There is a powerful revival going on in America. It is not, however, a revival of truth and faith, but a revival of lies and unbelief. This swell of disruption and darkness reminds me of a zombie movie. The zombies we face, however, are not the undead but the woke, whose brains have been reprogrammed to hate the morality and ethics of the Bible. I call this revival the Great Awokening.
In the movies the undead swell their ranks by biting or scratching men, thus spreading the infection. The zombies we face swell their ranks by shaming, bullying, and intimidating men until they surrender and accept the infection — searing their conscience, flushing reason and independent thinking down the potty, and adopting the serpentine group-think.
In the movies the zombies can’t be stopped with standard weapons. Likewise, the zombies we face can’t be stopped with standard weapons like facts, logic, and truth. Such things bounce off of them like water balloons off tanks. How can they be so impervious to the truth? Because for all practical purposes, these folks have received the baptism of the unholy ghost. They have embraced the anti-gospel, emptied themselves of any vestige of biblical truth, and allowed themselves to be filled with the lies and venom of their father, the devil, this evil influence being administered through powerful demonic influence.
Where did the zombies come from? From the serpent and his lies. But zombies are not common sinners who can still be brought to repentance and faith. They are apostates who shunned the light with such intentionally wicked rebellion that they fried their moral circuitry and passed into the realm of brain-dead zombies. They have sold out to darkness and hate the light with the same foul passion as the devil himself.
Cain was the first zombie. He loved unrighteousness and slew his brother Abel who was righteous. The zombies multiplied and filled the world with evil. God dealt a powerful blow to this evil with the flood in the days of Noah. But soon thereafter the zombies rose to dominance again and built the tower of Babel. God slowed them down by dividing the peoples into nations with distinct languages. A few centuries later, the zombies ruled the roost in Sodom and Gomorrha and the other cities on the plain. God destroyed them by fire. But the zombies kept coming back. The zombies contended with Moses in the wilderness, with the prophets throughout the Old Testament, with Christ when he walked the dusty roads and streets of Israel. The zombies persecuted the church in ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Inquisition. The zombies are still here today.
But the new breed of zombies surpasses the old breed in its repudiation of truth. They have gone beyond the old-school religionists, atheists, and rejectors of moral absolutes that have been around since the ancient days. This new breed started evolving out of the old during the Renaissance in the 1400s. Since then their numbers and arguments have experienced steady growth with several quantum leaps. The first was Rationalism in the 1600s. The next was evolution and Marxism in the 1800s. Things started turning sharply upward in the 1960s and 70s with Rock music, moral declension, abortion, and a huge infiltration into public education.
Now it has turned up even steeper again — heading nearly vertical — with LGBTQ, man-caused global warming, depopulation, euthanasia, gerocide, critical race theory, genetic manipulation, transhumanism, veganism, rejection of petroleum and cars, rejection of sovereign states, one-world government, one-world financial system, the end of freedom and privacy, all mankind wired into the system. Soon the zombie horde will reach critical mass, bringing vicious, militant opposition to the Bible, Christians, Israel, biblical morality, indeed every institution of God.
This zombie horde can’t be stopped. It will overwhelm the entire world. No religion, ideology, or philosophy will be able to withstand it, Christendom included. When the world is ready, the mystery of iniquity will trot out the antichrist. For all practical purposes, the state at that time will be god: framing morality, meeting man’s needs, requiring man to worship the emperor as the embodiment of god. Then the zombie message will kick into high gear, attempting to force the entire planet to accept the zombie virus.
Thank God, true believers can’t be infected by the zombie message because their heart, through the indwelling Spirit of Christ, is impervious to its lies and tactics. Oh, they may struggle with it on a superficial level. They may be confused on a point or two. They may suffer loss and distress. They may shed tears. They may burn with anger. But they can’t be subverted because the Holy Spirit can’t be corrupted.
And thank God, too, for the rapture. We won’t be on earth when the mystery of iniquity comes to a head, the man of sin is revealed, and the zombie horde takes full control of the world. We have guaranteed tickets on Morning Star Airlines for the flight out of this world before the hour of trial begins.
In the mean time, however, the church has a job, warning those who have not yet been infected by the zombie virus and offering them the zombie vaccination — not a weakened form of zombieism but the everlasting gospel — which not only preserves them from the virus but gives them eternal life.
Eyes wide open, brain engaged, heart on fire.
Lee W. Brainard
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