YeKengalé

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,”

Steve Harvey was quick to congratulate Black people in America swiftly after the US elections were called for Biden. It didn’t matter who you voted for … said he….but that you voted. He exultantly celebrated that “we’ve come from picking cotton to picking presidents”, noting that it was the overwhelmingly black vote in the urban centers of the swing states, among the last votes to be counted due to the order in which votes were tallied, the mail in votes being the last to be counted, that proved to be the decisive factor in who won the race.

But Steve may have been premature if the collaboration between Trump’s legal team and the earnest supportive prayers of intercession of America’s foremost prayer warriors should prevail. Those who think that Trump’s legal shenanigans are doomed to failure from the start and expect the eventual departure of a pouting president may not themselves be aware of the strong determination in both these camps. Electoral processes and other governance norms, the will of the people and the testimony of experts may only be considered bothersome obstacles to those who think they own the land, by whatever higher right or covenant.

Sidney Powell’s claim that Trump won by a landslide and that the Black votes Steve was so proud of should be declared void on what up to the present moment amounts to unfounded accusations, summarily dismissed by experts and the courts as conspiracy theories, designed to delegitimate the electoral system, might appear frivolous to some. But Tucker Carlson’s speculation that whether these accusations stand up to legal scrutiny or not, that they exist in the minds of almost half the country which voted for Trump and like their president, regardless of precedent, aren’t in the mood to concede, cant be smugly shrugged off just because of some frivolous belief in the rule of law and the sanctity of American democracy.

As has been characteristic in this season, normalcy is overrated. The intent of a people and their god, whose sense of entitlement trumps any sense of loyalty to whatever religious or political system, its laws and precepts can indeed be more ruthless than some nebulous commitment to decency, fairplay or truth.

Those who commit fraud make their own rules and legitimate their modus operandi with whatever convenient justifications. My brother has lived in the US for 35 years and is himself fully persuaded that fraud on such a massive scale is not only possible in America, but likely.

So much for the sanctity of social and spiritual covenants. Fair play requires fair people. Trump’s character, and now too the character of his enablers and intercessors are no longer a mystery of iniquity; they are on open display. The man of sin (lawlessness) is being revealed. (Surprised?) And if iniquity rather than justice holds sway, the voice and votes of Black people might not matter an iota.

Those who consider that America is not on the brink of Great Tribulation may just be the ones most delusional in all this … that Jan 20th will come and life will go on as before.

When there is war in heaven, how can the earth be at rest?