Yes and amen! I literally cannot spend more than a few minutes on news, lately, because it absolutely infuriates me to see the fraud and hear the outrageous lies being told. I pray for God’s mercy on us all.
The thing is, we’ve all read the back of the Book, and we know it’s going to become all but unbearable before it’s all over with. I was just hoping that it wouldn’t deteriorate so badly in my lifetime. All of creation has been leading up to what we are reaping. I must fall on my face before God, in repentance for the things I and those of my generation, have done to help bring this all to pass. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, and though we weren’t responsible for what went before us, a lot of us did a great deal of damage, latching onto the age of permissiveness, and the beginning of the cult of “me, I, and the importance of our ‘feelings’”. We thought we were being compassionate, but we were just being foolish. Many of our parents knew prosperity for the first time, after WwII, and though I, personally, was deprived, rather than indulged, everything around us was promoting “stuff, and more stuff”. The age of television and advertising was most likely just as earth-shattering to our lives, as the age of computers and internet has been to our kids and grandkids.
Here’s an horrifying and shocking thing -— google, “Is America the great whore of Babylon in Revelations?” It will shake you to your foundations.
Lord God, have mercy on us!
I’m certain such questions must come up — is America that Great Whore?
I’d like to suggest that some historical perspective helps. There have been situations like this from times that we have very little information about, and certainly from the time the final autographs of the bible were written. I believe one reason we are warned of the Great Whore is so that we will see the urgency of God’s outreach that we won’t utterly collapse into being the Great Whore. “Don’t do this, children.”
The Word assures that the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome (or understood, or both) it.
What we’ve fallen into is the general course of sin. That does not surprise God, nor does it constitute anything that is unforgivable or unrepentable.
God is reaching out for us. Will we reach out to Him? He knows that some people are so resolute that they won’t. But that’s their issue — it doesn’t need to be our issue.
One of the few times in church that I fell, inexplicably at the time, into weeping, was when a song repeated the refrain of the Psalm that God’s thoughts towards me are countless. Something deep and fundamental in my soul answered to that. I welcomed that like I welcomed a long awaited homecoming. Oh dear God! You care! And yet evil spirits try to get me to be cynical even about this, God forgive me if I yield. Oh, God is just playing you. But isn’t that a piece with the lie of the serpent in the Garden that “oh, God’s just jealous of you, and you won’t die” as though we could have an existence independent of God and His grace?