Hogan’s Heroes Meets the Preamble

It's official:  My failure to comply with this administration's myriad of mandates and edicts has landed me as an enemy of the state and our home has now become a scene from Hogan’s Heroes.  

LeBeau distracts Sargeant Schultz while Kinch rewires all the bugs.  We gladly grant entrance to the dim-witted Gestapo through the front door because they have no idea we do our real counter-intelligence through the tree stump out back.  

As assuredly as we pretend to let them think they are winning the battle, we have full confidence that we will win the war.  Accepting imprisonment and simply hoping to not lose is a pathetic, anemic cause.  Instead, we stealthily press on toward eternal victory, which is the only victory worth battling for.

Ironically, here in the new Divided States of Stalag 13, it’s only our fellow Americans who decry America as the most oppressively despicable war camp on all the Earth.  Those of us who know the truth laugh in our bunks while bumbling President Klink wears his mask like a monocle.

Fully realizing that everyone who didn’t watch TV in the Seventies has already stopped reading, the rest of you seasoned fighters know precisely what I speak of.  Hogan trained his men to pretend they were prisoners while resisting the easy escape toward self-preservation.  Instead, they entrenched themselves as a strategic unit in the epicenter of the enemy's camp to slowly release the redemptive havoc of Hogan’s weapon of war.  

For Hogan, that weapon was intelligence.  As for me and my house, that weapon is the leaven of the Kingdom — the only substance on Earth that holds the redeeming power to ultimately transform and restore everything.  And everyone. 

When Jesus Uses an Exclamation Point, Pay Attention!

Jesus taught about three leavens: The leaven of the Pharisees, the leaven of Herod, and the leaven of the Kingdom.  The concept being; a very small amount can spread quickly through the whole lump of dough.

Watch out!  Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod!

~ Jesus

The leaven of the Pharisees is the religious spirit that essentially crafts a system based on man’s idea of God, all the while being devoid of the Person of God.  The leaven of Herod is the political spirit, which is designed to control and oppress the populace at the behest of the despots.  

And then there is the leaven of the Kingdom, which is the eternal, ever-advancing, ever-expanding, glorious revelation of God’s original plan for all of us.  To learn more, just search the Bible for every time Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is like…”  You’ll never look at this life the same again.

C’mon man, this is 2021.  Just follow the science, repent of your whiteness and get the shot!

This is the wisdom of the political spirit.

Ever since Senator Klink campaigned from Corn-pop’s bunker, he has unabashedly identified me as the greatest enemy and threat to his war machine.  Knowing his burgeoning empire can’t win the war of ideas, he has resorted to a reckless, blitzkrieg-like takeover. 

During the early 2020 skirmishes, I was merely marked a dangerously privileged, white supremacist who represented a greater threat to our society than the debased rioters and violent looters who were burning our cities.  

But now that General Burkhalter allowed Senator Klink to pretend he is in charge, I am being accused of far worse crimes.  

Note to self:  Find out who is currently playing the role of General Burkhalter in this war.

Klink now labels me an unwelcoming xenophobe because I prefer not to have hundreds of thousands of people illegally pour into our country who are instantly given more rights and benefits than the past three generations of my family were ever afforded.  

They don’t even have to get the shot.

Next, because I am a follower of Christ and trust not in anti-christ systems, I have been counted among the January 6th Rotunda Rioters and therefore labeled an insurrectionist - a charge equal with hijacking planes, knocking down buildings, and murdering thousands of innocent people. 

In a related story, George W. Bush was just relegated to KP after making the same buffoonish claim.  

Note to reader:  If you think Jan. 6 embodies the historic definition of an insurrection, you may want to dig through the facts and develop a more refined perspective than our millionaire, teleprompter game-makers are projecting to you.

This brings us to the most current charge levied against me which finally landed me in the Stalag. It turns out I am more lethal than a Kabul suicide bomber because I have chosen to be numbered among the unvaccinated.  

I suffered in solitary for weeks on end with Colonel Covid pummeling my body as I built natural immunity.  Somehow, this punishment was not severe enough here in Klink’s Carousel of Crazy.  By the Reich’s standards, I still need to prove my loyalty by hopping up into the injection chair, rolling up my sleeve, and raising my arm to secure your salvation. Heil Fauci!

That’s right, this promised viral salvation is not for me.  It’s apparently for you.

We Know All Things, They Know Nothing

My crimes against humanity may seem insurmountable, but only to those who think our Sargeant at Arms knows all things.  But us greying soldiers know full well what Schultzie’s mantra was:  I know nothing!

These imbecilic leaders think we should fear them. Quite the contrary:  They should fear us. We the people, by design, are far more powerful than they the government.

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Colonel Klink’s nation could never have penned such prose — but Hogan’s surely did.

How often have you reflected on the brilliance and depth of our founding writings?  Care to compare and contrast them with the formularies of your favorite nation?

We the people…  

Only those who know they belong to another Kingdom can forfeit the petty differences of this kingdom and embrace the lofty ideal that there is only one, “We”.  Humankind toils enough to flourish and prosper, why stoke the fires trying to turn us against one another?  And yet, Klink and his comrades endlessly chide exactly that.

Thankfully, our founders knew the deeper truth of We.

Father, may they be one just as we are one.

~Jesus

Next time you use the word we, check to see who you may be excluding.

…of the United States…. 

It’s quite inopportune for the social justice battlers that our country was never meant to only be inclusive, diverse, or equitable.  The aim was far, far higher:  To be united.  Without unity first, none of the inferior social objectives can deliver the promised payload all human souls long for.  

While many current-day, yard sign slogans promise the scattered masses a seat at the table — can any of us plot precisely where that table is?  Our founders knew full well of the great banquet table, which is being set right now.

Symphonic harmony requires far more engagement than simply plunging a plastic placard into your dusty crabgrass.

…in order to form…. 

For materialistic Darwinists, there is nothing to see here.  But our founders distinctly chose the word “Form” because it’s taken directly from the Genesis creation story.  We are told in great detail how Elohim created the Heavens and the Earth.  But when it came to mankind, scripture is very clear to highlight:  

And Elohim formed man

~ Genesis 2:7

This is a profound difference we should not miss.  While non-imaged life is spoken into being, we image-bearers are Hand-fashioned.  And I believe these men knew full well they were not just scaffolding together a temporary National structure.  They were forming something never before seen on the Earth.

…a more perfect Union…. 

Can you feel the transcendence in these words?  To form anything more perfect means the ongoing fine-tuning toward perfection is never-ending.  You will be hard-pressed to find one member of this current administration who could match the faith and brilliance of these founders.

When you hear the soul-less preaching of today’s politicians, race hucksters, and polarizing pundits — does it inspire you toward a transcendent unity or infect you to despise the flaws in others?

Alexander Hamilton never would have coined Make America Great Again and James Madison would have sneered at Build Back Better.  The forming of an inspiring, unified collective demands much more than a slogan that can fit on a bumper sticker.  

I hear far too many believers today begging the heavens to come and whisk them away to their mansion in the sky.  Imagine if our Christian founders had been lulled by King George’s tyranny to surrender and idly wait for the rapture instead of standing up for truth and freedom?

Stalag 13 could have self-emptied in a flash — but Hogan knew full well that the tempting safety of evacuation would have weakened the greater cause and potentially lost the war.  

As the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy:

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of their personal life, otherwise, he will not please the one who commissioned him to battle.

May we stop quietly complaining and hiding in our barracks.  May we gain the confident grin of Hogan and embrace the call to systematically defeat the enemy from within their own ranks. May we all come to understand what is at stake if we don’t.

Jesus seems to have agreed.  While some are begging to escape this world so they can watch it burn from afar, Jesus prayed the opposite for Hogan’s Heroes:

Father, my prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one

May we be Jesus’ Heroes.