Somebody said that Europe and North America are currently overrun by the spirit of Canaan, in the sense of being so wicked as to warrant judgement for what they did to themselves. To the point of warranting a takeover by Russia, as to use evil to deal with evil. It should be noted that Europe was for the longest period of time a hotbed and heartland of Christianity, there are still practising Christians there but they’re also practically a minority by now. Church attendance has been declining there, though it varies between countries. It’s not just that they don’t read the Bible much, or any other Christian literature. It’s not just that they don’t listen to sermons, it’s not just that they barely pray and make an effort to repent.
It’s not just that they don’t much effort into not falling into temptation, but that the process of backsliding has been ongoing for years. There was a time that I backslided for more than a year and bad things happened to me, I still struggle with unbelief, doubt and the like to the point of facing blowbacks for what I’ve done. But it could also be applied to the west just the same, though on a much larger scale if because it’s this widespread. The west has effectively and practically condoned the unthinkable for some time, like if it’s not enough to condone some forms of adultery (marrying divorcees, masturbation, having crushes despite being married and simply consuming smutty media), then you’d have to condone some more (polyamory, monogamish, relationship anarchy).
The former have been mainstream for so long that they don’t register as adultery to many, even if they’re either still scripturally forms of adutlery or have the same effects as regular adultery does. There was a time I prayed to God to help pastors help a relative of mine stop reading porn, with God judging her for this by taking away her husband that when I prayed to God to help her husband help her overcome the same, it turned out that he’s either dead or no longer in her life in some capacity. She’s probably a widow now, or at least a single mother. Likewise David insensibly rapes someone’s wife and ends up losing their child, though God did kind of restore his fortunes by giving him Solomon instead.
Solomon wasn’t any better and in Ecclesiastes, he kind of lamented his past mistakes. One famous author who may have backslided for years is Charles M Schulz, where it seemed the more successful his cartoons got, the more fame got into his head and it’s no surprise why he ended up doing the unthinkable, given he had worked as a Sunday school teacher or preacher before. Though at some point he said that he became a humanist, he likely still read the Bible enough to assume that he could’ve repented. But I guess it’s not enough to merely quote the Bible, as if God never really knew him (this happened to me before, in an attempt to keep calm). In his later years, he was at best a lukewarm Christian.
But being lukewarm is more detestable than being either in or against God, never being truly on the fence. Never sure of which side to pick and stick with, so doubleminded as to be unstable. I guess it’s possible he did try to repent but his cartoons’ massive commercial success has made it harder to actively bother doing the right thing, it’s even more astonishing that they continue to spawn so much merchandise to this day. One would only wonder if Schulz bothered to do a Bill Watterson, as in strongly limiting the merchandising of his cartoons as to preserve their spiritual integrity. We wouldn’t get this many Snoopy dolls, but this could’ve resulted in a spiritually stronger Peanuts instead.
Looking back, there are rarely (if, ever) any Peanuts cartoon that deal with prophecy, consequences of sin, the nature of heaven and hell, repentance and the like, despite having been used for Christian books before. But this also makes it amenable to merchandising, since it doesn’t deal much with the spiritually heavier stuff though in my case, it’s got to do with negative experiences with delay as to not only preclude them these days, but also to help my mental health at times. In the case with CS Lewis’s own Narnia, CS Lewis could’ve also backslided but managed to rebound. But then again Narnia’s also heavier with its Christian messaging than Peanuts ever did, wherein it’s not amenable to secular merchandising.
What does it profit for somebody to gain the whole world and lose their faith in God? Or in the case with the west, entire regions even. Charles M Schulz could be cartooning’s best known backslidder, if we are to take his statement about becoming a secular humanist later on seriously. But it seemed his cartoons’ success was really a curse in hindsight, similar things can be said of at least a handful of European countries housing prosperous empires that they eventually lost sight of God. Maybe this is why Solomon came to lament his lost years, he was given a lot and realised these weren’t satisfying in the long run. Who knows if the west will finally have its Solomon moment when it gets overrun by Russia.
The west was also given a lot, especially in terms of culture and technology. But towards the 20th and 21st centuries, it came to lose its way a lot. Piety may not mean much anymore, but populist secularism does in its place instead. Canaan is described as a land of milk and honey, good chunks of North America and Europe are pretty much the same. Being mostly lactose-persistent, Europe cultivated a wide variety of cheeses over the years. It has cheddar, parmesan, mozzarella, camembert, brie, cornish yarg, quark, limburger and many more, whereas in East Asia people have found many ways to make foodstuffs out of soybeans instead (as its peoples are mostly lactose-intolerant). These include tofu, tempeh, soy milk, taho and oncom.
I have eaten cheese myself but then again I’m also lactose-intolerant so I get acne and diarrhoea after consuming those, so this is partly why East Asian countries aren’t referred to as the land of milk and honey, as opposed of Europe. Whilst East Asian countries are abundant in fruits and vegetables, owing to the warmer and more humid climates but Europeans historically used honey to sweeten foods with. Sugar had to come from somewhere in Asia, whereas honey’s always around in some form or another in European farms and orchards. If I’m not mistaken regarding China, bees weren’t initially trusted much due to their similarity to wasps, whereas they were more eagerly relied on in Europe.
Or for another matter Africa to an extent as it also has a good number of lactose-intolerant people who made dishes out of plantain, rice, sorghum and millet instead, even if it also has bees that people eagerly relied on just the same. So calling Europe the land of milk and honey is really appropriate because many of its peoples are lactose-persistent that this is amenable to cultivate a wide variety of cheeses to feed to, not to mention eagerly relying on bees a lot to sweeten foods prior to introducing sugar from Asia. Most North Americans are descended from Europeans, to the extent that their cultures are practically extensions and adaptations of Europe itself.
A good number of American foods have direct European counterparts, the latticed American apple pie has a counterpart in Dutch cookery. American French fries take their cues from their Lowlands counterparts, but with a peculiar twist by using ketchup instead. The American hamburger is really an Americanised version of the Low German Rundstück warm, bannocks obviously come from somewhere in the British Isles. I said before that the west will have its Solomon moment when it gets conquered by Russia for good, in the sense of being given a lot in life and yet never truly dissatisfied with it. The west is behind a good number of gaming franchsies like God of War (in a way), Assassins’s Creed and Lara Croft, but it’s also a region of backsliders.
When it does come under Russia for long is when it’ll write its own version of Ecclesiastes, in the sense of realising how dissatisfying life is and what they’ve done is wrong. A very different Europe and North America where Russian influence and governance prevails in both of them, both of them will come to recognise the meaninglessness in their cultures and lives that although some of these behaviours aren’t new under the sun, their proliferation is. Perhaps it’s not a surprise that it’s the west that gave us existentialism, a sort of secularised Eccelesiastes making sense of the meaninglessness of life. Despite being behind a lot of well-known literary classics and having a series of strong economies, the west leads a spiritually meaningless existence.
Spiritually idle or at least spiritually directionless, never truly committed to God yet unsure of embracing secularism. The meaningless in western culture lies in having a lot in life, yet squandering them many times over as to have its spiritual blessings allocated to other regions like East Asia and Africa. It shouldn’t be surprising that it’s these two that are home to rising, devout Christian populations, perhaps save for a handful on their way to European style apostasy like the Philippines and South Korea. A growing number of prominent pastors and prophets are more likely to come from African countries instead, which is interesting because at the start of the 20th century they didn’t have this many Christians yet. Fast forward to the 2020s and it’s got a lot more of them now.
It’s not above its own faults that will be judged in due time, but as it stands the west has the Canaanite spirit. It literally has milk and honey, yet lives in unrepentant sin as to be judged eventually. With prophecies about Russia taking over the west that this is really what the west wrought onto itself and others, the west has been losing its moral compass for a long time that it’s going to reap the full consequences of its actions. America will be taken out for being Mystery Babylon, whilst the rest of the west become Russian satellites and protectorates instead. The Soviet Union will be brought back but in an expanded form that includes nearly all of the NATO countries, with Canada becoming a Russian protectorate and America an extension of Russia itself.
It’s even more horrifying to think that US influence will be undone and at this point, it’s already the case to an extent in countries like Denmark and Canada. If God can turn evil into good, then he will use Trump’s mistakes to further undo American influence wherever it went. Because Donald Trump wants to make both Greenland and Canada join America that this is one of the mishaps God uses to undo American influence in both of them, this will spread to the rest of America’s allies in the west when it finds itself in a serious civil war despite trying to fend off South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines off of China at the same time. If America is Mystery Babylon, then undoing its influence is pretty much overdue then. A very corrupting nation that ruins the whole world.
The current headquarter of evil if there ever was one, though when America’s finished there will be a new headquarter of evil instead. But most especially when the Antichrist shows up somewhere in Italy, since I had a dream of this or more before. The first dream involved an Italian Antichrist dressed in a suit which had me telling people about this, the second dream involved an Italian Antichrist becoming catlike to attack people. There’s no mistaking that America is Mystery Babylon, but there’s somebody who had a prophecy of someone named Captain Samannelli. He will be a billionaire that the Vatican might introduce by mistake, though I feel if the Antichrist has yet to come then Captan Samannelli coming into the fore will be a long way from now.
His own mother would still be a young girl by now, though Hildegard said that she’ll grow up to indulge in premarital sex with random strangers. The Devil might find a way to possess the expectant Antichrist and he’ll grow up to apparently do miracles, though nowhere as good as God/Jesus did on earth. Though the idea that the Antichrist will have a Jewish mother sounds really anti-Semitic to say this out loud, which makes it all the more controversial as portions of Christianity are very philo-Semitic but most especially some Protestant circles. But if the Antichrist is a parody of Jesus Christ, then it stands to reason that his mother is practically the Antimary. Also anybody who risks following him yet want to be good Christians themselves will be so ill as to be incurable.
Or appear to be incurable as the Antichrist will heal them, but unfortunately that’s when they start abandoning God for good. One would wonder if there’ll even be dissenters within the Vatican itself who don’t like the Antichrist at all, believing him to be doing foul play and frankly, they could be in the right. So I could imagine these people along with Christians and clergy of other denominations living in hiding of sorts, in the sense of knowing he does wrong yet have to endure catching flack from him and his sympathisers. If there’s ever going to be a new headquarter of evil once America goes away for good, this would be where the Antichrist presides and resides in. The Antichrist might succeed in seemingly uniting all the denominations, despite their own dissenters towards him.
Even Catholics would live in hiding, knowing he does wrong and will never follow him at all, Catholic clergy will be in the same place if they also feel the same way around him too. The west will really become degenerate when the Antichrist comes to power both as a kind of pope without being a pope himself and as one of the heads of the Russian Union of Eurasia and North America (a new Soviet Union but with many more countries this time). Then he and his family along with his cohorts and followers will be cast into the lake of fire, never to corrupt people ever again when God makes radical changes when he reappears on Earth for good.