Till ...

By Johnny D. Symon

What rests within my latest gabble requires just a little prior explanation. If someone strode up to your mailbox as you studied a new day's mail, and pulled the letters out of your hand then said,"These are all mine!" What would you think about it? Or more importantly, what would you do about it? I reckon most of us would point out the name and address on each letter proving the mail belonged to us. But what if the guy retorted by saying, "It's my name and address on each one!"? Well, the guy was either mistaken, mad, plain stupid, or had an agenda that did not quite fit with standard rule of law. But if it turned out to be none of those possibilities, then the guy would most likely be just another Federal employee.

Strange as it may sound, what you've just read is indeed a prior explanation of that yet to follow. Bear with me and you'll see what I mean.

I'm the kind of guy who can boast most proudly of not belonging to anything in any way shape or form. I know what I like and I like what I know. I even like to do what I do. I once saw a TV ad with a slogan, "Life's Good, LG" and kind of figured that it summed me up too. My spiritual beliefs and my walk are well in harmony, though perhaps there's further room for improvement, but the point is, my beliefs are my beliefs, I keep them to myself and never try to persuade others to follow suit. Sure I'll throw in a few verses of Bible regularly in this column, but it's not there to try and steer you in my direction, it's there to keep me firmly in my own.

Over the years I've had strong discussions with people of many faiths, from radical Islamic clerics, on through to radishinal vegan Buddhists. I always found something of theirs to be of interest and we parted as friends. The radical clerics were still convinced that I'd die in my sins, and who knows they might just be right. The Buddhists were convinced that since I ate meat I was nothing but a cold-blooded killer, and when we parted I began to think that in their case it may not have been a bad idea ... for the world's sake of course ... but friends we remained, and my humor they continued to suffer on with.

Quite a few years back I dropped into a Hindi restaurant to order a vegetable curry. I asked the girl at the counter if it was 100% vegetable or did it contain something else.

"It's 100% vegetable," she said, "Why? do you eat meat?"

"Yes I do," I replied, "Mainly chicken and steak."

"Well I believe," she said, "that if you eat meat you should eat all sorts. Everything meat."

I replied by saying that, "if therefore you're vegetarian or vegan, you should eat everything vegetable, and get this. If I sat down with you to eat everything of meat in the world, and you sat eating everything that's vegetable and fungus in the world, I guarantee that I'd leave this restaurant alive, and you'd get taken out in a pine box!"

I like personal opinions, and sometimes collective opinions, but those opinions, if they're on spiritual matters, must be backed up with documented evidence, facts I can follow through and study, for in my opinion no one should believe the assurances of another without verifying the facts they offer ... for all men are liars, and no man is good. To understand this is to get to grips with a common worldly fact that all men in all religions are all liars and all bad, that's why you don't find me evangelizing or frequenting clubs and societies full of hopelessly bad liars. My conviction includes political parties and movements, and all for the same reasons, for politics is a man-made religion crammed full of lowdown lying toads.

Two weeks back I had a discussion with a guy who does believe in the evangelical thing, and I told him that nowhere in his Bible will he find any reference supporting the ecological arguments, "Far from it," I said, "It proposes the exact opposite." To this he closed his eyes and his head stretched back until his chin pointed toward the ceiling, and it stayed in that position for around half a minute, then his eyes opened and he said, "Well there is a place where it says, 'Do not harm the earth,' .. ehh, it's a modern translation!" He couldn't provide chapter and verse, so I began to suspect he had misinterpreted something in Leviticus, but I was so busy that several days later, and still not able to check out his claim, I received another similar message from another similar guy, who went the whole hog by providing more of the verse. Then I knew where they both had taken it, or mistaken it from. It came from none other than Revelation 7:3, and here's where we explain my earlier point about the ownership of mail.

The second guy who had quoted Revelation7:3 to try and support his claim that the Bible sanctions ecology tried the old and much worn trick of just quoting part of a verse. He said, "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees."

To the unlearned it would point them in the direction of seeing God as the ultimate ecologist, whereas the real truth is something else, and it's a stark reality, though in order to understand this stark reality we'll all have to go back a verse, then read on up and through Revelation 7:3 and on. But let's not forget what I said earlier, "Whose name is on the letter?"

"And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the
seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the
four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the
sea,
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads."
— Revelation 7:2,3

The letter was delivered by the angel ascending from the east, and it was addressed to "the four destroying angels." They were told not to hurt the earth, sea, or trees, and the order in the letter was followed by the word "till" ... "till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." So far from being a Biblical sanction for the human race to adopt ecology, it was a message to the destroying angels to hold on the destruction process until further notice.

I reckon it's quite neat this passage, because what it really points out is that God Himself is going to destroy the world's eco-balance, not human beings. It's most profound because throughout the Bible, false gods meet a similar end, and world-worship, to worship and care more for what was created rather than the Creator Himself, leads mankind of the ecology sort to line up God's cross hairs onto His own handcrafted planet, since the planet became man's god and man chose to worship it.

Well anyway, the four destroying angels, as we all recall, were ordered to hold fire "till." The till part became history, then in Chapter 8:7 they began on God's behest to destroy the world's eco-balance. I love this part because everything our doom-saying, brain-dead, lowlife ecologist scumbags blame us for, is adopted 100-proof by God Himself. What we couldn't achieve all the way up to that event is finally taken out of our hands and dealt with properly and decisively:

"The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire
mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the
third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was
burnt up."
— Revelation 8:7

Now you all know, to at least a small extent, why I refuse to belong to any group or club or political movement. Everywhere I go I find people in authority busying themselves through misinterpreting Biblical passages. I abhor that practice, the process in every form, shape, and way, leads to the subjugation of people and a substitution of God with men of mankind, the people are led as sheep by ignorant and stupid individuals hellbent on man-made crusades, to save the planet and bring peace to the Middle East. Both crusades are a fools errand, for the planet will be safe and sound until God destroys it Himself in the fullness of time, and peace in the Middle East will not come until the world's final battle is won in that very region.

But look here, if you've read this far and you believe the correct interpretation of Revelation 7:3, as it is written, you'll have little trouble in recognizing truth from error. I should be preaching to the converted by now, because this here letter of mine has your personal name written on it. Resultantly you ought to know that ecologists are enemies of God Himself, and if they're enemies of God then they're my enemies too. They can worship the world all they like, but I will not be counted in their pack. The so-called eco-balance is just fine, nothing wrong with it, and fine it shall remain until the Creator of it calls for it's destruction. Quite a Revelation, huh?

Spain's default President, Zapatonto, received this week a completed survey by the Nuclear Energy Commission on the Spanish nuclear reactor in Garoña. The report stated that this reactor had at least a good 10 years or more of faithful service, but when Zappo got the report he immediately told the press that he still intended to close it down because he would fulfill his pre-election pledge to the greenies, of removing all nuclear plant from Spanish soil. He added that he wanted to provide "clean and cheap" power, which is a lie because a recent report published in several Spanish newspapers revealed that if Spain crossed over to using solely "green energy" electric bills would rise tenfold. Besides, nuclear power is very clean, so long as it's waste is properly dealt with, and it happens to be the cheapest power of all.

But for me the saddest aspect of Zappo's power-stupidity as regards Garoña, is that when he closes the plant he shuts down the lives of more than 1000 employees and their families directly at the plant, and many more satellite jobs in the region to boot. So much for his much touted "care for the unemployed," and his desire to "protect and increase" the employment market. Zappo is an atheist, or ecologist, for his god consists of land, sea, trees and air. People in reality are of no value to him, especially if they are people in the womb, you know the kind? people small and hidden away, that can find no voice loud enough to plead for their lives.

Zappo is the epitome of 21st Century political mindset. Everything he does has the reverse effect, and the world waxes worse and worse. Spain's opposition parties are smarting at ecology-minded Zappo and his in-and-around Spain Falcon flying to attend Party gatherings. And when he slipped quietly out of PSOE HQ last Sunday night after the European election results were published, not having spoken to the press or attended that evening's Party gathering, he was driven off into the night en route to Moncloa Palace in an automobile that he and his Party had already condemned as a gas-guzzler; a top range Audi, proving it would seem, that although professing to be an ecologist, as a politician he's licensed to pollute and gas-guzzle, whereas we ordinary mortals shall be condemned to hellfire and guzzler surcharges if we dare to do likewise.

My little evangelical misinterpreter two weeks back, presented me with further enlightenment that directed my attention directly to a now glaring revelation of why the world is getting so bad so quickly. It's when he said, "Ehh ... it's a modern translation!" for anything involving human conduct on the world stage, 21st Century style, must be far worse, far more inferior, to earlier versions because we're told "the world waxes worse and worse," therefore modern translations of ancient Biblical texts should be observed with greater suspicion, for most likely they'll be colored by the workings of 21st Century darkness. They most probably will be presented with provision for alternative cultural behavior that needs must revise original truths, to become more than traditional lies.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is yet another aspect of 21st Century fallen man. He entered 10 Downing Street, not by the peoples popular vote, but through the early retirement of a weedy little pipsqueak called Tony Blair. Both can boast of wiping Britain off the world map, and Gordon can also boast of being wiped off the map by popular peoples vote in the European election, yet still he refuses to step down in favor of a sane alternative. Yet another example, to my mind, of the foolishness and lies we all hear about that great savior "democracy," for when push comes to shove, democracy is what politicians make it.

Though let's not forget the little matter we covered at the beginning, and that was, "whose name is on the letter?" for if the world is getting worse, and politicians most certainly are, their letters addressed to us should be laid alongside the Letter of God's Word. Their modern translations affecting the lives of everyone in the nation should match up entirely and harmonize with our ancient texts. As a matter of fact they don't. To a large extent they're in conflict with our simple matter-of-fact, easy to comprehend and observe, Biblical guidance. As a substitute they're the worst because, far from being simple, they're designed to cloud and complicate, confuse and constrain our natural inclination to follow the Truth and seek the better good. Their modern translation of truth, justice, and the rule of law, our environment, our world, and our place and destiny in it, even our future, what lies before us, has become a poor travesty and a lousy counterfeit of a truly great and eternal Original. Our Original needs no revising, and most certainly does not require modernizing, or up-downgrading. It's as is, was, and always will be ... an unbroken Classic.

© Johnny D. Symon