When Judgment Looks Like Freedom

By Virgil Walker | Sola Veritas

I have watched the videos more times than I care to admit.

Women screaming in the faces of law enforcement. Cars driven forward with intent rather than confusion. Public officials defending actions that would have been unthinkable only a generation ago, while educators applaud the erasure of women and bureaucrats dismiss massive fraud as though accountability itself were immoral.

What strikes me most is not the disorder. It is the confidence behind it. I have watched this confidence grow year after year, as what once shocked people slowly became normal, then celebrated. I remember when people at least felt the need to explain themselves, or lower their voices, or pretend there were limits.

There is no embarrassment, no hesitation, no sense that a line has been crossed. Instead, there is moral certainty, even delight, as though dismantling what once anchored society has become proof of virtue. At times, I find myself amazed that the country is still standing, and if I am honest, I wonder how long it will remain so.

The Illusion of Moral Progress

We are repeatedly told this is progress.

Resistance to law enforcement is reframed as compassion. The mutilation of children is called care. The destruction of women’s sports is defended as inclusion. Fraud on a massive scale is excused as necessity, while any demand for transparency is dismissed as hatred or racism.

Language is doing extraordinary work here, because it always must when a society attempts to sanctify what God has already judged. Words are being repurposed to dull the conscience, reverse moral categories, and make rebellion sound like virtue rather than sin. Illegal entry becomes “seeking refuge,” the sexual mutilation of children is recast as “health care,” men competing against women are described as “inclusion,” and massive public theft is excused as “equity,” while anyone who objects is charged with moral failure rather than reasoned disagreement.

This is not merely political dysfunction or cultural disagreement. It is a deeper moral inversion, one that claims moral enlightenment while actively suppressing the truth God has made plain (Romans 1:18).

When God Gives People What They Want

Scripture warns that judgment does not always arrive through catastrophe or conquest. Sometimes judgment comes quietly, in the form of permission.

God hands people over, not because He is absent, but because He is righteous. When restraint is removed, rebellion accelerates. What follows is not freedom, but decay. Moral abandonment is among the most severe forms of judgment precisely because it feels like autonomy (Romans 1:22–24).

This is what makes our moment so unsettling. What we are witnessing is not chaos in search of order, but rebellion insisting it is righteous. These developments are the downstream effects of rejecting God while continuing to claim moral superiority.

Zeal Without Truth

There is a distinctly religious fervor animating much of what we see.

These movements are not casual or improvisational. They possess their own moral codes, their own approved language, their own vision of justice, and their own mechanisms for punishment. When their authority is questioned, escalation follows naturally, because dissent is treated not as disagreement but as heresy.

What cannot be tolerated are limits. Borders, biology, authority, and accountability all represent constraints on the self, and therefore must be dismantled. This is not liberation. It is rebellion dressed in moral language.

The Fragility of the Moment

Were it not for the current decisions of a fearless administration willing to enforce law, protect boundaries, and resist ideological capture, the nation would already be further down this road than many are willing to admit.

Even so, the moment remains fragile. An election cycle can undo years of restraint almost overnight. This reality should sober us, because political victories are not salvific, and policies cannot regenerate hearts. A nation may endure poor leadership for a time, but no nation survives sustained moral revolt indefinitely (Psalm 33:12).

The cost of this moral revolt will not be paid first by activists or politicians, but by families, by children, and by churches that hesitate to speak while the ground beneath them continues to shift.

The Right Response

This is not a call to panic. It is a call to clarity. That distinction matters more than most people realize.

Outrage may be understandable, but it is spiritually thin. The Church has never been tasked with matching the world’s volume. Our calling is to bear witness to truth, to stand firm when pressure mounts, and to speak plainly even when doing so costs us comfort or approval.

We pray because judgment is real, repentance remains possible, and delayed wrath is still mercy. We should pray for our liberal, leftist, lesbian neighbors with urgency rather than contempt, asking that they would wake up, repent of their sin, and seek Christ while there is still time (2 Peter 3:9).

We should also pray the same for every group named here, including ourselves. The dividing line is not ultimately political or cultural. It is theological.

The question before us is simple, even if the consequences are not: will we submit to the God who made us, or will we continue demanding that He submit to us?

That question will be answered.

One way or another.

And the answer will shape not only the future of this nation, but the souls of those who live in it.

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