Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And today, what are the further evidences that we are living in days of demonic delirium? Last week, we posed and answered the question, how are we to account for the bizarre widespread evil behavior of those in power over us? In particular, many Americans indeed have been demonstrating bizarre widespread evil behavior, but our rulers, those in power over us in particular, and the answer came back loud and clear.

We are living in days of demonic delirium. Now, the Oxford English Dictionary defines delirium as an acutely disordered state of mind involving incoherent speech, hallucinations, and frenzied excitement. And then when combined with the presence and prompting of spiritual forces of evil, that is the demonic, voila, you have demonic delirium. And for so many among us, the temperature of this demonic delirium has been raised so gradually that we're like frogs in a pot of water who have not noticed it until it reaches the boiling point. And by that time, it's too late.

By the time we realize it, the water is boiling and we cannot jump out of the pot. We are cooked. The idea of demonic delirium is not a sensational fiction that hysterical crockpots dream up to scare audiences. No, no, no, no. Rather, demonic delirium is a spiritual reality that has obtained throughout periods of redemptive history in varying degrees, historical cycles of waxing and waning, of increase and decrease, of ebb and flow, when evil seems sometimes more and sometimes less present in a society than at other times.

And we cited many historical examples. For example, such a society, excuse me, is at its worst when it reaches the point of the antediluvian that is the pre-flood world. When the Bible tells us the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. That's the benchmark of depravity. When man's behavior has reached its nadir of potential for good, but its apex for potential for evil.

And we also saw that the land of Canaan was so filled with demonic delirium at the time of Joshua's conquest of the land that God commanded a Holocaust, a destruction of every man, woman, and child so that the evil would be exterminated. And that included the product of the sons of God who cohabited with the daughters of men. That would be the Nephilim from Genesis chapter 6. And so, throughout biblical history, we can briefly cite other times of demonic delirium, right?

A case could be made as well in human history that in more recent history, for example, the French Revolution of the 18th century, when the streets of Paris ran red with the blood of Frenchmen, beginning with the heads of the monarchy under the guillotine. But soon, as the bloodlust reached a fever pitch in frenzied excitement, as our definition puts it, into every class it began to reach, the bloodlust began to reach into every class in France until it even claimed the heads of those who began the revolution. For example, Robespierre.

And a case could be made that the Marxist revolution in Russia under Lenin, and later China under Mao, were days of demonic delirium. In addition to the untold suffering and misery brought about by this evil, it is estimated that Lenin and Stalin alone accounted for over 56 million deaths of their own citizens, while Mao Zedong was responsible, excuse me, for the deaths of over 70 million of his own people, all in the name of the People's Revolution. How many of the people do you have to sacrifice to your evil before you consider them saved?

Each of these revolutions was characterized by zealous, brainwashed devotees in disordered states of mind who acted in frenzied excitement as they swept all before them, regardless of the cost in human life and suffering. I recommend two books for your perusal in this regard, Days of Demonic Delirium. The first book is entitled The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kengor, The Devil and Karl Marx. That says it, doesn't it? And the subtitle is Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Dr. Paul Kengor, who is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

And in his book, Dr. Kengor not only traces Marx and Engel's involvement in the occult and demonic, but also the vast swath of evil their system wrought upon humankind throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Evil of such magnitude and character is perpetrated there that it can only be properly characterized as demonic. Marx and Engel's were not the only ones to dabble in spiritism and the demonic either. It seemed to obsess many of their followers thereafter. Very few biographers are willing to go there, especially those sympathetic to the cause, but not Dr. Kengor.

The Devil and Karl Marx is the first book I recommend to you. Secondly, I recommend a book entitled simply Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Oh, you remember reading Dostoevsky, perhaps that dense author, Russian author, whose novels you studied in college, perhaps as a freshman or a sophomore, crime and punishment being one. But he has also written a lesser known book called Demons, a novel of 19th century Russia. Demons by Dostoevsky.

When socialist ideals were beginning to take hold among Russia's avant-garde intellectual class, but also revolutionaries and peasants, a novel of the 19th century. It was deeply disturbing to Dostoevsky. Now, he creates the setting for his novel in a small Russian town and in his inevitable way gradually builds the drama until characters are behaving in ways towards each other that can only be described as demonic, whether it's in families or among friends or in society or even in church. It is especially true for Dostoevsky for the men who would bring revolution and change. They, in particular, are demons.

And, as if he were a prophet, Dostoevsky has one character foreshadowing the demon V.I. Lenin, a man named Pyotr Verhoevensky. Oh, it's a rollicking good tale. Well, the point is that we are not the only ones to observe this phenomenon of days of demonic delirium. It is a recurring historical pattern.

Both Dostoevsky and Kengor document this for us. What we tried to do last week was to begin to find some objective ways to identify this behavior beyond those of the sensational. These phenomena are certainly present in days of demonic delirium, the sensational. The acutely disordered state of mind is there.

We see it in the New Testament, for example, for those who live in the tombs, like the Gadarene demoniac, or throw themselves into fire or water, who is the poor son of a father who appealed to Jesus for exorcism, or incoherent speech, the howling of the Gadarene demoniac, or the muttering, peeping, and chirping of the prophets of Baal in Isaiah's day, or the hallucinations, as the Apostle Paul points out, on those insisting on asceticism and worship of angels going on in detail about visions puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, or even the frenzied excitement that we see in demonic delirium.

For example, the priests of Baal who cut themselves, who leaped and danced in great agitation, the twisted men of Sodom who lurked outside of Lot's house all night seeking to have sex with his angel guests. All these, the sensational, is but the tip of the iceberg, though. Nine-tenths of demonic delirium lies below the surface and must be identified for what it is, that is, evil behavior by the bulk of mankind. And once more, a metric that helps us measure the extent of our demonic delirium is an old one, long employed by the church, and that is the seven deadly sins. Yes, the seven deadly sins.

They are, of course, pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. Oh, the church throughout history has used this list as a kind of shorthand for what man, given over to evil, looks like in the particular sins he commits. And when given over to one or more of them, demonic delirium results. In fact, so susceptible to temptation are we to these soul-destroying sins that the church tradition has associated particular evil entities to each deadly sin as a chief tempter. We saw this last week.

For pride, there's Lucifer. For envy, there's Beelzebub. For wrath, there's Sathanas. For sloth, there's Abaddon. For greed, there's mammon.

For gluttony, there's Belphagor. And for lust, there's Asmodeus. Once more, let me be clear. This is all apocryphal stuff, okay? It's not inspired scripture.

I use it merely to illustrate what is real, that what is real is the oscillation of good and evil in history when evil reaches such a pitch of manifestation in the world that we can call it days of demonic delirium. Now, we propose to take these seven deadly sins one at a time, and we began with a ruling sin, which is pride, born proudly by Lucifer himself. Now, we saw St. Augustine calls it the beginning of sin, and Henry Fairley, in his book, The Seven Deadly Sins Today, says that pride is the keystone of the arch of sin. It runs through everything we do, everywhere in our natures, how right he is.

We chronicle, then, how this keystone in the arch of sin, pride, that is, is set squarely in souls of those who flagrantly flaunt themselves over us today, whether the self-proclaimed stars of Hollywood who are really fallen stars of Wormwood and the pit of the beast, or whether it be politicians of Washington, D.C., the District of Columbia, who are really goblins and ghouls of demonic D.C., the District of Criminals. So, always keeping in mind, then, how pride suffuses. Pride really does suffuse all that we do and think. Let's tackle the remaining deadly sins. The second one we want to look at is wrath and anger.

Number two of the deadly sins is wrath and anger. Behold the companion to pride, too, isn't it? Behold the companion to pride. Is any sin more cheek-by-jowl united than these two? When pride is frustrated of its purpose, what is the resulting effect?

Oh, it is wrath. It is terrible, raging anger. How dare my will be frustrated? That wrath is vented upon its object. That is the thing which turned aside its desire.

It is indeed demonic when given full space for expression to wrath and anger. Anger is called the devil's furnace because the fires of this deadly sin ignite so many other ancillary sins, don't they? Vengeance and violence and the means of achieving those ends. Well, this deadly sin not only destroys personal relationships, fairly calls it, one word may destroy even a sublime love, one word of anger, right? But also destroys entire nations.

Let me ask you, did George W. Bush go to war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein in part because Saddam had plotted to assassinate his father, George H.W. Bush? Oh, it's hard to escape such a conclusion, especially since there really were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. Despite the claims, there was a demonic wrath as well in Hitler's hatred of the allies who had defeated Germany in World War I. He had been a private in the German army at the time and Hitler had seen the humiliating armistice his country had been forced to sign.

Hitler's inability to reconcile this anger to these circumstances is what comprised the substance of his struggle, which in German is Mein Kampf. Oh, there was also a demonic wrath in the sustained butchery of the French Revolution when centuries of oppression of the peasant class by the nobility was suddenly thrown off and those with the sword at their throats for so long now wielded it. Even something more deadly and efficient than a sword, really, the guillotine. Oh yes, the guillotine.

Many more examples could be cited historically, dear listener, whether it's the demonic butchery of the Protestants by Catholics at the St. Bartholomew's Massacre in France in 1572 when many thousands of French Protestants were killed by Catholic loyalists or the rape of Nanking, as it was called, when in World War II the Japanese systematically murdered, raped, and pillaged one of the largest cities in China as they overwhelmed the Chinese mainland. Man's inhumanity to man, as the cliche goes, could be encapsulated in this deadly sin alone. The sin of wrath. Wrath and anger are manifest also in the demonic delirium of rulers and people.

What but demonic delirium, for example, can explain the unbounded hatred of President Donald Trump. For all of these years, every tactic imaginable was employed to destroy President Trump by the demonic denizens of the swamp when he threatened to drain it. Thank you, President Trump, for doing this one thing.

Among many things you did, like a skilled Toreador, you waved your red cape in front of the raging bull of the District of Criminals, and sure enough, they snorted and pawed the ground and charged you with fierce, irrational anger that can only be explained as the hallucinating, frenzied excitement of disordered minds in demonic delirium. Ah, in my lifetime, I have never seen the engines of wrath put into high gear with such ferocity as against you. One small anecdote will suffice.

For example, when a reporter asked Nancy Pelosi once during the height of impeachment in her vendetta against the president there, the reporter said, why do you hate President Trump so much? And Pelosi became visibly gripped by a spirit and hissed and snapped with bitter venom. I don't hate Trump. I am a good Catholic and I pray for him. But all of her vituperative mannerisms betrayed her.

At that moment, and this good Catholic threw up her bile and wrath like green vomit in the exorcist. All of the power that the District of Criminals could muster was marshaled against President Trump. You know this full well, don't you, listener? Even a number of assassination attempts, which were fortunately foiled but kept on the down low communication-wise. Well, in the end, Trump was betrayed by his own party in this past election when the transparent election fraud went unchallenged by spineless slithering Republican snakes who secretly bore him hatred for upsetting their feathered nests and corrupt ways.

Indeed, the devil's furnace, wrath and anger, was stoked to the max against President Trump. Well, what else can explain also the obsession? Wrath ventured and vented. The obsessive wrath vented against conservative Americans. What can explain it except demonic delirium?

The evil, corrupt demons that tyrannize over us have always expressed a primal fear, for example, of our keeping and bearing arms. But have you seen the capital city lately? Washington, D.C. is entwined with razor wire National Guard troops and barricades as if it were under siege. The District of Criminals now is beginning to look like its sister city, Pyongyang in North Korea. Culturally, politically, yay, existentially.

Your increasingly wicked leaders hate you with an enduring hatred. They want to put you in camps. They want to re-educate you benighted Trump voters. You're being objectified as every other target group in history has been objectified for extermination. Once you are so villainous as to be no longer human, you will be a proper thing to be eliminated and exterminated.

What but demonic delirium, for example, can explain the hellish scenes that characterize blue cities now across the country as Antifa and Black Lives Matter burn and loot and murder in cities like Portland or Los Angeles or Minneapolis in mostly peaceful demonstrations. Please, mainstream media, peaceful demonstrations. Don't relieve yourselves on my shoes and tell me it's raining.

You all share wrath and hatred towards America and you dance with the light in the fires in the streets like demons and you drench your hands in the blood of victimized children trafficked across America and the aborted children in your sacred Planned Parenthood temples to Lucifer. Your master demon of wrath, Sathanas, delights in your revelry and provokes you to further anger until you are consumed in the fires of our burning cities and eventually the fires of hell. For the sake of the elect of Christ and the children, may that consignment to hell come sooner than later for you, possessed agents of demonic delirium.

Well, there is not only wrath and anger, but there is also greed that possesses those who rule over us. Oh, Henry Fairley in his book, The Seven Deadly Sins Today, defines greed as not so much the love of possessions as the love of possessing. Good definition. Thumbnail definition of greed, the love of possessing. And so it is.

Greed is not limited to possessions exclusively, but extends to any object which may be possessed like people or power. St. Augustine observed the close connection between greed and fear as well. He points out that greed motivates a man to accumulate wealth and possessions more than he could ever hope to use. And also then a fear of losing that wealth drives him to hoard and protect it to the very destruction of others and eventually himself. Greed may expand a man's possessions, but it shrinks his soul.

The word miser, in fact, derives from the word misery. But that does not stop those filled with demonic delirium from giving full reign to their greed. The demon mammon is their master, making his home in the district of criminals. And I have already chronicled for you in other broadcasts how our opponents, the Chinese, have self-consciously used well-honed techniques developed over centuries, by Sun Tzu in particular, that depend upon the greed that now resides in every human heart. And they have used it to compromise and buy the politicians that crawl through the swamp in the district of criminals.

For example, there's the old technique of Shu Hui, which is bribery, Chinese for bribery. Or Tan Wu, which is Chinese for embezzlement. These are all financial instruments used to compromise those in Washington, D.C. Or Nuo Yang, which is misappropriation of funds. And that happens constantly with government funds, doesn't it? Misappropriation, redirection of it.

Or Zhu Xi, which is Chinese for smuggling. All of these economic techniques rely on the human nature's inherent calling to greed. Is it cynical for the Chinese to do this? Of course it is. But in the hands of a skilled, unprincipled enemy, these techniques have been very effective.

Demonically delirious politicians like Nancy Bologna or Rich Mitch McConnell or Diane Not-So-Feinstein and Joe Fraudin, too, have exercised their love of possessing for decades now. And consequently, they are wholly owned subsidiaries, compromised, wholly owned subsidiaries of the Chinese Communist Party. Oh, we have not yet begun to pay the price for this betrayal, dear listener. We have not yet begun to pay the price for this betrayal of our security and our national policy due to the demonically delirious greed of the swamp denizens. Well, there is not only greed, but then there is the fourth deadly sin, which is lust.

Lust, as Henry Fairley in his book, The Seven Deadly Sins Today, defines lust as gratification of a craving, the appeasement of an appetite we cannot subdue. Rather than being fulfilling, lust is self-emptying, unquote. Henry Fairley, well said, Henry. It is not so much a sin of the flesh, lust, as it is a sin against the flesh. The Apostle Paul puts it this way in 1 Corinthians 6.

He says, flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Ah, this is why lust is a deadly sin. That which was designed to crown intimacy and drive procreation, that is the sex drive, designed to crown intimacy and drive procreation on the river of life is instead wasted in the stagnant pool of self-serving lust. Oh, lust borrows from love to pay cravings.

And yet lust is indeed one of the most corruptible attributes of our nature, isn't it? Dependably corruptible sexual parathesia. This term sexual parathesia is the clinical term used by the American Psychiatric Association to denote various kinds of perversion of the sexual nature. The old catalog used to include all of which now lies well within the scope of the alphabet genderization of perversion. The alphabet genderization of perversion.

LGBTQIA+. What does all that mean? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and the plus for anything else that may get thrown in at a later date. That old catalog of sexual parathesia might well be retired soon, unless its lone remaining entry could be straight binary relationships like you, husband and wife. Oh, dear listener, once more, this deadly sin makes easy prey of our perverse politicians, doesn't it?

Lust. For the demon Osmodeus, even if he is but a symbolic tempter of tyrants, he nevertheless beckons, doesn't he? The model of this corruption is once again our strategic enemy, that is China, and they have employed the honey trap, known as deode duolo, or moral decadence. Chinese for moral decadence. And here, the sexual proclivities of any given politician are serviced in exchange for political favors like important votes or top-secret information or legislation that benefits Chinese interests.

Jeffrey Epstein has become the poster boy for lust, as his entire career was devoted to sexually compromising the rich and powerful on his infamous Lolita Express to the Caribbean, where a man could act out his most perverse fantasies in demonic delirium at the hospitality of those who were his best friends. Yes, best friends in lust and debauchery. And to his everlasting chagrin, said politician would find himself on candid camera, whereas acting out in demonic delirium would be evidence for the jury if he ever got out of line or crossed the commands of new overlords.

Well, time does not permit us to treat extensively of the other deadly sins, envy, sloth, and gluttony. But you can use your imagination and see the very same demonic delirium at work amongst those who have the rule over us. But the blessing in all of this is that there are corresponding virtues which contrast with the seven deadly sins, which we must practice and insist that our slaves to demonic delirium adopt, even as their own, in a sweeping revival and reformation.

And I want to deal with this next week when we see that for pride there is humility, for lust there is chastity, for greed there is generosity, for gluttony there is temperance, for envy there is kindness, for wrath there is meekness, and for sloth there is diligence. Oh, I look forward to covering these things with you in the course of the next week or so. Indeed, the antidote to the seven deadly sins are the seven lively virtues. We practice those virtues at New Geneva, and I invite you to join us for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard.

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