The excellent fit between current socio/political conditions and Biblical prophecy should be cause for joy, but I can't help but be apprehensive. What might the flaws be in our reading of said prophecy? But yes, opportunity indeed.
Just love your tagline, editor-surveyor! In the Hebrew language, "fool" is translated as nabal. And as the Psalmist says, the man who "says in his heart" that "there is no God" is a nabal, a fool. To say as much is to take flight into a second reality, and indicates a profound pneumopathological (or spiritual) disorder. So this is not a "funny-ha-ha" type of fool: The reference is to a profoundly disturbed or disordered human being.
Cicero remarked on the same phenomenon, calling a man in such a flight insipiens -- likewise translated as "fool." But for Cicero, such a flight from divine reality is caused by aspernatio rationes, or "contempt for reason." And that is very much a spiritual disorder, too -- a disorder of the mind, where for the Psalmist, it was a disorder of the soul. Both are varieties of spiritual sickness....
Plato called this disease, nosos; Aristotle, nosemos. The great ancient thinkers knew all about this syndrome, though we moderns seem to have forgotten all about it. Its root is the flight from God, or divine reality which is, in turn, the root of both reason and the human soul.
Just a bunch of trivia I suppose. But such trivia is of interest to me.... Maybe it might be of interest to a Lurker or two as well.
Thank you so much for your observations!
The good news is the new heaven and new earth - the Omega completes the Alpha in One. That's what "all that there is" is all about from Genesis to Revelation.
Marantha, Jesus!