Some would say the liberal media and the liberal progressives are warring against conservative Christians and what they value. However, this isn’t exactly true. The reality is that most liberals are really warring against Jesus Christ and all that He stands for.
You might ask, how so? Simply this, Jesus Christ plainly said – I am the truth! (Jn. 14:6) Therefore, anything or anyone who presents talking points that are contrary to the truth or puts a spin on the truth are really seeking to suppress the truth. Jesus told those who opposed Him:
“you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you” (Jn. 8:37)
The truth of God’s word has no place in those who reject it. And those who reject it do so because it shines the light on the lifestyles or objectives they’ve chosen to pursue. Generally, the lifestyles or causes in question revolve around some aspect of behavior God hates. God rejects certain behaviors or activities because they run contrary to His original intentions in creating mankind.
Eternal Separation
God created mankind out of the pure, holy, and loving intentions of His heart – because those attributes are at the core of His nature. Therefore, all things that run counter to His nature are doomed to eternal separation from Him. This realm of eternal separation is a place of eternal misery and devastation. It is God’s will and desire that not one man, women, or child end up in this place.
Therefore, out of His great love for us, God continually warns us of behaviors, actions, and attitudes that will surely result in our experiencing eternal separation from Him. However, those who choose – for whatever reason – to reject His warnings, have shut out His word, giving it no place in them.
Self-Deception
In denying the truth they deceive themselves into believing they now have the freedom to exercise the behaviors or lifestyles forbidden by God. However, in running from God they are really running from true freedom, for God is truth, and true freedom can only come by knowing the truth (Jn. 8:32). In their struggles to avoid the truth, they are only sucked deeper into the depths of deception. Soon they come to believe the lies they’ve embraced as the truth, and now seek to promote those lies as the truth.
Therefore, having embraced lies as their foundation for truth, they reject the ultimate Author of all truth, Jesus Christ. So having rejected the Author of all truth they also reject His word. Now, they are committed to silencing any voice that speaks the truth, any and all voices that would in any way remind them of the truth. Ultimately, in their desperation they conspire together to somehow snuff out the truth, to kill the truth.
Controlling the Message
So in their war against the truth they seek to control any voices that would influence the hearts and minds of the general population, knowing the message the public hears will most probably be the message the public believes. This means they will have to infiltrate every major news media outlet and seek to control the messages the masses hear. Getting control of the messenger is key to dictating the message he will speak.
If the messenger refuses to cooperate with twisting, distorting, deluding, or spinning the truth, or downright presenting lies as truth, then the resistant messenger must somehow be silenced or put to death. So how does one silence or strive to kill the truth? In observing efforts to silence the truth we’ve noted the following strategies.
Silencing Strategies
Those wishing to suppress the truth get major news media outlets agreeing together to ignore, twist, spin, or distort the truth. This way any independent speaker of the truth appears to be out of the loop, or is accused of using non-credible sources for his information. Next, they attempt to sway public opinion by bombarding them with a false narrative hoping this will pressure the truth speaking messenger to back off, back down, or shut up.
If this doesn’t work, they try to get the masses to ignore the valid messenger by attacking his credibility. They will scorn, mock, ridicule, minimize, and outright reject any information the truth speaking messenger is presenting for analysis, discussion, or debate.
They quickly run to support elected officials that align with their truth hating agenda, no matter how corrupt, unqualified, or inexperienced they may be. If that official stays true to their cause they will fight tooth and nail to get him elected to office and then to keep him there. This means all their messages will be slanted in their candidate’s favor, while seeking to negate, downplay, or subtly undermine anyone opposing him or his platform.
If that elected official decides to switch his position or opinion to one of embracing the truth, they then turn on him and do everything in their power to get him removed from office – as soon as possible. The bottom line for those warring against the truth is this; to convince the masses the lies and half-truths they’ve come to believe are actual reality.
Captivating the Masses
They want to captivate the masses with the same deceptive ideals and philosophies they’ve embraced as true. If they cannot convince the majority of the populace to buy into their falsehoods, they strive to make it appear to observers that most of the people agree with their position about what acceptable beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and lifestyles should be. Their goal is to shape the general public’s ideas and bend the culture to align with their agenda. So the war against truth rages.
We need to take heart that although this war is at hand, it is nothing new. Jesus fought the same battle when He walked the earth. He came as the messenger of truth manifesting His Father’s will into the midst of vast spiritual darkness. He came shining the light of the truth into the hearts and lives of mankind, uncovering layers of deception captivating people’s minds and setting thousands free from the dominion of the father of lies.
Just as today, there were many in His day who had no place in their hearts for his word. Jesus spoke of them saying; these “men loved darkness rather than light…for everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (Jn.3:19-21).
Killing the Truth
Fearful of exposure, those who hate the truth, conspired to kill Jesus. Really, it was the Truth they wanted to kill. They tried to silence the Truth, by attempting to entrap Him in His words, by trying to undermine His credibility with the masses, by threatening to kill Him. They mocked, ridiculed, rejected, slandered, and minimized the Truth. You see the tactics truth-haters use today are not new.
Ultimately, they thought they silenced the Truth by murdering Him through crucifixion. After murdering the Truth, the truth-haters then sought to bury the Truth, probably thinking, whew, we finally got rid of Him. But, what they didn’t realize is, the Truth is eternal and can never die.
Even when truth-haters try to bury the truth we know our Father in heaven will always dig up and resurrect the truth. Remember, it is our God who breathes life into truth, who upholds the truth. Despite the truth-haters, be encouraged, for the Truth will never die, but will always reign supreme, forever and ever.
© Copyright 2012 Ivan Doxtator