I was just watching a video by Jared Eastley with some thoughts on the coming election and I guess I'll chime in here too with some of the thoughts I had while watching it. Um There's this scene in one of the Marvel movies where Thanos who's a villain says I am in inevitable. And it's a really poignant
scene. If you know the, the plot of those movies, it's a big deal. And when I watched that, uh I thought about how God who is not a villain is inevitable. This is a really deep idea that I can't do justice to in a little short video. But one of the properties of God is that and this can go really, really
deep, but it's a key to understanding the mystery of how we all have free will and yet he knows what's going to happen and he still has control. He is inevitable. He has chosen to become inevitable. And one way of phrasing salvation is that we choose to follow him in that path of becoming inevitable
, inescapable. So what does this have to do with the election? Well, whatever side you're on, you probably envision this as a battle between good and evil. But that is a highly limited view for, for a lot of reasons. Um I'll just dive deeper into people who are supporting Trump in this election. Those
folks tend to, to see that there are a lot of things in the present administration and in the platform that Harris supports uh which is the communist platform that um that that would be very bad to see that go further along than it already is. And they're right, but Trump is not the antithesis of that
platform. He is the least dirty shirt. So it doesn't take a genius. It just takes an honest person to look at his first administration and realize that this is a highly flawed person who does really dumb things from time to time. And we could enumerate the list from the vaccine to lockdowns to blasting
the deficit uh wide open or whatever the case may be and see that this is not the kind of person equipped to do what a modern president needs to do in such a complicated terrain. Now, a and all the people he surrounded himself with and how he treated those that he should have trusted more. That's just
a brief list. So now we have him making all sorts of promises and actively backpedaling against core positions that those who support him believe in. There is absolutely no reason to believe that he's not going to continue to do that once he's in office now without just wasting too much time talking
through that the coming of Christ is inevitable. Nothing will stop that. Jesus has already overcome any barrier that would prevent that from happening. It's done. What about all the other things that remain to be done? Including those that depend on people here? Well, those are all inevitable too. And
actually you have to break that down a lot before you get to the things that might turn out differently. Given people's personal choices. A lot of that is on the individual level, it's not going to affect the end result. Not the really big picture. When you look at end times events, the whole motif of
the end times, the end of that is already set the process leading to it is mostly set. One aspect of that is the collapse of the United States. And that's something that God will orchestrate. That's not something that I am calling for or advocating for, but it's going to happen if you think of the prosperity
and the culture and the everything that that makes America great that has been in decline for a considerable amount of time. We could debate about the specifics. Nothing is going to stop that decay. Can it be slowed? Yes. Can the slope shift just a little for a little while? Sure, but it's not going
to stop. It's like the United States is falling out of a tree, none of whose branches are strong enough to support it. And the only question is how many is it gonna hit on the way down? That is a very accurate analogy for what this country is facing. Nothing is going to stop its collapse. But some things
will slow it down if Trump were to be elected. I believe that the decay of the United States would be slowed versus Harris. However, I believe that there's a whole list of nasty things that are inevitable at this point. For example, something like a Chinese social credit score coming to the United States
, something like Canadian anti free speech laws and practice and many other things besides including much greater control on your personal finances, the writing is on the wall that all of those things are going to happen. We're already moving towards them in so many ways that most people just don't seem
to see the time is very short where you will continue to have the resources that you currently have, whether we're talking about freedom of speech or whether we're talking about money or time or a personal autonomy or autonomy in your families. All of those things have ever increasing pressure against
them and, and it's just gonna keep going. It's time to get very serious about this, about how you use your time and your money and your personal autonomy about what you say to other people while you still have a chance to. I've said this before. But the only reason there's even a shred of freedom speech
left in this country is because Elon Musk bought Twitter. Not that he's a savior, but again, just like Trump, um, he slowed things down a little bit for at least a little while. But you need to think about what kind of a thread this is all hanging from and we could do the same analysis with everything
, with your money, with your time with where you live and how you live. It's all hanging by a thread and that thread is fraying in real time and it's really, really obvious. So get your head out of the sand or out of your butt and pay attention and make use of it while it lasts. It took the richest man
in the world to continue the shred of free speech that we have left in the United States who happens to be an immigrant at that. I mean, these things are becoming so blatantly obvious and uh we're just so close to much worse things and every day God pours out his mercies and how do we respond by saying
, well, it must not be a big deal. Then we could just be even more complacent because look how untouchable we are just like this hurricane that was barreling towards Florida. I don't remember what it was called, but it was after the big one that happened recently and they were projecting these enormous
storm surges and everything and the whole thing just evaporated right off the coast. You can look at the radar. It's crazy. It could have been horrifically bad, worse than, than anything that area has ever seen in living memory. And so how do people respond by moving and saying, wow, if something like
that could happen, maybe I shouldn't live here. No, they doubled down in complacency. Oh, we're good. Like, hey, we're great. We don't need to worry about anything. That's not good. You're, you're leaving God with fewer and fewer options to wake you the heck up. So, the writings on the wall, these things
are inevitable. The only question is how long it's gonna take and, and what the decomposition looks like from here to there. The details are all that remains. It's time to get serious. And most of why this matters has to do with your own personal relationship with God to start getting serious about how
honest a person you are with yourself, with others, with God and get your life right with Jesus, live your life so that you're not guilty. You don't feel guilt about the wrong things you do and you haven't blinded yourself so that you can't even see them anymore. It's time to wake up and get right with