Before we go any further with this, let’s take stock – how
are we doing? Is there really anything wrong with America? Consider this….
“There will be terrible times
in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers
of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God... “
(I Timothy2:
1-4).
Now, in technical, theological terms “the last days” refers
to the Tribulation, the last 7 years of the Age of Israel leading up to the
Second Coming of Christ. We’re not there yet – though we can hear the rapids
approaching.
But granting that, we can apply
this scripture as a measuring stick for our culture today --
- “Lovers of themselves?” Are we? Self-esteem is the one curriculum our public schools are teaching really well; this generation hasn’t been labeled the Me generation for nothing.
- “Lovers of money?” Check – We’re witnessing people selling out their country’s freedom and sovereignty for paper pretending to be money. We’ve seen our government back business so far into a corner that it’s chosen to climb in bed with that greedy government – a sort of Stockholm syndrome – siding with its abductor. And our poor, the richest poor in the world, are as greedy – and as dependent on the government -- as are many big corporations.
