SMOKE

 West coast forest fires have made visibility nearly zero with their smoke. Their smoke has traveled across country and is visible in New York.  Fires are popping up all over the Pacific coast.

West coast "protests" are spreading across the country.  Social media is aflame with "justice issues"!  Spreading across the country is unrest, violence, havoc.

Smoke gets in our eyes.  Smoke-screens hide our view of the source.  In our frustration and fear we are distracted from reality.

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Revelation 9:1‭-‬2 ESV

What distracts us? What deludes us?  Into what are we rushing as we run in the smoke?

Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:11‭-‬12 ESV

People are more concerned about toys than they are about the Trinity.  People are more concerned about ecology than they are about their eternal soul.  We are focused on the color of another's skin, while ignoring the color of our own heart.  Make no mistake, the anger of man does NOT work the righteousness of God.  Kind of like the song says, "we would march into heaven for a hellish cause ..." 🎶. But, it does not work that way.

Listen carefully!  Can you hear the demonic cackling from within the smoke?!  We're being lured into the pit.