These are very dark times, as Mr. Snyder writes, and they are only going to become darker, more difficult, and evilier with the passing of time. While the lies and delusion, making laws lawlessness and working to tear down or pervert every foundation that has existed for millennia, are replaced by nothing but the lies of the Enemy, Satan, capturing and holding captive billions upon billions of people. Tragically.

As the darkness grows and spreads this ought to be the time of great awakening, of turning ever closer to the Light, the Way, the Truth leading to Life. The Lord Jesus Christ. If professing faith, if professing to be a Christian, a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ then it is imperative now more than ever to truly be a light unto the world of darkness, delusion, and destruction.

Construct, build, hold up, help, shed true light, illumination upon what is lacking, what is happening and why, and what is needed — what is the only real true solution to any and every individual’s woes, problems, distresses, concerns, fears, anxieties and stress.

To come to know God. To come to know God’s will in their lives, in your life. To come to know the Lord Jesus Christ, to come to know more than anyone in the world knows becoming indwelt of the Holy Spirit, indwelt of Christ, opening up the Word of God to those who are His if only they would open, seek, pray, and ask.

Yes, this world is becoming darker, and evilier by the day, and the week, and the time is growing shorter swiftly.

So, what are you going to do? Cower? Hide? Deny? Quake in fear? Imagine if you build a safe room, a shelter, fill it with emergency food, and perhaps move to some remote area where you can escape, be all right, and ride it out.

Have you not read the Word of God? Believed it? Have faith? Pray. Faithfully ask for increased faith, increased spiritual wisdom and discernment, increased spiritual knowledge and understanding.

Become prepared and equipped for these times. Be the light unto the world we are commanded to be.

Not fearful of the darkness. Not remaining silent or afraid.

We have God with us, we have God on our side — no, we are on God’s side dear ones, fellow true believers, and we ought to trust, to believe, to know the outcome. Who wins. Why we ought not fear but be joyful, praising, happy, and ever aware. Illumination in the darkness.

Purveyors of the only truth among all the lies of this world.

Yes, censorship is already here. And will only become so much worse, oh, so much worse.

Sufferings, trials, and great tribulations are coming in greater volume and intensity. Unlike anything ever witnessed on earth before. This is why fear is not an ally or a solution. Why being anxious or stressed won’t help.

Only reliance, resolute faith, resounding belief and awareness, equipped and prepared for the times as best we can be — and that is possible by Christ, with Christ, in Christ, and for Christ.

Do you not believe this?

The world is going to become so evil, so dark as to no longer be able to sustain human life without such violence, depravity, and sin to become unrecognizable. As in the days of Noah.

And God will send His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ a Second and Final time to resolve everything and perform everything as it is written in the Word.

We may be alive to witness this.

That means don’t be idle, dawdle, be otherwise occupied, or in denial. Or do not prepare and think you’re automatically going to avoid this because God doesn’t want you to suffer.

After the suffering of His Son, the Lord endured for our sin?

After the suffering of the apostles, the prophets, God’s people throughout history? Are we somehow to be spared? Why, because we’re somehow more important or special?

Better think again. Better prepare as never before.

Not in buying ammunition, weapons, emergency food items, radiation pills, sandbags, or other temporal things that will all disappear when it comes to eternity and what will transpire in the very last of the last days.

No, equip yourself in the whole armour of God. In faith. In the ways and words of the Lord. In His Light, His Truth, His Way leading to Life. And show this, live this, be this to others.

NOTE: Some interesting related articles can be found immediately following the article below.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, September 4th, 2023

Direct Government Censorship Of The Internet Is Here — And It’s Only Going To Get Worse From Here On

August 31, 2023

By Michael Snyder

Reprinted from The Economic Collapse & Prophecy News Watch

Censorship of the Internet has been getting worse for years, but we just crossed a threshold which is going to take things to a whole new level. On August 25th, a new law known as the “Digital Services Act” went into effect in the European Union. Under this new law, European bureaucrats will be able to order big tech companies to censor any content that is considered to be “illegal”, “disinformation” or “hate speech”. That includes content that is posted by users outside of the European Union, because someone that lives in the European Union might see it. I wrote about this a few days ago, but I don’t think that people are really understanding the implications of this new law. In the past, there have been times when governments have requested that big tech companies take down certain material, but now this new law will give government officials the power to force big tech companies to take down any content that they do not like. Any big tech companies that choose not to comply will be hit with extremely harsh penalties.

Of course mainstream news outlets such as the Washington Post are attempting to put a positive spin on this new law. We are being told that it will “safeguard” us from “illegal content” and “disinformation”…

New rules meant to safeguard people from illegal content, targeted ads, unwanted algorithmic feeds and disinformation online are finally in force, thanks to new regulation in the European Union that took effect this month.

Doesn’t that sound wonderful?

When this new law was first approved, NPR admitted that it will enable European governments to “take down a wide range of content”…

Under the EU law, governments would be able to ask companies take down a wide range of content that would be deemed illegal, including material that promotes terrorism, child sexual abuse, hate speech and commercial scams.

In addition to “illegal content” and “hate speech”, the Digital Services Act also applies to “hoaxes” and any material that is considered to be “disinformation”. The following comes from the official website of the European Commission…

At the same time, the DSA regulates very large online platforms’ and very large online search engines responsibilities when it comes to systemic issues such as disinformation, hoaxes and manipulation during pandemics, harms to vulnerable groups and other emerging societal harms.

These new content rules are so vague that they could apply to just about anything.

And that is precisely what they want.

From this point forward, if you post something that they do not like, they will have the power to have it taken down.

Even if you don’t live in the European Union, they can have your content taken down, because someone in the European Union might see it.

So who will be doing the censoring?

Well, it is being reported that “hundreds of unelected EU bureaucrats will decide what constitutes disinformation and instruct Big Tech firms to censor it”…

Under this Orwellian regime, a team of hundreds of unelected EU bureaucrats will decide what constitutes disinformation and instruct Big Tech firms to censor it. The firms themselves, faced with reputational risk and financial penalties, will have little choice other than to comply. This can be done in all manner of ways: simply by human moderators removing content, by shadow-banning problematic creators to reduce their reach, by demonetising certain content, and by tweaking algorithms to favour or disfavour certain topics. And though, legally speaking, the DSA only applies in the EU, once installed inside Big Tech firms, this vast content-regulation apparatus will surely affect users in the rest of the world, too.

In addition, the official website of the European Commission is telling us that big tech companies must “react with priority” to any content that has been reported by “trusted flaggers”…

A priority channel will be created for trusted flaggers – entities which have demonstrated particular expertise and competence – to report illegal content to which platforms will have to react with priority.

This means that far left organizations that have been set up to police content online will now be given extraordinary power to restrict speech on the Internet.

Needless to say, the Internet is never going to be the same after this.

Initially, this new law will apply to 19 very large online platforms…

The online platforms affected are Alibaba AliExpress, Amazon Store, Apple AppStore, Booking.com, Facebook, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, X (listed as Twitter), Wikipedia, YouTube, the European clothing retailer Zalando, Bing and Google Search.

If any of those large online platforms choose not to comply with the new law, the penalties could be extremely severe…

A firm that does not comply with the law could face a complete ban in Europe or fines running up to 6% of its global revenue.

Last month, X/Twitter said it was on track to generate $3bn (£2.4bn) in revenue. A fine of 6% would be the equivalent of £144m.

Once we get to February 24th, 2024, the Digital Services Act will also apply to a vast multitude of smaller platforms.

At that point, it will be very difficult to escape the reach of this new law.

And just to make sure that they can keep a very close eye on things, the EU just established a brand new office in San Francisco on June 22nd…

European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton cut the ribbon to commemorate the official launch of the European Union’s San Francisco office on Thursday, June 22, alongside Lieutenant Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis, California State Senator Scott Wiener, and Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs Adrian Vazquez.

“I am very glad to be here today in Silicon Valley, a global centre for digital technology and innovation, to officially inaugurate the new European Union office in San Francisco,” Commissioner Breton said in his keynote address to an audience of business and technology sector leaders. “As like-minded partners who strive for reciprocity and common principles, all while respecting our respective democratic processes, our transatlantic ties are more relevant than ever in the area of technology.”

For many years, the Internet was one of the last bastions for free speech.

But now everything has changed.

From this point forward, far left European bureaucrats will get to determine what is acceptable and what is not acceptable on our large online platforms.

Direct government censorship of the Internet is here, and that is going to make it much more difficult to share the truth with a world that desperately needs it.

These are such dark times, and they are getting darker with each passing day.

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