So - "what's next?" - I wondered on and off; But more and more I was curious of how things
would end.
The thing is, as I've always been kind of confused about Revelation 11, I've also always
been confused about Revelation 13. The question then, to me, being: How dark is it actually
going to get? Sure, you might imagine that I'm that beast and hence am looking for a way
to handwave those things away. And at that point I should probably just wait for things to
play out. Like they have so far. But still. There's something that didn't add up.
Generally speaking are there a couple of prophecies that apply to the end time. We have
Isaiah, Daniel, the Gospels and the Revelation. And more. But to me it always felt off that
this absolute dominance we might infer from Revelation 13:15+ would take place. Well, if I
was supposed to believe that I also had a role to play.
The way things ARE right now, we're pretty much there already - except ... not quite. If
we're going by 'their' words however, by how they present themselves, by how they act, we
are there already. I mean, apparently Trump could just come in and demand that Europe
invests hundreds of billions of dollars in the US economy. Then, of course, if you're not
on board with their vision of Tech and the Economy you're a luddite and nobody cares about
you. We can see the
worse of it is in Texas right now, though ... where is it that Zuckerberg
wants to build a
Manhattan sized Data Center?
I mean - presenting it like this ... it looks we're just at the beginning of it. We can see
the foundation being laid. We can see where this is going and you don't even need to be a
Christian to understand that. I mean, it's obvious that those people are Crazy - whichever
Religion they'd take their inspirations from.
Anyway. The Revelation does go over it twice. There's the Rise of the Beast and Babylon the
Great Whore. We get a piece on how bad they are - but then it just ends. And yea. What if
the Revelation did add some phrase like "It's not quite as bad" or "At least they'll speak
of such things" - that would have been true throughout history I assume. To say, the prophecies
as they are they suggest that things would get a bit further than that. But we don't exactly
know how far.
But ... the Revelation doesn't speak of it as a Beginning of something either. While in
Revelation 13 the Beast emerges from the Water, there is some sense of how it more or less
appears out of nowhere. In Revelation 18 however we learn that Babylon has had some time to
"do adultery with the Kings of the World" or whatever. So, it's a thing that already exists and
possibly even so in plain sight.
But then it's just over. Going by Revelation 14 - there's a Gospel. Going by Revelation 18,
we could, apparently, just decide to turn things back on her. All it says there is "Abandon
her" and then "do Revenge".
The way I see it, or want to see it, it's only a matter of time. With time 'they'll' expand/consolidate
their power, not really making the prophecies any more or less true. The Gospel those prophecies
speak of is also here already, isn't it? So ...
What's weird however is how little there would be left. Like, if Babylon fell right now - well,
for once we wouldn't have a Godzilla sized carcass laying on some shore somewhere. We wouldn't
have years or decades of history speaking of that totalitarian control. A.k.a. "no evidence".
Which does however remind me of the Holocaust. Or more so it has me think of Holocaust Deniers.
I mean - whatever was going on back then was pretty bad. But what's left of it now?
Well, today we have better cameras and stuff - but so, in a hundred years ... if that's ...
Oh. OK. So, some people would think that this 'sudden end' would be due to the Second Coming.
But why are we then told to abandon Babylon and do some Catharsis Therapy?
So yea. Without a lot of words, I think I'm curious about what evidence we do have already and
how that might translate into the future.
In that regard I'm looking towards this:
for instance. The issue being just ... it's like Schrödinger's Dictatorship. From the one side it's
all nothing but a joke, if it were gone we'd be none-the-wiser, it's a closed case, people can still
argue, "cue in Jimmy Kimmel's return-to-broadcast monologue" (which was good by the way), all is
well. But from the other ... well, there's still the thumb on the button. And whatever damage control
they run internally doesn't really project outward. I mean - Trump and Netanyahu are antagonizing
the UN; And I don't know how the "Oops, t'was but a joke!" defense would fly here.
I mean - we shouldn't be surprised if it came to that. So, the more poignant question is: How much
radical revolutionary energy is there, globally? I'd say that's more so the threshold that matters.
But yea. That video is a perfect encapsulation of the story. You could even project into it whatever
you want. Like ... saying "Oh, he's just a 22 year old 'YouTuber' - uhu!" - like, obviously, YouTube
is responsible for 500% of the radicalization on the left or something like that. But what we also
see here, I think, is a bit of a shift. The tide be turning.
I mean, if what it comes down to is power and popular support - we also have that perfect split right
there. Power on the one side running its rhetoric, and popular support on the other ... possibly ...
we're getting there I assume ... because ... how else are we going to just decide to have had enough
of it?
But yea - how are we going to do that? Well, the answer is simple: First we walk away - and then, I
assume, one thing will lead to the other.
OK, I'm starting to repeat myself. You get the idea!