"All is Well!"...They Tell Us

 What could possibly go wrong??  We have help wanted signs everywhere!  Bulldozers are clearing land so fast for construction projects that they can't keep up!  New houses being built faster than they can supply the lumber!  New government spending projects are going to goose the economy even more!  The stock market is at a RECORD HIGH!  Housing prices are at a RECORD HIGH which has just increased the net worth of American's by $trillions. Restaurants are back at full capacity!  Marriage venues have to be booked over a year in advance!

We keep hearing the words of Jesus bouncing around in our heads; "As it was in the days of Noah...people were marrying, giving in marriage, eating, drinking up to the day that Noah entered the ark.  And they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all way.  It was the same in the days of Lot.  People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building.  But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all."

If ever we are in the days of Noah, it would seem to be now.  And at the same time there is a severe famine in the USA of the hearing of the Word of God and in the belief in Jesus' work on the cross as the ONLY way for men to be saved.

Day after day...

... the media glibly try to make revolutionary jargon, political perfidy and socialist disaster look normal, even optimistic. All is well, they tell us, even though foreign and domestic politics are a looming catastrophe. Trillionaire mystery men deal in programs and projects. Their innermost plans are global, rather than national in scope. Alcohol and cannabis are everywhere. Churches are fading away, as pseudo-religions explode throughout society, most of them in some way socialist in belief. And everywhere, there is the endless search for new and different kinds of entertainment.

Meanwhile, Christians shudder at their children's’ corrupted curriculum, with its unspeakable theories and the failure to teach math, English, the basic sciences and history. A composite blend of Marxist philosophy, pseudo-psychology, and even gender identity changes by the minute, crashing the classic understanding that male and female were created by God. 

How could this have happened, given that America has been the land of the Gospel, of great seminaries and of countless revivals, sent here and abroad by men who were steeped in the myriad truths of Scripture? Many Scriptures throughout the Bible make the answer to this question crystal clear.

But one, written by Paul in the opening chapter of Romans, says it all, as he describes seven steps of man’s descent from spiritual to secular:

“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (Rom. 1:21-23).

1. Man knew God. The Lord had done everything possible to reveal Himself, but the nature of man is to refuse Him, and to not glorify Him as God. We are a land that has often been the source of Christian revival. Dozens of now-famous evangelists have preached to the world. Millions have been saved. A new life in Christ is a well-known idea. But in today’s America, in corporations and schools, it has been put to sleep. We have taken Him for granted.)

2. We have glorified our ability to exist with God. Technology has, in many ways, become our god. It gives us anything we want… food, health, comfort and security. We can make anything we want. And now, it is even intelligent!)

3. Why thank God, when we can provide for ourselves?

4. Mankind fell victim to atheistic theories and developed a myriad of bizarre “explanations” of an ancient nature that came into existence without a god.

5. God’s wisdom and knowledge was gradually removed.

6. Man’s knowledge base became corrupted. He began to believe his own theories. He became a fool.

7. God was modeled into mythology and later, pseudo-science. It is this science that atheist man worships today. And what does Paul say happened next? The 24th verse says it all:

“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” (Rom 1:24,25).

The Lord stands, awaiting man’s return to His lovingkindness and truth. Cherish your faith above all.

Here;  All is Well, They Tell Us! (mailchi.mp)

Also a few things to remember.  Noah and his family was taken OFF the planet before the the flood came.  Lot was taken AWAY from Sodom before fiery wrath poured down and killed everyone.  In the same way, Jesus will snatch His bride AWAY from the earth before destruction, wrath and fire comes for all those left behind.