"If the government is really ticked at you, it wouldn't take much to shut down your car, your phone, your locks, your lights, your appliances, your mattress pad, your toilet … do you see where I'm going with this? You would become socially paralyzed."
If they take away everything, then you have nothing to lose. More likely, they will allow you just enough to scrape by, with a full workload to keep you occupied and out of trouble.
Winston Smith in the book 1984, for example, was socially paralyzed while having full-time employment, and he only broke out of it briefly before being stomped back down.
The solution is to thrive on a spiritual level, creatively deal with the physical deprivation, and wait on God.
There is much to be gleaned from old books. Today I learned that the cutting to pieces of Rahab in Isaiah 51 can be understood as part of God's work in parting and securing a passage across the Red Sea for the escape of the Israelites from Egypt.
They weren't just fleeing the Egyptians; there were principalities and powers at work then, just as now.
The Israelites were significantly reminded of the Red Sea passage as they entered the Promised Land, Joshua 4 says, when God stopped the flow of the Jordan River for them to cross over.
There's also the prostitute Rahab who assisted the Israelites, whose God had easily defeated her namesake.
"Three souls flying home because I stayed behind"
One of the souls I've helped toward salvation suddenly flew home recently. This song helped me to really cry for the first time over it.
I happened to read about the Gadarene swine in Mark 3 this morning before coming across this piece, which mentions it.
David Clements mentions Michael Cocchini. A quick internet search tells me that they've worked together before, and that a different Michael Cocchini--and a Susan Clements--went fatally missing in the Smoky Mountains. At separate times.
Feels like a rabbit hole.
Much like Jonathan Cahn connects the major demons of ancient Israel to today's United States, Clements says that the spirits of the Nephilim are here and active.
https://joehoft.com/attorney-david-clements-mkultras-shadow-a-demonic-war-for-humanitys-mind/
