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WHERE ARE THE PROPHETS?
For the past few days I’ve been reading about the “heartfelt” apologies District Judge Zia Faruqui has been offering to Cole Allen who was attempting to assassinate the President at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Faruqui put his sympathy for Allen this way -“Whatever you’ve been through, I apologize.” What has he been through that is so inhumane? He’s been placed on suicide watch and is now in solitary confinement, neither of which seem cruel or unusual, given the nature of the deed that got him locked up.
We’re living in insane times right now.
As the prophet Isaiah declared ages ago:
“Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.” (Isaiah 5:20 – New International Version)
Last night I ordered Gad Saad’s best selling book titled “Suicidal Empathy.” (amazon. com suicidal empathy)
The title is intriguing, expressing what I believe to be the insanity of our time.
Think of it. Judges are turning captured rapists, murderers, pedophiles, etc who committed crimes back out to the streets to commit even more heinous acts of evil.
Such thinking is insane enough when a few engage in it, but our problem in America is far more widespread. It’s akin a pandemic like Covid.
How do we stop the flood and fire of the evil from sweeping over the entire land? Where are the prophets who are willing to speak out?
We’ve had them before. We’ve read the words of Moses – “Let my people go.” Where are the Elijahs willing to challenge our modern day prophets of Baal in our halls of justice or governing institutions? Where are the John the Baptists who will be willing call America to repentance? Where are the principled journalists like Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Garreth Jones, or Seymour Hirsch? Where are the Martin Luther Kings? The Aleksander Solzhenitsyns ? We need them desperately.
Thankfully, there is faithful remnant that willing to speak truth to the unbridled power and corruption that’s destroying us.
One of that faithful remnant is Bob Dylan.
I’m adding two links to illustrate the prophetic power that accompanies two of his songs -“When You Gonna Wake Up” and “Jokerman.”
Listen! Respond! Embrace the truth of the Cross before it’s too late.
Early in our history the French intellectual Alexis de Tocqueville came to our shores and saw that America was a good nation. He described that America in his classic work “Democracy in America.”
He ended that classic with an observation and a warning: “America is great because America is good…if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
I fear that time is almost at hand. We must take heed to the warnings. We must change course before it’s too late.