We are not wrestling against flesh and blood. Our struggle is against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, as the Apostle Paul made unmistakably clear to the church at Ephesus. These are not metaphors or spiritualized exaggerations meant to comfort the timid. They describe real forces at work in the heavenly realms, the same demonic principalities that withstood the messenger sent to Daniel for twenty-one days because the battle over kingdoms on earth is first fought in the unseen. As C.S. Lewis observed, โThere is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.โ Behind the visible corruption of our administrative state, our captured institutions, our globalist entanglements, and the moral decay accelerating all around us stands a darker syndicateโa Satanic alignment whose many names all point back to the same ancient rebel, the enemy of God, of ordered liberty, and of mankind itself. Our leaders from the local, state, national, and unelected levels have opened doors to these forces, and the fruit is exactly what Scripture warns it would be.
That is why you cannot vote your way out of Hell.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, our Founding Fathers confronted a similar reality when peaceful means had been utterly exhausted. They petitioned the king. They sent the Olive Branch Petition in 1775, still affirming loyalty to their nation while demanding a redress of their grievances in measured terms. King George III refused even to read it and responded instead with a Proclamation of Rebellion. The delegates understood then that no further appeal to earthly authority would sufficeโthey could not petition their way out of tyranny. Tyranny: an affront to God. They turned to the Supreme Judge of the world, placed their reliance on divine Providence, and declared independence. The Founders sought not a rebellion against their brothers, but when every lawful petition had been trampled, they recognized their God-given duty to resist tyranny. As Thomas Paine wrote amid the fire of that struggle, โTyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.โ Now, two hundred and fifty years later, that same impasse confronts us again.
We stand in a parallel moment today, though few now choose to see it. Year succeeding year, we have voted, rallied, protested, and sent better and reformed representatives into a system that simply devours them or twists them into an unrecognizable gremlin. The darkness has not recededโit has deepened. The dark shadow of Hell is spreading across the land once known as a City Upon a Hill, and has shadowed it from the very light it used to emit. The reason is not but bad policy or corrupt politicians; rather, the root is spiritual. Once a government and the powers directing it align themselves with the forces of Hell, ballots and incremental reform cannot deliver us. Once the people stake their claim on the doctrines of the Prince of the Earth, the bedrock set upon salvation is shattered. There are no votes cast in the lake of fire. You cannot gradually reform organized rebellion against God. There is no progressive salvation; there is or there is not.
This is not a call for reckless revolution or lawless violence. The French Revolution stands forever as a warning against hasty revolution by well-intentioned yet godless patriots. I am stating a plain biblical and historical truth: there is no purely political solution sufficient to free us from a captivity whose chains were forged in the cursed realm. We must call upon the armies of God and the angels of God while preparing ourselves for whatever obedience the hour requires in the natural realm, and when the hour is nigh, good men must stand before the Altar of God and pledge allegiance to His command. That preparation begins with the clear word of the Lord in 2 Chronicles 7:14โโIf my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.โ Repentance and revival are not electives; no nation has saved itself from tyranny or the talons of the Deceiver apart from them. They are the foundation. Without these, we are merely bandying words over the management of the prison.
But a revival that produces no courage is incomplete. When the men of God humble themselves, and the heavens begin to move, the remnant must then stand in the natural realm with the same resolve our fathers showed. That means rebuilding from the foundations, proclaiming truth where it costs us gravely, raising our children under the weight of liberty- that is Godโs grace to us rather than governmentโs permission to grant us, and yesโremaining armed and ready, as the Second Amendment contemplates, should the day come when tyranny hardens into open suppression of the rights endowed by our Creator. The Spirit of 1776 was never a call to nostalgia. It was a divine fire that burned in men who had exhausted useless remedies and refused to bow to earthly powers that had declared war against Heaven.
As The Eagle Eye marks its first full year of operation on this Independence Day, we have labored, in the face of the same spiritual principalities and powers described in these pages, to carry that unquenchable spirit forward: exposing the deep roots of our national captivity, sounding the alarm through the thickening darkness, and calling the remnant to the costly path of repentance, revival, and holy boldness without which no true liberty under God can ever be rekindled.
The gates of Hell shall not prevail against the church of Jesus Christ. Yet they will certainly prevail over any people who will not acknowledge the true nature of the battle and who refuse to rise to the measure required of this dire hour. Far too long have We the People treaded down the painless path, and thus as a Republic, we bear the responsibility of an unchecked government that bows at the Altar of Satan. Now the remnant must choose the ancient road: humble ourselves before God, turn from our own sins, seek His face with everything we have, and then walk in the courage and obedience that comes from His light. The time for managing decline is over. The hour for spiritual awakening and the unyielding holy boldness that has always accompanied true revival in the people of God has comeโand it shall not tarry for those who refuse to meet it.
โIn the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.โ Mark Twain.