“Why do the nations raise such a ruckus, At first, there was just a story or two. Then, out of America’s heartless heartland, the accounts multiplied until they numbered dozens. COVID-deniers dying of COVID were spending their final hours and minutes raging at the health care professionals who risked their own lives to try and save them in spite of the Deniers’ willful ignorance and abuse. Rather than expressing regret about their ignorance or expressing love and appreciation for anyone—family and caregivers alike—these Deniers spent their final breaths ragingly denying: “I can’t have COVID. COVID does not exists!” I record these horrifying, ignorant, abusive, and stubborn refusals to engage even in a final death-bed repentance as just one among many testaments to America’s widespread Mad State of Rebellion. I offer these dying Deniers as all too apt analogies from American secular society of events that drew from Mormon this tragic and mournful lament—no matter how many or how often these dying Deniers might have claimed Jesus as their personal Savior, they never knew him and were never ever Christians. “Their sorrowing was not unto repentance, because of the goodness of God; but it was rather the sorrowing of the damned, because the Lord would not always suffer them to take happiness in sin. And they did not come unto Jesus with broken hearts and contrite spirits, but they did curse God, and wish to die. Nevertheless they would struggle… for their lives.”[1] Mormon had, earlier, beheld his peoples’ lamentation and allowed himself a glimmer of hope for them. Perhaps their sorrow would lead them to repentance. Soon, however, he realized that “this my joy was vain.” Then, said he, “My sorrow did return unto me again, and I saw that the day of grace was passed with them, both temporally and spiritually; for I saw thousands of them hewn down in open rebellion against their God, and heaped up as dung upon the face of the land.”[2] They didn’t have refrigerated trucks in which they could pack corpses back then. I will offer a prediction. We, you and I, will yet one up Mormon when it comes to cause for lamentation. Our culture and society will put his suicidal culture and society to shame when it comes to shamefulness and self-immolation. Millions upon millions of red-state Americans—acolytes of tRUMP, America’s monstrous Caligula, a true anti-Christ—will congregate in make believe worlds such as Parler, NewsMax, OANN, or the greatest of them all FOX, a.k.a. theWOLF. There, these demon-possessed hordes will continue to engorge themselves upon the flattery and cunning of today’s wicked American Amalickiahs. There, these future denizens of hell will continue to writhe serpentine-like in a mist of darkness, and live out their lives in a world of delusion and lies and spite and hate. There, they will raise their voices of rage and blasphemy against everything that is rational and good and true and holy. There, they will curse God and, finally, die. Whether they will die of COVID, some other calamity, or at each other’s hands as they, turning cannibal, tear at each other’s throat to drink their enemy’s blood, I cannot say. But I do know that we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Our recent past is likely only prologue to a more wicked and disastrous future. Unfortunately, we will all experience what these deniers of truth refuse to acknowledge: When one suffers, all suffer together.[3] So let it be, So let it be written. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. [1] Mormon 2.13-14. Emphasis added [2] Mormon 2.15 [3] See 1 Corinthians 12.26 “O Lord God, how long wilt thou suffer that such wickedness and infidelity
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