1984 Revisited

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him
and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein
to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13.12


This idea of a power influencing people to act in a certain way,
even to give attention and worth to an image… a concept… an idea.

We see it all the time- do we not?

In America and all around the world there is
that idea of "political correctness"
where much pressure and influence is exerted
for people to look at things
and believe and behave in a certain way.

There doesn’t seem to be a care that the ways
they want people to see things
go against all tradition;
not a care that these 'new concepts' go against the Bible-
this ‘newspeak'.

For generations people of many countries
used the Bible and its truth as the standard.
Governments and laws were based upon it.
Such nations were even called “Christian” nations.

We have no government armed with power capable
of contending with human passions unbridled
by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition,
revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords
of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

The Morality of John Adams day was the morality
of Judeo-Christian influence.

But that is all changing.

There is that which would cause people
to worship something else
and that influence has nothing to do with heaven.

It has more to do with that which caused Eve
to take her attention off of the words
and truth of God as the first.

And that influence is with the subtlety of a beast.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast….
Genesis 3.1