Sinking Ship of Fools

 

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

by Ken Pullen

ACP — A Crooked Path

 

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

The Reign of the LORD’s Anointed

Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
“Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
“As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”

I will tell of the decree:
The LORD said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Serve the LORD with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Psalms 1 & 2 — English Standard Version

 

I can’t imagine many in the world today that do not see, hear or know what is taking place in Ukraine, Russia, and the surrounding Balkin nations.

It may appear and sound like war, which it tragically is, but it is more. Much more. Witness the utter failure of globalization. Man’s arrogance. Man asserting self and ego as they all may utter the word “God” with their lips on occasion, and posture into public prayer, so on, but each has thought themselves higher than God. Not in need of God. Most do not even believe in God. Not really. By their fruits, their actions they are known.

I’m old enough to remember when Henry Kissinger cunningly, seductively whispered into Richard Nixon’s ears that what was necessary was to open up Communist China to begin to bring stability to the world. That if the pursuit of globalization was undertaken, if evil godless nations such as Communist China could be opened up and made to see the light that material riches, capitalism was what they really wanted that this would soften them and they would see the error of their ways, all chant long live the West, long live money, long live America and rejoice in being like U.S.

And all would prosper. There would be no more wars. The world could be a deluded, clueless John Lennon song.

And so it was. The rapidly escalating march of globalization began. Let’s make one big happy economically linked together world and all will live in harmony and prosperity, I think it’s your turn Soviet Union to bring the marshmallows when we all gather round the fire to sing insipid songs and have difficulty holding hands while we’re all playing our acoustic guitars.

And then “Mr. Gorbachev bring down this wall!” as if that was going to really alter a mindset planted into hundreds of millions of minds over the previous seven decades, over two generations being brainwashed, and prior to that a people living in a monarchy in which it may have been 1905 but they were living as if it were 1605 throughout their land.

And an American president and a pope took credit for the fall of communism when it never fell. It was just hidden away. In the minds and hearts of hundreds of millions of people. Like putting something you’ve had for your lifetime in a box, in a closet. But it was still there. Still around. It still was a part of you. Even though now you had the illusion of democracy because you could wear blue jeans and listen to the Eagles and rock music without being hauled away by the KGB, or the Stasi.

And the band played on, its song of self, of arrogance, of ego, of turning from God, corrupting and perverting the Word of God and pushing every immorality and abomination under the sun in the West the delusion increasing of a world of prosperity, peace and everyone having a burnt marshmallow around the campfire of the world.

Imagine…

Ingrained ideologies and belief systems do not vanish overnight. Or ever.

I imagine everyone reading this still carries within them something that seems tangible and as real as the screen they are looking into reading this that was put into them as they grew up, went to school, their particular denomination, or if growing up within an agnostic, atheistic family. If growing up materialistically poor, or obscenely wealthy.

It’s there. It’s still in there a bit.

So it was, so it is within the leaders and people of Russia. Imperialistic Communist China, and people everywhere.

I know born anew truly transformed disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ who were reared and raised in the church of Rome that still have that rancid sticky residue of the church of Rome within them that arises within them from time to time.

So, too, the people of Russia. Only it isn’t an occasional matter.

Because while they may dress Western, listen to Western music, have material things, and pretend elections, a facade of democracy, their minds are still purely, totally Russian. Because they have never really been fed anything but that narrow diet.

As it is everywhere. Thus it is difficult for the truth, the REAL truth to break through unless a person takes the time, the risk of breaking away from the herd and discovering the truth. Few ever do this in reality.

I’m old enough and still of good memory to recall clearly the U.S. Presidential debates of 1992, a year after the Soviet Union has supposedly fallen and the globalization push was now in high gear and all the rage.

And Bill Clinton and George H. Bush looked and sounded as if they were lawyers from the same law firm pushing their case for one world economy, globalization. Under the lie, it would bring worldwide stability, peace, balance injustices, and inequalities and if everyone had a nice slice of the pie everyone would be content and the world would live as it never had before.

That last part was the only truth told.

Both Clinton and Bush targeted Ross Perot like Captin Ahab rabidly going after Moby Dick.

Only instead of being on the ship the Pequod this ship that took its voyage was the ship of fools.

Clinton and Bush painted Perot as an ignorant foolish man, a lunatic, he was crazy and they had the answers, they knew better, and on those stages around America when those debates took place it was Bush and Clinton who were the fools and Mr. Perot who was the wise man.

And the people believe these men, such as Clinton, the Bush’s, Obama, Trump, Biden and the whole lot of them going back further are the voice, where the buck stops!

That ship of lies sailed and sank many decades ago.

All of these men, save deluded, lying Donald Trump has been nothing more than mouthpieces for globalization. The so-thought savior of the world. Bring about one world economy, every nation and people tied to each other and no one would ever go to war again. Everyone would prosper.

In those debates in 1992 both Clinton and Bush in their white-hot fervor for globalization actually stated that blue-collar jobs were a thing of the past in America. That everyone was going to be a highly trained and skilled professional. Prosperity would reign as never before.

Good luck when your toilet backs up and your drains wouldn’t drain, or your roof leaked…

There was actually a highly visible, well-respected man, Thomas Friedman,  who wrote a book that came out in 1999 titled The Lexus and the Olive Tree, in which the Golden Arches Theory was put forward that nations that had at least 100 McDonald’s fast-food restaurants in them would never go to war against each other and if only every nation had at least 100 McDonald’s restaurants in them conflict between nations would end.

And this was not only given credence. The majority of fools in power, educated, economists, leaders, politicians bought into this cockamamie theory!

A fallen and lost world becomes ever more fallen, deluded, and lost. Evermore corrupted and banal. Refusing the truth, refusing logic, refusing history, refusing rational thought, reason to follow the whims and fantasies that are in truth nightmares of evil men.

If John Lennon had been alive in 1999, the year 2000 I can see him writing a follow up to his ridiculous song only this time telling everyone that in order to live in peace, we all had to build more McDonald’s restaurants and eat more Big Macs and then the world could live as one big fat lost and deluded people.

Imagine…

Globalization was and is a lie. It has been and is nothing more than the cunning father of lies knowing the evil hearts of men, the arrogant minds of men and women telling them they are god, they don’t need the God of the Bible, they don’t need Jesus, the Bible or any of that old stuff. Why they could build the brave new world, they could bring about world peace, they would be immortalized forever as the ones to finally make the world the Utopia so many have pursued through the ages!

Only problem was the failure to acknowledge evil. That real enemies exist. That everything in the Bible is factual and in truth, the Bible is the only truly factual source on earth.

This arrogance, all the captains on the ship of fools with no real navigator onboard, no real man to man the rudder and take the ship on the course it needed to be on — all the so-called leaders of the world bow to the people who assemble annually in Davos, Switzerland, to the World Economic Forum, to the Vatican, and the ship is chock full of nothing but utterly self-deluded, egomaniacal lost fools. Serving Satan and mocking, scoffing at God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Bible — until and unless an election is coming up and they know they can use certain people who will follow them in this fallen apostate state of things over following the Word of God even though these folks claim to be true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Imagine…

All globalization has wrought is to make the enemy stronger. Much stronger. The tragic Western mind only sees and thinks in the moment, or at best, at its longest three months into the future for those in business. Those in government demonstrate some consistency. As they never pay any attention at all to history, to the facts, to reality. It’s all been about arrogance. And self. Look what I did, look what I can do, look how wonderful I can make the world, finally!

Refusing to acknowledge the enemy. Refusing to acknowledge evil. Refusing to acknowledge God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the inerrant living Word of God.

Now, in the Russian mind The Asian mind? The Islamic mind? They will bide their time for decades, DECADES waiting patiently to strike. To pursue their long-held ideologies and belief systems that are in complete opposition to any and all Western beliefs and practices and desires.

The West, its leaders, its institutions, its people grew weaker and weaker and more lost and deluded with each passing year over the past 40, 50 years. And especially within the past 20 to 30. Even more so in the past 15 years. Self-indulgent. Self-worshipping. Self, self, selfie self!

In 2008 Russia invaded and went to war with Georgia. And the West did nothing.

In 2014 Russia invaded and took over Crimea. And the West did nothing.

Russia knows the weakness of the Western leaders and nations and Russia will do whatever it wants knowing the West will continue to be weak. Even with all the sanctions, the West is weak.

Imperialistic Communist China has been on an expansionist campaign for years now, the past few years. And the West has done nothing. Except become more dependent on Imperialistic Communist China and make them, the enemy, stronger.

And the West has done the same, accommodated Islam worldwide. Revealing the weakness and ignorance of the West while Islam grows stronger.

Ahh, people…so many people, look at all the lonely people…

…so many foolish and deluded people.

Falling for the lie of the world can and will live in peace and harmony due to materialism, every nation, and people being linked by materialistic economies.

I’m not advocating war. And it’s too late to change what happened in the past 40 years or so — but hey, Western leaders, Western governments, people in the West time to come out of your stupor, time to stop being the walking dead and wake up to the reality of the who, the how, the why and put aside the lunacy, the absurdity, the banality and lie of let’s create one world interdependent economy and the world will live in peace!

Making materialism, how they “feel” most vital. Especially the things aspect, the materialistic aspect of life.

Not ever mentioning or acknowledging the spiritual part of being human. Totally ignoring that part of being human unless to deny it exists, or foolishly follow a false faith, some banality, another lie along the way. Their so-called mindfulness is nothing but mindless as they are never mindful of the truth, of God, of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the Holy Spirit, of the Word of God. Most of those professing to be Christian don’t even know what is in the Bible!

And now we reap what we have sown.

And you know what folks? It’s going to get worse, a whole lot worse as time moves on. A whole lot worse.

Not according to me. According to God. According to Jesus. According to the Holy Spirit. And if you’ve been believing clueless, lying, cunning men and women your entire life? Placing faith in them? In any system of government? In what you imagine is real here and refusing to acknowledge or believe the Bible can hold any truth or help for you?

Maybe now is the time to make a radical change in your perception. In your reality. In your life. Because your eternity is depending on it.

Men and their ways, their ideologies, their institutions, their governments all fail, fall, and rot away.

God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God are not only the only real truth on this earth, They are eternal. Nothing here is, It’s all going to be dissolved and forgotten. Except for what each person believed, how each person lived, Who or who, or what each person followed, and which path they placed their feet upon and walked along.

And there are only two possible paths.

The failure of man and everything man has ever attempted.

Or the success, the truth, the reality, and eternity that is God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Bible.

Tragically, of the three true components of every human being, the physical and emotional are given priority and the spiritual is given little or no nourishing and attention. Unless to be deceived into believing yoga, of Buddhism, or Islam, or some guru, or exercise, or a certain diet are the answer leading to Nirvana.

And all those lead to is the second death. Hell.

If you’re a passenger being taken for a cruise on the ship of fools I strongly urge jumping ship and even if having to swim a bit in turbulent seas that you find yourself on the current leading you to a place of true peace, the only place of lasting peace, of a prosperity of the spirit — NOT of this material world — but to prosper in the Spirit of truth that gives life, eternal life.

Because the ways of man do not work. Will not work.

They are more lies and delusions than anything else.

Seek the Lord. Seek the Word of God and turn to and within the living Word of God.

While you’re still able.