I don’t generally like to oversimplify things for people
because it makes them lazy but critical thinking skills seem to be in short supply in world and what I wish to communicate needs to be heard. I try to lay things bare to the
point that my readers can forward the idea on without much commentary. No
one has the time to even read posts as short as this one so I try to abbreviate.
Simply put…
There is something strange afoot in society. Everyone can
see it too. For some its just below the surface out of sight, barely
perceptible or ethereal. For others it is a punch in the face.
Obvious as the sun in the sky. It goes beyond the self-righteousness of the
political Right. It goes beyond the moral depravity and corrupt minds of the
political Left. At face value it is all on the world level. The realm of
physicality. The empirical. We see it. We can even sometimes quantify it but
it’s not a thing per se in the physical world. All of it is sin and its root
cause is spiritual, but it manifests in the spiritual and physical world as
decrepitude. All the moral and ethical wrongs we all see in the world around
us.
We’ve heard it said often over the last few years, “Things
have gotten bad.” It also comes out as, “Things seem like they’re upside down.
They’re confused.” That’s what evil and sin does. It corrupts. It flips things.
It confuses things. Makes what should’ve been easy to understand disorganized
and corrupted. God is a God of order. There is no confusion in His nature. Then
why the disorder and confusion. Because the Lucifer and evil are parasites. They seek
to undo and disorganize that which is. Discontent. Destruction. Disharmony.
Our society gives honor to that which is clearly wrong.
Lawlessness in our cities. Claims that the inner cities like Washington DC are
safe when it is clear the leaders of that city lied and falsified numbers to
make the city appear less violent than it actually is. So violent that the
National Guard needed to be called to put things back to order. Then made the
people that were trying to restore order the villain or bad guys. Calling the
friend a foe and the foe a friend. Absurdity.
A society that honors the killing of the unborn and calls it
healthcare and then violently protests to get it when they are refused it as if it is a God-given right to murder one's child. Then those in support call the violent protests mostly
peaceful. Literally using equivocation in their language calling things the
exact opposite of their nature just as Isaiah predicted of a fallen and corrupt
society.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and
sweet for bitter!
The very nature of these behaviors is what will prevent
these very types of people from getting the justice they so unrighteously
demand because they themselves are so unjust. Do unto others as you’d have done
to yourself or the sins you do to others will inevitably be visited upon you.
The next passage gives us the hint at why this happens too.
Isaiah 59:1-10 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear...
...your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity...
...Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake...
Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom. Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
They are far from God and society will inevitably suffer as
consequence… as these are the people that make up that disorganized destructive
society. The Bible goes to the same lengths to explain why these people are
distanced from God. They, in effect do it to themselves. Romans states clearly
that the reason man. Romans 3 reaffirms Isaiah 59 in an Old Testament, New
Testament corroboration.
Romans 3:13-18 Their throats are open graves; their tongues
practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” “Their mouths are full of cursing and
bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to
shed blood; ruin and misery lie in their wake, and the way of peace they have
not known.” “There is no fear of God
before their eyes.”
If this sounds like what is going on in American society, it
is because it IS what is going on. The Bible plainly states the two truths
about us that are causing it.
God is distant from us (Isaiah 59) because there is no fear
of God (Romans 3) before our eyes. No fear meaning no respect of God. No
obedience of his statutes and commands. Statutes and commands that were given
to help us not restrain us. Help us prevent sinning not enslave us. No
reverence of God distances us from him has it makes us unholy. Why? It is
because we can only get holiness from him, there is no other source. Remove
that source and we are unholy. Therefore, we become all the things God is not
as He is too far away from us to draw on Him as a source.
We are then left in a time of judgement or, in the Bible, in
the time of the Judges. Judges were sent when the people of God went completely
rogue and distant from. God and his Word/Law. What did people do during these
times?
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Even psychology agrees with this concept of nearness and proper wholesome relationship. It is a phenomenon where people are more likely to form relationships with those who are close. An intimacy at relationship level requires detailed knowledge of the other person...or its not really a relationship per se. That familiarity understood properly forms a bond of love that is shown in the actions of the person. With God it is a desire to please Him. To be righteous... holy in obedience to His Word. To His Son.
Therefore, because many do not have this proximal relationship with God and His Son we have the current American condition succinctly explained from three (3) passages in the Bible. At its core, a repeat of history. At its core, satanic and nefarious lacking God. At its core, not of God and unholy and apart from Him. Instead of a relationship with God, a relationship with their true father, the Devil. Your relationship is effected by what you are proximal to. As a man thinks, so is he. You are the company you keep.
