- Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way. -
We will deal with the first part of this verse quickly. Those who always do what they are told are naïve.
Cannot a government go bad? Not to those who always listen and follows its commands. They learn to truly love big brother, despite all the conflicting demands.
The wise heart will know timing and the way. Now that is an incredible statement. How do you know it is time to rebel and throw out the old king?
By wisdom. There are no better people to turn to see the validity of this claim then the Russians.
What happened in the Soviet Union is nothing short of atrocious. The lying, murdering, and fraud performed and promoted by its leaders is truly staggering.
The bread famines that happened in Ukraine were done purposely to starve the weak peasants the nation could no longer feed.
Why could they no longer provide them with bread? Ukraine after all is considered to be a breadbasket of Europe.
It would take someone with an absolute eye for vengeance and incompetence to truly ruin this great of a resource, and that is exactly what the Russians got with Stalin.
Stalin removed the successful farmers from Ukraine by convincing the Russians that they had become rich based on their exploitation of others.
This Marxian view led to the removal of all the competent farmers from Ukraine. What happens when you lose all the people that know how to make food?
You are free to google the images at your leisure but do so knowing the worst of humanity will be put on display.
And what about the gulags? Miserable prisons where one was forced to perform meaningless tasks while lazy and incompetent guards lied, filling their pockets with money.
Dostoyevsky would be taken to a gulag. He was brought before a firing squad only to have them fire blanks, laugh, and send him to freeze in Siberia.
Solzhenitsyn was put in the gulag as well. It was within that prison where he began writing of the horrors producing his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago.
Because he had no real way to write within the police state, Solzhenitsyn would write at fellow conspirator’s houses, hiding portions of the manuscript at each one.
He believed a very simple truth, that the only way corrupt, authoritarian governments could survive was for the citizenry to lie.
Therefore, the inverse was true. The only way to topple an authoritarian state was to perform the opposite action – speak the truth.
Was he right? It’s no secret that until his work was published the Soviet Union was able to hide from its civilians the atrocities they were committing.
No one could look at the eggs being cracked and think the Soviet omelet justified. This is shown by the Gulag Archipelago being required reading in Russia today for school children.
It seems there is a right time to rebel, Solzhenitsyn was a devout Christian, but when is the right time?
Should we rebel in our country today? Should we demand every past iniquity be set right? Should we storm the capital and threaten to hang members of the U.S. Government?
Here is the how and time to stand: with as little force as necessary to speak the truth in the current climate.
With Logos as our north star and love as our mediator, we can walk through any corruption in the proper spirit to set it right.
And prayer; lots of prayer.
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