The Collapse of Western Civilization, or of the World?

This business of the Mayan Calendar ending in 2012 is finding traction. A lot of dire predictions seem to point two or three years down the road. We already have a raft of economic and political prognostications, and I agree we are in a world of hurt. Given the high level of secrecy* it's hard to know for sure whether some of the predictions aren't merely a political ploy in themselves. Are we really in the path of severe solar storms, or is this just setting us up for some sort of disaster panic? I'm pretty sure the FBI's warning about cybergeddon is a just such a set-up. This skepticism comes from some personal experience with the FBI and other federal law enforcement types, going all the way back to my own forray into law enforcement. I understand all too well the elitist mindset which has taken over the US government, so that even petty bureaucrats have come to despise the common rabble.

However, this one I understand. Not the microbiology, but what lies behind it. Powell notes how good intentions easily do more damage than all the evil plots hatched by men. The evil might well be not so much an attempt to do harm, but the results of careless tinkering simply for profit, such as with Monsanto.

This fact alone has to be profoundly disturbing to anyone who cares about issues of transparency, informed debate and the decision-making process. Monsanto is not particularly interested in developing crops that address the direct needs of poor and hungry small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The vast bulk of its profits derive from the production of just four crops -- soybeans, maize, cotton and canola -- whose harvests are not generally consumed as food by humans. And yet, Monsanto lobbyists are busy shaping (and weakening) national bio-safety laws all over the world. Who has the greatest incentive to introduce genetically modified organisms into the biosphere without taking the time to truly understand their long-term impact? Who is the least interested in upholding the so-called precautionary principle -- a fundamental part of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which is part of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity?

One need not agree with the underlying religion of Greens to find Monsanto a threat to all human life. You see, Monsanto is operating from the basis of a competing religion. It reflects the spirit of Babylon so roundly condemned in Scripture prophecy.

The world is fallen. Nature is not in its "natural state" as God created it. Some part of us knows this instinctively, as we have been struggling ever since the Fall to find a way back into Eden. Now, we all know the only path to Eden is passing under the Flaming Sword of God's Truth, but the majority of society rejects the necessity of exposing themselves without reservation to Someone they are born fearing, and perhaps hating. We humans generally succeed in pushing out of our minds the message written into our very DNA that we have sinned and rejected God's revelation. Instead, we are nagged beyond understanding that we have somehow lost something, and we are darned sure going to try and get it back. A major element in that "something" we have lost is our ability to control nature -- the basic premise of the occult, among other things. Not just our mastery as those able to overcome the odds and survive, but to force it in detail to follow our dictates in re-creating the Eden we know was the thing for which we were designed.

Throughout human history, we have struggled to remake the world around us to fill some aching need. The part of this we understand is comfort, stimulation, and power to keep it serving our desires. Those desires could be described in any number of ways, but in the case of Monsanto, it's the standard worship of Mammon. The method is what's so heinous, beacuse they don't want to be simply rich, but powerful enough to take absolute control over that portion of human existence which they believe they understand. Actually, that really isn't so different from the Green religion. In the case of Powell's imaginary Green activist seeking to save the world from oil spills, it's still a matter of seeking control on terms which put the activist in the place of God. Monsanto's chase for the triad of lust is pretty obvious, but the environmental activist is no less guilty for appearing to be concerned about the needs of the world. The problem for such people is they are so damnably certain they have the answer, an answer at variance with God's answer, and a certainty which pretends to be Him.

This fallen world cannot be fixed, according to God. That is, the fix He plans for it is complete removal. At some point in our future, the End will come and we have no words for what comes next. Indeed, the very idea of "next" doesn't really fit here, but we have to use something to point the way to an unspeakable truth. The entirety of God's revelation is parabolic in its very nature for that reason. Western Civilization is founded on a rejection of that very thing. It rejects God's Truth because it rejects God's way of revealing it. God said this world really doesn't matter, but that there are things we could do here which would matter, as He measures it. For Western Civilization, the very fundamental assumption is there is nothing outside this world. Struggling to remake it in Eden must always fail. I'm wondering if the flailing death throes of Western Civilization will include the destruction of the whole world. Just what God will consider the final tipping point on initiating the final sequence is not for us to know, but I have to wonder if this would not include our ham-handed diddling with DNA. What horrors await us?

My personal confidence and faith in Christ are enough to carry me through all this as a first-hand witness. My mind recoils, but my spirit rejoices in the desire to see Him finally revealed once and for all.

*Privacy is keeping to yourself things which shouldn't matter to the rest of the world. Secrecy is keeping from people information they should rightly have, because it affects them directly.