Assessment:
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2nd Timothy 3:1-5)
One of the most amazing aspects of the Bible is its amazing economy of words. Scripture is so constructed that one can return to the same verse over and over and each time, get something new from it.
The Lord has a lot to tell us in Scripture, so He doesn't waste words doing it.
Entire volumes of commentary have been written on Creation -- the Holy Spirit tells the story in the first thirty-one verses -- He doesn't waste words.
Yet in Proverbs, we find the same verse repeated, word for word; "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. " (Proverbs 14:12, 16:25)
I've just presented a thumbnail sketch of the most evil political agenda imaginable to me -- yet according to the polls, it is an agenda shared by a majority of the voters.
The agenda that looks so evil to me is what the Left sees as Utopia on earth. They believe that they are doing the right thing.
This is a good place to restate the basic philosophical difference between Democrat and Republican. It is the source of their authority to govern.
In a republic, the authority to govern is derived from the Divine. Blackstone's Commentaries on English Common Law explain that in a republic, that which is prohibited by the Divine could never be overturned by a majority.
For example, in a republic, murder would always be a crime.
In a pure democracy, the moral authority is derived from the will of the majority.
(Think Roe v. Wade and you see where the worldviews inevitably collide.)
It isn't that the Left is evil. It is that, devoid of Divine authority, man is left only with his conscience to be his guide.
"Every man does that which is right in his own eyes." (Judges 17:6,21:25)
Notice that, in the context of discussing how tightly packed the Bible is, without a word wasted, that I quoted another repeated verse.
"In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. " (Judges 17:6)
"In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. " (Judges 21:25)
When the Lord repeats Himself, it isn't because He is absent-minded. It is because there is a principle there that He really, really wants us to take to heart. In this case, it's this.
In these days, secular America has no king, either. The Left does that which is right in their own eyes. They aren't evil. Just wrong.
"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. " (Proverbs 16:2)
"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. " (Proverbs 21:2)
It's important to understand that what the Bible talks about for the last days is not something that happens in some kind of cartoon world populated by evil men who are all deliberately conspiring to bring about the destruction of good.
It happens in a real world. One like this one. With real people who really mean to do good. But they have a different moral compass because they have no King.
I've been studying, teaching and preaching about the signs of the times and the things that are to come upon the world in the days leading up to the Tribulation Period for almost thirty years. I never really knew what to expect.
Now that I see it unfolding before me, I am still shocked at how logically it is all coming together. It's like, "well, yeah . . what we you expecting? A brass band or something?"
Well, yeah. Or something. But at this juncture, a trumpet will do.
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