A Blanket of Delusion is Spreading Over America

 The Bible tells us in 2 Thessalonians that God will send great delusion to those who are left behind at the rapture and HEARD the Gospel message but rejected it.  If great events of God cast their shadows backward, could we be seeing delusion sweeping over a more and more godless America?  We deserve destruction and it will happen because America isn’t found in future prophecy.  We hope that the rapture is the event to bring sudden destruction to this nation but maybe we sure appear to be right on the very edge.  Delusion and reprobate minds are all around us.

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But what if we are on the Eve of Destruction?  What if it’s because, as another boomer icon, Bob Dylan, said just one year earlier back in 1964, The times they are a ‘Changin’?

Because they surely are.

This change may explain why America is not listed in Bible prophecy, though others are:  Israel, Russia, Iran, Turkey, and more.

The reason:  America is taking a hard turn to the left and may simply abdicate leadership.

Recent socialist victories in Democratic primaries punctuate this shift in USA political thinking. Consider these recent socialist victories in Democratic primaries — the ones that news outlets describe as seismic.  These are all actual primary wins, not projections.

• Michigan
  • Abdul El‑Sayed — Won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens.
  • Donovan McKinney — Sanders‑endorsed challenger defeated incumbent Shri Thanedar in Michigan’s 13th District House primary.
  • Will Lawrence — Progressive/left‑wing candidate won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s 7th District.
• Colorado
  • Melat Kiros — Democratic socialist defeated longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District.
  • Manny Rutinel — More progressive candidate who won the primary in Colorado’s swing district.
• New York City —A full sweep of socialist‑aligned candidates backed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani:
• Darializa Avila Chevalier — Defeated incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
• Brad Lander — Defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman.
• Claire Valdez — Defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. These three victories were widely described as a major show of force for democratic socialists in NYC.

Additional Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)‑Linked or Socialist Insurgent Wins

• Zohran Mamdani — Previously won the New York City mayoral race (2025), noted as part of the broader socialist ascendancy.
• Katie Wilson — Won the Seattle mayoral race (2025), also cited as part of the trend.

Summarizing, across Michigan, Colorado, and New York City, socialist or DSA‑aligned candidates have:

• Defeated multiple long‑time incumbents, including Diana DeGette, Adriano Espaillat, and Dan Goldman.
• Captured high‑profile primaries, including a U.S. Senate nomination (El‑Sayed).
• Swept entire slates in NYC under Mamdani’s backing.

These wins are consistently described by major outlets as evidence of a left‑wing insurgency reshaping Democratic primaries nationwide.

Down with Trump, MAGA, capitalism and corporations!  And here’s the biggest one of all:

Madame President AOC

A recent Atlas Intel poll — the most accurate pollster in both 2020 and 2024 election cycles — shows Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez leading the 2028 Democratic presidential primary field for the first time, drawing 26% support among respondents and placing ahead of Pete Buttigieg (22.4%), Gavin Newsom (21.2%), and Kamala Harris (12.9%). This result has been widely interpreted as a sign of growing strength among progressive and socialist‑leaning voters inside the Democratic Party.

AOC formerly projected an image of a shrieking-witch type, strident, overbearing.  Now, her image remade, she is showing up on Sunday morning news programs as the girl next door, so sweet, so kind, and “no, I haven’t decided to run for president because I am working on getting health care for anyone, but at this juncture one can’t rule anything out.”  (Paraphrase of an August 9, NBC Meet the Press interview.)

That is a huge change in image, and leadership from a relatively short time ago.  A few years ago, Trump was It.  Now:  AOC.  Do you have whiplash?

Children of Satan

This is a spiritual phenomenon, from God’s hand.  God is doing this, using pagan leaders to do his bidding, as he did with Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Artaxerxes, Darius, and Pontius Pilate.  It is an awesome and terrifying thing to watch God at work.

God moves the minds of leaders like a gardener moves a garden hose.

Proverbs 21:1 (New Living Translation): “The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord; he guides it wherever he pleases.”

The leftist mind is a reprobate mind.  It demands and expects something from you for nothing from me:  free medical, free education, free housing, and even free food.  It is a victim mentality:  you owe me.  It is the opposite of Paul’s dictum: you don’t work, you don’t eat. Under the guise of “being good” (Satan appears as an angel of light, after all), the left is reprobate, i.e., depraved, corrupted.  Even the slowest human could not misunderstand the quid pro quo of human commerce but for the fact of being demon-possessed or oppressed.

And that’s the least of it; leftists support:

• Homosexuality LGBTQ+ rights
• Transgenderism
• Abortion
• Illegal migration
• No borders, no nations
• Defund ICE
• Defund police
• Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rhetoric, policies
• Anti-American:
  • “America deserved 9/11, man. We ##!!@@ did.” – Hasan Piker, social media leader
  • “It’s time to abolish Thanksgiving and replace it with a day of truth and healing.” Francesca Hong, Wisconsin governor candidate
  • “Capitalism is not a redeemable system for us; it’s a system that prioritizes profit over human lives.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Social justice
• Reparations
• Climate policy directives
• Carbon tax
• Universal Medicare
• Progressive taxation
  • Zohran Mamdani, NYC mayor: “We’re going to tax the rich.”
• Student debt cancellation
• Housing as a human right.
  • “We need to expropriate housing from private developers and guarantee it as a public right.” Zohran Mamdani, NYC mayor
• Government grocery stores that provide free or “low cost” food
• Expanded access to voting boxes
• Worker cooperatives
• Mandatory paid family leave
• Expanded unemployment protections
• Unionization protections for those who work
• Guaranteed annual income for those who don’t
• Anti-older, white Americans, “boomers.” Hong entered a Culver’s and famously said she had to leave because there were so many old, white people there.  She was having a panic attack.
• Anti-private property
• Anti-Christian (protesters disrupt St. Paul church service; media personality (former CNN) Don Lemon was arrested), pro-Muslim
• Anti-Democratic AND Republican. New Left leader Nina Turner described them as “It’s like being offered a bowl of s*** versus half a bowl of s***.”
• Profane, vulgar.

It is all magical thinking.  It is something for nothing.  It is victim mentality.  It is you owe me; I owe you nothing, and I’m not willing to work for anything.

It is also diametrically opposed to our history:  that of immigrants who wanted to work hard, contribute, earn a good wage, possibly start a business to serve others, own a home and raise a family.  Leftists are 180 degrees to this.

It is a blanket of delusion spread over the land, aided and abetted by God himself, who has given them over to their Satanic thinking.  “They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.” Jude 1.12.  Are churches teaching this?  Do pastors even know who the Left represents?

Here is the proof verse, and it is chilling, because after being rejected, God turns his back on those who reject him:

Romans 1:28 (King James Version): “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”

Other passages that illustrate the point:

2 Timothy 3:8 (KJV): “Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.”

Titus 1:16 (KJV): “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”

2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV): “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

So.

As these deluded, literally God-forsaken, socialist candidates gain ground speed, how might they govern?  How might they tackle the elephant in the room, the Iran War?

https://www.raptureready.com/2026/08/22/america-not-found-in-bible-prophecy-why-part-one-by-john-sarkett/