“The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.” Hosea 9:7
What might I say about my country, at this time, if I were
a fool and mad? I think something like this:
The Lord spoke a word in my ear, and kindled a fire in my
bones: Cry out and say,
“I have looked, I have seen. I will have blood for blood
for all the innocent blood that is shed.”
Do not trust in technology and wealth anymore, neither
in might and in weapons. In a flash and an instant these will all be taken away,
and we will be left exposed to the forces of nature. Innocent blood of infants
in the womb is shed because of profiteers greedy for gain. Blood of innocent
people in foreign lands is shed for the greed of our military industrial
complex. Our officials are mad. The North Atlantic Treaty is a snare. Our
government is in a drunken stupor. The call to arms, the lust for war, the
charge into battle, are all a sword that will strike at our own side. The blood
that will flow will not bring profit or wealth anymore, not to the slayers of
infants, not to our military industrial complex, not to politicians bought and
paid for. For all their plans to profit will be to their own destruction, and
to the falling of the empire that strikes fear throughout the earth.
Make war if you desire; but the Lord will not be with our
troops for victory. Go forth to battle, but do not ask the Lord’s blessing;
rather cry, “Woe unto us. We battle not for justice, and not in defense of
freedom, but in lust for conquest that we might rule all the earth for profit.
And we cannot prevail.”
Those are things I could picture myself saying, if I were a fool or mad - as Hosea said.
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