When I was studying political science as a cadet at the Academy, I was challenged by my faculty advisor to make predictions. “What good is it,” he would say, “if you study this in order to practice the ‘science’ of politics, and not make predictions? He was right.
And, I’ve made predictions from time to time. I’ve been wrong sometimes. I called correctly the 2004 presidential election three weeks before election day—down to the correct electoral vote and popular vote percentage—in front of an entire charter school assembly (and my colleagues) as a social science teacher.
In 2000, I wrote a scenario-driven piece that had Iran teaming up with North Korea to attack the United States on both coasts. That narrative can be found in Lesson Ten of the Basic Course on this website. To find it, you’ll need to register for the course here. But, it’s there.
In that scenario, our country was beset more from an internal crisis of spiritual, moral and ethical degeneration. But, engineers had been working on something called a “subliminal interface” and Microsoft had introduced the MS Truth operating system mainlining politically correct thoughts to users’ brains, designed to convert the masses to relativism. I had it coming out in 2018, but some are talking about it now.
In last year’s election run-up, I confidently predicted in this blog that war would dominate the next administration’s presidency, no matter who had won. Today we’re talking about Iran and North Korea instead of spiritual, moral, and ethical degeneration. The internal threats beset us more, but why would our great enemy Satan make it easy for us to deal with it without a foreign enemy? So many people are running for the fallout shelters when the enemy has already arrived in their living rooms on cable TV.
I don’t believe that we have anything to fear from a two-bit dictator in a country that has become a communist monarchy—something even Marx and Engels would have rejected. But I am concerned about a North Korea egged on by an Iran to start something with the United States. To be clear, we will suffer some losses. But, should these countries engage with weapons of mass destruction, I’m equally clear that they will not survive the holocaust that will result. In the prediction in my course, I estimate that tens of millions of people God created will be killed, and Satan will have had a field day.
And, we will have been complicit in that destruction; not because we had “white privilege,” or safe places at colleges, or gender or pay inequities. It will be because we allowed our great enemy Satan into our living rooms and put up with the existence of sin in our own lives. And our sin will have started not with an inappropriate relationship with someone at work, or even an inappropriate conversation with someone on the phone. It will have started when we determined in our own minds, individually and collectively, to suppress God’s truths and substitute our own wills instead. See Romans 1:18.
The Kim Jong-un’s of the world will always be with us, but what is Satan up to in my house and in yours?
“The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural development of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.” – General of the Army Douglas MacArthur