Are You On The List?

The Lamb's Book of Life or the Epstein List? Why would I even ask such a paradoxical question? What's the difference? The difference between them is one decision. It is a single intent that festers into many bad decisions. Sin. Righteousness and unrighteousness. Men are capable of profound good and also profound evil.

Everyone is rightfully horrified by the Epstein files, but most people are horrified by the ending and ignored the process or incidents that led up to the ending. That is why no one is being held to account. The Left has their own people involved so it behooves them to remain silent about it. The right including Trump have told the populace that there is nothing to see in the files and we should move on as an American people…and many have done exactly that. That is likely because people on both sides are complicit also. It is a nest of vipers no matter how one looks at it.

No one held accountable. Victims are victimized twice. Perverts get away with their sins and perversions akin to Caligula’s reign of horror from Capri. We are in fact all somehow complicit if we do not insist justice is still sought for the children abused or killed. Instead many embrace their ideological overlords and ignore what is plainly in their faces. Therein lies a huge part of why politicians, the rich and the famous have not been persecuted and locked away. Other than the rare psychopath, no one wakes up intending to become monstrous. They make one small deal after another. They excuse a small lie, accept a strange invitation, and keep quiet when something feels off. Call it what you will. Moral apathy, intellectual complacency, cowardice, etc.

Many have traded integrity for access, reputation, and influence. Step by step, Americans sell pieces of themselves. As Dostoevsky noted, your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. The quick willingness for political ideologues on the right and the left to forgive their political leaders or heroes are/were not desperate acts of survival. They willingly traded their conscience for a seat at the elite table. That is the real lesson. Not that fame, sex, money, and power inherently corrupt, but that people willingly corrupt themselves in pursuit of them. So it goes for the politicians, rich, famous and even the working class or the general masses.  

Unchecked desire is the process, while moral transgressions are the end point. IT applies to the President of the United States all the way down to the abusive drug addict boyfriend. There is an ancient Native American story that tells of a wolf being hunted. The hunter, wanting to avoid direct confrontation with the dangerous creature, stuck a blade in the ice and coated the blade in blood. When the wolf came upon the blood-soaked ice, he began licking the blade. The blade numbs the wolf’s tongue and it is thinking that he was eating, when in fact he was cutting himself and slowly dying. It keeps licking, unaware it is cutting itself, until it can't tell the difference between frozen blood and its own, then bleeds out in the dark. That is how corruption works. It begins as an appetite and feels like personal advancement or winning.

The truth is the conscience slowly dulls, and by the time the acts are unthinkable, the numbness is complete. The uncomfortable truth is that we as the ordinary people that refuse to force the truth to be brought or lazily not force the issue with the perverted relite ruling class have helped create the conditions where justice does not prevail for the weak or the innocent. The Epstein files are not just an indictment on leaders and famous but on us also.

We create the conditions for leaders, famous and rich to operate with impunity. We worship fame, we equate wealth with worth, we kneel before power, we reward the traits that lead people to tables like Epstein's. We water the tree of desire and then gasp in horror when the fruit is rotten.

Accountability matters. God will eventually hold everyone accountable on the Last Day.

Those who cross moral and legal red lines must face consequences. But punishment alone does not cure the disease. The deeper lesson is restraint. Most people, given the chance, would start licking the knife. They believe they would stop in time, but just like the wolf and the frozen blade, by the time you need to stop, you are too numb to do so. So, we arrive where we are today. Numb and morally bankrupt. We idolize the people and things that we should find most abhorrent. We hated the people on Epstein’s’ list because some of us knew that, in a way, we were on the list indirectly too because of the things we value and the people we look up to. That is why most didn’t make a huge stink when the issue got abruptly dropped.

This is unacceptable and shows a majority of society spiraling unanchored in a moral abyss. Unless we are saved by the acknowledgement of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, we are in effect, all on the list somehow because of what we prioritize as important and what we give our money and attention too. If we are not in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Revelation 3:15, 21:27), we might as well be on Epstein’s list.

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”

Romans 3:11-12 “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.