Elitism

2 Chronicles 24:14,17 ESV

¹⁴ And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished. … ¹⁷ Now after the death of Jehoiada the princess of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them. ¹⁸ And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim…

It is overwhelming, watching as men and women, fighting for their freedom, trying to maintain what hope they have of a viable future for their children. They march, they make bombs, they hide their faces so that the technology of their oppressors can’t identify them. This is the reality of those living in Hong Kong. Communist Elites doing as they please until something blows up, take a step back and then start marching again. Manipulating and pressing until eventually they have eaten away all hope of freedom from this people. That they might be controlled and monitored in an Orwellian regime bent on absolute rule.

Against such a back drop stands the United States set on a hill with light streaming down. Freedom to do as you wish. Freedom to identify and experiment with whatever gender or drug you choose. With phones bent on distraction and appeasement of our every whim that money might be spent and thoughts conformed to the latest and greatest, that yesterday would be a short eternity ago. The twenty-four hour noise cycle able to keep the populace to busy thinking about nothing and never taking time to contemplate the implications of what has happened or what is coming next.

This coin has two sides. Huxley and Orwell feared the same thing from two different sides. Huxley feared a Brave New World where people were conformed not by overt monitoring or pressure but by a constant stream of drugs, sex, and entertainment make them so flippant and selfish as to not care as long as the drugs, sex, and entertainment keep coming. Orwell feared a government with a heavy hand controlling, changing, and monitoring to keep its populace in line. These men together feared Elites bent on controlling the “masses” just with two different methods. Such is the nature of this world, for “nothing new is under the sun.”

The “princes” of Judah couldn’t careless about the God they appeared to worship. As long as Jehoiada had the king’s ear they flattered and bent the knee. When opportunity presented, they flattered and pushed to relegate worship and faith to a simple matter of sociology and control. One method in many of binding a society together. This was Jeroboam’s sin to the north. He also saw religion as something he had to control that he might control the people of God and stop them from turning from him. The Elites needed to destroy the stronghold of the priesthood that the people might be more readily controlled. This is what has taken place in the United States and is taking place in China. As churches, preaching, and the word of God are relegated out of mainstream discussions of right and wrong and Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology are moved in.

Let us not deceive ourselves the Elites of yester year had no desire for the God of the Bible anymore than today’s they simply had to wait for Jehoiada to die and now they are having their way. Will the people of The United States of America follow into irrelevance or stand on the convictions of our forefathers? Or maybe we that choose to blow the horn will follow the course of Zechariah, standing strong for the truth of God against a corrupt government only to find we stand alone and not for long?

CRUCE, DUM SPIRO, FIDO