If you have ever seen a child
tear down a Lego house they built you may have an idea
of just how rapidly and
devastatingly the world is imploding. This country in particular is falling
apart so fast it’s mind boggling. We have always had our problems, but we have,
until about 60-70 years ago, been a nation practicing the principles of the
Bible, at least on the surface.
We got smart though. We
decided we didn’t need God, and all those things He said were just cramping our
style.
How do you devalue a person?
Eliminate God. Teach that humans came from monkeys or primordial slime, and
that there was no Biblical creation, just deposits from aliens. As a result,
since a person is no more valuable than an animal, we get rampant and illicit
sex, an increase in murder, abortion, etc. Oh forget this. Let’s read what the
apostle Paul tells his protégé Timothy about the last days.
“But know this, that in the
last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves,
lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control,
brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.
And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into
households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away
by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of
the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist
the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they
will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs
also was. (2 Timothy 3:1-9)
One mistake we often make
when reading these nine verses is that we read them too fast. Now be honest.
You did too. Read them REAL SLOW, one at a time, and allow them to register in
the brain. Certain faces start coming to mind don’t they? As long as it isn’t
ours, I guess it’s alright.
Do these nine verses depict these
days we live in or don’t they? You know they do. Folks this is what we have
become, and this is why we have committed political insanity at the voting
booths. Have you noticed that every time an election comes around, the choices
keep getting more and more undesirable? If you haven’t noticed, then you are burying
your head in the sand and unknowingly have become part of the problem.
I know plenty of good,
decent, hardworking folks who will believe anything a politician may say, as
long as the one saying it is within their political party. To be perfectly
honest, we’ve been to the point for some time now of voting for the lesser of
the evils.
We have career politicians
that have been in office far, far too long. Our federal, state and local
governments are almost totally corrupt. However, I personally don’t blame the
politicians. They’re just being themselves. We are to blame, and when I say
“we,” I also mean the Church. The Laodicean mindset has taken over the thinking
of many who profess Jesus as their Savior and Lord.
There are always a few who
speak out on behalf of God, but by and large, the Christian community has gone
the way of Balaam. When it comes to the future of our country and thereby our
children, we have gone politically insane by being spiritually ignorant and
cowards par excellence.
Could it possibly be we
approve of what the world says and does? If not, then why do we live no
differently than those who don’t know Christ?
There are still many good
Christian people left in this country who live their lives as unto the Lord,
but unfortunately, they are in the minority. Most who claim Christianity live
their lives no differently than those who do not. Why should the unsaved man be
interested in an eternal change in his life? He looks as good as what he sees
from those who claim to be Christians.
This is what makes it harder
on those who do live apart from the world. They are seen as old fuddy-duddies,
mean-spirited and uncompromising. The truth is that real Christians are the
most loving people there are, but because they won’t jump in the sewer with
everyone else, they’re labeled a party-pooper (pardon the pun).
The problem in this country
is with weak Christians and those who claim Christianity but are not Christian.
Sound Biblical doctrine has been tossed aside for politically correct views and
entertainment.
“For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because
they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and
be turned aside to fables.” (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Well, the time has come. The
itching ears of society will believe anything because they don’t want to hear
the truth. A lie is so much more appealing, especially if they think they might
get something out of it.
Whether in the church or the
political arena, Satan’s lies are being blasted over the loud speakers and many
are still buying all he has to say. The last two presidential elections have
put a knife through the very heart of this country. The one coming up could
extinguish any remaining life that is left.
I personally do not believe
there is any hope left for our country to get back on track with God, but who
am I? God is all powerful. We who really know Jesus as Savior are the Church,
and if we get on our knees in repentance and ask for a stay of judgment upon
our nation, maybe He will say, “Okay.” Hezekiah was dying and pleaded to the
Lord, and God granted him 15 additional years of life. (2 Kings 20:6)
Probably the greatest reason
people think nothing bad is going to happen is because the “hammer hasn’t
fallen” YET. We have been kissing the Cobra for the last 60-70 years. Sooner or
later it will strike.
Grant Phillips
Email: grantphillips@windstream.net
Pre-Rapture Commentary: http://grant-phillips.blogspot.com