, inventing new machines, new methods of making things, thus new modes of transportation, dress, entertainment and so on.

But at the core? Human nature in me, in you, in everyone on earth living right now, human nature in those who lived in the 1800s, the early 20th Century, in the 1100s, in the time of Jesus Christ, in the 100 years after His crucifixion, in 1,000 B.C, in 3,000 B.C — going all the way back to Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel…human nature has NEVER ALTERED, NEVER CHANGED in man at any time in world history.

We repeat the same behaviors and practices. We repeat the same heinous, vile, arisen in each culture evils through the timeline of history;

At times in the past killing of babies was the norm in certain cultures, at certain times.  “there is no new thing under the sun.”

At times the abomination and immorality, the deviancy and depravity of homosexual practices were accepted, allowed and adopted. All those cultures were eventually judged, and severely, and wiped from the face of the earth. “there is no new thing under the sun.”

Sin, decadence, immorality, deviancy, gluttony, violence, terrorism, thieving, murdering, raping, war, lying and on and on and on — “there is no new thing under the sun.”

Not in men and women of the world following the philosophies, the dogmas, the ways of the world. As they serve the prince of the air and the earth for a season and fall prey to his lies and deceptions, his placing slogans, ideas, visions in their minds they are the change, they are so mighty and powerful they can will progress, a new world, peace on earth, the removal of hunger, the removal of poverty, they now are convinced they can save the earth being ingrained in them they are each gods themselves in the revitalized — nothing new here always been around — paganism, now rebranded as The New Age.

Nothing ever really changes. Except the constant movement of time forwards. Except an increase in knowledge and how to work materials, create materials, make things — thus using the mind in conjunction with how we have been created by God, though denying the Creator, to use our hands, use our bodies, use our brains to develop THINGS through technology.

But human nature has not, does not and will not change.

What is at work within people who believe all change is good, or are perpetually driven to change what exists because they imagine they can somehow create or draw closer to a more perfect world? A better world? In truth the majority of that “drive” those “motives” are founded in being enslaved to the Evil One. Creating within a constant uneasiness, a constant stirring, a constant rebellion that what was, what is cannot possibly be good enough, or right and thus zero contentment exists and the individual, the company, the government, the institution, the country, the church the people of the world convince themselves — delude themselves things must change. Only change will get them to where it is they imagine they belong. The driving force for change is a constant agitation within their spirit, lives, mind, heart and souls. They know no peace. Ever. And are never satiated, never satisfied, never ceasing to pause and reflect, examine and witness the truth within them around them.

What most fail to see while they walk around dead in the darkness imagining themselves enlightened? And, in truth, most professing to be Christian fail to see since now it appears the greater majority of these are walking according to the world and not the Word? This all began by disobedience to God and of free will eating of the Tree of Knowledge rather than obeying the Lord in Paradise and only eating of the Tree of Life and all else He created and blessed man and woman with.

Do you realize Satanists, those openly serving demonic powers in their invocations, their rituals in worshipping Satan openly speak of “eating of the tree of knowledge?” That’s where all this began. Sure, knowledge increases, thus it appears change occurs. But change only occurs in increasing knowledge and thus technological advances and all those bring. Think on this deeply. Examine the facts.

The only REAL change? The ONLY change any person ought to desire and search for? Long for? Work towards? The TRANSFORMING power of the Holy Spirit to work within the heart, mind, body and life of an individual realizing they are a sinner, confessing their sins, repenting of their sins and humbling themselves before the Lord and not merely believing and accepting Him as Saviour, as the Son of God, as Jesus Christ the resurrected man-God who came to this earth, but as LORD OF THEIR LIFE FROM THAT TIME ONWARDS.

That is THE ONLY REAL CHANGE on earth within any human being.

Now is time to click on this link and read : Change: A Virtue or A Slogan? — By Peter Barnes, Reprinted from: The Banner of Truth Magazine…for I am done with this at this point. More to follow…