By Yinka Fabowale
The Gulf crisis and confict only underscore the level of hypocrisy and depravity humanity has sunk.
The world is in the midst of observing Lent and Ramadan fasting – two yearly religious rituals of Christianity and Islam.
And yet, the two major combatant-nations which claim to be champions of these foremost global religions with billions of adherents felt no compunction desecrating the solemnity and sacredness of the season supposedly intended to accord the Almighty Creator, they claim to worship, reverence and veneration!
Not even the third, the bastion and loin from which the two faiths sprung is absolved of blame!
Hate, greed, arrogance, conceit, vanity, the desire to dominate, oppress and exploit others are on stage. In a wild, macabre dance.
And you want to ask: what happened to all those laws, ordinances and injunctions in the Torah, the Bible, Koran, Talmud and other Abrahamic faith- related Scriptures? Yes, all the commandments that Jesus Christ (Yesau) encapsulated in the easily digestible Golden Rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself?”
What irony!
But, discerning ones know that affairs cannot but be as they have played out and are still playing out.
Under the compulsion of an intense cosmic activity currently underway nothing can be hidden anymore, everything that is right or wrong in and with men, their thinking actions, systems and works, is being dragged out, thrown up and exposed (even if it wishes to hide or disguise) for what it really is or has been, no matter what it pretends to be.
Divine energy is charging and accelerating everything about mankind, up to the boiling point, so that we, men, can see how we really are and what we have done with the inconceivable Grace of time, opportunities and abilities the Almighty Creator has endowed us in order to transform our earthly environment into a Paradise for our own enjoyment – a haven of peace, harmony, progress, joy and happiness.
We either deal decisively with the weaknesses and flaws we may detect in ourselves and fulfill the goal or perish with them if we neglect and allow them to fester or foam over us.
So, he who finds entertainment in the wanton violence and devastation of lives and assets across the middle east beamed on the TV monitor or digital platforms screens because he watches from a safe spatial distance from the theater of war, lives in delusion.
The war is closer to him and has grave implications for his personal life and existence as well as people around him, more than he imagines.
The war, like other international armed conflicts represent the sound of the proverbial trumpets, heralding the long predicted End Judgment, the World Judgment or the closing phase of human evolutionary cycle when each one would be confronted with the harvests of what he has shown. He must then taste of it, whether sweet or bitter, good or evil. Salvation or damnation. Ascent or decline! Inexorably, irrevocably!
We’ll then find that the joke is on us, has, in fact, always been on us, earthmen, all along, after all. For, great truth lies in the statement: “God is not mocked!”
