daily java

Daily Java: But mark 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— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7))

In reading the news, it seems that everything is going to hell in a handbasket. It is getting worse and there is no society that has been or will be like this one. New evils seem to be invented daily. There is no trust, no goodness, no love – nothing good at all. It is easy to say that this is surely a sign that the Lord will be here soon.

But that is not necessarily true. The apostle is writing about that day, about the society in which he lived: the Roman Empire. It was one of the most corrupt in history. In fact, it is its corruption that is listed as one of the main reason it fell.

Those were the people he is talking about. And he says that in the last days these bad things will happen. And they will. but the Bible calls those last times as opposed to first times – the times of the Old Testament.

Paul says that problems are going to come in every society. Jesus himself said in Matthew 24:6; You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Stuff will happen until God is ready to be through.

There has never been a society that is good for long. Every society, no matter how well-meaning it may have been to start, turns. That is mainly because people get to thinking that they are so great. When they do that and began to cease their reliance on the values that made them great in the first place, they die as a great force.

It has happened before and it will happen again. Our society will not evolve to a greater level.

I love Star Trek, but the idea put forth in The Next Generation series was that they had evolved into a society that no longer needed money nor violence nor anything bad. They were different.

This was in spite of the fact that they still fought and coveted and everything else that the old societies had done.

No society has ever gotten better through time. All societies have gotten worse. And all societies have died. Every one.

I like America, but America is not the people of God. America, for all its good ideas, is a construct of humanity. Like the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament, all constructs of humanity are doomed to fall sooner or later. They cannot stand because they are founded on human wisdom, not divine authority.

Even the country founded on divine authority fell. That was Israel. It fell because humans cannot leave the things of God alone and accept them. They have to mess with them and change them. And when they do, they die.

As the scripture shows, it has happened before and will happen again. People, when given a choice, always choose the bad. It is human nature.

Only God will survive and those who rely on him will survive with him.