WHENCE CAMEST THOU

___WHENCE CAMEST THOU?_


It doesn't require a whole bunch of smarts to be
aware of the fact that the nations are in a world of
hurting. Reading one newspaper, or watching a news
cast will quickly tip you off to that fact.


We have a great tendency to shrug our shoulders
and say there is nothing we can do about it, and we are
partly right about that. But will you listen to me for
a moment?


If I read the signs of the times correctly, there
is a single "fountain head" from which many of our
problems issue. There is something more to be reckoned
with than the mere fact of man's moral decadence.


Consider the strength with which the homosexual
community is demanding attention. To be sure, each
generation since the time of Noah has had its share of
"queers", but they have mostly stayed in the woodwork
and the closets because they knew it was wrong for them
to do what they were doing. Now they are being ushered
right into the limelight, and our children are being
told that it is merely an "alternate life style" rather
than what the Bible says it is--an abomination to God.
Do we know who is doing it? From whence do they get
the "drive" that is hurtling them into the limelight of
public awareness. Are their sheer numbers overwhelming
the "regulars" in our society? You and I both know
differently. Then why are we being required to accept
their actions a an "alternate normal"? Where is the
"unseen hand"? Is there, indeed, an unseen hand?


Consider the power of the demand for sex educa
tion in our schools, and how educational reform has
been forced upon us whether we want it or not. Most of
us are not in favor of either one of them, but we are
having them forced upon us. From whence comes their
momentum, that they should roll over us in spite of our
protests?


Consider how God has been dragged out of the
school rooms across America. Is ALL of America that
badly depraved? Is it the workings of an unseen hand?


Why are we so unable to stop the easy flow of
drugs into our country? Is it because our police force
is so inefficient? Can it be that their hands are tied
behind their backs while an unseen force works havoc in
our land? Can it be that they are forbidden to do what
they know they can do?


Is the break down of the institution of Marriage
a lapse of moral fiber altogether, or is it engineered
by a force we do not see?


I recently read a little booklet written by Don
Hicks of Nampa, Idaho. He offers an explanation which
does not seem to be too far out of line. He believes
he can identify the one fountain head from which most
of these devastating factors come. Each factor is an
expression of hatred for Jesus Christ and all that His
Name stands for.


Other things I have read in times past seem to
confirm what Don says--that there is a single powerful
force behind these things. It is an energetic, secret,
group of individuals with no good motives to their
credit.


The Bible, also, seems to bear out the existence
of such a group, and tells of its demolition by the
Power of God before they can accomplish their
diabolical plot. "When they shall say, 'Peace and
safety', sudden destruction cometh--." "But they know
not the thoughts of the Lord." God still has a "trick"
or two "up His sleeve."


It is going to be interesting to watch what God
does in the not-too-distant future.


We might be wise to carefully scrutinize the
current "prophetic" teachings, and abandon some of
them, in favor of what the Word plainly teaches.