G-d Runs the Asylum

Have you ever wondered how all this madness ends? The whole world is similar to watching a big scale soap opera, complete with villains and plots with sub plots. I am a news junkie of sorts ( though less so as I have gotten older ) so I read about all the madness that is currently taking the world by storm. To say that it gets overwhelming sometimes would be a large understatement. Every day I get more convinced that the proverbial “lunatics” are indeed running the asylum., not just in our country but all over the world. So called “leaders” talking nuclear war with other nations, all over political and religious differences,not seeming to care at all that this is the only planet we have, and none of us, short of death, can escape. I do realize that the truth of the matter is that it's the powerful elites that are actually doing the saber rattling, but I also understand that when the bombs burst, many innocents die.

So how does it end? Seems to depend on your religious background as to what you believe. I was raised to believe in a “second coming” of Jesus to save the people of the world or his “remnant people.”

There are others that believe that they will be taken away by a “secret rapture” while hell literally reigns on earth ,while others believe that the earth mother or mother nature will destroy most of us and start over with whats left. Many prophecies all over the world.

I tend to follow the Jewish belief that suggests that after much calamity and war, very much centered on Israel and Jerusalem, That G-d Himself will set up His kingdom right here on earth, that peace will reign, war will end, and all will know the ways of G-d. This is what I cling to.

Micah 4: 1-4 In the days to come, The mount of the Lord's House shall stand firm above the mountains; And it shall tower above the hills. The peoples shall gaze on it with joy, And many nations shall go and shall say: Come let us go up to the Mount of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; That He may instruct us in His ways, And that we may walk in His paths. For instruction shall come forth from Zion, The word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Thus He will judge among the many peoples, And arbitrate for the multitude of nations, however distant; And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; They shall never again know war; But every man shall sit under his grapevine or Fig tree with no one to disturb him. For it was the Lord of Hosts who spoke.

This is what keeps me sane. This is what gives me hope of a better future. Think about what these verses are saying : G-d's kingdom will tower above all mountains, The people, all people,”shall gaze on it in joy”, The nations will come to Jerusalem, to the mount of G-d to learn of his ways, He will judge among the nations, war will come to an end and there will be peace. These are but 4 verses in the “OT” that tell of this future, there are many more.

My suggestion to you is to look for that place or set of verses that bring you peace and cling on to them and hang on to G-d. He is the one that is actually in control of the asylum even when we can't quite see it.

Shalom