I have become convinced, likely as many of you have, that the evil we face today is actually an ancient evil, the same evil that God condemned to genocide back when Israel took the land of Canaan.

The old gods are still around, still being worshipped. God warned Israel about them, told the Israelites to slaughter those who kept their idols or picked up their practices.

The Bible, the Old Testament especially, describes some of the things they were doing, and how the people responded, how God responded, how God commanded us to respond and what happens when we obey God or when we ignore him.

After Old Testament times, Jesus warned us about the people in the New Testament. Even though the Romans had never picked up the particular brand of evil that inhabited Canaan (renamed Palestine), there were people who kept on to these ancient practices, and unfortunately, it seems the spread of Christianity also brought with it the virus of that evil as well. Soon, Europe got infected, and the Middle Ages are really a story of people trying to fight against the same evil that Israel fought against in ancient times.

And now we are living in modern times, and these practices are being exposed, little by little. It used to be absurd to believe that people were doing these things, but now it's absurd to believe they are not. The symbolism is all out in the open, and multiple witnesses have testified with their lives to the great evil.

I wish it weren't so, but like Frodo in the Lord of the Rings, we don't get to choose which time we live in. We get to choose how we intend to act.

And how do we act?

I think it is time to return to God who warned ancient peoples about this great evil, and gave them a way to cleanse it from their people. It's time we start turning back to the old commandments and old ways, the ways of our ancestors.