I read the Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis and I'd like to make a few remarks about what I learned in regard to the corona situation. First of all, this little book is one of my favorite reads, probably my favourite, to date. It describes two demons (an uncle and a nephew) having mail conversations about how the nephew can subvert and condemn an Englishman during WWII. If you read it you recognize so much from it in the voice you have in your own head. It's remarkable to see this mail correspondence and link it to your own thoughts and actions, which to an extreme degree are led or at least influenced by demonic steering. I'd even go as far as to say that without reading this book (or a book with a similar theme) you can't truly understand the battle that's going on in your head, at least for me.
Now in regard to the corona stuff we see now I learned two things: one the most powerful combination for the demons is fear and hate. If these are combined a lot of demonic energy is channeled and manifested. This combination is exactly what our earthly authorities are eliciting to a degree seldom, if not ever, seen in history. Second, and this was really a takeaway for me: the demons win when you react to evil with anger, despair and hate. It is so tempting to see Bill Gates and hate him, or seeing your health minister and feel anger towards him, or suffer an earthly loss because of the situation such as financial or social losses and feel despair. Moreover, it is very easy to go in the attacking mode when we are in an angry, hateful, despairing state. We must realize that we're feeding the demons then. The big lesson C.S. Lewis teaches us in this brilliant book is that the demons love it to be taken seriously, for us to fear them, to be angry, all these negative emotions. What then do they hate most of all? They hate it to be laughed at! To be mocked. To not be taken seriously. Then they've lost their power. Really big lesson here for all of us, certainly me, as the situation we're in elicits these emotions on a daily basis.
Satan's having an open door dinner party at the moment and he's feeding off the unprecedented negative emotions people experience now. However, we must not forget awful and evil things have always happened, and in regard to our own times especially since the 60s the stage has been set for the evil that erupts now through our ''freedom'' revolutions in the West and subsequent falling away from Christ and truth.
May we be able to mock the demons and laugh at them during these times of daily increasing evil, injustice and people floating away from the truth.
