Posted on 10/25/2014 5:19:42 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Dr. James Dobson, one of Americas best-known Christian leaders, founder of Family Talk Radio, a courtroom opponent of Obamacare and, just recently, the National Day of Prayer speaker who called Barack Obama the abortion president, warns American is heading toward depravity.
In his October 2014 newsletter, a copy of which is available online, he wrote about the Old Testament account of Abrahams nephew, Lot, who chose to take his family into the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The men living there had become desperately depraved, burning with lust for each other. Jehovah told Abraham that their sin was so grievous that the Lord decided to rain utter destruction upon them. Abraham pleaded with the Lord on behalf of the people, but the patriarch could not find even ten righteous men in either of the cities to justify mercy, he wrote.
Why have I chosen to recount this biblical story from so long ago? Because I am convinced that America and other Western nations are sliding in the same direction, he warned. We have not yet reached the depravity of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that appears to be where we are headed.
Dobson added, Judge Robert Bork, the brilliant jurist who was shamefully denied a seat on the Supreme Court, wrote a book about this danger 18 years ago. It was titled, Slouching Towards Gomorrah. I think he had it right.
Many influential men and women of the judiciary are leading us toward perdition.
His blast at America lined up with the comments made by the Rev. Billy Graham in a Sept. 30 column for Decision magazine.
Only Graham didnt hold quite as positive an opinion about America as Dobson. Where Dobson said America is sliding down, Graham said America already is there.
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, warns American is heading toward depravity.
Yep. And the rate of descent speeds up as well.
Look at the UTTERLY abandoned nature of the several recent locker room attacks by high schoolers on fellow students.
Full on rape not by one but by up to SIX attackers. The level of depravity at the late teens here is off the charts. Any idea how much porn and fantasizing happens before (metaphorically) the kid pulling the legs off of bugs graduates to humans? And not only graduates to humans but has no trouble finding like-minded others?
Thanks!....can one be mobile and flexible in Florida, small town not big city..(my home).....or are the Western states the best answer.
I am serious.
I’ve wondered when exactly it became cool to be homosexual.
We have gone from them wanting us to be tolerant and leave them alone, to them being in our faces about homosexual marriage and homosexuality all the time.
The culture celebrates everytime someone famous declares themselves to be a homosexual. It’s not just a matter of fact acknowledgement, it’s a positive celebration of that status.
When did all this happen? Why did all this happen?
James Dobson (personal fav), Billy, & even more so, Franklin Graham, Phyllis Schafly, countless others have been the vanguard for many many years......leading us to effect change in a fallen world.
And we tried.
Many on this very forum were at the tip of the spear.
I don’t think our efforts were in vain........in God’s kingdom, nothing is wasted.
But it may be America’s last gasp...........
“Heading”? I say we have arrived.
Because collectively, the American people are just not that bright, and generally just believe what they see on T.V.
Sad, but the truth hurts.
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963),... declared school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools in the United States to be unconstitutional
Lemon v. Kurtzman, 91 S. Ct. 2105 (1971),... established three part test for determining if an action of government violates First Amendment's separation of church and state: 1) the government action must have a secular purpose; 2) its primary purpose must not be to inhibit or to advance religion; 3) there must be no excessive entanglement between government and religion
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)... landmark decision legalizing abortion
One need look no further than these 4 court cases to find why we are in such a Sodom and Gomorrah mess. First God was thrown out of school, then He was thrown out of the public square, then cold blooded murder of innocents was sanctioned by the state. Most of our present societal horrors descend from these morally malignant, Godless decisions.
We have rejected God. So, is it any wonder why He has rejected us...?
“She’s dead, Jim.”
~~~Obama has attacked freedom of religion, stoked racial hatred, destroyed our military, brought about fiscal insanity, rewarded the lazy, shredded what was left of the Constitution, enacted the homosexual agenda, appointed wicked men and women into the courts, trampled citizen rights, committed crimes, abused Federal agencies, lied to the American people, committed election fraud, solicited and accepted foreign money for his own campaigns (a felony), destroyed evidence that was under subpoena, funneled money from DoD and the State Dept to ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood, and betrayed our ally Israel.~~~
Dobson nails it.
They rejected God, and became fools. As far as Ebola comes, yeah, a lot of things are going to go down, perhaps even nuclear holocaust, but then again, it will all come down as just consequence and overall save us from total annihilation.
America IS there.
Post 47 sums up the terrible judicial ruling that turned America on this path.
Once you sanction the killing of defenseless babies you have hit bottom.
Thank you.
As for Sept. 2015 being the endgame, you are not alone in that assessment.
I live in NE Florida, I think it has a lot of advantages. For one thing, we won’t freeze to death if the grid fails during the winter. Also: long growing season, plenty of ground water, etc.
Billy Graham's sermon to which you refer was published in the OCT edition of his magazine, Decision. It made the rounds here on FR last week. It was also clearly stated that it was a reprint of a sermon he delivered in 1962 - more than half of BG's lifetime ago. I agree with his message. Deceased radio commentator Paul Harvey drafted an essay back around the middle 1960's which echoed BG's message and has received much attention here on FR.
YouTube - Paul Harvey, ~1965: If I Were the Devil
video run time = 00:03:23 minutes
I am with you, i think we have crossed the “headed toward” line.
Exactly.
I also believe the world is under mass Deception. It is a sign that the End Times are swiftly approaching.
There is no other explanation as to why all reason, logic, and goodness have been thrown out the window. I have tried to have conversations with some people in the hope that they open their eyes and see. However, it is as if they are under a spell.
2 Thessalonians 2: 9-12
"9 Still the rebellious one arrives with all sorts of power, performing signs and fake miracles sanctioned by Satan; 10 he employs every manner of wicked deception to wile away those who are destined for eternal death because they reject the love of the truth that leads to salvation. 11 Because of this, God sends a deceptive influence over them so they will wander from the truth and believe the lie. 12 As a result, God will judge all of those who did not entrust themselves to the truth when it faced them but instead reveled in wickedness."
I have listened to that 1966 broadcast by Harvey before, and I just clicked your link and did so again. He was prophetic.
Satan has the big plan because he gets the fence-sitters as well.
Three words:
Will.
And.
Grace.
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