Redneck Review!
No. 236 - 11/4/2019
Leaving "Pied Piper" warnings of GLOBAL WARMING behind, last week's review asked the question: "Is there anything an ordinary person can do to help provide solutions..."   to the many problems facing our society?  Mentioned there were just a few:  "Exploding debt, hate and intolerance,  crime and immorality, etc."  Immediately after,  the suggestion was made,  that recalling the documented appearance of a heavenly lady in Fatima in 1917, proved historically in October of that year, by a predicted "Sun Miracle," and an instant "dry recovery" of a soaked 70,000 eye witnesses to the double miracle that occurred, a person might respond to the requests made at the time by the "Lady of Fatima!"
Of course, any such suggestion is "Old fashioned, out of date, not Politically Correct" and of course, suggests that ridicule be heaped on anyone who would suggest such a solution!  This type of thing simply is not part of the national narrative at this time!  And you will not find it a suggestion made at almost any level today, certainly not from people in our government, and rarely if ever even by clergy in the various churches that dot the land!
But wait just a minute!  The event mentioned last week and above DID OCCUR, Oct.17, 1917!  And it is WELL DOCUMENTED!  Even secular sources like Google will tell the story of the event with a casual search!  And not only at Fatima, but at literally dozens of other sites around the world similar events are documented:  Lourdes, Guadalupe, La Salette, Knock, Garabandal, Medjugorje, just to name a few!  And MIRACLES resulting from visitations to these sites are equally well documented down through the centuries and the years!
So why the seeming BLACKOUT on these unusual events from the past, and the results that can be proved associated with them?  Submitted here are two possible explanations!
1) Our nation and the world today is caught up in the belief that single individuals are hapless in solving problems at any level!  The "politically correct" consensus is that governments and big central banks have the answers, and that people as a group resemble dairy herds that need to be cared for and regulated by the experts in charge! As such, "equality" of treatment, and "equal access to the good things of earth"  are preached, promoted, and in many cases, forced on citizens, considered too naive and incapable of caring for themselves.  Two terms, SOCIALISM, and KEYNSIAN ECONOMICS are two darlings behind such thinking!
2) For the theories above to work, a Creator God with a God-Man son, Jesus Christ, with His 2000 year old religion, Christianity, must be discarded on the ash pile of history.  Associated morality rules like the TEN COMMANDMENTS,  and the greatest of all commandments, "Love God above all things and neighbor as oneself"  must also go!  In a MODERN society like ours in the U.S., even pictures, plaques, statues, and mementoes of any kind supporting these time
honored beliefs ARE TABOO!
So again it might be asked, "What can the average individual do about this situation?"  Very simply, do not buy into the notion that individuals are helpless!  The Bible tells us that Abraham, in an attempt to save Sodom and Gomorrah, was told God would relent if as few as ten good men could be found!  Result?  Both DESTROYED!  Or in Ch. 5 of Jeremiah,  the prophet was told by God that Jerusalem would be spared if A MAN could be found! And all Christians have heard the promise made by Christ Himself:  "Ask of the Father anything in my name, and it will be given to thee!" So could it be, that the solution to the problems we face today is in the hands of you and me?   Is individual or group prayer the answer?  Could that possibly be true?
Jake Wren

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