Perilous Times

If you cannot recognize that we are living in perilous times, then I believe you are simply in denial.  (2 Timothy 3:1 NKJV)  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

Foxhole Religion It always amazes me that our nation is quick to mention prayer and God when tragedy strikes,

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but just as quick to deny Him once we feel we don’t need Him any longer. We can’t seem to come to grips with the reality that we are reaping exactly what we have sown. We tell God that He is not welcome in our universities, or public schools. We allow people to use our public airwaves to mock and blaspheme His holy name, and then we have the audacity to ask Him why He allows these tragedies to happen? 

 

 When Moral Mush Turns Sour  Our nation is simply beginning to manifest exactly what it has been taught for over thirty years. Ever since we removed the Bible and prayer from our class rooms we have witnessed a steady decline in the moral fiber of our nation, while at the same time crime has skyrocketed. The secular media will never admit this because they would have to also admit that their Secular Humanistic doctrine has served to bring one of the greatest nations in history to the brink of absolute ruin. People are simply living by the moral values that they have been taught in our universities, and public schools. Should we be shocked that people do not value life, when they have been constantly bombarded with the secular worldview that tells them that there is no God, and that life really has no other purpose than the here and now?  Why should we be so shocked when someone would so ruthlessly take the innocent lives of those who are seemingly so helpless, when we have so many who willfully promote, and even glorify the blatant murder of nearly fifty million unborn children through the holocaust of abortion.   The blood of our children is on the hands of our nation because we have allowed this bloody slaughter to continue, and now the enemy has been given an open door to attack this generation. We are reaping exactly what we have sown, and unless we turn from our sin, and repent this tragedy will continue, and even escalate.  

(Galatians 6:7-8 GWT)  Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you’ll harvest. {8} If you plant in your corrupt nature, you will harvest destruction. But if you plant in your spiritual nature, you will harvest everlasting life.    

Two World Views

I am sure that nearly anyone who pays the least attention to the social climate of our nation would agree that we have been engaged in an ever-increasing cultural confrontation since the early 1960s.  

This conflict centers around two very opposite worldviews. By worldview I am referring to a set of learned values and beliefs that determine how we look at life, and thereby draw our conclusions, and make our decisions.  The first worldview that has become increasingly prevalent in our society is that of secular moral relativism.  Advocates of this worldview believe that the world, and all that is in it consists of only matter, and that truth is not absolute or objective, but rather subjective, (that is subject to personal opinion or interpretation). However, our nation was founded upon a much different Biblical Christian worldview, not a secular one. This worldview maintains that Almighty God created not only the world, but also established this nation.  

The Biblical world view maintains that human persons are unique, and of great worth because we were created in the image of God, and not as the result of mere chance.  This view is clearly evident in our constitution, laws, and form of government itself.  

A Newsweek article, published March 29, 1999 had this to say concerning the influence of Christianity upon our society. “By any secular standard, Jesus is also the dominant figure of western culture. Like the millennium itself, much of what we now think of as Western ideas, inventions and values finds its source or inspiration in the religion that worships God in his name. Art and science, the self and society, politics and economics, marriage and the family, right and wrong, body and soul-all have been touched and often radically transformed by Christian influence.” Unfortunately there is a relentless attempt by some to transform our nation into a totally secular society.  Perhaps we should ask ourselves if we see any similarities between what is happening in our culture today, and the following words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who suffered under the brutality of the former Soviet Union. “Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs at good and evil as indisputable categories. Communism considers morality to be relative. Depending upon circumstances, any act, including the killing of thousands, could be good or bad. It all depends upon class ideology; defined by a handful of people…It is considered awkward to use seriously such words as good and evil. But if we are to be deprived of these concepts, what will be left? We will be declined to the status of animals.”         

This secular worldview is exactly what is driving fetal stem cell research, cloning, abortion, along with our increasingly liberal judicial system.  Groups like the ACLU, and The Freedom From Religion Foundation are spending millions of dollars to use the courts to systematically destroy our religious freedoms. They have twisted the first amendment to persuade us that the founding fathers actually erected a wall to keep Christianity out of government. They know they cannot achieve this through due process of the legislative branch, so they pervert justice by using the courts. If you would like to read what the founding fathers actual view of the first amendment was, then check out www.wallbuilders.com, and you will clearly see that they never in their wildest dreams intended that this nation be governed apart from a firm reliance upon Almighty God!   

The Truth Is Out There

There is an old adage that goes, “tell a lie long enough and people will begin to believe it to be the truth.” In case you haven’t noticed, the wordsmiths of our modern culture are doing an outstanding job of making this a reality in our nation. 

Today Americans are becoming increasingly indoctrinated with the delusion that every belief and opinion is of equal merit. In the name of tolerance, and being politically correct we are quickly becoming a nation that is forgetting how to distinguish reality from fiction, and the truth from a lie. While I would certainly agree everyone has a right to believe what he or she so chooses, society as a whole should not be coerced into accepting everyone’s opinion as deserving of equal value. If you logically follow this modern theory of tolerance through to its ultimate conclusion you may not like what you find at the end of this so-called rainbow of enlightenment.

If all opinions and beliefs are equal, then who is to say that Adolph Hitler was wrong for systematically murdering six million Jews during WWII? Of course anyone with a shred of moral fiber and intelligence would agree that this was wrong in every conceivable way. Nevertheless today we seem to believe that all truth is relative. In other words something is true if I believe it to be so. Simply put, this is absurd.This thinking especially becomes a dilemma when one’s right to dissent begins to be eroded for the sake of making everyone feel accepted and comfortable.  

We are reaping the fruit of the religion of Secular Humanism in this nation. This is the misguided belief that man is his own god, and as such holds the highest moral authority. We have thrown out the absolutes of the 10 Commandments, which this nation was founded upon, and then find it surprising that we have rampant corporate fraud, political corruption, and a myriad of other social ills.  

Freedom does not constitute anarchy. Many modern behaviors are morally wrong, and destructive to the fiber of our society. Gambling, pornography, sodomy, drug and alcohol abuse are just a few of the practices that have contributed to the downfall of many great empires throughout history.

Wake up America, a skunk is a skunk, no matter what kind of clothes you dress it in.“The only thing that we have learned from history is that we learn nothing from history.” President Woodrow Wilson