The End is Nigh? I don't leave my home much these days. Not since I got jumped investigating a child trafficking ring out West. The PTSD is rough. Most of my food comes from Amazon now - anonymous brown boxes in place of human connection. But every so often, I have no choice. I have to brave the outside world. Today was one of those days.
Stumbling into the Abyss As I stepped into the local Dollar General, the first thing that hit me was the fluorescent glare - that harsh, institutional lighting that makes everything look slightly poisonous. Then the smell - plastic, cardboard, chemicals. It was like stepping into the bowels of some dystopian machine, devouring the soul of small-town America.
The Daniel Prophecy Fulfilled? I've been studying biblical prophecy for years, ever since I started connecting the dots between current events and the warnings in books like Daniel and Revelation. The rise of global powers, the surveillance state, the cashless society. It's all unfolding before our eyes. And now this - the systematic destruction of Main Street, replaced by soulless corporate behemoths.
The Corporate Tribulation I remember the passage from Daniel: "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws." (Daniel 7:25) Could this be the "wearing out of the saints" - the slow, relentless consumption of the American spirit by the corporate machine?
A Prophetic Warning Unheeded The prophet Isaiah warned us long ago: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness." (Isaiah 5:20) Have we crossed that line? Have we succumbed to the siren song of consumerism and materialism, trading our souls for trinkets from the Dollar General?
"The truth doesn't hide. It waits for those brave enough to look."
The Wise Wolf