Bonfire Britain

It is one of the oldest jokes in the book, yet it seems to be apter with each passing year:

"Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".

I sometimes look at the state of this land and despair. False religion thrives, irreligion prospers, godless ideology spreads, and evil appears to triumph. The state church is all but sold out to worldliness, Pentecostalism is gripped by greed and showmanship, popery has become respectable and the cults spring up in every town. Hundreds of children are murdered by the state each day, while others are mutilated on the altar of Woke. Meanwhile, ‘sound’ Bible-believing churches are sometimes compromised by self-important grandees seeking their own little empires, while ordinary attenders have as much discipline and vitality as soggy bread. The country appears to be going up in flames, and one day it shall, quite literally. I am a patriotic Englishman, but I could weep for the land which my ancestors have been tilling since at least 1157. Mother England has become a beldam, a malicious and loathsome old harpy who rides the dragon.

On 16 November, 1940, King George VI stood on this spot, above, and surveyed the charred and smoking ruins of Coventry Cathedral after a day and night’s pummelling by Hitler’s Luftwaffe. One of the greatest churches in England had been reduced to a ruined shell, the woodwork burnt to ash, the stones smashed and shattered. Whether he wept, or maintained his upper lip for the citizens’ sake, I cannot tell. Truly, his beloved kingdom was aflame all about him, and there was little he could do. Hermann Göring’s bombers were literally choosing which British cities would be blown to smithereens, and which spared.

Yet the war was eventually won. Hitler’s Third Reich did not manage his anticipated thousand years' duration, but a mere dozen. Coventry would rebuild its cathedral to the left of the picture, while peace in Europe would be restored, the Jewish race preserved, the concentration camps closed. And today's wider, global rebellion against the Lord and His Anointed is itself scheduled to end sometime soon:

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

The ruins of the churches, of morality, of godliness and common decency shall be restored and improved; dark times are increasingly upon us, but better days are coming:

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. Haggai 2:9