“Let me take you down, cause I’m going to
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about”   Strawberry Fields Forever by John Lennon

Nothing is real…

Nothing is real…

We live in a land of images where nothing is real.  Barack Obama’s spokesmen say he did not bow to the king of Saudi Arabia although everyone in the world saw that he did indeed bow.  “I didn’t get a chance to tell my staff,” Obama himself supposedly claimed, “that it was an April Fool’s joke.  That’s what I whispered in the king’s ear.”  Right.  Even more foolish, if true.  But, nothing is real.  We live in a land of images.

Earlier this very week Obama suggested that our government might start spraying the skies with something to reflect the sun in order to stop “global warming.”  Excuse me?   Has anyone looked at the skies lately?  The powers that be, the beast upon which Mystery Babylon rides, routinely spray the skies with chemtrails.  The real reason for these continues to be obscured by the beast.  Deliberate propaganda mixes with real research on the spider’s web so no one can get a clear idea of what’s going on.  But, “since so many people have begun to finally look up, let’s say we’re doing it to build up our straw men called `global warming’ and `climate change'” the powers reason together.

“Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see”  (Lennon)

And, we love our religious images as well as our political images!  Tomorrow many will play church in their Sunday best, new dresses and bows, especially for the little girls.  We’ll be all smiles and pretend everything is great.  We’ve just spent two months preparing our “Easter” pageant.   Perhaps the carpenters and other “hands-on” men of our church could have helped that poor family on the other side of town fix their little house, but our play was really just too important to be concerned about that.  (By the way, Easter is a word that never appears in the Bible.  The correct word is Passover.  Jesus was our Passover lamb, not our Easter bunny!)

Then, tonight or next week we’ll watch “Family Guy” on TV or go to the latest Hollywood film of blood or sexual lust at the theater.

These images are just some of our many idols, the things we hold dear to our hearts.  We love to think that we are beyond “food sacrificed to idols” as Paul wrote, but we are no such thing.  Most of us sacrifice the truth to the idols of our heart every day.   That’s why liberals believe foolish things like, “I did not bow” and “abortion and gay rights are good things,” and why conservatives continue to believe in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus.   We are not real people.  We are a nation of idols, a land of images, where truth cannot be told for fear of reprisal or being called racist or bigot.

“Let me take you down, cause I’m going to
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about…”

But the LORD prophesies against us, against all who still partake of Babylon:

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. (Jeremiah 50:38-40 KJV)

Repent.  It’s time to come out of Babylon…but I continue to forget, nothing is real….  Does sin even exist?