Friday, August 18, 2023

God uses fools to confound the wise or why Rich men north of Richmond is such an impactful tune

 


In this postmodern dystopia in which we live our lives have been subjected to futility. It does not matter what the common person does to get ahead since the state is ever present to assist in sabotaging your dreams. But what does it mean to be subjected to futility? 

Let us examine Romans 8:20-23 (NASB)

20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 

21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 

22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 

23 And not only that, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body.

Do you ever feel that life is futile, that your efforts often end in vain, that the structure of existence itself is corrupt? That is because it is. This is a mystery that those who have no revelation of Christ simply cannot comprehend. 

This generation will go down in history as the one who surrendered its autonomy and reason to so-called experts whose greatest expertise is in disseminating lies and toxic ideologies under the false banner of social progress, just like every other group of totalitarian utopians which preceded them. We are headed straight back to those times when civilization was being culturally deconstructed by radicals. From the French Revolutionaries on to the Bolsheviks, to the Fascists and Nazis, to Mao's Cultural Revolutionaries, et al, each attempt at a sweeping radical restructuring of established order resulted in tyranny, murder, economic ruin, chaos, and despair while ripping away at the very foundations of social cohesion. So, screw the revolution!

BUT HOW IS IT THAT ANY OF YOU ARE OK WITH THIS? Canada has become a totally unnecessary tragedy brought about by a cadre of fools who attempt to control everything around themselves while being totally out of control themselves! We are being governed by "mendaciousnessism". This nation doesn't suffer from systemic racism, rather this nation is being tyrannized by systemic lies. And its citizens are growing ever more fed up and disgusted with politicians and bureaucrats who use lies under the false banner of social justice and progress as an unrelenting tool of manipulation! Under the Trudeau clan the father brought the Charter into existence while the son has managed to shove it down an Orwellian memory hole even as he desecrates it. Under the Trudeaus Canada has come full circle led deliberately from tyranny to ever greater tyranny, all in the name of cultural progress! This is due to the fact that the elites have never nor ever can be trusted to protect the weak, infirmed, and marginalized since they believe themselves to be so enlightened and superior to the common rabble that they have no time for us lesser mortals.

In a nation as vast, broad, deep, wide, and savage as Canada the very last thing anyone sane would wish to do is to make transporting goods unnecessarily costly and access to the energy to move them more difficult, and bureaucratic than it already is.  Which is why I am convinced that we are being governed by the criminally insane. In fact, our current cadre of politicians are guilty of committing capital crimes since their policies have resulted in loss of life and will continue to do so until said policies are changed. This is why the provinces are now engaged in a constitutional war with Ottawa over these very issues.

Yet if the wicked fools in power believe that the words of Oliver Anthony’s new song “Rich men north of Richmond” about how political corruption has disenfranchised the silent majority of “deplorables” aren't going to unite folks who are fed up with wealthy and corrupt oligarchs who lord it over us like serfs then they're even crazier than their perverted lifestyles prove them to be! Let’s examine a sample of Oliver Anthony’s lyrics from that song:

"It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to

For people like me and people like you

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true

But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world

With an old soul

These rich men north of Richmond

Lord knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don't think you know, but I know that you do

'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end

'Cause of rich men north of Richmond"

Then let us read from Psalm 37:12-20 NASB Anthony that read from just before he performed at the concert at Morris’s Farm Market in North Carolina that sent America reeling, radical social engineers into fits of rage, and his crowd into paroxysm of amens and shouts of relief that finally someone they could identify with had given them a voice. https://rumble.com/v377l45-oliver-anthony-oliver-anthony-reads-psalm-3712-20-its-now-600-highly.html

12 The wicked plots against the righteous, And gnashes at him with his teeth.

13 The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.

14 The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow

To take down the afflicted and the needy,

To kill off those who are upright in conduct.

15 Their sword will enter their own heart, And their bows will be broken.

16 Better is the little of the righteous Than the abundance of many wicked.

17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, But the Lord sustains the righteous.

18 The Lord knows the days of the blameless, And their inheritance will be forever.

19 They will not be ashamed in the time of evil, And in the days of famine they will have plenty.

20 But the wicked will perish; And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures, They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Then let us examine how The Wisdom of God operates to confound the wise and powerful from 1st Corinthians 1:

18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written, “I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE.”

20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 

21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 

22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 

23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, 

24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 

27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, 

28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, 

29 so that no man may boast before God. 

30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 

31 so that, just as it is written, “LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.”

Amen and amen, let the lament of my soul be approved in your sight and use foolish things like me to break the bows of the wicked!


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