You have written a supremely powerful, pertinent, and perceptive short essay on the USSR, which every thinking person should read and ponder. File this in your “keep for the book” file. How I wish today’s young people would study and understand this. The USSR not only shaped the lives of three generations of Americans, and their own citizens, but also those of the “captive nations” that came under Soviet control, and their own citizens, and the people of all the Soviet proxy states around the world. This essay illuminates the secular mottos: “war is politics by other means”, and “war is deception”. More importantly, your spiritual application driving us to discern the continual deception of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Thank you, Jonathan. I was born in 1974 so I grew up during a time when the USSR was enemy number one. Yet, I don't recall ever having a lesson in school about how the Soviet Union was formed or why.
I think people tend to look at the way the world is now to form opinions and try to understand the world. But everything is connected. To understand the world as it is today you have to under the last hundred years and probably the hundred years before that.
And that's just to start.
I appreciate your kind words. Thanks for being here.
I truly enjoy getting these history lessons. Especially now when I've detoxed and improved my mental clarity. This was another one showing the wisdom in following Christ over the lies of others. That's the crux of everything right now. It literally proves the concept of trusting in false prophets (media, government). Discernment comes from God!
Wow! I never thought about how the USSR was formed. Didn’t cross my mind not once in my lifetime. I was very interested once it was broken up, but again never how it was actually formed. Thank you for sharing this. I appreciate learning all this new material, Jason.
You have written a supremely powerful, pertinent, and perceptive short essay on the USSR, which every thinking person should read and ponder. File this in your “keep for the book” file. How I wish today’s young people would study and understand this. The USSR not only shaped the lives of three generations of Americans, and their own citizens, but also those of the “captive nations” that came under Soviet control, and their own citizens, and the people of all the Soviet proxy states around the world. This essay illuminates the secular mottos: “war is politics by other means”, and “war is deception”. More importantly, your spiritual application driving us to discern the continual deception of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Thank you, Jonathan. I was born in 1974 so I grew up during a time when the USSR was enemy number one. Yet, I don't recall ever having a lesson in school about how the Soviet Union was formed or why.
I think people tend to look at the way the world is now to form opinions and try to understand the world. But everything is connected. To understand the world as it is today you have to under the last hundred years and probably the hundred years before that.
And that's just to start.
I appreciate your kind words. Thanks for being here.
The fact that Lenin realized private enterprise was needed to rebuild the economy is funny and tragic. He was a slave to his ideology.
The verses you picked are so helpful. Thank you.
I truly enjoy getting these history lessons. Especially now when I've detoxed and improved my mental clarity. This was another one showing the wisdom in following Christ over the lies of others. That's the crux of everything right now. It literally proves the concept of trusting in false prophets (media, government). Discernment comes from God!
Wow! I never thought about how the USSR was formed. Didn’t cross my mind not once in my lifetime. I was very interested once it was broken up, but again never how it was actually formed. Thank you for sharing this. I appreciate learning all this new material, Jason.
It's not something they really teach! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing this.