by Jay Iselin
The day of Epiphany, January 6th, is reputedly the day when the three wise men arrived at Bethlehem to see their God. This makes sense since Jesus was probably born in the fall, when the shepherds were still out there with flocks, just before winter set in. And it’s known that the Kings arrived a bit later on.
The word “Epiphany” involves a confrontation with God – that’s what it is. The wise men were no vain imagining. They happened. But such a confrontation also implies and must involve the present time, rendering distant abstractions rather irrelevant.
In other words, how we deal with the present is what matters in life. Have we sincerely received Christ as our Savior? Have we confronted the realities of our time, or instead have we embraced that mean, almost universal head-in-sand attitude?
A very cogent example is Covid. One can read RFK Jr’s extraordinarily well-documented book The Real Anthony Fauci and then realize why most of the good medical doctors in the US have by now been compelled to resign, to cash in their chips, their shoes being latterly filled by the numerous more shabby professionals trained to be quite willing to compromise ideals, to “go along to get along”.
Billionaire Fauci loves to quip that his favorite quote is from the film The Godfather: “It’s not anything personal. It’s BUSINESS”. That says it all, about that man, and about the likes of his crony Bill Gates, who is wanted in India for crimes against humanity. Have we done anything about the situation in our own nation?
We have created a society in which those who favor and advocate the truth in real life, just as Jesus did, rather than only in abstract ivory towers, are sneeringly, mockingly persecuted as “Truthers” by the shamestream media and by censorship. If any clumsy, simple-minded two million bannered Patriot truthers happened to have left their hearthfires, their lands and their houses behind, risking everything to visit Washington DC three years ago on what they assumed was a protesting errand no one else would even bother to do, they were persecuted, crucified, framed as “insurrectionists”, due to their disgust with Mike Silver-Pence and with the very rude Capitol police outside the Capitol (note Patriots’ deeply respectful and quiet deportment once inside the building).
Did you know the police ordered the medics to keep their distance and not to treat those who were dying from heart attacks after having fatal bombs thrown at them by the police?? (I was there.)
The Patriots, the best Christians of them being almost perpetually jailed since they would not compromise through dishonest pleas, had on Jan 6th been simply quite peeved about a lie, namely the transparently absurd tale that “suddenly” no electronic rigging of elections occurs or ever happens in the US! (See “Hacking Democracy”, a documentary.)
Jan 6th, which should have been an Epiphany for our nation, was twisted again into the grossest of deceptions, and we have accepted this. So tell me, although I can guess… Do we care?
Jay Iselin is a musician, writer, and longtime resident of the Northeast Kingdom