Two campus or near-campus shootings occurred this week, and a
frontal assault on a courthouse. We won’t count the three Canadian Mounties
killed and two wounded. Meanwhile, on the cover of Time magazine appears the
image of a beautiful black woman, and a caption inspiring us to meet the
challenge of the newest civil rights frontier. The woman is a medically altered man: the frontier, transgender rights.
There is a Bible prophecy that attaches here. Since the pioneers
of the new frontier would deem its warning irrelevant, its fulfillment (this
past week) necessarily goes unnoticed.
The wicked will be turned into Hell
And all nations that forget God.
Nations that forget God 'will be turned into Hell.' The phrase is a figure, referring in a picturesque way to the falling of calamitous events upon an offending nation. This week's shootings in Seattle, Washington; Santa Barbara, California; and Cumming, Georgia, are both fulfillment and portent. It is but the beginning.
How do we spot a nation that has forgotten God? It is simple, really.
Nations that forget God are morally confused. It is an axiom as certain as the conviction with which some males today assert they are lesbians trapped in a man’s body--speaking of moral confusion. In a morally confused people, the wicked do not see themselves as wicked, therefore any who might read the prophecy would not see themselves as its subject. In fact, there is difficulty among a morally confused people in recognizing anyone as wicked at all. There is no accepted standard for adjudicating right and wrong. To the wicked, the Bible is nothing more than another religious writing, as meaningless as any other.
The only standard anyone dares adopt—and it can be turned against the user—is unlimited freedom. Freedom is right. Any restriction on it, is wrong. A person should be free to choose what he goes to bed as, as well as whom he goes to bed with. We should be free--by suction, scalding saline, or dismembering forceps--to eliminate the inconvenience of unborn life. The lords of Wall Street should be free to tank the American (almost the global) economy and not suffer criminal penalties. The vexing problem, of course, is what to do when we become the victim of someone else’s freedom. Hmmm. A morally confused people do not know how to answer that one.
How do we spot a nation that has forgotten God? It is simple, really.
Nations that forget God are morally confused. It is an axiom as certain as the conviction with which some males today assert they are lesbians trapped in a man’s body--speaking of moral confusion. In a morally confused people, the wicked do not see themselves as wicked, therefore any who might read the prophecy would not see themselves as its subject. In fact, there is difficulty among a morally confused people in recognizing anyone as wicked at all. There is no accepted standard for adjudicating right and wrong. To the wicked, the Bible is nothing more than another religious writing, as meaningless as any other.
The only standard anyone dares adopt—and it can be turned against the user—is unlimited freedom. Freedom is right. Any restriction on it, is wrong. A person should be free to choose what he goes to bed as, as well as whom he goes to bed with. We should be free--by suction, scalding saline, or dismembering forceps--to eliminate the inconvenience of unborn life. The lords of Wall Street should be free to tank the American (almost the global) economy and not suffer criminal penalties. The vexing problem, of course, is what to do when we become the victim of someone else’s freedom. Hmmm. A morally confused people do not know how to answer that one.
The frontier today is not a civil rights frontier, but a spiritual one. The question is whether we will remember God, and His words to Hosea the prophet (14:9), or not:
Herein is the hope for the United States. This, I believe, and as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
The
ways of the Lord are right.
Herein is the hope for the United States. This, I believe, and as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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