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The Dervishes of Baal

As we have mentioned before these are great times for satirists to practise their art.  There is so much folly, so much lunacy, so much self-righteous poppy-cock masquerading as wisdom that Elijah would be rolling around on the floor, laughing fit to bust.

It is high time for Elijah to come again.  The Scriptures give some interesting insight into Elijah and his successors.  Elijah, of course, was the Lord's prophet who spent much of his ministry denouncing the established religion of Northern Israel--Baalism--during the reign of Ahab and Jezebel.  A good deal of his work involved excoriating the worship of Baal and the wickedness of King Ahab and his Phoenician queen.  The high point of his ministry was the contest on Mount Carmel and the subsequent defeat and destruction of Baal's prophets--much to Jezebel's fury. [I Kings 18:20ff] Elijah mocked the false prophets mercilessly as they proved to be,  not just impotent and powerless, but also liars and deceivers.

Fast forward to the day of the Lord.
 There was a widespread expectation (based on divine prophecy) that just before the coming of the Messiah, Elijah would return.  Our Lord made clear, if Israel were willing to accept it, that the one who went before Him, John the Baptist, was the fulfillment of that prophecy.  He worked and ministered in the spirit of Elijah.  Amongst other aspects of his labour, he mocked the religious leaders of the day, even as his forbear, Elijah had done.  He called time on their double standards and hypocrisy, even as he pointed to the Messiah, calling for all to repent of sin and return to Him.

As our culture becomes more and more entranced and ensnared in a modern form of Baalism--the worship of the state--so it is appropriate for the spirit of Elijah to arise again in the Church.  It is time to call time on the idiocy and folly of Unbelief.

Unbelief is providing plenty of material that demands and requires holy mockery.  The false gods of our age are crying out to be blasphemed and ridiculed.  Unbelief has now got to the stage that it is attempting to create a world order grounded in the willfulness of human beings, supported and sanctioned by the State.  It is so wilful, it rears its head in denial of the creation order.  It is anti-nature.  It is anti-science.  It is anti-matter.

Biological gender is over, we are told by false prophets as they dance dervishes around their idol.  Sexual self-identity is the new normal, the new god.  All creation must bow before this higher reality of will-worship.  All the powers of the state must reify whatever a person wills to be.  "I will myself to fly. I self-identify as a levitating being. Gravity is passe and over.  This is the new reality for me.  Levitating is my identity. It is who I am. The state must pass laws and provide launching pads from the top of multi-storey buildings so that my identity and freedom will be recognised, as I launch myself beyond  gravity's incarceration.  Society must not discriminate against me."

How Baalish.  Behold the exquisite folly of Unbelief.  Mockery is the best tool.