If doubting the Bible that in the last of the last days, people will be consumed with strong delusion, follow fables and out-and-out lies, turn logic upside down, abandon critical thinking and reason, and be given over to their wicked, unrighteous, reprobate minds start by looking at the we’re-going-to-use-censorship-to-bring-about-freedoms-and-rights movement that began decades ago and now is openly exercising their creed worldwide.

Censorship for protection? From what? Hurt feelings? The truth? Reality?

This censorship, gaining momentum and support worldwide has already been vigilant and dedicated in its attempts to discredit, defame, denigrate, and defile the Word of God. And this will not slow down or stop. This white-hot hatred of God, of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the Holy Spirit, and of the inerrant infallible living and active Word of God will only intensify and grow.

To never succeed in removing or altering as it desires the Word of God from the earth.

Though the proponents of this worldwide censorship, this tyranny, this dictatorship to come will be removed from the earth. And unless they repent while the Good Lord blesses them with breath, a beating heart, and the opportunity among the living to see their error and repent and turn to God, to make Jesus Lord of their lives they will taste and feel for eternity the consequences of their rebellion and hatred of God in the Second Death. After the Lord Jesus Christ comes again, His Second and Final Coming to fulfill every word within the Word.

And there is coming a time — sooner than later — words such as these, places such as this will not be permitted to exist. Those days are coming much sooner than folks want to think or believe. Perhaps today, perhaps now is the time to repent, turn to God, turn back to God, turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible, and allow the Holy Spirit to work His Supernatural power in the heart and mind of an individual.

Or do you know for sure how many breaths, and how many heartbeats you have remaining?

Or do you plan on declaring your love and belief in Jesus on your deathbed just prior to having the last breath snatched from your body?

Do you think you can really predict such a thing? That your final moments will occur that way? And if so, in such a condition at such time you will recite the well-rehearsed words in your mind to be uttered in your final moments? And that such is sincerity? True? As if a person can somehow trick God into their having their spirit reside in heaven for eternity?

Really?

Your words will be as real and from the heart as those of the thief on the cross next to Jesus on that most historical and fateful day?

Perhaps…

God knows. God knows everything. God judges everything. God knows.

Yet, if sincere and such a plan works according to your will — and you know that you will believe, turn to God? Why wait and delay the gaining of spiritual knowledge and great joy and blessing afforded those sinners [which we all are] that hear the voice of the Lord and respond? Answering the Lord’s voice. After seeking they commit. To discover what it means to live in Christ and Christ in them.

Also…

Perhaps the degree of Bible illiteracy is far, far greater, and deeper than is being reported and known…

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, June 20th, 2023

Scary Censorship Logic Spreading Worldwide – ‘Restricting Freedom’ To Save It

“We Are Restricting Freedom… For The Common Good”: Irish Green Party Calls For Limiting Free Speech

June 19, 2023

By Jonathan Turley

Reprinted from Activist Post

The Irish Green Party followed many on the left around the world, including our own Democratic Party, this week and came out for censorship and speech controls. Indeed, the party went full Orwellian as its chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly called for “restricting freedom” to protect it.

O’Reilly’s comments are part of the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. We previously discussed this massive assault on free speech.

The legislation that would criminalize “incitement to violence or hatred against” people with “protected characteristics,” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”

Limiting free speech has become an article of faith for many on the left. I have written about my distress (as someone who grew up in a liberal, politically active Democratic family in Chicago) in watching the abandonment of free speech values by the party. Democratic leaders now uniformly call for censorship and speech regulations. President Biden even charged that companies who refused to censor opposing views on social media were “killing people.”  Others have denounced free speech as “a white man’s obsession.”

The anti-free speech movement has become openly Orwellian in claiming to protect freedom by limiting freedom.  It also employs using terms like disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation to obscure their effort to silence those with opposing views. Rather than use “censorship,” they refer to “content moderation.”

That effort was on full display this week in Ireland with this anti-free speech legislation.

Speaking before the Irish Senate (Seanad) this week, Green Party chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly declared “when one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”

It is the same message of New York democrats calling for limiting speech as a way of protecting democracy. Indeed, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has declared free speech is “tyranny.”

O’Reilly assured citizens that giving up freedom was nothing new or threatening:“Throughout our Constitution one can see that while one has rights they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced.”

What is particularly chilling is how low the threshold is for denying free speech, according to O’Reilly. It now appears that “deep discomfort” is enough:

“If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good.”

What is interesting is that O’Reilly admits that there is nothing new about hateful views but it is time to clear out such voices: “Social media has fuelled hatred but it has also put on display for all of us the dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society. That hatred has always existed.”  Of course, she and the majority will determine what views create “deep discomfort.”

The Irish legislation is likely to be replicated around the world if the free speech community cannot hold the line against the anti-free speech movement. It is part of an unrelenting movement in Europe, particularly by the European Union, to rollback Western free speech values that once defined countries.

We have been discussing efforts by figures like Hillary Clinton to enlist European countries to force Twitter to restore censorship rules. Unable to rely on corporate censorship or convince users to embrace censorship, Clinton and others are resorting to good old-fashioned state censorship, even asking other countries to censor the speech of American citizens.

Ireland now stands on the precipice of freedom. The embrace of such laws by the Irish is crushingly ironic. Frank Ryan, who fought against the treaty, spoke for many radicals in declaring “as long as we have fists and boots, there will be no free speech for traitors.” Those anti-Treaty forces rejected the views of free speech that long defined Western nations. Now, Ireland is declaring “no free speech for haters” and assumes the authority to define who are haters and who are not.

Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.