Something Explained...

There's obviously a subject in the background of all facts and realities of the message of the Bible which is: with such big stakes involved for individual souls - regarding being in the Kingdom of Satan or the Kingdom of Christ - why is there no sense of urgency among people regarding it? Not just non-believers, but even people who know the truth (most of them).

It's because of the drug of sleep and illusion the Kingdom of Satan (Absolute III) casts over it's domain.

It's as simple as that. People are in prison, a horrible prison compared to the Kingdom of Christ (Absolute II), but are asleep to it.

What happens when a person begins to truly awaken (makes real efforts to awaken)? One thing that happens is they begin to feel vaguely bad. A sense of depression or even despair starts to roll down over them like molasses poured over a rock. I'm not referring to the phenomenon of False Personality manifesting and fighting back (negative/mechanical behaviour) once a person begins to accumulate higher energy through first conscious shock effort and, hence, awakening, but that phenomena can be added to the general bad feelings and uncomfortableness that will overtake a person.

What is the source of the bad feeling? It is simply the coming into consciousness of being in a prison.

If you've been through the internal and external wars of development and work effort you come to expect such feelings and assaults on your consciousness, but the average person who doesn't make those efforts has a very small limit for being able to handle or just want to experience such feelings. Once you've 'seen the prison', you can see how this unpleasantness is more than enough to keep the less venturesome among us firmly in the relative comfortableness of sleep and illusion.

So, regarding the fact of the two kingdoms (Kingdom of Satan and Kingdom of Christ) and why people feel no urgency to get out of the one and into the other: it's because it's a painful process. Much easier to go along and get along in a state of sleep and illusion even if it means being a prisoner of death and darkness and the devil. Even if it means 'putting off' thoughts of what happens when you die (literally choosing to not even think about it as if it will never happen).

Obviously there are just enough rewards for the prisoners of the Kingdom of Satan so that they don't despair and revolt due to total lack of comfort.

Recurrence may very well be part of the 'comforts' the Kingdom of Satan provides its prisoners. At a deep level human beings know they recur (they know this at some foundational, instinctive level). Sure, you're in prison; in darkness and death and violence; and you die; but you recur. All's not lost when you go down to Hades. You recur. It's still death (recurrence is, afterall, by definition, death; asleep in the circle of your time; actually dead in the circle of your time until you begin to awaken and your time begins to be counted and you are then a marked 'enemy of the Kingdom of Satan' who is no longer totally asleep and in illusion). Then is the struggle, but you have help, by degree, the more you seek the light. Then, when you are chosen, from eternity, by God (regenerated) you are saved.

So, somebody says to somebody: "Two Kingdoms; it's big. Big stakes. For your soul. Hm?" The person shrugs and moves along in sleep and illusion.

The realization of Two Kingdoms is big for people who have sought their Creator, their origin (and the terror of the situation is real for them), and awakened and ultimately been regenerated; then they can only pass along the message to others, and it has effect with some, usually down the road in time, or it doesn't...

So that is why there is this disconnect between such momentous knowledge of salvation and the higher Kingdom and the behaviour of people in the lower Kingdom who hear it and sleep and grin and feel no urgency and are immune to the blatant obviousness and spectacular importance of the message. It is painful to awaken and come into consciousness of the Devil's prison you are in. And the sleep and illusion and fear and desire that suffuses the prisoners of the Kingdom of Satan (in a manner like the dark opposite of the work of light of the Holy Spirit working in the heirs of God in the Kingdom of God) is too powerful, or just, ultimately, too comfortable to resist. Coupled with the mechanical laws of vanity, worldly pride, and self-will within Satan's prisoners and it is all certainly too difficult to resist.

You have to fight through this and wake up anyway.