An impending sense of a kind of dread has been growing in me for a while now and is only getting closer, stronger. In my mind it looks like a dark, dense, inevitable storm looming on the horizon, while feeling it also closing in on all sides. In my dreams I see life and bustle carrying on, but across the way, on the horizon, a preternatural, dense, black wall of storm clouds, flashing with lightning is noticed and it is approaching with increasing destructive speed.
Metaphorically, that is what the rising overall apprehending of an encroaching, malevolent danger has been like. In general, it doesn't shake off. Only in Godly contemplation and prayer and immersion in the things of the Spirit, is it assuaged. It is like sensing some unseen predator or lurking doom, persistently present.
The foreboding impression of its inevitability casts a pall over day to day life, and especially in the quiet of night, visionary flashes of its details shock.
And just from simple, informed analysis and observation of all that's going on, I don't believe that "they"--the sold-out minions of the wicked one, will relent one bit in their march for total conquest and destruction of God's people. They WILL implement all of their various schemes of totalitarian control. They WILL increasingly target, marginalize, subvert, infiltrate the few willing to take a stand against the worldwide, coordinated tyranny. They are vicious, hateful, evil, demonic, desperate, and short on time.
They are also delusional in their beguiled, spiritually diseased and morbid state. They actually believe they can win, defeat God and His plan of salvation. And I remember once pondering, perplexed and asking The Lord just how could these (so-called "elites") carry out and continue their obviously destructive, wicked, perverse agendas on the people and this creation. And He answered--or showed me, rather--a look into their mindset. They believe THEY are doing "good"! They believe that their god, is the "good" god! And that his methods are ultimately the best in the end for humanity and the world! Sure you have to "crack a few eggs to make an omelet" but the end result is worth the pain, torture, destruction, murder, perversion, suffering of others, in the meantime.
"Something wicked this way comes". I believe and sense, there is no stopping it. It has already been held off for a while, no doubt due to God's mercy and other's intercessory prayers. But I can hear the rumbling of the approaching hoofbeats, the roar of distant, but approaching thunder and torrents. A general hostile, malicious humming, buzzing is in the air. . . .
Prepare your soul!