(Written in 2021). As I read this post from 2014 and as we get ready to inaugurate Joe Biden. I can’t help but reflect on how quickly we forgot what the Obama-Biden administration did to the geo political world. If Biden really won, how quickly we forgot their constant blunders and scandals. There was a massive spike in terrorism and worldwide murder.

It was a time of disaster for freedom and for world peace.

(Written in 2014). As we see the happenings in the world, the rise of Islamic mass murder, the surge of ISIS and the political cooperation of the ruling class in the US, (by incompetence, by compliance or both). As we see the culture in the US and in Europe become more hostile and indifferent to Christ. As we see political correctness silencing right and ignoring wrong making things far more dangerous than they need to be. As we see the conspiring to kill and to undermine the US. It is tempting to fret, to fear, to despair and to want to climb into a hole and hide.

But, with this post I want to suggest another perspective.

Just before Jesus established his kingdom on earth through his Spirit dwelling within his body of believers he said “the gates of hell will not prevail against the church” (), he also said “all authority in heaven and earth has been given unto me“().  And we also know that “of the increase of his government there shall be no end.” ()

Maybe… just maybe the turmoil in the middle east, the horrific torturing and mass murder of the innocents, the refugee crises, the export of refugees (and terrorists) from Syria are responses to things that we can not see with our eyes and are never reported on.

Many of the children in the middle east are lied to daily about Jesus Christ. They are lied to and trained to lie about who he is and about what his people are like. From a very young age they are brain-washed to hate and some trained to murder.

Most of the countries in the middle east are ruled by corrupt politicians and/ or dictators, many installed or propped up by the US.

Maybe in response to these realities the Lord needed a weakened US to free the next generation of Syrians to hear of Jesus and to respond accordingly. Many wont respond but many others will.

Maybe Satan’s death-grip on the middle east and the Muslim world is beginning to break up.  Maybe the horrors we’ve seen will only further accelerate this in the hearts and minds of many in the middle east.  Maybe the Lord himself orchestrated all that we’ve seen in the past few years.  Maybe the Lord himself wants the Syrians and others in the middle east exposed to the gospel and spread around the world away from their enslavement to satans lies about Jesus Christ.

If we study history, ancient history (or not so ancient), we can clearly see the hand of God. What seems evil, unjust and terrible for the people going through it, results in gain for Jesus Christ and his purpose. Every time we see geo-political changes I believe it is a response to things happening in the unseen reality, in the spirit realm where evil spiritual authorities try to enslave and to destroy mankind.

Maybe Satan is panicking! because of all the people who are coming to the Lord in the middle east that we are not hearing about or seeing. Maybe Satan is panicking because some of those children are now hearing truth about Jesus Christ, maybe the only way to get many of them to hear is to relocate them away from the lying brainwashers?

What looks like loss to luke-warm Christianity, may be gain for Jesus Christ.

He is, after all the current Lord of all.