Light Exposes Darkness: A Nation Reacting to Restraint

What we are witnessing in these protests and walkouts is not random unrest, but the fruit of decades of moral decay left untreated. When a nation rejects God’s order long enough, disorder does not merely grow, it metastasizes. Not because rightly ordered authority causes rebellion, but because rebellion always reacts when restraint is finally applied. This is what we are witnessing, and it is very significant.

Let me explain.

For too many years, we have removed God from the public square in the name of “separation of church and state,” ended innocent life in the womb under the banner of “reproductive rights,” redefined marriage and family in the name of “love is love,” blurred God’s design for gender in pursuit of “equality,” and subjected our children to sexual and moral confusion under the language of “inclusion.” This is by no means exhaustive. We have defied God as a nation, and we are currently reaping the retribution.

Not to mention (because it should be evident to any mind shaped by repentance) that the open-border policy from 2020 to 2024, justified in the name of “sanctuary,” functioned instead to erode the rule of law, reward disorder, and normalize chaos rather than compassion.

The cumulative effect has been the erosion of rightly ordered moral law and societal restraint, allowing lawlessness to spread quietly and unchecked beneath the surface. But when law is restored, which is what the current administration has brought to bear (like it or not), that same lawlessness does not suddenly repent. No, it resists, manifests, and amplifies. Light does not create darkness; it exposes it.

And as this conflict sharpens, here is my pastoral and prophetic warning: it will not be those demanding chaos (like the godless politicians through a screen) or provoking lawlessness (like the useful idiots gathering in the streets) who bear the cost. In the end, it will be those who believe the whole counsel of God, those compelled to stand for what is righteous, good, and true as God defines it. Those who see what is happening through a biblical lens rather than a political one. Faithfulness to the One True God will be framed as the threat, obedience to the full counsel of Scripture will be labeled as intolerance, and truth will be felt as violence.

So, the question before us is not whether authority should exist, but whether it will be rightly ordered and whether God’s people will remain rightly aligned. History and Scripture are clear: when restraint returns to a culture long addicted to rebellion, opposition is inevitable. And I predict, sadly, will only get more combustible.

The pressure will continue to build, the lines will continue to sharpen, and the cost will continue to grow, but this is so the distinction between those who follow the culture and those who follow Scripture becomes clear, for there is no other way to separate the wheat from the tares.

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