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• of Biafra, that genocide atrocity;
• of the Tutsis and the Hutus, in Rwanda and the spreading scene of massacre there unfolded;
• of Chechnya, where the body politic of former USSR became... Russia and its victim;
• of Bosnia and its rush of blood, first to the head, then to the ground;
• of Kosovo with its strange malady of hatred augmented by the UN's apparent desire to "do good"
which further devastated the land,
whilst ancient and modern hatreds mixed with more atrocities
if by any means hundreds of thousands might die, or starve,
or suffer massive deprivation in anguish and cold,
where mass and massive graveyards mark the high point of the subterranean human,
which alas for evolution points the real direction of flow of the stature of man,
down not up,
not superman but defashioned man, devolved not evolved,
devolving increasingly on evil, not wisdom;


• and ponder Sierra Leone.

There we read of cutting off the hands of a 13 year old girl with grisly determination and apparent indifference, making the 'class' she is somehow construed to inhere in, the ground of her partial destruction, while the non-surgical practice of dismemberment, to help people see the resistance is a good thing ? goes on as if man had taken leave not only of his senses, but of his life.

It is these things which are seen, not the causeless upward thrust without a force and concept sufficient: what we see and what the scientific laws note, is the opposite. Organic evolution is as dead in the vital concourse of life as in the world of logic (cf. Repent or Perish Ch.7, That Magnificent Rock, Chs.1,8, A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-9, The Shadow of a Mighty Rock -SMR,  pp. 251ff., and Ch.2). It is constant and mounting, as man without God is like a chassis without a motor, and what a proud one! Where there is neither understanding nor maintenance on the ordered basis of the Creator, then downward is the motion of the wisdom of man, and his capacity to control his earth, this also! The physical side is merely an illustration. Design without upthrust in an impactive environment not adjusted to the case: it suffers loss.

Pride ? Its end is in only one direction! When as now, the pride of race becomes the direct opposite of the wisdom of performance, with sheer folly in Communism, Nazism and the various religions of violence, offering  force for faith: then the case is grave (cf. human racism, SMR pp. 1008ff.). When, however, the race in its inhumane humanism and unideal anti-idealisms conspires as if demented, against God by supplanting His wisdom with its own, His laws with its own, His requirements with an impudence of irrationality almost without parallel, though certainly with a past: then one might expect that the end is near.

The more man thinks without wisdom, like an erratic 'teenager lacking balance and depth, as if maturity were merely an extension, not a completion, then the more his prodigious capacities vex his untutored soul, his  illiterate spirit and his destiny: the first two the consequence of wilfulness, the later unmanoeuvrable for all his efforts! And this nearness to the end, it of course is precisely what the Bible has to say of the Age which reaches that precise and multiple series of variables which ours displays, at the level of our ... special current performance! (Cf. SMR Chs. 8-9 in detail, from the Bible, where all this is expounded point by point, pattern by pattern, and development by development, in the predictive contexts.) Accordingly, the time of His return is assuredly drawing near (Luke 21:28).

Force without wisdom, faith without works, push without intelligence, thrust without truth, these things construct as little now as they have done throughout all history. They have an end.

But WHY so much bloodshed ? WHAT is the explanation of this ? HAS NOT MAN since Woodrow Wilson propounded his Yankee idealism, proceeded with his European Unity, with his internationalism in the United Nations, his desire for peace and nice things for mankind ?

By talk, yes.

And since the Atlantic Charter of the Allies in World War II with all the wonderful freedoms and liberties to be obtained, has he yet learned to control his spirit, to direct his thoughts ?

Frankly no!

As a race, he sinks further in disgrace.

The degrees of apparent hypocrisy have perhaps grown, that may be so. The methods of annihilation and wounding may have become more varied: this is so, but advance in wisdom and truth ? The difficulty is this: without Christ, who is it (I Corinthians 1:30), wisdom itself: there is nowhere to go. THAT, of course, is exactly where the caravansary of man is going: and getting there fast. As we have seen, in the philosophy of Paul Davies (That Magnificent Rock, Ch.7), 'nothing' as an operative principle has with an ultra Alice in Wonderland verve and flair, become a real thing, seriously discussed in terms of origins! Nowhere to go to certainly fits in parallel with nowhere to come from. However it does not work that way: neither retrospectively nor prospectively. Things require causes as we have repeatedly at length found. If the beginning is vulgarly vitiated, removed, in thought and theory, it is not so in fact; nor is then the end is not so amenable in history as the beginning in fantasy. Fantasy does not stop history from happening, any more than it enables it. The end ? It is coming very fast: but here is the point.

It is coming as PREDICTED ... in the matter of multiplied DEATH amidst a warring, reviling, blundering shamelessness. It is a disease of spirit and it reeks to heaven. Its arrival is a judgment and its exercise is another. Let us look at the spiritual survey.
 
 

Here we see some of the spiritual side of things. It is easy when one has a body to begin to become preoccupied with its wants and feelings. God, however, who is a Spirit, is not inactive! His DONATION of eternal life is a completed work for those who receive it (John 6:51ff., 10:9,27-28, Romans 3:25, 8:29ff., 5:1-11, I Thessalonians 5:9-10). What is not yet complete is the work of judgment (cf. John 5:23ff.).

In Revelation 6 we see certain phases of this judicial aspect of human life on this earth. The symbol of SEALS BEING OPENED is used, as if documents were at length allowed to become active. It is as if a launch were at last ready. Alas, this launch is no more beneficial to the unrepentant than was the atomic bomb to the pleasantness of Japan!
 

• 1. A WHITE HORSE then comes first with the word, 'conquering and to conquer' (Revelation 6:2).

 
• 2. A FIERY RED one follows, and "it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword."

This is in a chapter ending with the words, "For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" It is followed by a chapter describing in some detail, the destiny  of those who come "out of the great tribulation" (7:14), proceeding by stages to the final judgment.

In all this, it is a very substantial parallel to the words of Christ in Matthew 24 where the phases to the end, and the situation would become so grave that the end would have to be grasped by Himself, the Lord, by His coming, lest none could survive in its flagrant evils and calamities (Matthew 24:22)

3. Then a BLACK horse appears, amidst vast deficiencies of food: famine careers in lusty force. This is fulfilled in momentous profusion, and was already being fulfilled when SMR was being written some years ago (SMR p. 650). Now it mounts.



• 4. Then a PALE horse appears, and "the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hell followed with him" (Revelation 6:8). Of interest is the word, literally, for 'little beasts' in 6:8, one which can refer to a large range of objects, including, as Liddell and Scott's great Greek dictionary advises us, insects (as used by Aristotle) - it can even be used of snakes. Little beasts the mosquitoes indeed are (cf. Benevolent Brightness or Brothy Bane 71, pp. 43ff.)... and poisonous par excellence. They make their contribution to the blood, since man is so interested in displaying it! God is not mocked. Even today (The Advertiser, September 13, 1999) one reads of a plague of mosquitoes in New York bearing dangerous diseases and an expert pathologist speaking of these as perhaps the most dangerous creatures. Aerial spraying was needed, itself dangerous.


As we saw, the greenhouse effect is expanding the mosquito boundaries; while the folly of man is increasing their opportunities and reducing his preventive measures in many ways (op.cit. 74, *1).

Our present point, having provided something of the context, is to note just this:
 

DEATH AND BLOODSHED,
AMID THE AMAZING DISPERSION OF PEACE
AS IF IT WERE BLOWN AWAY BY A TORNADO:
THIS IS THE PREDICTED SITUATION.

This is also the actual situation. The complex of events in which this was to happen, is that in which it happens.

THAT in brief is the story of the case. In the word of God, what is to happen, whether it  be creation in kinds that do not elevate themselves with magical potencies into higher conceptions, grander things, but stay within limits, this is the observation, the attestation of the MODE, the METHOD and the RESULTS; or whether it be disposition of history, in its kinds and developments, its details and its procedures:
what is SAID, is what OCCURS.

On the other hand, in the fairyland realm of imaginitis (inflammation of the imagination) called organic evolution, or secular philosophy: what is to happen, whether as in Darwin's nonsense decried on many evolutionary sides for its grandiose dreams and minimal attainments, or the other wild thoughts that come only to go, or as in the political version called communism: what is to happen, DOES NOT OCCUR. What is SAID is not what is SEEN.
 
 

As Solomon declared, The curse causeless shall not come (Proverbs 26:2). The curse came at first, and the aggravations accrue. What then is this situation ? It is what is observable.

• In essence, it is both predicted and called for; it is a part of that judgment which

 
• a race laden with lies (Isaiah 44:20, Jeremiah 2:27, I John 2:22), in much filled with the fantasies of its own glory and righteousness,
• a race which forgets God amidst its desire to glorify 'Nature' (cf. Benevolent Brightness or Brothy Bane 74, End-note *1) -

 
rather as the Egyptians glorified cats, or the Romans made a horse into a god in the seat of governmental power -


• is asking for, and receiving.

But let us return from the cause-effect relationships, to the practical issue of BLOOD, of bloodthirstiness, of painting the earth with the departing forms of man, bloodying the soil, butchered the corpses, death like a game, like a car downhill without brakes, and in this case, perhaps also without driver!
 

• This too is a VERIFICATION. The exact configuration of faithless fancies and a spiritual sunset in ... blood (cf. Benevolent Brightness or Brothy Bane 74, *1, p. 103), amidst a morally downward spinning earth, its majestic scenarios from the imaginations of man in strident contrast with the practical and murderous realities.
• In fact, even blood could not drain Christ, whose bodily resurrection^*2stares the world in its still affronted face, offering the other way, where sacrifice not butchery, sanctification not dreams, reality and not fantasy is the gift of God (from Romans 3:25-27):

 
"Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed: to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

"Where is boasting then ?" (emphasis added).
 

• Alas it is much to be found in the fleshly philosophies of evolutionism that makes its inebriated seeming boastings in misalliance with 'Nature', and the degraded butchery byproducts that, unlike the facts,  cling to it like a form-fitting garment. Yet by contrast, boasting has no place in in the grace-saved heart of the Christian whose abiding place is the Lord (Ephesians 2:1-10, Romans 3:25-28), whether it be the boasting of false secular 'religions' which do it without the badge, or 'spiritual' ones, which have the badge but not the faith, working their own way even to heaven, that they might forever mimic the Pharisee (cf. Romans 10:1ff.).

 
• But to the Christian, these are but two twin disasters: for his part, worlds may come and go (Isaiah 51:6), but the Lord remains faithful, a Father to His people, a Shepherd to His flock, a strengthener to the weak, blessing to the meek. And He invites, even from under the hedges, from the highways and byways. There is none who can blame HIM! (cf. Matthew 22:10, 11:27ff.).

 
• When 'Nature' is worshipped as that grand thing that made us, however, what then ? what in fact and in practice has come ? The its litany of woes becomes to the athletic and deluded mind, the illusory mechanisms of our creation; then the thrust to continue the 'good work', in fact the observation of the destructive calamities of the curse in its cyclotron impact as the world works ever new woes of folly: then what ? THEN the Hitlers and the Stalins, the high and the low in many lands and many ways determine their superiority, their creative merits, and turn out in force to oppress the inferior, or even to prove their own class.

 
• Then Hitler - though the groupings were many - allegedly mourns that the Slavs were stronger after all! The corrupted nation survived - as do rats in run-down buildings, but one does not admire the rodents for that. Tens of millions - as if they were rodents indeed! - appear to have been sacrificed of their own in Siberia and in ruthless occupation of territory, while other nations with small wisdom, threw their weight in with them, taking one mass murderer for another.

 
• Survival on earth ? THAT someone continues to breathe on earth  - like Lady Macbeth, rich in blood, is not nearly so significant as WHAT it is that is continuing!

 
• But someone will say: They do not need to practice 'survival of the fittest' as a calling, making existence without character more important than the character of existence,  just because they attribute our production to this non-inventive, unprincipled conflict ? When however such a thing as man is deemed to be 'made' that way in the eye of their stricken imagination, then they do indeed turn to the force! The more irrational the theory, the more arbitrary its pursuit. That is the way it HAS GONE with very many regimes, many businesses and many thoughts (cf. SMR pp. 233ff., 877ff., 707ff., 1077ff.. It becomes a career flight that is under pressure, pressurised by hope, ambition or the sheer love of the folly of the philosophy.

 
• It is not attractive, certainly; yet it mesmerises; people descend to vulgarities and brutalities unimaginable, blaming, if judged, that others commanded it; believing often, if not judged, that destiny commands it! And Communism in particular has lived by it, as if it were the choicest of morsels.  It produces woes, and is stricken with more. It spawns disaster, even to Russia.

 
• Nevertheless, such 'natural' worship, implicit or explicit, is not found in Communism alone. Its enticements lead also to closet vulgarians, whose absence of political dogma leaves little missing in their realpolitik, their godless enthusiasm to sell what it takes to get what you want, Communist or not. It propels individuals, enterprises and nations in great numbers to the lust for unprincipled forces: domineering, devious, unreliable, changeable; and to reliance on force (cf. Isaiah 9:9-13).



This is the way of the 'god of forces' noted in the references above (see 707ff.); and it is this not least which is Biblically predicted for the 'big time' in the pre-judgment acute phases of human history, as there shown. Indeed we have even had a Prime Minister of our own, making massive changes in undertakings on the explicit ground that what ? this, that the circumstances have changed! So honour leaps from the 4th floor and blood is seen below.

In fact, these driving drivels and dynamic rancours make the Gentile world of today so like that of Israel in the days of Isaiah, that the likeness is almost comic (cf. Isaiah 1). It is like two twins!
Yet the comedy  is bathed in blood; and the bathing is not in pools, but on earth. Each was multiply warned; and each multiply declined to listen.

The earth however is the Lord's, and He shows this by making WHAT HE SAYS, WHAT WE FIND. The organic mysticism produces this: WHAT IT SAYS, WE DO NOT FIND. It is a little late in the day for party tricks; it is time to return to the facts, to the faith, to the Lord who made us, and to His word which directs things the way they are to go, with mercy and judgment. That is the way it is.
 

End-Notes
 

• *1

See News 24, Swift Witness 3, Scoop of the Universe 59.
 

*2
BAB Appendix 3, BB Appendix IV, Ch. 15, Extended Endnote 2
The Magnificence of the Messiah, Endnote 1, SMR Index,
KH 9, Section 14,  JJ 25.