Cutting the Internet Cord Completely | How Soon Should We Do So?

Just as I sat down to start this blog, about fifteen minutes ago, I did exactly what the point of this blog is: I got distracted by my subscription and home feeds on YouTube and watched several meaningless videos.  

Fifteen minutes gone that I will never get back.  And this is only a minor flaw of constantly being connected, that is, the waste of time, but the real point is the programming aspect of being connected.

The social media “controllers” are expecting certain pavlovian responses to our using their products and are utilizing algorithms and a.i. that track our propensities and take advantage of them to keep us perpetually plugged in.

They understand well that their sites manipulate one’s dopamine levels through the attention and responses we get from posts, and as with all things that trigger pleasurable dopamine responses, they know that this becomes very addictive.  

But as Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook founder, explains in this video from 2017, this addiction has led to so many people living “virtual lives” that social media is, “ripping apart society.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54k7WrbfMg

Palihapitiya calls for a hard break from social media, saying, “We are in a really bad state of affairs right now, in my opinion.  It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave, by and between each other. I don’t have a good solution.  My solution is I just don’t use these tools anymore.  It’s created huge tension with my friends, huge tensions in my social circles.  It’s weird, I just innately did not want to GET PROGRAMMED.”

And the programming that was done by Facebook then is mild in comparison to what they are doing now.  They are trying to catchup to the virtual reality of video games that the younger generations have found so mesmerizing and have created one of their own.

So Facebook has changed it’s name to “Meta,” and has begun the creation of their version of a “metaverse.”  Not to be outdone, Bill Gates company Microsoft is doing the same thing. 

This is a pretty long video done by Truthstream Media on YouTube, but it digs deep into what the metaverse represents and the intention of driving mankind further into this world and out of reality, to the point of even considering personal physical belongings as unnecessary.  Everything you need is in the unreal world and you need no possessions or property in the physical realm.  The elite controllers GET ALL OF THAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRQu_DGo18

It is clear the trap has been laid for us to be placed in a virtual world and stuck there, unable to escape because the preponderance of the population will enter this new world and find they enjoy it there more than reality.  Because the reality created in the real world now IS AWFUL for the reasons not needed to be enumerated because we all are experiencing it.

But the metaverse will be a place where you can DO ANYTHING, including kill, commit adultery, lie, cheat, and most of all WORSHIP the devil and his beast.  But it will also be a place where you can have everything you want in the forms of bits and bytes that don’t really exist.  The poor will be “rich” there, even though in reality they have nothing but their virtual reality glasses and a 400 square foot one room flat while their health is eviscerated through lack of real world exercise and movement and by the kill poisons every one is ingesting through the corrupted food, water, air, and so called medicines we take.

You might say, however, that most people like us don’t use social media and are on the internet mostly to glean information.  I might argue that in a similar way we, too can be addicted to the quick answers we can find at our fingertips to the many questions we have.

We spend hours sifting through the chaff of misinformation to get to the grains of Truth we can find on YouTube, Brighteon, Bitchute, Odysee, Rumble, etc., in effort to find the small measure of truth we seek to get confirmation in our hearts for what the Holy Spirit is telling us.  But is this searching for confirmation even necessary?  At what point do we trust the Holy Spirt in our lives to not have to prove out everything He’s showing us?

And secondarily, at what point does the seeking of that confirmation get outweighed by the potential cost and dangers of using a system that’s set up as a trap?

How long until the benefits of the information we glean from the internet become just too small in comparison to the amount of programming we are incurring?  Are we succumbing to our need for knowledge and understanding so much so that we expose ourselves to Satan’s devices to degrees that we don’t even realize, and that we, too, have been programmed, at least to some degree?

I’ve been asking myself these questions as I have felt the Lord leading me since September in the idea of “going analog,” of being more present in the real world, of being part of groups of people who gather in person to worship God and to discuss the things of Him.

But I have tremendous trepidation about this as well, as many of us do.  We’ve been in so many relationships where betrayal has been the norm, it’s hard to imagine a situation where we are in groups where there won't be yet other narcissist/jezebels “poised to pounce” and destroy our lives.  We intrinsically think, “If it happened before, it can certainly happen again.”

And this idea of being in agreement, as even God asks in Amos 3:3, “Can two walk together except they be agreed?” leads us to wonder is it even possible to be in complete agreement on the things of God with other people?  And if we’re in disagreement on something, is the point minor enough to allow for continued fellowship?

I have a new friend I would like to do ministry with but one area in which we disagree is that he doesn’t believe we are accountable to the Torah’s dietary laws. Does that mean we can’t do ministry together? Is this a minor point that we can overlook or a major one?  We agree on so many other issues that the rest of the Church disagrees about, but is this issue too big for us to overcome?

As I write about it I begin to think, yes, it is too big, because if Jesus said, “until heaven and earth pass, not one jot or tittle will be done away with until all is fulfilled,” then how in this way is my friend following Jesus?

Still, do we give some grace in these areas of disagreement and give God a chance to use our example to help lead others out of where they have diverged from the Truth?  

Also, if we, ourselves, are wrong about something, do we have the courage and humility to self examine?

This sidetrack about the issue of the levitical diet is not necessarily to start a discussion or debate about this matter, although it is needed, but to point out just one of the myriad of biblical issues that can separate us from one another.

How can we even form small groups of ten, much less bigger ones, when there are so many potential points of contention?

Another question is begged: how large of groups will be able to be established in these last days any way?

I don’t imagine God gathering all the true Believers in one place as He did when leading the Hebrews out of Egypt into the wilderness.  But the wilderness where we will be hidden during the second half of the tribulation will be many of us in small to medium sized groups scattered and hidden across the face of the earth.

But those of us that are True Followers of Christ that will be together in these groups will need to be in one accord.  God will be doing many miracles for us, and we will need to be and remain sanctified, and at the very least, humble and repentant.  We have to get it right just to be part of the two olive trees, the two candlesticks, that are not so out of sorts in terms of our obedience to Christ that we don’t even have the opportunity to take part in this protection, or in being one of those with the honor of being beheaded for Christ and then to be resurrected and return with Him to rule and reign for the millennial reign.

The entire sum of the tribulation is to lead us to get right with God.  To take the focus off this world as we lose all attachment to it, and to focus on Him, and on what it truly means to be part of the group that, “keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

But getting back to our main question, what does this mean for us and our use of the internet, even as a tool?  Are we succumbing to our desire for information and knowledge even as Eve did in the garden of Eden as she gave into this temptation and partook of the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good end evil?

At what point do we cut the umbilical cord completely and trust our connection to God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit for all the information and truth we need?  

I ask these questions of myself.  As many listeners to the podcast know, this idea has been on my heart for many months, that is, the idea of going analog, of beginning to produce paper tracts, pamphlets, booklets and books, or producing thumb drives with music, podcasts and writings that can be distributed.  But it’s also occurred to me that it’s unlikely that John the Baptist and Jesus were producing any “materials” to give people.  They just preached the Word in public and the Word did what it was supposed to do.  

And so, I’m asking all these questions now, not even knowing myself the full scope of the answers.  I’m feeling led to say that soon we will need to completely cut those internet cords, to even get rid of our phones that track us, and to learn to live again in the physical realm.  

It is not without some hesitation on my part that I say these things.  I’m not going to lie, I enjoy having an internet ministry.  I like the distance it naturally puts between me and others, where they can take what I say or leave it, where there are not so many personal conflicts created by what I feel led to preach.  I just live my life.  I have real life concerns of being part of a group that I mentioned above and I think God is going to have to continue to work on me to prepare me for whatever role I take within any real world, in-person, group dynamic. 

My friend I mentioned before, he has even started purchasing tools that require no power, because at some point even our electric will be cut off.  Solar may not be reliable as we will no longer be able to get the replacement batteries and parts that so easily break, so he wants to be able to live without any thing that requires power.

He essentially has a prepper mentality which I appreciate, but as applies to what we are talking about here, his thinking with regard to the potential lack of access to electricity confirms what I am feeling about the internet and our computers, phones and gadgets.  We should prepare now not to have them and pray to God about what to do in the meantime?  We need to seek His leadership as to how long we stay on the internet which his so evidently controlled by Satan and his minions.

We also need to be truly led of the Lord with regard to who in the real world we associate closely with and who we make plans with.  If you lose your peace about someone and it consistently remains so, I would say you should break free.  If someone rejects you, rejection is protection.  Don’t be afraid to be alone, but at the same time, don’t force your own isolation through self-protecting so much that you avoid any participation in the smallish groups that God will be bringing together in order that we might help one another.

We are so close in the timeline to all of this.  We truly need to make ourselves right with God first so that we can love His children.  And we need to be ready to change from getting our fellowship from the internet to that of the real world.  We need to get back to working on interacting with others without television or internet to distract from that.  We need to be able to go deeper with the right people than many of us have been in these last years, but we still need to do so in such a way that the lessons we’ve learned about wolves in sheep's clothing among us don’t get ignored or laid aside just to be in a group.

May God bring us together in His families and may we be able to obey Jesus’ command to love one another, and to show that love by obedience to God’s commandments while also recognizing Satan's spies who may try to lurk among us. In Jesus’ name I pray.