A spirit is sweeping around the world. It is a very ugly spirit that is causing
all kinds of negative repercussions. It is a spirit that rejects truth. The
Bible predicted it for the end times. It is stated this way:
“…because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this
reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe
what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the
truth, but took pleasure in wickedness” (2 Thess 2:10, NASB).
Lack of love for truth has become very obvious in society but especially in the
news media in which half-truths and sometimes flat-out lies are being promoted.
This is why the average person today has less faith in the news being reported.
Many have simply stopped watching and listening to the major news networks.
Deception is taking place on a massive scale.
The Bible also states that character issues would dominate people in the last
days. “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For
men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious
gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless,
conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of
godliness, although they have denied its power…” (2 Tim 3:1-5).
The United States of America is not immune. The moral absolutes that were
instilled in our founding fathers have held American society together for some
240 years and have held dictatorial governments at bay, but those values are
being challenged and are collapsing. A generation has emerged that no longer
embraces godly values and truths the United States was founded on. As a result,
in the U.S. today, a political party can run on a platform of raising taxes,
confiscating guns, embracing illegal immigration, having open borders, sanctuary
cities, and among other things, murdering the unborn children. Nearly half of
the people support this.
Our country is obviously sick! Our compromised educational system has helped
bring us here, teaching situational ethics, no pledge of allegiance, political
correctness, etc.
Jesus spoke about the days we are experiencing. In Luke 17, He said the days
would come just before His return that would be just like the days of Noah. The
Genesis record of the days before the flood of Noah reported that violence
filled the whole earth. The rise in violence in our cities is then no surprise.
Is there any hope?
Yes, there is, but it is not in Republicans or Democrats. It is in a return to
the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ! Better still, His physical return to
this earth to establish peace, righteousness, and justice!
Don’t think for one moment that all is escaping the attention of God. He is
watching.
Why is He seemingly hesitating to act?
Because the Bible says He is patient, waiting for all to come to repentance (2
Peter 3:9).
God knows that “all” will not come to repentance, but He is at least giving them
the chance.