Dear Jude

Dear,
Jude

You asked our brother, “Why won’t you reveal yourself to the world?” I will set out to answer that question for you.

I, you too, thought very well that you could fix the world if you made it better. If you spread love and kindness. If there were but love, the world would be better. If there were but money flowing in the street, and nobody had any need. But, remember Adam and Eve in the Garden had no need. And yet both still sinned. Remember that Satan in heaven had no need. And yet he still sinned. Remember that Judas Iscariot had the money changer, and wealth and honor, but he still sinned.

There’s a false presumption that perhaps you and I have created, that we have created, that if you just sought to fix what is broken in a society, it would mend all ills. That men would no longer go astray, and that there would be a paradise on the earth.
	
Who beside God would enforce this? Certainly a government of man, or as John Lennon put it, “The Brotherhood of Man”. They would enforce these laws. And like my “Fifth Angel’s Trumpet”, it would be called an “Anarchy”, when in reality there would still be laws. The youth’s heart is in that book. All of a Youth’s best wishes. And they come crumbling down. As will the Beast System---which will seek to exercise authority upon the Earth and chastise injustice.

There’d be nothing more oppressive than forcing men to never be robbers. If every second of every day were monitored, and every ill deed were caught on camera, and prosecuted. There’d be no end to the misery---it would effectively be hell. And that is why there is grace. That is why there are Good Samaritans. Because at the existence of Evil, at the existence of injustice, there is more freedom for a man to do what is right. And that freedom is slowly waning away, vanishing with the midnight wind.

Should the Communists, the Socialists, the Social Justice Warriors, the Black Lives Matter, the Antifa, the Fascists, the Utopians---should they get their world, it would be an utter hellish world with no freedom. None to do good, and none to do evil. Every choice would be made by some force which is not God---and perhaps that is what hell is to God’s heaven. If man will not succumb to Grace, and be indwelt by the Holy Spirit and enabled to do good by it, then Satan will indwell those same men, and force them into subservience to a wicked plot. That men will be succumbed to the misery of peer pressure, social justice and freedom will be abandoned for the Utopian dream which sanitizes men of all their vices. And that is what Satan likely wants. For men to be sanitized of their vice, and beholden to his wicked authority. Never having choice anymore, but suffering under his Utopian vision.

There is nothing more scary to me than this. It has been my observation when in school that the school’s decision was to restrict freedom to stop students from partaking in vice. Rather than allow a few odd students the freedom to undermine their school careers, rather than give a few students the freedom to be fat and unhealthy, they took from us the freedom to make those choices. Rather than suffer the bad eggs to make bad decisions, they stole from us the decision altogether. And in turn, they take from us the freedom to make good decisions, and they take from us the luxury of having those good things.

And that is the reason the world cannot understand the Son. Because the Son is freedom. He is alleviation of the stress of having committed wrong, he is alleviation of the consequences of having done what was not right---he is the freedom to choose good and thereby be a good Samaritan. For, if the world were so sanitized that there could no longer be Good Samaritans, than the world would be sanitized of all its freedom. And that world would be misery. It would be hell.

For Christ is the freedom to do what’s right, and the forgiveness to be cleansed of what’s wrong. The world does not see this, but only sees sin and it wishes to remove all of it, and so sanitize sin from the world. And in doing that, there can be no thing good in the world; for doing good is working against sin. For, the world understands sin, but it does not understand mercy. And mercy is the best part of this world.