This morning much of the lectionary is wonderful. Go read it: it is linked below. This can wait.

The reason that we are turning again to Jeremiah is because our ways are evil. There are many out there who blame women — well at least feminists, but they are just the cheerleaders for the destruction of society: they are the ones in short skirts, putting themselves on display.

The progressive theologians and teachers, working quietly in schools and seminaries, who are quiet, decent men and true believers they are doing good are more dangerous. And the times are evil.

The evil that we confront on a daily basis is banal. Abortions go on everyday. We have no way of stopping it. Feminist rebellion has to reap it’s own wicked harvest, I reckon. If you are a student of the Bible, then you know that when the wicked rule, righteous men are hunted down and killed. Don’t kid yourselves……everything we say here is recorded. We will have to pay for our speech. I’m personally okay with that. I want my name written among those who mourned the slaughter of the innocent. As has been pointed out before, anyone who accepts the idea that abortion is a right will end up paying for that before God. If you want to get an idea of just how bad it’s going to get, read the Bible. As for dealing with a rebellious woman, divine wisdom says to consider your steps wisely. Don’t marry anyone with feminist leanings. That basically covers American women. Sure, some don’t, but most do.

Now, God lets societies fall. If we get too unjust, we are destroyed. He has not changed, and his warning to Judah still applies. We can no longer claim to live in Christendom: our society is apostate.

And for that there will consequences.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

Then the word of the LORD came to me: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’

(Jeremiah 18:1-11 ESV)

We need a revival. Or we will fail. There is much good in our society, but much of that is now despised as the work of those evil males and eviler believers: one cannot listen to either Bach or Nic Cave, and one cannot have standards, or be blunt, for that is called bullying.

We are told to get along with the programme, even when the programme is damaging. Yesterday I was discussing how when I was in Auckland we had about half the staff that teams have now — and we saw people faster and got them to primary care quicker. But we did not do the forms. We did not have the time. We did what was needed, not what was deemed correct. And that senior doctors are annoyed with the tick-box mentality of the ministry and senior management, who ignore the gaping holes in the service but want their forms neat and tidy.

And I was told this is the way of the world. But that I am unsure of. Because in times of difficulty the non essential gets dumped.

What I see is storms coming: the end of the social democratic experiment, for the money has run out and the spirit of all has been crushed. We are not allowed to have vision unless it is approved by all stakeholders and signed off by the minister. The current SJW pile-ons make the Chekists weep, for people police themselves without the need for terror.

But this soon will be as one with the Soviets of last century. Do not drink their kool aid. This is a time to take courage and speak truth, even if the gulags reopen.

For we need to be counted among those who stood against the flood.