The Satanic Lullaby
In the West, we're free and drowning in our wealth and prosperity, but it's lulling us to sleep. We can't advance the Kingdom of God if we're not awake.
I rewatched Sheep Among Wolves, Volume II, this week. The one section that really struck me was the section about the “Satanic lullaby.”
You can see it here, from timecode 1:17:34 to 1:24:44. The video is prompted to the right spot, so just hit play.
I know some additional details about this, as I’ve heard the Iranian church leader described here interviewed in other places, and he told the same story, so I’ll throw in some more of what he recounted.
The church leader is Iranian and grew up in the USA. His wife is Iranian and grew up in Iran. In her youth, she was an atheist but then went through a powerful encounter with God as a young woman. Long story short, she was going to commit suicide and God stopped her. After that, she became on fire for Jesus in Iran. She met this church leader and got married. Afterward, she came with him to the USA. After a few months, she told him that she wanted to go back to Iran. He was shocked, and when he asked her why, she said that the West had been lulled to sleep by a “Satanic lullaby.” Nobody in the West took Jesus seriously or really cared about advancing the Kingdom, she said. And so, they moved back to Iran to continue the work there.
Where there is persecution, Jesus thrives. Where there is wealth and freedom, Christians start to rely on those things rather than on God. As Matthew 6:21 says, where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. And we have a boatload of treasure in the West that is unrelated God and lots of things to distract us from the work of growing the Kingdom.
So, if we’re not looking for Jesus, we don’t see him show up. Does he come and we fail to recognize him, or is he waiting for us to walk up from the lullaby before he shows up. I don’t really know. Probably both. Either way, our senses are dulled and we’re missing our calling.
Have you been lulled to sleep by Satan’s lullaby? Tell me in the comments.
Today’s Prayer
Holy Father, wake us up. Amen.
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Well - it is documented about the worship of mammon - is it not?
Some of us still know and we remember and we stand together in defense resolute.
I am going to watch this movie this weekend. Thank you for the link. I think back to our most recent covid persecution in the US and how so many people turned back to God, especially when the churches were closed. Now that things are so-called "back to normal" the satanic lullaby is back. Such is the nature of humans to forget about their souls when their bodies are living easy. This persecution pressure is needed for growth in salvation. I see it in my own Church. Traditional Catholics (TLM) are being persecuted by the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Yes, the Pope is outlawing masses, Latin Mass Priests, refusing to allow TLM sects to buy/use diocesan churches. We are persecuted by our own Church! As a consequence, many Catholics are returning to the traditional rite and the only area in Roman Catholicism that is growing is in the TLM Churches. As the movie says, persecution, not freedom, leads to Jesus and God.