The nation turned further away from the God of the Bible. People did more of their own thing, and less in service to others. The Panthers and groups like Islam led otherwise decent people down bad roads. Peaceful protests turned into violent and senseless riots as self-serving agitators infiltrated peacefully based demonstrations of protest against injustice. They wanted more radical change than people like Rosa Parks or Dr. King sought, and they led people into their demonic web. People turned from serving God and serving their brothers, to serving wealth and lust and corruption.
Oh yes and don't forget those nice people from Planned Parenthood, they happened. Don't forget those nice people from the liberal schools and the liberal wing of Government, with all of their social agenda and desire to help the poor by making them reliant upon Government rather than upon God. Thanks LBJ and all the rest.
A sexual revolution happened. Sex anywhere anytime wit anyone redefined love and destroyed families as well as the structure of family life. Oh yes, then too there was the drug revolution. The whole nation turned to a lust for drugs. Happiness now at any cost. Only, in the poorer communities, somehow the drugs were more caustic and did more physical, and mental, and social, and economic damage than they seemed to do in the richer communities. Quick, more planned parenthood - less of those kinds of babies please.
Then there was the social revolution every culture is better than the one that promotes healthy families and a solid work ethic, building family businesses and stability. Then there was, of course, the feminist movement. Did I mention that? Today, my niece, bless her, used the "F" word to complain that men she dated were not more chivalrous, not more like the men of my generation were supposed to have been when they took a woman out on a date. There is something wrong there.
Then there was the homosexual revolution. It wasn't just about coming out of a closet, It was about social acceptance. it was about normalizing sin, and making homosexuality the norm. It was about the proliferation of homosexual activity and making a statement that it isn't evil, even though it is. Now a rainbow is supposed to mean homosexuality is good rather than signify a promise that God has made.
Oh yes gangs. Gangs happened. Don't forget the gangs. Gangs thrived on the streets. Gangs thrived in the prisons. A whole new gang culture arose bringing with it all of its woes. I know that I have missed a couple of the other revolutions as well.
Now we have a tattoo, and a deface your body, revolution, a smoke dope - be happy, revolution, a protest as a way of life, revolution, etc.
Meanwhile, the corrupt at the top continued to do what the corrupt at the top had always tended to do, that is, look for ways to stay at the top and to advance the hoarding of their riches at the expense of others.
The schools largely applauded the liberal causes and the foolish notion that we would be better at making life good than repentance and faith in Christ would.
In a word, sin happened. This is not a black thing. It is a people thing. It is a sin thing. It is a rebellion against God thing.
I look at those figures, and it grieves me. There seemed to be a moment back then, when things were beginning to improve, but really, it is a fiction. All those things stepped in because that is what this world is about - all those things which are the things of sin and rebellion against God and peace and order, and life.
The world is sinful. We are sinful.
The best that we can do is repent, ultimately that means turn from sin and turn from self, turn to Christ, and follow Him.
We cannot pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and make this into a better world. We can turn to Christ though and start to do some good, while the others, the ones who don't turn to Christ continue in their rebellion, and one day the Lord returns and wipes the rebellious our with one word from His mouth, places their necks under His feet, and sets up His rule on this earth for the thousand years of peace before He finally casts Satan and all his followers into the Lake of Fire forever and creates a new heaven and a new earth where He will take all who are His to be with Him, away from all evil forever.
Then, once we have repented and come to Christ, we can be brave and venture to call others to join us in worshipping Him as Lord, as King, as our God.
Otherwise, we can just party, smoke-dope, serve self, despair, complain, protest, cause problems, and suffer the consequence's, and those numbers will continue to look more and more dismal, until they just are no more.
Thanks Hope, I guess seeing those numbers just made something click. I hate that it is the way it is, but I love that God has provided a way for us to un-align ourselves with this world and its ways, and to align ourselves with Him in the faith called Christianity. Jesus died to pay for our sins. He was killed on the cross to make that payment. We can trust His payment as sufficient and realize that just as God rose Him form the dead, He will raise us too, if we are found to be in Him. That, being in Him, is all about our willingness to repent and come to Him, to turn from sin and self and our attachment to this world and its ways, take Him to be our Lord, and confess Him as Lord - our own Lord and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
God bless, B.
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