For many in the world a mushroom cloud is something we see in action movies. Growing up I had to regard it as the ultimate threat, the ultimate doom, as I lived through the seventies and eighties under the shadow of the Cold War. When I met God in the nineties He turned it into a prophetic likelihood of the outcome of sin. It became for me a symbol of the ultimate destination of the way children, supposedly of God, the spiritual Israel of God, miss the true path, missing the way of love and follow a path of sin and ensuing judgment. Israel has sinned, I was told in a vision from God. The result is looming war and the eagle of war, dark with its white watching eye, flying overhead, while generals thrash out their analyses and war plans down below, until the horizon is finally haunted by the rise of the mushroom cloud and the sight of military jets fly towards us away from that cloud. This was in the nineties on a day that subsequently saw the news announce the start of spy plane trips from the US to the Balkans before war broke out a little later and since then mass surveillance has become the norm. Today the mushroom cloud threat looms larger. Why? Because still the path we follow despite our heritage as children of God, as Israel, is a path of sin. Many were revived into proclaiming in social media the commands and teachings of God in love for God, yet the words fell on deaf ears, were read by blind minds. Teachings of God are still banned in schools. Governments still lead us down hypocritical blind alleys. God gave us all a lamb of perfection in a sacrifice of His Son but do we love God back? Not enough, it seems. That eagle is still overhead, watching.
