Freedom of the Press, Prophesy, and Apocalypse.

 

Freedom of the Press, Prophesy, and Apocalypse.

It was the week before Christmas 2019, and I was hosting a drumming circle at home when the phone rang. My father just passed away. I will not bore you with details since we all have those moments in life when things change, but it was a critical moment in history. Now when we talk, everyone wants to go back to that time, but the world as we knew it is gone forever. There is no going back.

We can block traffic here and there, wave signs and make noise, sit in a hot tub on the steps of parliament demanding that the Prime Minister will come to talk to us, and write ridiculous reasons why we hate Trudeau, but the past is not coming back. In the last two weeks, it became clear that all the things we enjoy, including “freedom,” can be taken away in a blink of an eye. There is something bigger than us that controls our destiny. God doesn’t hurt us, but he can let us hurt ourselves.

As the prophets in the bible predicted, if we sin against God, who is “the least of our brothers”, and the world itself, there will be a price to pay. Even the Cry babies Caravan now knows that real “freedom” has a price and that “dictators” have tanks and planes. Giving in to temptation and abusing the gifts bestowed upon us from creation onwards may and will destroy all that we enjoy very fast. The rest of the details you can read in your own bible. Brother against brother, fires and floods, “women don’t cry for me, cry for yourselves and your own children” and so on.

On that day, two weeks before Christmas 2019, there was a short report on the news about a suspected contagious Coronavirus discovered in faraway China. No one took it seriously. People booked cruises and holidays, planned parties, and shopped for presents. Fires and floods in Australia didn’t seem real and even those fake news people who mascarade as reporters were not yet alarmed. They would enter the fray later when humans discover a vaccine that could spoil the devil’s fun.

Most advanced nations employ experts to warn them of looming disasters. For years, those responsible for the environment have been warning us that our greedy, wasteful ways were going to hurt us. Using the atmosphere and the oceans as a universal trash can and over-mining all energy sources would not be good for future humans. We didn’t stop and warning signs showed up.

The world population increased, and there was a need for sharing and caring for each other. We did the opposite. Increased the wealth of a few and made the many suffer. It’s not our problem, we said, but it was. A pandemic, just a mild one, hit us. As governments followed the science, hoards of “we don’t care” people showed up claiming “freedom” as the reason. Governments in democratic countries caved in and many people died needlessly. We didn’t take the hint.

Nature increased its pressure. In Canada, we dealt an attempt to destabilize the democratic government, with kid’s gloves, so a more noticeable crisis occurred and is still going on. The autocratic leader of Russia went to war against a major European country, scaring us with nuclear weapons. This time, many innocent people perished and cities are levelled.

While maternity and children’s hospitals are bombed, million-plus mothers and children are homeless refugees, in the US the fight about abortions is heating up.

The environmental conflict is being dubbed as “job-killing”. The vaccine against the pandemic is making billions for drug companies, and the coffers of the weapon manufacturers are overflowing while the blood of the suffering cries all the way to the heavens. If there is a God, something that many now deny, what will be His next step?

In our little towns, I am fulfilling the part of the official opposition. This tiny little local paper you are reading is still following the old rules of freedom of the press. The old reporter who set it up believed that “controversy is good for the paper” and I chose to fulfill that unthankful role, providing the opposition.

People who only want to read “positive” writings don’t like me, while others want to hear “the other side.” I am OK with that. I am old enough to know that life is not only the icing on the cake. If I seed some ideas which may ease suffering, I will do it. I am sick, old, and tired. If I can convince some young people that life is not only for accumulating junk, avoiding hard work by using artificial energy, partying, and travelling, I will try my best.

The God of the old testament told people what to do and punished them when they didn’t. The son of God in the New Testament taught us to share, help, forgive, and welcome. He waited 2000 years to see what we will do. He warned us to pray not to be led by temptation. We tried and failed. Some of us are good, but most are not. He said to harvest the wheat and separate it from the weeds.

We can avoid being harvested by following the instructions or simply by listening to our hearts. Only weird or mentally sick people feel good about hurting others. The body we have is made of millions of tiny living parts that work together and keep it going. Humankind is created also from billions of individuals who can only succeed by working together, but they all have free will. We must volunteer in order to win. That is why convincing people, some through “free Press” is important. Tyrants don’t allow free press and only publish lies.  

Humans have the instructions, had time to learn, and now can see what happens if we don’t listen. We have the “freedom” to use our free will and we will enjoy or suffer the consequences. Those who have eyes will see.