Lux Lucet

This author has had not a few conversations that begin with the statement, “everything is fake.”  Indeed, it’s hard to argue with that assessment. 

We have fake news, fake elections, a fake president, and a fake financial system.  We’re constantly fed the lie that men can become women and women can become men or any number of other bizarre “genders.”   Critical Race Theory, another popular fraud widely adopted in our culture, says that one’s race determines whether you are a good person or a bad person, while the Word of God says that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Americans, and indeed people the world over, have been laboring under horrible restrictions due to a fake pandemic that is, apparently, being used to usher in a permanent state of tyrannical social control. 

We’re lied to about the “vaccines” that are supposed to protect us against Covid, a disease that is survived by more than 99.5% of the people who get it.  We’re told that they’re safe and effective, all the while evidence mounts that they are neither.  Yet the more the evidence piles us, the louder the propaganda machine insists that we take these dangerous and experimental injections. 

And the Covid “pandemic” is not the only example of a fake engineered crisis used by powerful interests to push a hidden agenda. 

Climate Change and related ideas such as global warming or various and sundry other fake ecological crises are clearly a bogus bogeyman that have been foisted on the public for at least the last fifty years.  Much like Covid, Climate Change seems to be designed to impose both economic and political regimentation on individuals while at the same time ushing in the “Great Reset,” a globalist, corporatist nightmare that promises to reduce the status of ordinary people to something like that medieval serfs. 

Propaganda is an amazing thing.  According to the edition I have of Edward Bernays’ book Propaganda, the term was coined in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV as part of the counterreformation.  As it turned out, the Pope was concerned by the losses being sustained by the Roman Catholic Church-State to the Protestants and he was determined to put an end to it.  For this purpose, he established the Office of the Propagation of the Faith, or in Latin Congregatio de propaganda fide. The purpose of this new organization was to “supervise the Church’s missionary efforts in the New World and elsewhere.”  So if you live in America, you live in a part of the world that was the first official object of propaganda, and that from Antichrist himself.

Of course, the concept of propaganda was around long before it was named in 1622.  In the Old Testament, we read of false prophets who often pushed the official narrative desired by the kings.  Think of the 400 false prophets who hailed king Ahab’s idea of going to war with Syrian to take back Ramoth in Gilead for Israel.  The propagandists in that day were more than happy to make a big show of it for the king and the people.  Go up, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king,” they shouted.  These men were both deceived and deceivers, as God had put a lying spirit into their mouth as a way of destroying the evil king Ahab.

As the account is given in 1 Kings 22, it appears that there was only one prophet who was not deceived, and that was Micaiah, who not only mocked Ahab but delivered a crushing rebuke to him and to the false, propagandizing prophets.     

Later, Isaiah rebuked the propagandists of his own day, pronouncing woe on those who called good evil and evil good. 

Likewise, the New Testament records for us that false teachers, one may even call them propagandists, came into the churches almost as quickly as the apostles could found them.  Gnostic and legalistic heretics were corrupting the churches almost from the beginning and the apostles warned against such men.

In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church-State become the masters of deception.  Remarkably, they were able to convince a sizable portion of the population that when one of its so-called priests uttered the words “hoc est corpus meum” (this is my body), that the bread and wine were transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ.  Transubstantiation is as much a lie as is transgenderism.  Bread and wine are no more able to become the body and blood of Christ than a man can become a woman.  An no number of people who believe these frauds can make it so. 

One of the great difficulties we Christians face in not being deceived is that we are often very much in the minority.  But as Paul noted, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man.”    

Standing alone can be difficult and scary.  No doubt about it.  It is much easier to go along with the crowd than be the one lone oddball who says “no” when everyone else is saying “yes.” 

But then, that’s really our job.  Our calling is to be salt and light.  And when are salt and light most needed?  When things are the darkest.  No one has need of a flashlight when it’s noonday.  When it’s night out, that’s when a flashlight shows its real value. 

You and I, we live in a time of great deception and falling away.  Yet the command “be not deceived” still stands.  Let us pray to God that he teach us knowledge from his Word and grant us the wisdom to apply it well.  Let us turn, as Isaiah tells us, to the law and to the testimony.  For in doing so, not only will we not be deceived, but we can be the salt and light which the Lord has called us to be to a lost and dying world.     

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