Winds of Change

In a recent news article, there was a surprising twist in the so-called “Green Energy” movement.  Wind farms, formerly touted as a clean, environmentally friendly answer to many of our energy production needs, were found to have a serious side effect.  Apparently, the wind farms are now executing protected Bald Eagles by the droves.  At the newspaper articles last count, 67 American Bald Eagles were found dead at wind energy sites in the past 5 years.  Interestingly, this was the same amount of time Obama had been in office.    

The symbolic imagery in the news is sometimes too much for me to bear.  In the Obama Administration’s misguided push to force us into untested alternate energy avenues, we are decimating America in the process.  Most of the times like the oyster farm debacle in California or the Coal Mining industry attacks in several states, the casualties are human--a devastating loss in the quality of life for many who rely on these industries while harbor seals and salmon are questionably protected.  In many instances with little to no evidence that this is even true. 

In 1936, Margaret Mitchell wrote a famous novel depicting the fading glory of the Old South after the Civil War.  In “Gone With the Wind” the two main characters Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler, are a combination of both villain and hero.  By the end of this epic tome, the reader is rooting for them to win the battle against their selfish natures and their dawning realization that the U.S. had entered a different era, one in which they would both have to “change” in order to survive.

Ultimately, however, they both come to the conclusion that the basic principles of goodness, decency, patriotism and love are more powerful that their flawed and devious plots and schemes.     

Interestingly, both of their first names mean a variant shade of red.  Scarlett is an obvious red reference, but Rhett means “fiery.”  In the Bible scarlet was the color of sin:

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” ~Isaiah 1:18

Red in the Bible also means war.  The second Red Horse of the Apocalypse (in some translations the word “fiery” is used once again) is on the horizon right now as we continually hear of “wars and rumors of war.”  The Bible warned us to look out for these symbolic references in the End Times.  Red also signifies selling out your birthright, like Esau (Esau/Edom meaning is derived from “Red” in Hebrew), for a bowl of RED lentil porridge.  It implies hastiness, impulsiveness and a methodology that won’t be successful in the long run.  It signifies impetuousness instead of patience.  Man’s wisdom instead of God’s wisdom. 

 

Barack Hussein Obama promised Americans “Hope and Change.”  I think he delivered on the second part of this promise.  He vowed to “fundamentally change” America, and sadly, to date, he has somewhat succeeded.  We are not a kindler, gentler nation.  We are on the cusp of another Mid-East war and a total economic collapse.  Race relations have never been more volatile since the 1960’s.  
  

We basically “Hoped” that revamping the same old tired “Red” Marxist and Socialist ideas would result in a different outcome.  All of these supposed arguments of “fair share”, “wealth distribution”, and a Utopian type existence for everyone have been tested before with abject failure as the result.  The European Union is now facing Cultural Decline, Economic turmoil and despair from these very same policies.  The USSR fell with these ideologies.     

There is a saying about the definition of insanity.  It is doing the same thing over and over again and “hoping” that it will have a different result.  America prospered because our Forefathers correctly identified this problem and, they too, offered the people of this country “Change.”  However, there was one MONUMENTAL difference.  This change was rooted in the Unchanging One of the Universe.  They relied on the Supreme Being who never changes.  Ruach HaKodesh—the Ultimate Wind that changes us. 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

~Hebrews 13:8

So, will Americans soon be like the characters in “Gone with the Wind”—realizing that they need to get back to a rock solid foundation in order to survive in the new World Order?  Or like the symbolic imagery of the American bald eagle, will we simply…

Wind up Gone?

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

~James 1:17

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

~John Adams (1776)

~Posted by permission of Pastor Jeff Daly