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The Terrible Gift of Not Knowing:
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There is a humility that strikes at the soul like cold wind: the humble admission that we know almost nothing about the world that presses in upon us every moment — the world of spirits, powers, principality, and the unseen rules that shape nations, hearts, and destinies.
We walk as if life were only skin and bone, money and law, opinion and election. We argue, we vote, we legislate, and we clothe ourselves in trophies of knowledge — but beneath all our cleverness the devils laugh, for we are ignorant of the laws that govern the spirit realm and the means by which they seize authority over men.
The Bible speaks plainly of this blindness: the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:14, KJV). Paul does not mince words: there are realities that the unregenerate cannot even perceive. This is not academic; it is existential. Ignorance is not merely lack of data; it is a vulnerability — a shroud through which the enemies of our souls move with impunity.
‘Friends,
This essay will declare what sober hearts must know: (1) the weakness of the sons of Adam; (2) the depth of our ignorance of spiritual mechanics; (3) the veils and sorceries that blind the masses; and (4) the way out — repentance, education in the Word, and the spiritual disciplines that expose the hidden. I will write plainly and prophetically, calling believers from complacency to awe and action.
I. The Weakness of Man — Not a Lament, but a Diagnosis:
Man is fragile. That is not an insult; it is biology and theology. The psalmist asked, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4). We are dust and breath, made for glory, yet wounded by sin. In the spiritual economy, weakness is the admissions desk at the hospital of grace. We sin because we are weak; we are deceived because we are blind.
There are ways men betray their own strength:
- The arrogance of explanation; We explain away miracles as coincidence, call spiritual phenomena “psychology,” and reduce prayer to sentiment. The world that once trembled at the name of the Lord now explains the miraculous as “neurology” or “mass hysteria.” This arrogance is a door to welcome the invisibles to sit at your table.
- The hunger for control; Men will trade soul freedom for the illusion of safety. A system that promises security will find worshippers in an anxious world.
- The appetite for comfort; Comfort dulls the spiritual senses. The longer a generation sits down on soft cushions and safe entertainments, the more their vigilance wanes.
Scripture warns us: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Our weakness invites the prowling one. We are not called to cower; we are called to confess and to gird ourselves with truth.
II. Spiritual Ignorance > The Darkness That Thinks Itself Light:
Ignorance in the spiritual realm differs from ignorance in the secular. A man who has never read a physics book can be enlightened; a man blind to spiritual realities cannot easily be reached by arguments that presuppose physicalist certainties. Paul called it out: “The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not” (2 Corinthians 4:4). This is an active blinding, not passive absence.
‘Friends, this is how blindness is administered:
- By false doctrines, that masquerade as truth. Philosophies that deny God or twist Scripture act as smoke and mirrors. They feed the mind with counterfeit logic. The fallen world offers “competing creeds” — relativism, scientism, and therapeutic faith — each a screen behind which the enemy can operate.
- By rituals and institutions, that substitute for heart-change. The human heart loves ritual; it is easy to go through motions and miss the Spirit. Religion can be a cloak of humidity for the soul, offering smell but not fire.
- By sensory deception; the modern age excels at stimulating senses: screens paint realities that never were, music stirs but does not sanctify, staged spectacles mimic holiness. When the senses are busy with artificial holiness, the spirit’s compass spins.
Jesus quoted Isaiah about this very phenomenon: “Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive” (Matthew 13:14). Spiritual truth is not simply information; it is revelation. The proud who reckon themselves enlightened may be the most deeply beguiled.
III. The Veil of the Masses — How Public Ignorance Becomes Public Submission:
The phrase “veil” occurs in Scripture to describe a covering that hides and dulls perception. Isaiah described a “veil that is spread over all nations” (Isaiah 25:7; NIV translates differently but the KJV captures the idea of covering). The apostle Paul used the veil as a metaphor for Israel’s temporary blindness in regard to the gospel (2 Corinthians 3). Today, the veil is global, and it is woven from multiple threads.
The threads of this modern veil include:
- Mass media enchantment > Television, streaming, and social platforms do not merely inform; they inculturate. They form shared imaginations, narratives that become systems of belief. When millions accept the same false story, that story becomes law in the heart.
- Consumerist magic > The ritual of purchasing, accumulating status, and being “known” by a brand becomes liturgy. Branding is priestcraft; the worship of logos and promises.
- Therapeutic myths > Age teaches that subjective satisfaction is the moral arbiter. When feelings are sovereign, guilt is a crime and conscience is a nuisance. This removes the moral checks God ordained.
- Education that omits God > When entire educational paradigms train minds to exclude the divine, the options for faith shrink.
‘Friends, the masses, therefore, are not merely uninformed — they are formed into a communal blindness that accepts systems of control as normal. Because it is social, the veil works well; however, the person who resists runs the risk of being isolated from the blinded. When the veil is taken away, the entire group of people who are resisting loses their malignancy, the demon’s magic is taken away.
IV. The Devil’s Sleight-of-Hand — How Magic and Sorcery Work in the Modern Age:.
When Scripture condemns pharmakeia (translated variously as sorcery, witchcraft), it is talking about the use of substances, potions, pharmaceuticals, words, and rituals to manipulate spirits in men. In Revelation, pharmakeia deceives all nations (Revelation 18:23) translated sorceries. Modern sorcery is subtler and suffuses commerce, media, and technology.
How does that sorcery play in human reality in real-time right now?
- Word-magick and narrative spells > Words form reality in the spirit. Propaganda, advertising, and ideology work like spells. Repetition forms neural pathways and spiritual admission points. A repeated lie gains a spiritual foothold, dumbed down you believe as Truth.
- Ritualized technologies > The daily rites of phone-checking, streaming worship of media platforms, and biometric routines are not neutral. They create rhythms that the spirit world can ride. A ritual behavior opens doors by repetition and habituation.
- Biochemical gateways > Substances that dull conscience or heightened sensations — alcohol, certain medications abused, recreational drugs, create openings. The ancient pharmakeia was literal potions; the modern pharmakeia includes pharmacopeia that numbs and permits entry into you!
- Occultized entertainment > When media glorifies witchcraft, occult symbols, and anti-God rituals, it not only desensitizes but invites. The boundary between fictional invocation and real spiritual influence is porous. Demons mimic fiction as a doorway in award shows, Music, Oscars, Super Bowls etc!
The enemy’s magic is not necessarily the dramatic raising of the dead in front of a crowd; often it is the slow, cumulative enchantment of a people who forget to pray, forsake repentance, and surrender sacred time to idols of convenience.
V. The Cost of Ignorance — Souls, Nations, and the Erosion of Truth:
Ignorance > is not merely a private liability; it is national currency. When whole societies shun God, they sanction injustice, degrade moral law, and invite systemic bondage. The prophets declared it plainly: “Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant” (Daniel 9:27 has complex prophetic passages indicating covenant-breaking leads to ruin). Today’s broken covenants are many: pride over humility, expedience over righteousness, hedonism over holiness.
‘Friends, consider the cost:
- Loss of moral clarity > Generations raised under therapeutic ethics cannot easily distinguish between right and wrong when tradition shifts.
- Economic enslavement > Debt-fueled consumerism binds whole nations; economic systems that demand conformity can be used as instruments of spiritual pressure.
- Political compromise > Leaders who do not fear God open their nations to alliances that trade freedom for favor.
The real cost is spiritual: souls made callous, hearts turned to stone, stiff-necked, and a people who cannot pray because they have not learned to weep. The veil accomplishes its mission when a nation celebrates its own delusion and never asks for deliverance.
VI. The Things That Fool — Specific Modes of Deception:
Let us name specifics, for to name is the first step to removal.
- Secular Sanctification > The public sacralization of scientists, technocrats, and economists as the new priests. When technocracy becomes theology, we bow to algorithms instead of angels.
- Moral Inversion > Praising vice as virtue. The scripture warned: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20). This phrase is not merely poetic; it describes the tenor of our age.
- Religious Syncretism > Mixing Christ with every other doctrine to make a pleasing soup! The Gospel is not a buffet. Syncretism blunts the sword of truth.
- Identity Politics as Idolatry > When tribal loyalty replaces covenant loyalty, grievance becomes a god. The heart chooses tribe over Creator.
- Prophetic Counterfeits > False miracles and signs that flatter the eyes and ears but bind the heart. The Book of Revelation warns of lying wonders (2 Thessalonians 2:9).
‘Friends, each of these deceits may look different, but they all aim to re-route worship and blind the conscience in the weakened and unguarded self!
VII. Where We Have Permission to Act / Humility, Prayer, and the Word:
After speaking of the darkness, Scripture and the saints call us to action. There is a path through the fog, and it is both humble and mighty;
- Humility of Heart >Start with the posture of the publican who beat his breast; “God be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13). Admission of ignorance is the first key. Pride keeps the door shut. Humility cracks the frame.
- Teach the Word, Live the Word > Scripture is the lamp. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105). We must read, memorize, preach, and live Scripture. The Word educates the conscience and trains the spirit. chosen through the teaching of the “Holy Spirit,” not by secular schools.
- Prayer and Intercession > Prayer is not optional. The first line of defense in a land beset by veils is prayer. Pray for the blind, for leaders, for the churches. Intercession breaks hold and shifts the heavens.
- Spiritual Disciplines > Fasting, silence, solitude, confession, communal lament, these restore spiritual acuity. A people who fast resist the pharmakeia of appetite and regain discernment.
- Community and Accountability > Discipleship and small groups provide safety from mass deception. Truth is not an individual commodity; it is a communal treasure. We must share and test spirits together.
- Practical Resistance > Where feasible, minimize the rituals that become openings: manage media diet, resist addiction, choose physical community over virtual mimicry, and steward bodies as temples {your brother’s and sister’s keeper} (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
VIII. The Prophetic Edge / God’s Promise Against the Veil:
Even as we sound the alarm, Scripture assures victory. Isaiah spoke of the day when the covering shall be removed (Isaiah 25:7). Paul said the veil is taken away in Christ (2 Corinthians 3). Revelation promises an open heaven. These are not vague hopes; they are enacted promises.
The tearing of the first veil at Calvary proves God’s capacity to overturn the enemy’s works. The second tearing will occur in finality at Christ’s coming. In the meantime, God calls a people to be instruments of tearing: those who pray, who speak truth, who live holiness right now in real-time end-time!
IX. A Seared Image: A Fictional Mirror to Awake the Heart:
Imagine a city at midnight where the lights pulse to the rhythm of advertisement. Citizens enter temples of glass to receive their daily sacraments: a pill here, a feed there, a swipe for custom identity. Priests in suits and lab coats chant the liturgy of “efficiency” while musicians play anthems to convenience. Children are trained to bow before screens. The old men who remember kneeling before a cross are dismissed as quaint.
In this city, a young woman named Ruth begins to ask why she cannot weep. Her friends call it “depression.” Ruth finds an old Bible, reads with burning curiosity, and kneels for the first time. Her prayer shakes something in that city — not because she is spectacular but because God hears the lament of a humble heart. Over months, others, like her, stop their rituals of convenience and the pulse of the city, once steady, stumbles.
‘Friends, this is not some fantasy about spiritual Hollywood. It is an allegory of how a single heart, broken and humble, can become the start of tearing a veil. Even in the city of “fallen angels.”
X. Knowing Nothing, Yet Knowing Enough:
We know we know nothing about the fullness of the spirit world — yet such ignorance should drive us to our knees, not to despair. The gravity of our age is real, the masses are veiled; the enemy uses ritual, technology, and magic to blind and bind. But God’s remedy is as simple as it is profound: humility, prayer, truth, and courage.
The faithful are called not to master every mystery but to obey the clear commands of Scripture, to stand watch, and to break open the lives of those around them with the Gospel. The veil will fall; the heavens will open. Until that day, walk as those who know they do not know — and let that blessed ignorance drive you into stewardship of the only things that matter: others, repentance, love, and relentless fidelity to the Lamb.
🖋 Author’s Note:
‘Friends, thank you for staying. This piece was written as both a diagnosis and a wake-up call. The danger that surrounds us is not principally political or economic; it is spiritual. The veil that blinds the nations is woven from many threads — technological enchantment, therapeutic culture, religious counterfeit, and the masses’ abandonment of spiritual disciplines.
Yet too often Christians are tempted to posture as experts, to trade humility for polemic. That posture is part of the problem. The first necessary posture is confession; we are weak, we are easily deceived, and we have often been part of the crowd that applauds our own delusion. Scripture teaches both realism and remedy. Paul’s blunt assessment that the unregenerate cannot perceive spiritual truth (1 Corinthians 2:14), is hard medicine.
Yet the same apostle describes means of awakening; the Word of God, prayer, spiritual discipline, and the indwelling Spirit who gives eyes to the blind. The tears of a humbled soul are a greater instrument against demonic enchantment than all the rhetoric in the world. What I hope readers, take away is not fear but brave sorrow and disciplined hope. There is a way through the maze of modern magic; it is the ancient path of brokenness, study, fasting, and faithful community.
Do not imagine you must master against the invisible to be effective. Begin where you are: confess ignorance, study the Word, unhook from the rituals that have become doors, and gather with others who will weep and pray with you. The veil that binds the masses is not permanent. The first torn veil in history proves God’s power to rend coverings. The final unveiling will be glorious. He’s coming back for us!
‘Friends, between now and then, God calls a people to be instruments of that tearing. “Stand firm. Be humble.” Train your heart in the disciplines of truth. And remember; the enemy’s greatest triumph is not in the spectacular; it is in your silence. Let your voice, shaped by Scripture and humility, begin to sing against the global hush. The world’s veil is thin before a contrite, praying heart. Amen!
Author and Servant; Norman G. Roy III
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