The Good Samaritan

Jesus told the tale of the Good Samaritan. In those Biblical times, Samaritans were strangers from a strange city and were not trusted. The Good Samaritan was a man who found a broken and beaten stranger on the road. The man had been robbed and left for dead. The Samaritan was a stranger but he took the man to get him lodgings and paid for him to be fed and taken care of until the man could recover.  He did this only because he was a good person. There was nothing in it for him.

Today the Peoples of the earth have become quite polarized. Many people who live in civilized countries and have turned their backs on those who are less fortunate, preferring instead to secure their own households.  Many people in Third World countries have become oppressed.  We see the pictures of them starving, skeletal people from Yemen and their hollow-eyed children.  These images are reminiscent of concentration camps.  We send Warcraft to countries that bomb third world countries.  We do this for profit.  We are told about collateral damage as our bombs hit and destroy the homes of families and we avert our eyes at the horror of dismembered children.

The ‘me first’ mentality has taken root.  The evangelicals blindly worship their new leader, seeing not his flaws but piously calling him god’s gift and praying for his safety.  They see not the False Prophet, the liar, the abomination who rips children from their families.

He has polarized the people, divided them between good and evil as surely as the Hand of God.  What if the evangelicals are right?  What if God did send this man?

He may indeed be a catalyst. His brazenness encourages those with similar evil in their hearts to speak forth their truth.  And they wear his mark upon their foreheads just as foretold in the Bible.  Man’s Anti-God Army can wreak havoc on earth but in the end will but destroy their own home.

The  Bible tells us of an end time, when the Lord separates the wheat from the chaff and takes the wheat up to be with him and leaves the rest, the chaff, to suffer horribly on this planet.  Plagues will come and there will be death and suffering.  The Bible then tells of the return of an angry Messiah who will seize the beast and throw him into the abyss.

What if the evangelicals are right?  Maybe this was all part of God’s plan and now that the wheat and the chaff have been separated, let them ask themselves which are they?  Surely they do not much resemble the Good Samaritan.