And what, pray tell me, did a youth worker in Henderson, Auckland make of things? Appearing on Seven Sharp the very evening of the horrific tragedy, he honestly couldn't articulate - nor to his credit did he facilely (and ultimately futilely) attempt - any explanation. True, he neither sought to highlight nor downplay the role of such contributing factors to the whole sorry scenario as inequality and poor socio-economic status, even woefully deficient parental guidance and nurture - including 'whanau' - but neither did he even remotely suggest that such 'acceptably' explicated things. How could they?.
No folks, 'in the final analysis' there really ain't any - such - 'reason', or rather defense. He, and all arguably 'goody-two-shoes' fellow-travellers - however genuine and often very well-intentioned or otherwise - simply have no answers. For such a miserable God-forsaken act of savage thuggery. Just like that involving the tragically named Blessie only a couple weeks earlier. No, there simply is none.
No, sin, as Ellen White put it so very eloquently, has no essential cause or justifying motive. It is a rogue principle in God's Universe, giving rise to untold misery and destruction; and itself arising in the distant corridors of time itself, in the secret counsels of the Arch-Fiend himself, the Chief Rebel - Lucifer. Who, somehow, some day, in the veritable sawdust of history, caught a rather bewitchingly endearing glimpse of his own ego; and the Universe was never, ever, the same again. It was 'all over' from then on in, yes, downhill all the way.
And as we all know - except those of us wilfully blinded by 'the god of this age' - our human race eventually became the collateral damage, as Satan or the devil - as he soon became - ever upped the ante in his unrelenting, aeon-spanning campaign against Central Headquarters, against, yea, the Very Creator Himself. A now 'purely' malevolent being seeking to take out as many as he could along the way; wishing nothing less than to inflict as much psycho-emotional damage upon a Creator whose motives were only love-actuated and whose actions were ever compassionate, gracious and merciful - yet also perfectly just, fair and reasonable - towards any and all the beings He had created.
This being of evil incarnate, before whom all others upon the pages of history fade into utter insignificance - except perhaps those he most successfully utilized such as Adolf Hitler - has played out a type of universal Russian roulette, his own nefarious endgame upon Planet Earth, for well-nigh 6,000-some years - whatever the evolution-brainwashed multitudes may like to think. But one day - very, very soon folks: hold onto your seats - it's coming to a neighbourhood right near you, and a whole lot sooner than you'd care to think - or have probably banked upon. And then - but not till then - all will finally be made right.
Lucifer, the devil, Satan, ye old serpent, that Great Dragon, will simply be no more. He will vanish - 'vamoose' - like the proverbial puff of smoke, and time, as we presently know it, will be no more. All will be engulfed and embraced in Eternity, a new dimension of time of which we presently have no conception. And then one rhythm of harmony, one heartbeat of Love, will pulse through the length and breadth of the Universe, and on into all the outlying recesses and hidden pockets thereof.
Love will be everywhere acknowledged as rightfully occupying the Throne of the Universe, and sin and suffering will be no more. And no excuse nor reason for the one-time eruption of the virus of sin will be admitted of. Yea, every voice of rationalization and self-justification will be forever silenced.
And the entire Universe will be at peace. 'And they will all live happily ever after'. Yes indeed.
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