Rwanda - The Question of Evil

Rwanda is the best case to study how Satan operates in this world. Rwanda was not ruled by an insane maniac leader (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot to name a few). Rwanda was and is very Christian. In so many ways, the people of Rwanda are like any of us. But to wrap one's mind around the genocide that happened and the world's lack of action is incomprehensible. I don't see how this could be anything but a bit of hell breaking out. I see Satan's hands in this without a doubt.

The key is how Satan was able to sway so many people. The Hutu people all say they were swept up into something bigger than themselves. The killers and the killed or injured all were neighbors, friends, coworkers, fellow parishioners. Were the people living in the state of mortal sin? I would say yes. How is that different from the US? I don't think there is a difference. Is there more? Probably. Drugs are a door opener for demonic influence. So is practicing witchcraft.

This is why Rwanda is a excellent case to see how Satan works. I think Satan is more powerful than ever in his ability to do things and I think in the US we are as susceptible to his work. It really would not be a stretch for something similar to happen here. I also see a snese of desperation. Satan does not know the end time but he's not an idiot and obviously the end is getting nearer. Normally Satan works by boiling us by turning up the heat slowly, appealing to our acedia and self-absorption. Rwanda is a rupture in this tactic and to me shows desperation. So Satan seems to think the end is getting very close. There were killings in Rwanda in the decades up to the 1994 genocide - rehearsal killings. Rwanda could be the rehearsal genocide for the world. It certainly gives us a window to the future to what could happen.

The whole of the 20th century certainly has been horrendous in scales never known starting with WWI and things like machine guns and mustard gas and ending the century in Rwanda with machetes. Who knew machetes, machine guns, and gas would be more deadly than nuclear bombs?

It is the state of the soul that should be the focal point, not the specific weapon. That's why Christianity in the fullness in truth is far superior than secular humanism.