Lori

POLAND UPDATE AND LESSON: “We are judges.” “You are not judges.” That exchange happened at 1 a.m. inside the nation’s highest court. A judge installed by the ruling party’s parliament, standing behind riot police, told the President of the Republic she was the law. He told her she was not. Then he stayed in the building until five in the morning so nobody could say he left. Who was right? Here is the hard truth: inside that building, there was no one left to ask. When a nation has no authority both sides bow to, legitimacy comes down to who holds the keys at midnight. Proverbs 28:2: “When a land transgresses, it has many rulers.” Many rulers. All claiming the robe. None agreeing on the law. That is not a Polish problem. That is what every nation becomes when it throws out the Judge above the judges. “The LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us” (Isaiah 33:22). Strike that out and you don’t get neutrality. You get two people in a hallway at 1 a.m. shouting “I am the judge” at each other, with riot police outside and crowds throwing projectiles at the fence. Understand what you watched. On paper, Poland is the most Christian country on the planet. Over 90 percent baptized. A crucifix hanging in the parliament chamber. The nation that gave the world John Paul II and broke Soviet communism with a labor union and a rosary. A thousand years of Christian history. And that country went from cold civil war to a locked door and a police cordon in one Friday night. It did not take a collapse. It took a decade of two sides refusing to recognize each other’s judges, and then one evening when somebody decided to stop arguing and start holding the building. If it can happen there, with all those crosses, do not tell me it cannot happen here. We have been in a cold civil war in this country for decades, and stop pretending it’s about tax rates. It is two nations under one flag that do not agree on what a human being is. One side cannot tell you what a woman is. The other side has known since Genesis 2. One side cannot decide which bathroom a grown man belongs in. The other side’s 3 year old already knows. One side will put a child on puberty blockers at twelve and call it care. The other side calls it what Scripture calls it, an ABOMINATION. One side fought to repeal the laws that protected a child who survives an abortion. The other side believes “you knitted me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13) and will not move. One side thinks the law comes from whoever won last November. The other side knows it came down a mountain on stone. There is no compromise between those two nations. There is no bathroom-sharing agreement coming. There is only the question of which one governs, and whether the men of the second nation are ready for the Friday night when the first one decides to stop arguing. Connect the dots. Warsaw had riot police at the court within hours. The judges who wanted the building had the state’s armed officers walking them in. The side that held the keys at midnight had men with guns at the door, and the side that didn’t had a crowd at the fence. That is how every one of these ends. Not with an argument. With who is armed, who is fed, who is organized, and who has somewhere to stand. “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it” (Proverbs 22:3). Nehemiah’s men built the wall with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other. Not one or the other. Both. Readiness is not fear. Readiness is what fathers do. “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith” (1 Timothy 5:8). Provision includes protection. A man who stocks the pantry and cannot defend the door has stocked the pantry for somebody else. I spent sixteen years as a SEAL and IDC corpsman and years on a SWAT team, and I’ve spent thirteen years teaching churches how to survive the worst day of their lives. This week I’m going to lay out exactly how a Christian household gets ready: water, food, medical, comms, weapons and training, and the one thing most preppers skip: a church community that already knows how to function when the lights go out. Full deep dive. No fluff, no affiliate links, no fantasy. Until then, a request and a suggestion. Tonight, gather your household, read Psalm 2 aloud, and pray for Poland by name. Then look at your front door and ask yourself honestly who’s defending it and how if the mob comes for you and yours. If you don’t like the answer, you know what the deep dive is for. Poland’s problem is not that bad men showed up. It’s that for a generation, good men stayed home and assumed the lights would stay on. Don’t be that generation. And don’t be the lone house on the street either; that’s just a target with a pantry. Be part of a church that can stand together when the lights go out. Then understand the second half of the mission. We get ready for the Friday night so that we survive it. We preach the gospel so that it never comes. Those two nations will never meet in the middle, but men cross over from one to the other every day, and the only thing that moves them is Christ. Nehemiah’s men held the sword so the wall could get built. The wall was the point. Get ready. Then go win your neighbor, so there’s nobody left on the other side of the fence. Reply with one thing you’re doing this week to get your house ready. I read every one.