Why a Christian should believe in conspiracies

Here is an article by Anna Merlan,

https://earther.gizmodo.com/californias-wildfires-have-spawned-a-truly-wild-new-con-1830418656

Anna Merlan is an authority on, and has authored a book about, “conspiracy theories” and “conspiracy theorists”, i.e. liars. A note on her article says: Anna Merlan is a Senior Reporter at G/O Media and the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

Evidently, according to Anna, everyone who follows conspiracies are unstable, less than intelligent coo-coos. But, it has always been the truth that wars are well known for disinformation. Opposing forces keep their trail confused and the confusion ever increasingly complicated, or the enemy will figure out your next tactical strike. All is fair in…war.

On a spiritual front, look at what Satan has done throughout history. He has worked constantly, with the subtlest insinuating, deceptions upon deceptions, layer below layer, a rabbit hole of rabbit holes. His tracks are so covered that if it were not for the Bible humanity would not be able to put a finger on him. But, before we go too far into that, the question must be raised, Do you believe in Satan? Do you believe in the spiritual front? Do you trust the Bible verse, “The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev. 12:17)?

Do you believe the next verses?

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? (Rev. 13:1-4)”

Or, “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Rev. 12:12)? Only if you believe Bible prophecy can we go any further on this issue of conspiracies.

It’s these prophetic scriptures that keep me focused on what atheists call “conspiracy theories”. I use the epithet, “atheists” because a person who denies the barrage of destruction hitting the world since 9/11 must not believe the Bible’s prophecies concerning end times. And if that person doesn’t believe the word of God, he doesn’t believe in God, and is an atheist—even if he is a church. And if a person doesn’t have God’s word for guidance then he is blind to the machinations of the great deceiver.

Here’s another scripture that keeps me looking at conspiracy “theories”.

“And then shall that Wicked [the son of perdition] be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2Thess. 2:8-12).

This warning from Paul is based on a previous one from Isaiah,

“Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with His anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue as a devouring fire:

And His breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.” (Isa. 30:27,28).

Was Paul a conspiracy theorist? Was he one who unnecessarily whipped people up to phantom, imaginary non-realities? Was he a bizarre, emotional character who worked on the emotions of his friends from Ephesus when he met with them for the last time, and pleaded with them?

“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” (Acts 20:28-32).

Wasn’t Paul a man of sound mind, solid, steady, temperate, and mild? Yet, he was filled with the Spirit of truth so that he could convict atheists of sin and of judgment to come. “As he [Paul] reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.” (Acts 24:25).

He continually taught from the Hebrew Scriptures, and anchored the church on the written word of God. Atheists cannot accept such a defense for the Bible, and therefore they are wide open to the bewitching and delusions of Satan. They don’t believe in Satan. They don’t believe in God. They don’t believe in sin. They don’t believe in righteousness and holiness. Therefore they are blind to the forces acting on them from above and below every moment.

Here’s another scripture that speaks to the spiritual blindness and deafness, and the ultimate demise of Protestant America,

“And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Then said I, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.” (Isa. 6:9-12).

And another that brings into the equation the source of Protestant America’s sad blindness and deafness—false prophets.

“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; He shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.” (Isa. 30:8-14).

If you believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, without trusting in the twisting of so many scholars who use fancy theological footwork; if you desire to understand both Old and New Testaments, and love to see the whole Bible as a connected whole, then you can accept the fact that there is a satanic personality in the world who claims to own it and control it. “And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” (Job 1:7).

All of this being true, the lovers of God and His commandments will see in the devastation happening all around the world, and the wall of evil that is coming at us, is Satan’s last, vicious effort to lead the human race to jump on his side of the great controversy. This will cause the whole world to decide once and for all where they will stand, for or against God’s everlasting kingdom of righteousness and selfless love. And everyone is already starting to make that final decision, as issues become more and more polarized and the people become more and more vocal on them.

Therefore, I cannot dispense with my worldview that we are seeing true conspiracies against humanity, that Protestant America is under attack. This is not to say that I follow everything that voices among the so-called “weird conspiracy theorists” are coming up with. I can never call them “weird conspiracy theorists” because they are my brethren. They are to me as Abraham said to Lot, “We be brethren” (Gen 13:8), and as Jehoshaphat said to Ahab, “I am as thou art, my people as thy people” (1Ki. 22:4), and as Jesus informed Noah, “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem” (Gen. 9:27). So I will give warning of incoming danger like my fellows are faithfully giving it. I will work alongside my fellow voices to warn anyone who will hear, although I do not ally myself with them. I will use their findings and compare them with scriptures. I will seek to open their eyes to the spiritual front, but will not discourage them from the line of truth that they are following up on.

But, if they wander off into the realm of extra-terrestrials and UFOs, I will reject their unbiblical conjectures and keep with the biblical truth that a spiritual realm is leaking those items of disinformation. And I will always remember that, notwithstanding superstitions in some of my conspiracy brethren, the Jesuits are largely behind every modern departure from the truth that exposes their destruction of mankind because we are made in God’s image of love and righteousness, especially those who are most strongly under the Bible’s influence—i.e. Protestants, and more so, Adventists. I will see the Jesuit work, in accordance with scriptural principles, that Ham, Cush, Nimrod, “…and Canaan shall be his [Shem’s] servant” (Gen. 9:27).

I must always remember the principle that undergirds the perpetual, divine oath, “The LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation” (Ex. 17:16), and will link that perpetual oath to the Revelation 13, Dark Ages Antichrist. And I will remember, “For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous” (1Jn. 3:11,12). These modern Amalekites and Cains are fully contrary to heaven and are a menace to peace on earth.

There is a human enemy to the Protestant Christian, and, more so, to the Adventist Christian. That Protestant nemesis is a real enemy because he has given his soul to the devil for the devil’s soothing familiarity. He could not submit to God’s powerful convictions of sin, as Cain heralded that cause. Therefore, such an enemy of God’s righteousness becomes the avowed enemy of God, and the nemesis of His daily born again children. There can never be an alliance between the children of God and the children of the serpent, but only an antagonism. As Jesus promised, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed” (Gen. 3:15).

The Jesuits are the polar opposite of the converted, contrite Christian.

“… At this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power.… The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.

When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed a revival of popery.” The Great Controversy, p. 234, 235.

“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power” (Dan. 8:24). “The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” (Rev. 13:2). “And he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.” (Dan. 8:24). It is biblical truth that explains the strange developments that we see today. Only the Bible exposes every work of the devil and his favored earthly agency. Only the voices whose hearts are turned to God again can understand and speak out against today’s overspreading tsunami of wickedness. Every other voice is either partially or wholly blinded to the machinations of Satan and his human agents.

Therefore when I read the unbelieving, atheistic opposition expressing the following sentiments, I disregard them completely: “Inevitably, the conspiracy theory is migrating to bigger and bigger accounts. On Thursday, a far-right internet personality and QAnon booster named Mike Tokes, who has 170,000 Twitter followers, aggressively took up the cause, using the same line of argument: some homes burned, others didn’t, thus lasers must be at work.”

Anna must have been referring to photos on websites where we see neighborhoods that had many homes looking incinerated and their foundations totally demolished, while other homes sitting 10 to 20 feet away were left unsinged. This defies decades of experience from veteran firefighters, and even common sense in non-firefighters. So many unanswered questions to fire anomalies have plagued these experienced firemen that they have had to do their own personal investigations.

It is nothing short of insult to infer or to express outright, that these men who have risked their lives in a career of saving lives and properties, and then to have compared the most recent wildfires to all that they have seen during their previous 20 years of service, that they have so little good sense that they should go against mainstream thought and being complicit in a “Republic of Lies”. How dare firefighters think for themselves! Either Anna is fooled by the paradigm that Protestant America has no old enemy from the Dark Ages, or prejudiced by herd mentality, or she is paid to propagandize (who knows anymore?) for the Dark Ages enemy of liberty-loving, free-thinking, tax-paying, natural-born citizens of the United States, who own their destroyed property for which they paid dearly with hard-earned money. 

Folks like Anna may have good intentions, but they are only working for Satan to help cover up his fingerprints. They are muddying the waters and preventing truth seekers from finding the truth. And all I can say is that their opposition to eye-witnessed facts cooperates with the more deceitful and more aggravated human disseminators of falsehood. Those more aggravated earthly agents scripture exposes, “And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people” (Dan. 8:24). “The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” (Rev. 13:2).

Jesus kept before us the dangers of Satan’s wiliest prophets at the end.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing….” (Matt. 7:15).

“Take heed that no man deceive you.” (Matt. 24:4).

“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to hear My words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.…

I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? Yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

Which think to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal.” (Jer. 23:21,22,25-27).

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” (1Jn. 4:1).

Let us allow the darkness taking over the Earth and the people to guide us in the way of truth. Let the evils gathering strength in the Earth quicken us to pray like never before and to receive Jesus’ gift of confession of sin and deep repentance.

“Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn Thou me, and I shall be turned; for Thou art the LORD my God.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Is Ephraim My dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore My bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.” (Jer. 31:15-20).