When I was in Bible school, we read a book, “The Life of Jesus Christ”, by James Stalker. It’s very descriptive about the times Jesus was living in at the beginning of His ministry, and the time of his death. What was remarkable to me, when I recently reread the book - the very same types of things are happening now .. just as Jesus is about to re-appear.
Such as: “[Jesus] Feeling bitterly the shame of national slavery, the hollowness of the times, and the awful wickedness that rotted under the surface of society.”
And: “... [the people] never suspected that any change was needed in themselves ...”.
And: “The lower classes and the country people were separated by a great gulf from their wealthy neighbors, but attached themselves by admiration to the Pharisees [the dems], as the uneducated always do to the party of warmth. Below all these was a large class of those who had lost all connection with religion and well-ordered social life; harlots and sinners, for whose souls no man cared.”
And: “Such were the pitiable features of the society on which Jesus was about to discharge His influence - a nation enslaved; the upper classes devoted themselves to selfishness, courtiership, and skepticism; the teachers and chief professors of religion were lost in mere shows of ceremonialism, and boasted themselves the favorites of God, while their souls were honeycombed with self-deception and vice; the body of the people were misled by false ideals; and, seething at the bottom of society, were a neglected mass of unblushing and unrestrained sin.”
SOUND LIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE SEEN OR HEARD LATELY ..?????
“the very same types of things are happening now .. just as Jesus is about to re-appear.”