Heaven or Hell

The Pandemic forges on. As the days grow longer and more of them with the same news, it seems our attitudes, probably rightfully so, take on a more negative turn in the background of our normal attitudes. There have been many positive news stories about the survivors, the heroes and the essentialers that are the core of the news. None of us asked for the Pandemic. It is here and we will deal with it the best that we can as we, as humans, have done since the beginning of time.

From GODLY retribution, to the onset of the “Revelations”. To: “who did it?”. To: what are we going to do about it? There are and will be enough books to read about it, movies to be made about it, and debates to fill all the hours of our lives for the rest our lives.

The Pandemic is making life a different environment for the world we are living in.

Or is it really different?

Many years ago, before the Pandemic, my father (on Earth) had made for himself a difficult life. I am sure I have made enough poor judgments in mine and perhaps you all have also, to make it as difficult as I have chosen to. On his dying days my dad said, “Dennis, this is Hell” It was his honest opinion. I have now outlived my father for some years now and many more I trust. The things of life just didn’t seem to go his way. His way was not as conducive to his own health as one has choices over. His attitude had developed into a “This is HELL mentality”.

He had run into the Success AT AN – other’s expense way of doing life and business that has permeated the human condition since the beginning of time. To this day this ‘SATANIC’ attitude has many followers. There have been enough people to take advantage of others for their own success or enjoyment forever. In the BIBLE the example could be ADAM and EVE, or Caine to Able. Most of the BIBLE has scrolls and stories about more people being taken advantage of than not. It is hardly a profound discovery. Who hasn’t been cheated out of money, or bullied out of ego, or destroyed by this attitude in the midst of their ordinary lives. They have been made slaves to plantation owners, or as one secretary mentioned to me years ago about upper management: Slave dies, buy another slave. This is not just an American concept but it is world wide and always has been. Billions have died from it.

Jesus, a carpenter from Nazareth in the middle East a couple of thousand years ago succumbed to it. And He new about it going in. And why was He killed? For telling people that GOD was love and to Love One Another. And “To do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.

Many of the wealthiest in the world claim to be followers of Christ. Jesus also mentioned for us to be careful of those who come in Jesus’ name for they shall lead even the elect astray. Be careful, the Anti-Christ of revelations may also utilize a professed following of Christ to suit it’s own success at the expense of others, For the Anti-Christ to come as an obvious enemy is forgetting the Trojan Horse. You may consider it to be a follower. Behavior will tell a different story. Much like the virus, the SATAN attitude exempts no one.

We have done more in a few months to combat a disease to save lives around the world than we have done to save the environment for thousands of years, let alone recently within a hundred. What the mysterious “They” are saying is that some entity manufactured the virus. Scientist say it is not man made for the things that man makes have human markings on it. Think of it as made in (pick a place to insert here).

Herbert Spencer, a contemporary of Charles Darwin coined the phrase “Survival of the Fittest” (1864). The phrase was adopted by Darwin to be utilized in a companion book to “The Origin of the Species’ (1859) called ‘The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication’ published in 1868.

In my generational discussions “Survival of the Fittest” has been taken to assign it to humans (animals). The bigger and stronger will survive. The world however, has much smaller species that also are living and functioning entities that also have to adapt to the ‘environment’. Their worst enemy is mankind. This is because mankind has altered the environment and poses much more of a threat to a little understood virus we call COVID-19 than any other animals. Over the centuries Mankind has altered the environment in untold ways. Altering the landscapes to build bridges, make roadways, to mine for ores or drill for oil to feed cars and trucks and motors. We have destroyed the land to make diamonds for rings and Mountains to go skiing. And Mankind has forced the ‘viruses” to adapt, and to mutate to survive and as once was mentioned many years ago that the day will come when there will become a super virus that will then prey on their biggest threat,  mankind.

Welcome to today. We have been working hard to reach this point throughout history. This history is a story of Success AT AN -others expense and it has caught up with us. We will, no doubt, discover another vaccine, but survival of the fittest is not the measure of mankind, it is the measure of the planet and all the animals and creatures big and small that will mutate to survive. Mankind will not alter their SATAN embellishments. The environment will continue to change in response to our desire to be more profitable at anyone’s expense. The images from the virus events show how many people have chosen money over people time and time again.

The book REVELATIONS in the New Testament gives us an inkling of what is yet to come. It does not, and never has required of GOD to cease being a loving GOD. It has always been convenient to blame GOD for the wars and lives of mankind, rather themselves. Pick a name out of any news story of the coverage of the Pandemic to see this in action on any given day. Money over People.

If GOD wanted to get involved GOD is choosing to do it through all of those who are risking their lives everyday to save as many people as they can before a vaccine is formulated. From doctors and nurses and first responders to the manufacturing people to keep food moving down an assembly line, to a family knocking on the window of a grandparent to say “Hi, we still love you”.

Someday we may choose LIFE over MONEY. GOD’S (through JESUS) desire of “ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN” will be our new corporate manta. Hopefully we can embark on that ideology while there is still a chance. What the Virus does not harm, MONEY in the hands of SATAN’S followers and “LIKES” will.

We shall see what the next few months will bring.

IS the Pandemic making life a different environment for the world we are living in?  OR IS IT?

Was my earthly father correct? The rest of the story is yet to be written.