Principalities and powers that cause conflict
by Mike Cooper | Jan 13, 2023
If you care about the environment, you must hate fossil fuels.
If you care about racism, you must agree black lives matter and white people are privileged.
If you care about children, you must agree with sexual orientation.
If you care about the health of others, you must get the vaccine.
We live in a world full of colours and variations of grey.
And yet, during the peak of the “we” swing of society we’re in, the world is portrayed as black and white.
The moral high ground is based on “if this, then that”.
There is no thinking outside of the box of what you were told how it is.
If you don’t agree with the madness, you are a racist, child-abusive, science denier, bigot, and much more!
This isn’t critical thinking. It’s propaganda brainwashing that creates mob mentality.
Once we hit the mob mentality stage in society, empathy for those who think differently than us disappears.
Because we end up caring more about our ideology than we do the sanctity of human life.
The final result is the persecution of people that don’t agree with the latest ideology.
That is how civil wars happen.
And that’s why the bible says:
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:11-12 (NKJV)
These black-and-white narratives are designed to have flesh and blood fighting against each other. And it’s the principalities and powers that create them.
Principalities are spirits or demonic activity trying to cause damage to humans. Which is what these virtue signalling statements are really trying to do. And it’s very clear that there are evil spirits behind the people creating these narratives.
As Christians, we’re supposed to value all human life, even our enemies. In fact, we’re told to love our enemies. We’re to look above such human conflict to see the spiritual battle that’s causing them. We can see it’s not the people who are causing the conflict, it comes from higher up, even people in higher places that are influenced by the principalities.
Sadly, we don’t see that in many churches today.
We see churches embracing the virtue signalling narratives in hopes to appear righteous. Instead, they offer the same exact conflict the world offers.
And some Churches remain silent, not wanting to rock the boat. Again, this position offers nothing different than the world.
The position of the Church is supposed to be the high ground, above such things so that Christians can be the light in the darkness. To have discernment and know the message of the devil when it hears it. This is so that people can see there are answers beyond the black-and-white picture they’ve been given.
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