**We are all afraid - some less, others more. We all have to learn to deal with it somehow. Some really learn that better. Fear is a killer of our quality of life. This must not happen to me! Right?**

Our History

If we look over the history of mankind, we will certainly notice that there have often been wars in which many people have lost their lives. For example, how can a world war happen? Human reason speaks against it holistically! Or not? It doesn't make sense to kill our fellow humans just to get more land and influence.

Why didn't people stop the wars when they saw the evil coming? If there wasn't a previous history in which everything could have been avoided, we would have read the warning signs correctly and acted accordingly.

Is it our passivity or because we are manipulated and deliberately influenced and fall victim to the phenomenon of mass psychosis?

**We, too, are sometimes challenged in our relationships not to take advantage of the power that playing with fear gives us.**

Reinterpret Reality

Through a mass psychosis, people give up their independent thinking, their compassion and their conscience in favor of a view given, for example, by a government.

Through constant propaganda, especially through the media, a one-sided, twisted, misrepresentation of "reality" - and this with reference to respected secular authorities such as scientists, experts etc. - is used to fool the people into a situation that can only be mastered by violence .

In this way, reality can easily be misrepresented. Our daily media consumption is nowadays a very well-functioning means of forming opinions.

Fear - A Means To An End

We would not voluntarily give up our thinking, feeling and acting to follow some propaganda. However, since this uses our fears, it is usually successful.

Dangers are pointed out. These may or may not be real or a mixture thereof. As long as they are psychologically well amplified and panic is rife, most people are willing to follow the most confused and irrational directions, if they have been led to believe, in order to avert these dangers.

In such a situation, we lose understanding for any hardships and damage that can be caused to us. Rational thinking is becoming more and more irrational, so that even a totally irrational opinion and worldview can grow into absolute truth! This is then no longer checked and compared with real facts. This lost reference to reality can also drive healthy people into a mass psychosis.

**Children in particular are very sensitive. Those who have been confronted with fear a lot in their upbringing tend to do the same with their own children. Pity!**

The Majority Decides

What the majority thinks will probably be correct. We follow the generally held opinion in order to belong to it. After all, our legal system with our voter turnout always allows the majority to win. We've gotten used to that.

WARNING: Those who have come to know our personal God in His love may be familiar with the word from Exodus 23:2 that says, “Thou shalt not follow the multitude to evil!”

The majority is not always right. Our history also shows this. What “everyone” claims is not automatically right and good. The majority can also be wrong. She can be manipulated. And the less they are guided by the eternal, God-given values, the easier it is for them to be deceived by so-called false prophets.

False Prophets

Manipulation of people nowadays always happens with media propaganda. This is easily done and corresponds to an acquired need for information that needs to be satisfied. With this, the media can quickly become a tool for false prophets. We know this from before and it happens every day today.

With increasing technical possibilities for the dissemination of information and the possibility of controlling it, the extent is becoming more and more frightening.

A shocking example - highly topical - is the iron lockdown in Shanghai, where millions of people are locked in their homes and some have nothing to eat. They are monitored by drones. Resistance has become almost impossible. At night, when digital facial recognition is difficult, people open their windows and desperately cry out their distress. Such total control is already possible.

**The flood of media in particular, which wants to convince us all of its importance with exciting information, uses the power of fear by usually connecting reality with risk and fear.**

The Way Out - The Solution

We live in a challenging time. The scriptures call this time the END TIMES. That means it is the time just before Christ will redeem mankind from evil.

Anyone who has recognized this relationship with Jesus and experienced how our love tank can be filled up with it and how everyday life is enlightened again and thus the quality of life increases - develops a trust that stands above all evil.

While it is said that love is growing cold in many because injustice will increase worldwide, these people who live their everyday life with Jesus are shaped by the sentence:

LOVE drives out FEAR.

They lose more and more fear and can be strengthened by God's love every day. This allows them to be more independent from the fear game and avoid becoming a victim of our worldly propaganda.

Since we are all vulnerable to manipulation, we are invited to place our trust in the Almighty who can counteract any fear. Because fear shuts down our level-headed, prudent thinking and tempts us to grasp at any straw that promises us security. But no straw is strong enough. Our help is with our Creator and Lord alone. With HIM we receive the necessary strength and love and prudence. (2 Tim 1:7)

I sincerely wish you that.