In the Western World people are living a life in a society based on an altered perception of reality. We are arguably living on borrowed time and it could be said are we staring into the face of the greatest societal collapse since decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The bible says every thing has a season and so it is for the great Western Alliance that we are living through.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Denying the Power
The secular humanist perspective has developed a rights based discourse that has replaced Christian moral values as standard for our society. The result is a lack of discipline in younger members of society and a general trend toward lawlessness. I don’t think that most people realise where this road leads too. There are a myriad of post apocalyptic movies like the Mad Max franchise and, The Book of Eli which endeavor to show what life would be like if society were to break down. Some of the historical films based at the end of the Roman period in Britain like The Eagle and The Centurion contrast the difference between the Roman civilisation and the naturalist cultures of nations like the Picts.
What I’m pointing out here is that because the Holy Spirit is restraining evil and there are Christians who are impacting society as the salt of the world. Those seeking godless humanism can practice their craft in the still relatively orderly and peaceful environment in the Western World. But once the Christians our gone and God gives the humanists over to the fruits of their labors. They will be consumed by the lawlessness and brutality of Satan’s world. Where the strong rule as despots and where a life has no value. The world of druidism and the worship of naturalistic Gods. Where society is not so much secular as tribal. Where lawlessness and darkness and the fear of the shadows becomes the daily norm. The time of Jacob’s Trouble.
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. KJV 2000
I don’t think most liberal and humanist people realise how dangerous the game is that they are playing much less what it will lead too. The Apostle Paul put it this way:
II Timothy 3: 2-5 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power... NASB
I want stress verse 5 here which says “holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied the power." You see we live in a day where many of the rules underpinning society are still Christian based. So you can live in relative safety in many parts of the world because there is still a moral basis to life. But as this moral basis is eroded and ceases to be so that form of Godliness will disappear. As the light fades so shadow will spread over all the world and no one will be safe.
The reason I speak about the rules that underpin society is that God gave the Ten Commandments to Israel and Moses and God developed a very specific set of laws for the every day life of the people based on those laws. Included in these laws are the consequences for breaking them and instructions about purification.
The Law
In Jeremiah 31: 31 God promises a new and better covenant: verse 31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah...” In this new covenant God promises to write his laws on our hearts and to put them into us Jeremiah 31: 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
So when Christians say they are not governed by the Ten Commandments because they are under grace. It is somewhat ironic that they have those very commandments written on their hearts.
The Ten Commandments in concise form.
- You shall have no other gods before Me.
- You shall not make idols.
- You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
- Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Honor your father and your mother.
- You shall not murder.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet.
Which Christian would not keep the commandments above? Because God has written the law in their hearts they live by those commandments without realising it. Jesus said in Matthew 5: 17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill...”
Now you may be wondering why the digression into a discussion of the law. Well the major laws in Western society are based on the Ten Commandments. Read the laws above and you can see that they are simply common sense as a basis to life any society. So when we speak of “holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied the power...” II Timothy 3: 5 We are speaking of a society that obeys most of the commandments of God but specifically ignores the first commandment “You shall have no other gods before Me.” So there is a form of Godliness and there are many laws but Satan has a plan. He is supplanting the laws of God with his own laws. These equate to the rights based manifesto of secular humanism. The ultimate goal is lawlessness where all of God laws are replaced with Satan’s laws. A society based on depravity and survival of the fittest.
Denying the Power in a Society of Laws - How That Looks
Of course it is possible for a powerful government to reign over a lawless society. Citizens can be trained to live peacefully even beside their enemies. The Roman Empire was an example of this scenario at work as was the Soviet Union. Strong and if necessary brutal government controlled society even down to individual level. Totalitarian governments function in much the same way in many of the Islamic countries where secret police spy on members of society. Arresting citizens when they deem it necessary. Even the governments of the Western World are using increasingly sophisticated methods of spying on citizens compromising their individual freedom but effectively reigning over the people.
The bible describes a coming upheaval in the end times. It is described as a revived Roman Empire but a brittle strong iteration of it. 1. Their will be a brutal ruler, the Antichrist. There will be incredibly sophisticated technology to spy on and control the people. But there will be wars and natural destruction from asteroids, weather events, earthquakes and eruptions that hinder this empire. Even so if the time of this period of judgement was not shortened no one would survive.
Matthew 24: 4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8 But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs ..... 15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18 Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. 22 Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. NASB
We are heading to a New World Order that will bear closer resemblance to pagan Rome than a peaceful Christian democracy. Pagan practices will be supported by the state. It will be a brutal place and a lawless place. Anyone opposing the state will be dealt with severely by the state. Christians will be singled out for special treatment as happened in the first Roman Empire and during the inquisition under the Catholic Church. Their won’t be the relative safety of a quasi Christian society anymore. It won’t be a pleasant life in that time. More like a post apocalyptic nightmare.
However, we don’t have to worry because God is with us and will never allow us to be taken from him . The apostle john tells us that Jesus said in John 10: 28-29 “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.”
The writer of Hebrews said in Hebrews 13:6 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” So we have no reason to fear because the Lord will never forsake or leave us. Thus it begs the question are you the reader saved? John 3:16 tells us 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life...” Do you believe on Jesus Christ? Have you asked him to forgive your sins and to make his place in your heart? Is this your time to make a decision? ... ?
Reference List
Scriptures from https://biblehub.com/ and https://www.biblegateway.com
Bible Prophecy: 10 Nations of the Roman empire. The Prophecies. https://www.theprophecies.com/the-roman-empire-reuniting/ 12.10.18
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