Father Yahweh gave me a shocking revelation today which may seem obvious and yet I am convinced the reality of it has not yet struck the vast majority of humanity. The world has never been a more lonely place, not because we aren't surrounded by people, but because of the devilish trend to disconnect people and make them feel lonely, thanks to modernism, postmodernism, communism, fascism, and all the other manmade -ism's of this blighted planet.
Loneliness is the feeling of disconnection from others. It's when we feel that people around us are not aligned with us, not in the same space with us. This means that they are not able to understand us, to feel our struggles, to resonate with our experience. They are not getting us, not understanding us.
This is the deadly fruit of the atomisation of society. It is the fallout that inevitably comes from attacking and destroying that which makes society cohere. Our cultures, for all their faults (and there are many) nevertheless give us vital coherence. That is why the elites are hell bent on destroying them...our identity., knowing who we are, where we came from and where we are going.
I woke up this morning with an accute awareness of all of this. And our greatest disconnect is, of course, from Elohim (God) Himself, the One who made us for fellowship with Himself and with each other. And the only way to fully reconnect is through Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ).
I always wondered what it was I found so attractive about the army. And if you have ever served in it you'll know it's rarely a godly place. After all, stripped of the artificially contrived romance surrounding it, it's in the end a killing machine. The danger soldiers face together creates a camaraderie. I pray none of us ever has to kill another as Ukrainians and Russians, Syrians, Jews and Palestinians, are doing right now. Those who kill are surely the most lonely creatures in the world, in spite of the camaraderie that the horror of war brings. War is hell, said General Sherman. So let's not mistake its camaraderie for what we're really searching for deep down.
I woke up this morning with the shocking realisation that loneliness is going to be one of the greatest fallouts from the events that are to come about in 2025. I wish it were to be otherwise. I know I have often rather blithely spoken of economic collapse and the like without always fully understanding the loneliness that it is all going to bring folks. And yet that loneliness can be mitigated - made less severe - by connectedness with loved ones especially. We have to emotionally connect more and end the pretence that the internet is enough. It isn't. But even being with others isn't enough. We have to connect with them, in a real, meaningful and mutually edifying way.
I know that many of you have suffered tragic losses in 2024. Loved ones have died. Loved ones have betrayed you. The state has betrayed us in ways like we've never been betrayed before. Industry has failed us in its pursuit of the infernal profit.
Paul said that "people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy" (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) and I don't think he just meant in the last days, or even the last of the last days. This is a perennial problem and has existed since the Fall since that Great Commandment was broken by Eve, and Adam chose to be with her in her disobedience so as not to be alone when she was condemned to be cast out of Eden. Men and women are lovers of self and have reaped a terrible loneliness because of it. That is surely the ultimate Hell, not torment.
I believe our most urgent priority now in this new secular year ahead of us is the pursuit of godly connectivity, first with our Heavenly Father who loves us, through His Son, and then with each other, starting with families. We have to stop agreeing with the devil that being alone is good for us. It isn't. That will mean accepting those people we were meant to be around as they are, warts and all. Better some warts than no one at all. It's about belonging.
Let us therefore thank Father that we have 'someone's' at all and learn to make peace with them as we navigate the murky waters of fallen humanity, bringing Christ into the midst of that murkiness for cleansing and healing. I can think of no better occupation. But first we must resolve NOT to agree with the Enemy to continue in his project of separation and isolation. Keep up the internet connections by all means but pursue in-the-flesh ones too. The latter are necessary as well. Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday needed each other even though they are apparently so very different.
We were not created to live in Facebook's Metaverse but in Heavenly Father's Universe - spiritual and physical - and in its centre, this little world which to us is also so very large. I know oceans sometimes separate us but we have the ability to traverse them. Illness and old age also separate but Yahweh, our Heavenly Father, has the ability to heal and enable us to do what we on our own cannot.
You can do it. We can do it. It just requires that we pluck up some courage and grasp faith firmly. The world may fall apart more in 2025 but we don't have to. Let's trust in Him and step forward!
