On a sinking boat when all promised land is absent uniformity hereafter prevails. The commonly accepted agreement in nautical law is to confess women and young to resplendent first, thence virile passengers and basically the ships crew and commander. Flush at the threat of impending harm and death there is a feel of propriety.
At the death of previous civilizations or nations there is also a certain design or an assortment that history reveals to us. The wise, genuine statesmen, the prophets and those who ethical seem to have better view all combine to notify each succeeding engendering as they once also enter the doors glaring the fall.
The seers are sometimes labeled as divisive. But they are not creating the divide they are solitary noting it. The division is a natal outcome of a nations chosen path that presently puts all mortals in one of two not difficult categories, those who swear by the warnings and those who dont.
The design oft rent in the death of nations is available for all to see but we dont live in a world where seeing is highly famous. We necessity to violence the myriads of religions into one indurated little lump, hire science label it innocuous and get on with social engineering, diversity and what extraordinarily is heralded as the newest and the best.
Dab culture is appealing to those who fancy stunt, change and immediate proof that something is happening. Happenings are what make us carefree! No effort culture hugely proverbial a nation and no whack culture plenty saved a nation but at original it is lively.
We will not be under contract by the Logos the ( revealed confab of God ) or the ink stains dried upon some line ( the Constitution ) or the warnings of the judicious. ( Prophets and seers )
Each nation in history seems liable in its own time to shoot itself in the tip. We see TV shows daily that representation videos where persons smash into walls, fly off cliffs and do heartfelt harm to their riffraff in every budding way. Watching a nation shoot itself in the confine may make for good TV, but the tail end is ours.
We reduce the calls, the commands and the requirements of the Creator of the world to a silly choice only silly people would want to make. Separation from God and his laws couldnt possibly be the problem. We say it is poverty, crime, social ills and lack of evolutionary refinement that is causing all our problems. We ignore the one who became a substitute for us on the cross and by this selfless act has said that it was, is and always will be sin or the depraved nature of our hearts that is the real problem.
The common worldview is that there is a basic goodness at the heart of every man. The God who created man says not so! The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? ( Je 17: 9 )
The powers, whether spiritually demonic or civil depend on our inability to discern the deceitfulness of our own hearts. But they do provide an order, almost a protocol to our demise. Even in a culture of death there is an acceptable order. Nations today are stepping in pace to that order like children rehearsing a school fire drill.
Every fallen nation has stepped in almost syncopated rhythm to the same song. It has three distinct sections or movements that neither time nor the best minds of men have been able to discern much less silence. The music wails the nations fail but the beat goes on, but exactly how does this song end?
The first orderly step into a culture of death is always spiritual. The Psalmist offers the short version in Psalm 9: 16, The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. The full version is contained in thousands of other verses that conclude that forgetting God is bad but purposely pushing him away is impossible to recover from.
We have prepped a generation with the pseudo science of evolutionary theory that is fast becoming more of a unicorn in the fairy tale of a child than something that cannot or should not be seriously challenged. We have tried to debunk, dismiss and deny that God has spoken to us through the scriptures. And we tell our children that if they can manage to keep the planet green long enough they will have a home in heaven on some of the endless planets across the universe that are in the ( M ) class. Didnt come from God not going to God and man declares its time for God to be going.
The second stage or protocol in the march to a culture of death is social engineering, social change or in the case of America it might be safer to say, social tinkering. When Americans were struggling the saying often attributed to Herbert Hoover sounded reasonable because it spoke to actual problems like hunger and transportation. But A chicken in every pot and a car in every backyard have given way to the more nebulous Change we can believe in. The undefined change in this slogan is making few believers in those who love America for all she ever was and yet could be.
Whether our President borrowed the idea from friend Oprah Winfrey who gave away cars on her TV shows or not, now we can enter the promised land of change with a new car via cash for clunkers. New cars are fun and who cant love a government that just gives stuff away like the Price is Right or the Wheel? Then as Paul Harvey would say, heres the rest of the story.
Who wouldnt want to give up health care choices, unborn babies, the right for the elderly to live out their lives and a hundred personal freedoms including those once covered under the first amendment, just to ride in a shiny new car subsidized by good old papa government? In a culture of death $4, 500 may be the going price for a good conscience.
Heartily scoffing at the proposed social policies of this administration is not mere tongue in cheek but is more brain in gear kind of thinking. It used to be called common sense but is anything but common in a culture of death.
When the aforementioned steps or protocols are all fulfilled there remains but one and that is death itself. The result of the abandonment of God is spiritual death; the result of blithely forging ahead with Roe V. Wade is more death to add to the 50, 000, 000 deaths already to our credit. The outcome of government run health care will be the death of the old, the unqualified and those at the bottom of long waiting lists.
The death list is far too long to put in this article so I am forced to summarize. The end of a culture of death is the death of a nation, of a civilization. But look around it isnt just here in America. Europe, Australia, and other countries are now gearing up to the culture of death with similar proclivities. This is when the culture of death graduates from a phrase to a phase and blithely barrels ahead to the End of Days.
The Prophet Daniel was undaunted by the threats made to his life by the Godless King of Babylon ( modern Iraq ) and went unscathed after spending a night caged in a den of hungry lions. But even Daniels courage got shaky when he was given a vision of the emerging combination of nations in the last days. It was depicted as a devouring beast with no regard for life being led by the most vicious God hating human being in world history. ( Antichrist ) Daniel confessed that the cogitations of his heart gave him much trouble. ( Dan 7: 28 )
Daniel got to see the result of exactly what the pursuit of the culture of death would ultimately produce. It left him sickened and unable to regain his composure. Should we wait for that to happen to us? Daniel only saw these portents in a vision we will see them up front and personal or as we say in the modern use of the language; in real time.
God does not saddle his prophets with a message of hopelessness. Daniel was told that although the last world kingdom will be diverse from all others in history it would be followed by the best. The one who was raised to the cross will be seated on the throne and unlike all kingdoms and civilizations preceding, his rule will never end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. ( Dan 7: 27 )
God does not saddle his prophets with naivet. Even though they are armed with pre - written history, a 100 % accuracy rate in their forerunners and the authority of Gods Holy Spirit they are fully aware that very few people will heed their warnings. They are also fully aware that the Master said broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat. ( Mt 7: 13 ) So why do they bother, whats the point?
To say that they are on a quest to save the world would sound pretty good but it would be a lie. They are simply on a quest to reach one man at a time. It all comes down to each and every individual that hears the message and how they respond to it. This is the way God planned it. It is best summarized in the following two passages.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22: 17
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. John 4: 14
