Baal in Our World

I listened to Glenn Beck and Rabbi Daniel Lapin last night. They were talking about the God of this world, Baal, the ancient (pre-biblical) god of war, weather, sex and the body. I see that what I was writing about in my last post really was about Baal's influence on our societies now, in this present age.

They presented the idea of going up in an elevator and how much energy it takes to go up. To go down takes no energy at all - you can slide down to the basement before you know it.

God in his wisdom has said that in order for people to do well and be the best that they can be, they need to work on it and they need to have some things that they just don't do because the end results are bad. Baal, on the other hand, says “if it feels good, do it!” And we have been doing what feels good from about 1960.

What changed in the 1960s? Well contraception came in and separated sex from marriage. And like pornography, enough is never enough, sex outside of marriage has gotten to the point of casual hook-up, devoid of meaning but injurious to the woman who is still seeking relationship, and she may get pregnant as well. What to do with all these unintended babies? Well, not take responsibility for the life created but rather seek to kill the person who shows so clearly what one has been doing. Make no mistake, this is a separate person whose life is ended, not some blob of tissue. Before the woman even knows that she is expecting, the baby's heart is beating. Check out this video on YouTube, Genesis by Ramos David  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iItjtWd0SpE&list=FLsjCPNdB-A2aGj6V-e_-FnQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video

So we in the last 50 or so years have taken the easy road, the wide road that leads to destruction. Many are worried and anxious about where the world is going. But are we worried and anxious enough to change our lives? To begin the hard work of moving up, not to a better life but to a secure one, guaranteed by God?

Mary at Medjugorje had this to say recently:
Dear children;  I am with you for so much time and already for so long I have been pointing you to God’s presence and His infinite love, which I desire for all of you to come to know.  And you, my children?  You continue to be deaf and blind as you look at the world around you and do not want to see where it is going without my Son.  You are renouncing Him - and He is the source of all graces.  You listen to me while I am speaking to you, but your hearts are closed and you are not hearing me.  You are not praying to the Holy Spirit to illuminate you.  My children, pride has come to rule.  I am pointing out humility to you.  My children, remember that only a humble soul shines with purity and beauty because it has come to know the love of God.  Only a humble soul becomes heaven, because my Son is in it.  Thank you.  Again I implore you to pray for those whom my Son has chosen - those are your shepherds.

I think Mary is giving us good advice. Not easy advice but life-saving advice.