November 12
Where are we going? Who can we trust? What can we believe in? Is there any integrity in the world today? Politicians say what is expedient without regard to truth. Lovers are unfaithful. Religious conviction has grown lukewarm. On virtually every level of existence, man is confronted with a penury of substantive information on which he can rely.
Nobody seems to have a clear picture of where we’re headed as a nation or as a world. There is a rise in antagonism and an increase of lawlessness. Islamic extremists believe that there is one way to effect their will, to browbeat the world into accepting it—violence. If they are feared, they will be able to coerce everyone into acquiescing to their belief system.
Lawlessness is rampant in America. This is evident when a group of people (any group of people) declares that they will riot, they will assassinate the winning candidate if the man they support is defeated in an election! How we rob ourselves of the world, the life, our God desires us to possess when we settle for the devil’s method—to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10)—rather than the Lord’s way of loving our enemies and praying for those who despitefully use us (Luke 6:27).
If the Bible and the commonly-held explanation of its eschatology is true, things will get worse before they get better. A “man of sin” (II Thessalonians 2:3-12) will appear and he will defy even the deity of our Living Lord and Christ. Believers must allow the Holy Spirit within them to steel them against the evil days ahead, remembering that “he who endures to the end will “receive a crown of life” (Revelation 2:10) that will never fade away.
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