Tyrants are doomed to fail. Evil cannot persist. This assertion seems counter-intuitive. Evil tyrants appear to possess an uncanny ability to endlessly renew their assaults on humankind.
A couple decades ago, who would have imagined that in 2024 we would face Communists carrying out their playbook in the U.S.? Who would have prophesied the ultra wealthy would return to Marxist deception and misdirection in their effort to enslave world populations?
However, anyone familiar with Biblical views would have guessed that the Deceiver—Satan or the Prince of Darkness—would continue his destructive campaign, employing demon swarms to overwhelm civilized peoples with spiritual, cultural, and political destruction.
Perhaps contemporary prophets, though lesser prophets, have viewed the darkness gathering on the horizon; but, in most cases, they do not possess the resources needed to sound the alarm. In many cases, they are censored. (As we know, prophets are universally mistreated.)
Nonetheless, prophets who bear witness are vital. A prophet (no matter how minor) speaking truth is a nemesis to the Evil One.
Evil depends on lies and deception and obfuscation, thus noisy truth tellers are pariahs. The Evil One depends on black screens that obscure, funhouse mirrors that distort, smoke that obfuscates, labyrinths that confuse, and slime that envelopes. And, their continued success depends on silencing prophets.
Nonetheless, an underlying dynamic defeats all evil efforts in the long run. Evil lacks creative power. It lacks stand-alone existence. Evil cannot create itself. Instead, it is parasitic. The blackness of evil must draw existence and energy from divine light. Evil lacks its own source of creation; rather it is a contingent and derivative phenomenon.
If God had not created the universe, evil would have no ground from which to rise. In essence, evil is merely opposition to the good, that draws life from the good. Evil traps the light and turns it dark. It is secondary and derivative, not primary.
Perhaps this is a clue as to why the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is a forbidden tree. It represents a symbiotic relationship between good and evil, which stands in contrast to divine unity represented by the Tree of Life.
Thus, tyranny will fail. Having no creative power to sustain its existence, it survives off the light, the good, the divine. When the number of very minor prophets bearing witness increases beyond the number of humans feeding the darkness, evil dissipates. Obfuscating clouds of darkness thin and traps, once impenetrable, weaken. The scales tip toward the just.
Though tyrants may imprison, torture, and murder millions, from a heavenly perspective they are but phantom bullies in the sandbox. From an eternal perspective, tyranny turns out to have been contingent on man’s blindness. The darkness is but a temporary blockage of the light. Remove clay from the eyes and the light shines, once again. The Evil One’s battle against the light turns out to be futile.
Nonetheless, in the meanwhile, the forces of evil will engage in a mad whack-a-mole game of stomping out the very minor prophets. The forces of evil will work hard to censor, malign, bankrupt, and ruin any souls bearing witness. In the long run, however, the minor prophets will immortality while the evil ones will dissipate like wisps of smoke from dying embers.
Therefore, let us be noisy light bearers, knowing tyranny is futile and tyrants live short, desperate lives with no hope of existence beyond their wretched present.